Date: Friday, April 12th

Time: 3:00 – 5:30 PM

Location: East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall (515 W 116th Street, New York, NY 10027)

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Colonisations: Notre histoire offers a sweeping view of 500 years of French colonial history, with articles contributed by more than 250 researchers from across the world. This collective project reflects the many changes in the historical understanding of colonization in the past 30 years. It underlines the diversity and complexity of colonial situations in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and inscribes French colonial history within French history and the history of the world.  Edited under the direction of Pierre Singaravélou, Colonisations: Notre histoire was released in Fall 2023 by Le Seuil.

Panelists include the following contributors to this book:

Pierre Singaravélou, French Global historian who is a British Academy Global Professor of History at King’s College London. He is also full Professor of Modern History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and director of the Center for Asian History  at the Sorbonne.  

Youssef Ben Ismail, Mellon Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University.

Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor of History at NYU.

Audrey Celestine, Associate Professor of History at NYU.

Emmanuelle Saada, Professor of History and French and Chair of the Department of French at Columbia. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Francaise, Alliance Program, and Department of History.