Humanities & Arts

My project, which I will conduct at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, explores historical questions at the intersection of environmental history and Indigenous studies. While in Paris, I will work closely with staff and researchers at ENS to examine how French imperial and colonial regimes structured the lives of Indigenous peoples through the disciplining of the environment in France’s various territories.

My current book project, Invisible Empires: Colonial Commodities, Capitalism, and the Making of the Modern French Self, 1750-1970 examines the colonial foundations of modern industrial capitalism in France. The project takes up an old historiographical question, namely: what role did the French empire play in the development of French capitalism?

The Homeric scholia to the Iliad are a corpus of commentaries found in the marginalia of the  manuscripts of the poem, and, for the most part, they are the last remains of the work  elaborated in the library of Alexandria.

My project is to apprehend the aesthetic purpose of dance descriptions in archaic Greek poetry, by studying the relation between poetic dance descriptions and ekphrasis - a concept that can be understood as a vivid description, or, in a narrower apprehension, as a literary description of an artwork. I will focus on twelve poem excerpts, from Homeric poetry to the 5th century B.C.

Ancient philosophers significantly contributed to build a rational discourse on water, which in many ways is still in use today. This new approach would obviously stir questions about the nature of the element, among others. This is one of my fields of interest, within the Greek and Latin tradition (6th c. BC to 2nd c. AC). In line with this, Archimedes’ Floating Bodies (3rd c. BC) deserve more than a detour in my research. Thanks to the France-Stanford Center, I will do a philological reading of the text together with Pr.

Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson specializes in the literature and history of early modern France. She holds the position of Acting Assistant Professor of French at Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in 2020 in the department of French and Italian at Stanford University. As the France-Stanford Center Fellow for the Roxane Debuisson Collection on Paris History, she is currently developing a new project on the history of the Palais Royal from the ancien régime through the early nineteenth century.

This project aims to improve accessibility for D/deaf and/or Disabled individuals in online media experiences by: (1) designing and developing new ways to send vibration and haptic information online, and (2) designing ways to seamlessly incorporate user preferences and accessibility features, such as caption sizes, vibration feedback intensity, and audio customization options, into online media experiences.

Lydia Kamenoff’s doctoral thesis focuses on the history and memory of the Cossacks in France (1924-1945), an original and central theme to better understand the history of Russian emigration in the twentieth century. Located at the crossroads of military history, social history, the history of anticommunism and memory studies, her Ph.D.

France has a long history of political involvement in the Middle East, not only at the state level but also at the individual level. Furthermore, such socio-political involvements, international engagements, and other historical factors made France a vibrant international space for diasporic political activity in the middle of Europe.

The “Oriental impressions: Printing Oriental Languages between West and East, 16th-19th centuries” conference, to be held in Paris in December 2023, will bring together an international consortium of researchers to examine the way “Oriental languages” were printed between the 16th and 19th century, in and beyond Europe. It will welcome scholars and practitioners, and provide an opportunity for dialogue between historians, linguists, typographers and graphic designers.