The Enlightenment Birth of Biopolitics
This event has been relocated
Friday, February 26th, 2016
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 26, 2016 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Series
Seminaire conjoint d'histoire de la France / Joint French History Seminar
Description
William Max Nelson is an assistant professor of History at the University of Toronto specializing in the history of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. His research focuses on the emergence of ideas about time, race, and biopolitics in eighteenth-century France and the Atlantic world. He is the author of a forthcoming book on this topic and he recently co-edited a book with Suzanne Desan and Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution in Global Perspective.
In this talk, Prof. Nelson will discuss the emergence of biopolitical ideas and practices in the eighteenth-century French empire.
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