Elizabeth Jacqueline Marcus: “France’s Global University: Education, Empire and Transnational Entanglements”
- Date: 13 May 2025, 10:15–12:00
- Location: SCAS, Thunberg Lecture Hall, Linneanum, Villavägen 6c, Uppsala
- Type: Seminar
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- Organiser: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- Contact person: Mattias Bolkéus Blom
Elizabeth Jacqueline Marcus (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study & Newcastle University) will give a seminar on the topic "France’s Global University: Education, Empire and Transnational Entanglement". The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session.
ABSTRACT:
This talk will examine left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975) at the Cité international universitaire de Paris, a residential campus built in the spirit of international humanism in the wake of World War I. In this thirty-year period, the Cité U was more than a simple dormitory: it came to represent and act as a hub of the global life of the city, an early locus of global migration, and a new model of global education. This interdisciplinary project brings to light unexpected connections between social anthropology, postcolonial studies, and global and cultural history and offers a new window onto the post-war and post-colonial moment. France’s Global University ultimately shows how a hybrid groups of migrants led to the production of novel orders of knowledge, fields of action and cultural imaginaries of the mid-century.