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Prostitution
and Colonization: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco 1830-1962
Wednesday, September 20
7:00 PM
Olin Rice 250
Christelle Taraud
Christelle
Taraud teaches History in Paris for Columbia University, Vassar,
Wesleyan College, the Institute of European Studies, Sarah Lawrence
College and New York University. She is Associate Researcher at
the GTMS lab center (Genèse et Transformation des Mondes
Sociaux), a joint research center of the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and the CNRS (National Center for Scientific
Research). She leads a research seminar on Inheritance and Identity
in the Mediterranean.
She studies the role and intervention of colonial
French administration in the control of prostitution and the role
played by prostitutes in North Africa with various groups.
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