'The decadence of morals: Sodomy and temporality in Paris, 1660–1730'

Thursday of Week 6 at 1pm in the Rees Davies Room, the History Faculty.

Historian Benjamin Bernard, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and Lecturer by courtesy in the Department of French, at the University of Virginia. Last year he defended his dissertation in the Princeton Department of History titled “Administering Morals in the French Enlightenment: Education, Sexuality, and Authority at the Parisian Collège, 1645–1763.” In 2022 his chapter “The Sodomy Consultant of Paris" received the distinction of “Honorable Mention” for the Gregory Sprague Prize awarded by the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBT History (CLGBTH). At the University of Virginia, he teaches an interdisciplinary seminar called "~decadence~: the ethics of excess" and lives in college as resident faculty fellow of Brown Residential College.

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