You are cordially invited to attend the talk 'Les Gilets jaunes, un movement populaire social du XXIe siècle' given by Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, professor emerita at the University Claude Bernard - Lyon I.
Event Details
The talk 'Les Gilets jaunes, un mouvement populaire social du XXIe siècle' will be given in French by Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, professor emerita at the University Claude Bernard - Lyon I.
This event is co-organized by the University of Chicago Alumni Club of France and The Chicago Booth Alumni Club of France, open to AUC members.
The lecture will be followed by an informal discussion around the « gilets jaunes » and will end with champagne and galettes.
Speaker Profiles
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel (Speaker)
Professor Emerita, University Claude Bernard-Lyon-I
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel is a specialist in French contemporary history with a focus on the working class. She was a co-founder of the journal Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire, France's leading gender history journal. Her published works include L'Histoire des femmes en France XIXe-XXe siècle (PUR, 2005), Le Moment 68, une histoire contestée, (Seuil, 2008), Les Luttes et les rêves. Une histoire populaire de la France de 1685 à nos jours (Zones / La Découverte, 2016), and more recently Une histoire nationale est-elle possible ? (Presses universitaires de Bordeaux et de Pau, 2018). She also co-edited with Philippe Artières 68 une histoire collective (Paris, La Découverte, 2008).