The MIT Research Seminar in French and Francophone Studies presents Identities, Communities, and Spaces.
Dominique Kalifa is a Professor of History at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), where he is director of the Center for 19th-Century History. He specialises in the history of crime, transgression, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th France and Europe. His talk will present his latest book: Les Bas-fonds. Histoire d’un imaginaire (2013). He is also the author of Biribi. Les bagnes coloniaux de l’armée française (2009), Crime et culture au XIXe siècle (2005), Naissance de la police privée (2000), L’Encre et le Sang. Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Époque (1995). Talk in English.