Click on the titles of each ECT lecture below to view recordings from past seminar years.

January 30, 2023: “Reparations of the Republic. Champollion and French Universalism”
- By Dr. Markus Messling, Romance Literature and Cultural Studies, Universität des Saarlandes

February 6, 2023: “Black Sovereignty” – Co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
- By Dr. Miguel Valerio, Spanish/Performing Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis

February 13, 2023: “Literary Geopolitics (About Diaspora, Black France, and Wonder)” – Co-sponsored by the French Embassy Center of Excellence at UCLA
- By Dr. Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Philosophy, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis

February 27, 2023: “Political Fictions” – Co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the French Embassy Center of Excellence at UCLA
- By Dr. Patrick Boucheron, History, Collège de France

March 6, 2023: “A Greater History of Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Colonial Gaze and Uses of Non-European Acoustic Objects”
- By Dr. Mélanie Traversier, History, Université de Lille

March 13, 2023: “Universality, Necessity, and Progress: Marx and the Problem of History”
- By Dr. Amy Allen, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University

April 17, 2023: “Does the Body Exist? Deconstruction and Phenomenology”
- By Dr. Claude Romano
April 24, 2023: “Deconstructing Narratives about Aristotle’s Poetics”
- By Dr. Guillaume Navaud
May 1, 2023: “Aristotle: Forever After?”
- A roundtable discussion led by Professor Giulia Sissa
May 15, 2023: “’Sexuality’: The End of (a) Narrative”
- By Dr. Anne Berger
May 22, 2023: “Kublai Khan’s Body: Marco Polo and the Making of History”
- By Dr. Margaret Kim
June 5, 2023: “Signs of Aporrheta: Alternatives to Narrative Thinking in Late Antique Theurgy”
- By Professor Renaud Gagné

WINTER 2022

January 24, 2022: “Where Does Nature End and Culture Begin? Cultural Heritage between Anthropology and Epistemology”
- By Dr. Étienne Anheim, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
February 7, 2022: “As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance”
- By Dr. Adam Talib, Durham University
February 28, 2022: “Anti Antigone”
- By Dr. Elissa Marder, Emory University
March 7, 2022: “Contactless Comparison”
- By Dr. Alexander Beecroft, University of South Carolina

SPRING 2022

April 11, 2022: “Beyond World Literature”
- By Dr. William Marx, Collège de France (Paris)
April 25, 2022: “Differential, Dialogical, and Plurilingual Comparativism”
- By Dr. Ute Heidmann, University of Lausanne
May 9, 2022: “The Creation of Eve and Pandora in ‘Differential Comparison’: Myths of Foundation and Michel Foucault’s Aveux de la Chair”
- By Dr. Claude Calame, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
May 16, 2022: “Reticular, Thick, and Liquid: Europe’s New Borders”
- By Dr. Chowra Makaremi, National Center for Scientific Research (Paris)
May 31, 2022: “Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, Perspectives” – A Roundtable Organized and Moderated by ECT Co-Director Professor Guilia Sissa
- Introductory comments by ECT Co-Director Professor Giulia Sissa: VIDEO LINK
- Introductory comments by ECT Co-Director Professor Zrinka Stahuljak: VIDEO LINK
- “How One Can Read Dante Nowadays” – Presented by Dr. Manuele Gragnolati of Sorbonne University: VIDEO LINK
- “Diversalization Versus Universalization” – Presented by Dr. Ute Heidmann of University of Lausanne: VIDEO LINK