Culture and Revolution in Paris, 1850-1900

An Intensive Freshman Seminar

Class Schedule

Change and Opportunity

Access to Preclass Materials

Day 1: Monday, August 5 -- Challenge to the Status Quo in the Arts

Day 2: Tuesday, August 6 -- Recreating Paris

Day 3: Wednesday, August 7 -- The Coming of a Consumer Culture

Day 4: Thursday, August  8 -- A World of Leisure

Day 5: Friday, August 9 --  Class Divisions

Saturday August 5-Sunday, August 11 -- Check in to Your Dorm

Sunday, August 6 -- Welcome Festival 6-8 pm

 

Conflict and Struggle

Day 6: Monday, August 12 -- Collapse: The Franco-Prussian War and  the Commune

Day 7: Tuesday, August 13 -- Sex and Gender in the Belle Epoch

Day 8: Wednesday, August 14 -- French Culture at the End of the Century

Day 9: Thursday, August 15 -- Race, Decadence, and Fears of Decline

Day 10: Friday, August 16 -- Culture Wars: Science and Religion in Conflict

 

 

 

New Stresses in Parisian Culture

 

Day 11:  Saturday, August 17-- Individual meetings to workshop papers

Sunday, August 18 -- Paper Draft Due by 5:00

Day 13: Monday, August 19 --  Tour of the Lilly Library 9:00

Day 14 Tuesday, August 20 -- IFS Forum

 

Saturday. August 24 -- Submit final draft of paper through Canvas by 5:00 PM

You have now finished your first course at IU.

 

 

Information about the Final Paper

Forum

If you are interested in reading more about Parisan history, here are a couple of books that I have enjoyed.