Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
The Dept. of French & Italian and The French Nationality Room Committee are excited to be celebrating the 80th anniversary of the French Nationality Room with a wonderful lecture and reception Thurs Nov 2 at 7:00PM in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium—please join us for the lecture and French pastries afterwards! Undergrads can receive OCC credit for this event, so feel free to invite your classes.
Please join us for a lecture by
Dr. Anna Rosensweig
University of Rochester
"What Are Kings Made Of? Rethinking the Royal Body in Early Modern France"
Thursday, November 2, 2023
7:00PM-8:30PM
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Room 125
Lecture open to the public, followed by a reception in the Frick Fine Arts Cloister
Anna Rosensweig is Associate Professor of French and the Director of the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Rosensweig’s scholarship and teaching focus on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies. Her first book, Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage (Northwestern UP, 2022), offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in the early modern right of resistance, as it was elaborated in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tragic drama.
She is currently working on a book project, Like a Public Fountain, which investigates how early modern texts and performances aligned royal bodies with elements of urban architecture such as roads, bridges, and fountains.
Her recent work has been published in Early Modern French Studies, MLQ, and Renaissance Drama.
Sponsored by The French Nationality Room Committee, the Department of French and Italian, and the European Studies Center.