Shaping future research in revolutionary studies will be the focus of Francophone and Anglophone scholars in literature, history and art who will gather for an international conference Oct. 6 (Monday) at the University of Notre Dame and Oct. 7 (Tuesday) at Indiana University South Bend (IUSB).
Part of an ongoing collaboration by a team of scholars from Notre Dame, IUSB, the Université de Provence and the Université de Toulouse, the conference, titledNew Paradigms for Revolutionary Studies: French-American Colloquium,is free and open to the public.
Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), will deliver the keynote address titledRevolution and Subjectivity: Towards a New Paradigm?at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in the Annenberg Auditorium of Notre Dames Snite Museum of Art.All other lectures will be held in 100 McKenna Hall at Notre Dame and at the IUSB Student Activity Center.The conference program is available on the Web at http://www.nd.edu/~colloque/..
This is a historical event in that it unites Notre Dame and IUSB at the highest level of scholarly discourse,said Julia Douthwaite, Notre Dames assistant provost for international studies and professor of Romance languages and literatures.Its the culmination of a collaboration Ive been involved in with colleagues in France for the past two years and will bring people from around the world to participate in a bilingual conference held on both campuses.
Seeking to promote interdisciplinary scholarship, the conference includes an exhibit of revolutionary-era drawings in the Snite Museum.The exhibition in the Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery and paintings in the permanent installation of the 18th Century Gallery are on display through Oct. 19, providing visitors with an opportunity to view several works created by French artists during the stormy years of the revolutionary period.In addition, an exhibit of rare books is available from the Special Collections of the Hesburgh Library.
The conference was organized by Douthwaite and Lesley Walker, chair of IUSBs Department of World Language Studies.The project was partially supported by Indiana Universitys New Frontiers in the Arts&Humanities Program, funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc. and administered by the Indiana University Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Notre Dames Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
_ Contact: Julia Douthwaite, 574-631-5203, or_ " jdouthwa@nd.edu ":mailto:jdouthwa@nd.edu
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