In preparation for two external faculty visits, the Unit is organizing two reading group events for graduate students to meet them and get (re)acquainted with their scholarships. Please see the following for the event details, and use
this link to sign up with.
April 25, 4-6PM: Christy Pichichero (History, French, and African and African American Studies, George Mason University)
Topic: Early Modern History, Critical Race Theory, Black Studies, Decolonial Studies
Readings (three articles)
Pichichero, Christy. "“Is God Still French?”: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation of l'Exception Française." PMLA 137, no. 1 (2022): 125-135.
Pichichero, Christy. "Afrofeminist Microhistories and the Making of Modern Black French Identities." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 26, no. 4-5 (2022): 517-530.
Pichichero, Christy. "Unsilenced: Decoloniality, Diaspora, and Writing the Impossible." Arcade, Stanford Humanities Center (2023).
April 26, 3-5:30PM: Erik R. Seeman (History, University of Buffalo)
Topic: History of Early America, Religion, & Indigenous Studies
Readings (two articles)
Seeman, Erik R. Death in the new world: cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Seeman, Erik R. "The presence of the dead among US Protestants, 1800–1848." Church history 88, no. 2 (2019): 381-408.
The reading materials will be available shortly after the registration.
