Lecture Historians who study private lives and "ordinary people" often find their documentary sources in attics, rather than in government archives. What revisions of the past, and what new issues of professional ethics, come from peering into private lives? Can historians treat intimate lives the same way they have learned to treat public figures?

Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Frances and Charles Field Professor in History, will share the story of a Huguenot family’s exile and discuss her experiences searching for, and using, their private family papers.

Carolyn Lougee Chappell is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History and the Martin Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. A specialist in early modern Europe, she writes on the history of women and families, religious history, demographic history, and the history of education. Professor Lougee Chappell is the author of Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France and Death at School: Saint-Cyr in the Eighteenth Century.

Conversations at the Stanford Humanities Center brings together Stanford faculty, visiting scholars, students, and guests for an evening of spirited conversation on a topic of common intellectual concern. The evening kicks off with a faculty presentation, after which guests participate in a dinner discussion and a Q&A session with the speaker.

Buffet Dinner Included
$50 per person

Seating is limited: please respond no later than April 2.

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