This workshop provides a forum for faculty and students from different departments in the social sciences and the humanities who share a common interest in France from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together different disciplinary perspectives and research horizons, it encourages participants to enrich the intellectual and methodological range of their own work. Topics will reflect the diversity of the group and include representatives from the fields of history, anthropology, literature, art history, sociology, and political science. Participants from all disciplines are welcome.