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DESCRIPTION:Béla Kapossy will be coming to speak at the Seminar in\nCultura
 l History on Wednesday\, February 20\, 2013.  His talk is entitled\n“Rouss
 eau’s and Other Relics: Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century\nSwi
 tzerland.”\n\nBéla Kapossy is Professor of Modern History at the Universit
 y of Lausanne in Switzerland.  He received his PhD in History from the Uni
 versity of Cambridge.  Kapossy’s research interests include modern Europea
 n and Swiss intellectual history\, political theory\, political economy\, 
 and historiography.  He is currently working on research projects focusing
  on Gibbon in Lausanne\, commerce and perpetual peace debates in eighteent
 h- and nineteenth-century Europe\, and eighteenth-century historiography. 
  Kapossy’s publications include Sismondi – Libéralisme critique et républi
 ques modernes (Geneva: Slatkine\, 2013)\; Genève\, lieu d'Angleterre: 1725
 -1814\, co-editors\, Valérie Cossy and Richard Whatmore (Geneva: Slatkine\
 , 2009)\; Richesse et pauvreté dans les républiques suisses au XVIIIe sièc
 le: Actes du colloque de Lausanne des 23-25 novembre 2006\, co-editors\, A
 ndré Holenstein\, Danièle Tosato-Rigo\, and Simone Zurbuchen (Geneva: Slat
 kine\, 2008)\; and Iselin contra Rousseau: Sociable Patriotism and the His
 tory of Mankind (Basel: Schwabe\, 2006).While some relics follow clearly r
 ecognizable iconographic\npatterns\, others do not.  To the uninitiated\, 
 they are mere objects void\nof any aesthetic or symbolic value.  So what m
 akes an object a relic?\n In his talk\, Kapossy will suggest some answers 
 to this question by\nlooking at some recently discovered objects that belo
 nged to Jean-Jacques\nRousseau and Edward Gibbon\, both of whom played a c
 rucial role within the\ncultural life of eighteenth-century French-speakin
 g Switzerland.Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The\npresentat
 ion will begin at 6:00 pm. RSVP is required. PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture 
 Hall can only accommodate\na limited number of people\, so please come ear
 ly if you would like to have a\nseat in the main room.  We also have overf
 low seating available\; all\nregistrants who arrive late will be seated in
  the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Rousseau’s\, and Other Relics:
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