Teaching French as a Foreign Language at the Paris Center of the University of Chicago.

Sylvie Garnier, Instructional Coordinator, University of Chicago, Paris Center.

Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes.

Program

Visit of the Paris Center by the European Section of the American Institute of Architects.

with Catherine Furet architect of the Paris Center.

Henry James and France

Discussion with Mona Ozouf (historian, directeur de recherche at the CNRS), Robert Pippin (philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago), and Jean Pavans (writer, translator of Henry James).

Presentation of the new online edition of "La Comedie Humaine" by Balzac.

with the Maison de Balzac in Paris

Presentations of the doctorate students of the Chateaubriand Scholarship

Program

Chateaubriand Scholarship Website

Wine and Colonialism in Gaul

Discussion with Michael Dietler (Professor at the University of Chicago), Pierre Rouillard (Directeur de recherche at the CNRS, director of the René Ginouvès House at Paris X Nanterre) and Pascal Ruby (Maitre de Conférence at the University of Paris I)

Forms and Transformations of Life: Germany and Europe, 1740-1860. International Colloquium.

Dec, 3rd (9:30 AM) and Dec, 4th (9 AM) : Sessions are held at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Dec, 4th: (3 PM): University of Chicago Paris Center, Bernbaum Great Room.

Colloque organisé par:

Centre Alexandre Koyré (CAK)

Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - CNRS (CRHST)

avec le soutien de:

Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)

Université Paris I

Fishbein Center for History of Science

University of Chicago Center in Paris

The FEniCS project to automate computational
mathematical modeling.

Presentation by Ridgway Scott, University of Chicago, Depts.of Computer Science and Mathematics.

Reception with Saul Levmore Dean of the Law School of the University of Chicago.

With the Paris Center Visiting Committee and the University of Chicago Law School Alumni in Paris.

Conference on Disorder and Delinquence:
Theorizing Order in Sociological Theory, Criminal Law, and Penology

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Paris Center, Université de Paris Dauphine.

Morning Session at Université Paris Dauphine at 10:00, Lunch at the University of Chicago Paris Center at 12:15, Afternoon Session at the Paris Center at 14:00

Program

Human Capital and the Modern Economy

Conference with Gary Becker, Professor of Economy and Sociology at the University of Chicago, Nobel Prize Winner 1992.

Simulation of Climate

in association with the Collège de France.

April 7th Session at the Paris Center, April 8th at the Collège de France.

Program

Discussion between Harvey Levenstein, author of "Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age" and "We'll always have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930"

and Nancy Green (directrice d'études à l'EHESS and University of Chicago alumna)

Montaigne Politique

This conference will not expose again the political ideas of Montaigne but rather consider Montaigne as a political actor.

Program

Disciplinary Orders: objects, methods, problems.

A joint conference between the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago and l'Institut de la Pensée Contemporaine de l'Université de Paris VII.

Program

La Critique Cinématographique comme Exception Française.

Université de Chicago Paris Center, Université Paris VII Denis Diderot.

Journée organisée par Marc Cerisuelo et Noël Herpe dans le cadre de la naissance du Centre d'Histoire de la Cinéphilie, de l'Archive et de la Critique Cinématographique (HCACC) de l'Université de Paris VII

Program

Demi Journée Religion et République: Regards Croisés France Etats-Unis

Bill Galston: Former advisor to President Bill Clinton, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland.

Rita Hermon-Belot: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Isabelle Richet: Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot.

Dounia Bouzar: Ministère de la Justice, Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse.

Program

Presentation on the History of Paris

by Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago, Dept.of Classics.

Organized by the University of Chicago Alumni Association.