The European Studies Group invites you to attend the ESG Lecture Series, titled "Fleur royale, fleur rebelle: The Friendship of Marie Antoinette and Lady Oscar in The Rose of Versailles." This event will take place on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in 315 Phillips Hall. 

The featured speaker at this event is Professor Russell Ganim.  Professor Ganim is the Director of the Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Iowa. He has served as president of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature and as co-editor of the scholarly annual EMF: Studies in Early Modern France and of the EMF monograph series, EMF Critiques. His digital projects include a website, "Images of Power in Louis XIV’s France."  His publications include the book Renaissance Resonance: Lyric Modality in La Ceppède’s Théorèmes, several edited collections on French literature and art, and numerous scholarly articles.

To learn more about upcoming European Studies Group events, visit the ESG events page.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Sarolta Peterson in advance at sarolta-peterson@uiowa.edu or 319-335-3862.