SP25 French Center of Excellence Lecture Series - Silyane Larcher

Silyane Larcher
April 17, 2025
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Hagerty Hall 180

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2025-04-17 16:30:00 2025-04-17 17:30:00 SP25 French Center of Excellence Lecture Series - Silyane Larcher  The French Center of Excellence and Department of French & Italian are pleased to announce our final speaker for the Spring 2025 lecture series: Professor Silyane Larcher. Originally from Martinique, Professor Silyane Larcher is a political theorist and a social scientist. She received her MA in philosophy (with major in political philosophy) from the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and her PhD in Political Studies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Before arriving at Northwestern, from 2015 to 2023 she was a tenured Research Scholar in Political Science at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.The Larcher lecture will take place on Thursday, April 17 from 4:30pm-5:30pm in Hagerty Hall 180. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. To register, click here or call 614-247-4105.If you are interested in pre-ordering Professor Larcher's most recent publication, Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press. (An updated French translation, enriched with 6 original articles, is forthcoming at Seuil press by Fall 2024 under the title: Marianne est aussi noire. Luttes occultées pour l’égalité), please click here.  This event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian’s French Center of Excellence, which receives funding from French Cultural Services in the US and the Consulate General of France in Chicago. This series is also supported by the following departments and centers at Ohio State African American & African Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Germanic Languages & Literatures, English, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.In December of 2020, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States selected the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University to join its prestigious network of Centers of Excellence. OSU’s Center of Excellence has the goal of promoting French and Francophone culture in the Midwest and beyond.  Hagerty Hall 180 America/New_York public
Silyane Larcher
Syliane Larcher

The French Center of Excellence and Department of French & Italian are pleased to announce our final speaker for the Spring 2025 lecture series: Professor Silyane Larcher. 

Originally from Martinique, Professor Silyane Larcher is a political theorist and a social scientist. She received her MA in philosophy (with major in political philosophy) from the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and her PhD in Political Studies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Before arriving at Northwestern, from 2015 to 2023 she was a tenured Research Scholar in Political Science at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.

The Larcher lecture will take place on Thursday, April 17 from 4:30pm-5:30pm in Hagerty Hall 180. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. To register, click here or call 614-247-4105.

If you are interested in pre-ordering Professor Larcher's most recent publication, Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press. (An updated French translation, enriched with 6 original articles, is forthcoming at Seuil press by Fall 2024 under the title: Marianne est aussi noire. Luttes occultées pour l’égalité), please click here.  

This event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian’s French Center of Excellence, which receives funding from French Cultural Services in the US and the Consulate General of France in Chicago. This series is also supported by the following departments and centers at Ohio State African American & African Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Germanic Languages & Literatures, English, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.

In December of 2020, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States selected the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University to join its prestigious network of Centers of Excellence. OSU’s Center of Excellence has the goal of promoting French and Francophone culture in the Midwest and beyond.