Posts tagged as “Colonialism”
The New Book Series at the Hagop Kevorkian Center features new publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East Studies. This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why the author, as a young French-educated woman in 1950s Algiers, joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders, driven underground by…
Institute of French Studies Lecture Rebecca Rogers is professor of history of education (Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité). She is the author of From the Salon to the Schoolroom; Educating Bourgeois Girls in 19th-Century France (The Penn State University Press, 2005) and A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story: Madame Luce in 19th-Century Algeria (Stanford University Press, 2013). In this talk Rebecca…
Lecture by Madeleine Dobie To RSVP, please click here. Madeleine Dobie is Professor in the Department of French and teaches as well in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her books include Relire Mayotte Capécia. Une Femme des Antilles dans l’espace colonial français, 1916-1955 (2012). Her current book project, After Violence, is about literature and cinema…