Events - April 2015

Global, Colonial, and Transnational Paths: Thinking through Francophone Spaces in World War II and Beyond

Guest Lecture by Professor Eric Jennings, University of Toronto

"The French colonial edifice, like so many others, was an empire of exceptions, achieved by slow aggregation.  If we take up Frederick Cooper’s invitation, itself inspired by James Scott, to 'think like an Empire,' then we also have to grapple with the differentiation that empires presented, and its legacies."