Past Events

Professor John Klein’s research is on European art of the first half of the twentieth century. He is an internationally known specialist in the art of Henri Matisse. In addition to his first book, Matisse Portraits (Yale 2001), he has published many articles and book chapters on the artist. His recent book, Matisse and Decoration, published by Yale in 2018, is a comprehensive analysis of the concept of decoration in Matisse’s art, with a particular focus on his commissions for ceramic tile, stained glass, tapestry and other fabrics, and decorative objects and paintings during the last twenty years of his career.

Learn about avant-garde films by women in this screening of Germaine Dulac’s The Seashell and the Clergyman.

RLL DEI Speaker Series

Our own Nathan Dize, assistant professor of Caribbean literature at Washington University in St. Louis, will exchange with Lucy Swanson, assistant professor of French Studies at the University of Arizona.

Pierre Savy is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.

Moderated by Dr. Lionel Cuillé, director of the French Connexions center of excellence.

Join us on Tuesday, November 12th, 2024, for a thought-provoking Interdisciplinary Colloquium at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) celebrating the historic reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris!