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Throughout the year, the Bell Library sponsors or co-sponsors a variety of special events: lectures, conferences, performances, receptions, and other cultural activities. Check this page regularly for new links and listings! And don't forget to investigate our Exhibits and Annual Lecture pages, too.


 Upcoming Events

 

PleKatherine Ibbettase join us for the first ever virtual James Ford Bell Lecture, October 29, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. Central time.

Register to obtain the Zoom link.

 

Professor Katherine Ibbett, "Staying Afloat:  On the Water in New France.

 

 

 

 

 

Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. She’s the author of Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and its Limits in Early Modern France (Penn, 2018) and The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630-1660 (Ashgate, 2009); she’s co-edited volumes on Walter Benjamin and on compassion. She’s working on a book called Liquid Empire, about writing on water in early modern France and New France.

This lecture is supported by the Associates of the James Ford Bell Library. 



 

 

 

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