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Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
virtualModern Europe Workshop “Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms” Kira Thurman, University of Michigan Introduction of forthcoming book: Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Registration is required to attend. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a unique link […]
The Political is Personal: Rousseau’s Ethics of the Self
virtualJean-Jacques Rousseau’s intellectual work was intimately connected to his personal life. Indeed, this connection was a core part of his critique of what we might now call institutionalized academia, toward which Rousseau had an ambivalent attitude at best, a hostile one at worst. Rousseau believed one should write about theoretical questions only to the extent that […]
Talking about Race in Nineteenth-Century France: Ethics and the Impact of Distance
virtualJennifer Yee is Professor of Literature in French at the University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate studies in Sydney and her postgraduate studies in Paris. Her main research and teaching fields are in literature in French from 1721 to the present, with particular interests in colonialism and postcolonial issues, orientalism, exoticism, métissage, material objects, and […]
