MIT Global France Seminar

 

The MIT Global France Seminar aims to bring together MIT faculty, instructors, and graduate students from across disciplines interested in the study of French and francophone cultures around the world. The seminar series is free and open to the public.

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The MIT Global France Seminar was launched in 2013 (under the name "MIT Research Seminar in French and Francophone Studies"). Why “Global France”? The seminar seeks to expand notions of French Studies beyond the Hexagone and relationships of formal empire to include networks of social, cultural, and intellectual influence. Its events and participants seek to reconceptualize French and Francophone studies in a global context.  

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Founding chair: Professor Bruno Perreau

Co-chairs: Professors Claire Conceison, Malick Ghachem, and Aliko Songolo.

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Guest speakers. Fall 2026.

• Doyle Calhoun (University of Cambridge). The Suicide Archive. Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire. September 28. 5:15pm. Location TBA.

• Mat Fournier (Ithaca College). Dysphoric Modernism. Undoing Gender in French Literature. October 19. 5:15pm. Location TBA.

• Nadia Yala Kisukidi (New York University). October 28. 5:15pm. Title and location TBA.