Rethinking the Age of Revolution

Rethinking The Age of Revolution: Rights, Representation, and the Global Imaginary is a 2013–2014 John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at Brandeis University. Led by Professors Jane Kamensky and Susan S. Lanser, the seminar focuses on the Atlantic revolutions in America, France, and Haiti within a broad historical and multidisciplinary framework. You can read updates and scholarship at the seminar's blog.

Public Events

The following events are open to the public. To find the location, see this map and information about visiting Brandeis. All events will be held in the Mandel Center for the Humanities.

Topic	Date	Time	Location
Symposium: The Axes of Revolution: Space, Time, Idea Dorris Garraway, Eliga H. Gould, Lynn Hunt	Sept. 27	2:00–5:00 p.m.	Mandel G03
Panel Discussion: People in Revolution Kathleen DuVal, Amy Freund, Emma Rothschild	Nov. 14	4:00–5:30 p.m.	Mandel 303
Panel Discussion: Limits of Revolution Christopher Leslie Brown, Suzanne DesanMalick W. Ghachem	Feb. 27	4:00–5:30 p.m.	Mandel 303
Symposium: The End(s) of Revolution Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University “Violence and the Multiple Endings of the French Revolution” Laurent Dubois, Duke University “Democracy at the Roots: Three Legacies of the Haitian Revolution” Jill Lepore, Harvard University “The Tyranny of the American Revolution”	April 25	2:00–5:00 p.m.	Mandel G03

Resources

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Related Events

Call for Proposals: William and Mary Quarterly—EMSI Workshop: "The Age of Revolutions"
Jane Hale, "Haiti, Then and Now" (FREN 164A, Brandeis University, Fall 2013)

Contact the Seminar

For more information, or to request e-mail updates about public events, please contact Dona DeLorenzo:

delorenz@brandeis.edu
(781) 736-2270