Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

516. Religions and the Republic

3:30–4:45 p.m., Congress C, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Ann Austin Smock, Univ. of California, Berkeley

1. “Legislating Laïcité: The Law’s Elusive Contexts,” Philip E. Lewis, Cornell Univ.

2. “Unpacking the Veil in France: The Symbolic, the Literary, the Political,” Alison H. Rice, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

3. “Films of Christian Atheism: Robert Bresson’s Turn to Rhetoric,” Joseph Mai, Tulane Univ.

4. “Every Angel Is Terrifying: Maoism, Messalianism, and the Political Theology of ’68 in Lardreau and Jambet,” B. Madison Mount, Princeton Univ.

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