Lunchtime Lectures
September 23, 2009
"Small Small Catch Monkey: Adventures in Cameroon"
Marie Lathers
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
11:30-12:30
Clark Hall 206 (Baker-Nord Center)
Oct, 7, 2009
"Infidels at the Oar: A Mediterranean Exception to France's Free Soil Principle"
Dr. Gilian Weiss
Dept. of History
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Mather Memorial 201
Substantial Snacks provided
"There are no slaves in France." So went the law that any serf, bondservant or chattel entering French territory be immediately freed. On this basis, foreign masters lost their property and colonial slaves won their manumission from sixteenth-century Toulouse to eighteenth-century Paris. Yet in France's Mediterranean port cities of the same period, thousands of Ottomans and Morocans remained in chains, spending spring and summer as oarsmen on the royal galleys, fall and winter as day laborers and petty traders. This talk evaluates naval, spatial, strategic, theoretical and jurdicial explanations for a curious violation of the kingdom's free spoil principle.
Fulbright Scholar in Cameroon
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Marie Lathers, Treuhaft Professor of French, will be 
spending the upcomingacademic year (2008-2009) as a Fulbright scholar teaching women’s studies at the University of Dschang in Cameroon. She and her daughter will live in Batoula (a sub-section of Bafounda, in the Francophone Grassfields region, and Prof. Gilbert Doho’s home in Cameroon) and write an English-language book on Daily Life in a Cameroonian Village, part memoir and part description of local life and customs, with a focus on such areas as women and children, education, food and clothing, and myths and legends. This work will make Fu’nda life known outside of the Bafounda area and allow villagers to express their culture.
For updates, see http://blog.case.edu/marie.lathers/
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