6:00 PM–7:30 PM    East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture:

From the Sans-culottes to the Zapatistas: Revolts, Insurrections, Revolutions

Eric Hazan and Kristin Ross

Please note: Tonight there will also be a talk by the President of Afghanistan in Low. If arriving through the Broadway entrance, you will be directed to walk to the other end of College Walk and come up to Buell near Kent. Please allow a few extra minutes for your arrival.

Eric Hazan and Kristin Ross

A conversation between Eric Hazan, author of A People's History of the French Revolution (Verso, 2014), and Kristin Ross, author of Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015). Hazan and Ross will discuss the contemporary resonance of two key moments in French revolutionary history that each aspired, in different ways, to reach beyond France to become world historical.

Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at NYU. Her previous books include May '68 and its Afterlives and Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture.  Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including Notes on the Occupation and the highly acclaimed The Invention of Paris.