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Alice Kaplan on NPR Special Series on the Corona Virus Crisis

April 2, 2020
Read article and play live radio on NPR.

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April 1, 2020
Maurice Samuels’s The Betrayal of the Duchess will be released on April 14 by Basic Books and is available for pre-order now.   https://www....

Alice Kaplan named Sterling Professor

January 17, 2020
From Dean Tamar Gendler January 17, 2020 Dear Colleagues,   I am delighted to share with you that Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of...
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Events

CANCELLED - Enlightenment Lecture by by Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia University

April 2, 2020 - 4:00pm
Lecture title TBA

CANCELLED - Graduate Student Conference: Appearances / Apparences

April 10, 2020 - 1:00pm to April 11, 2020 - 5:00pm
A bilingual graduate conference on French and Francophone Literature Keynote Speaker: Ann Smock (Professor Emeritus, UC-Berkeley) For more...

CANCELLED - Book Launch: Maurice Samuels's "The Betrayal of the Duchess"

April 21, 2020 - 5:00pm
Presenting: The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal that Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern In conversation with Profs Alice Kaplan...

CANCELLED - Desert Futures: Sahara.

April 23, 2020 - 9:00pm to April 26, 2020 - 6:00pm
An interdisciplicary conference on the aesthetics & politics of Saharan spaces 04/24 Opening Symposium, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium The...