Events

Speaker: David Bell, Princeton University 

Commentators: Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania, and John Shovlin, New York University

Moderator: Charly Coleman, Columbia University 

Introduction: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College 

What do fairy tales recited in the aristocratic salons of the Old Regime have to do with the origins of modern political economy? Quite a lot, it turns out. In this talk, David Bell will reevaluate a famous debate about the salons, and show their intimate connection to a key current of Enlightenment thought.

Event cosponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Department of History at Barnard College, and by the European Institute, the Department of History, and the French Department at Columbia University.