2014 - “A Life Between Cultures in Twentieth-Century France: Louis Massignon’s Islamic Catholicism”

Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Jerrold Seigel, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University, received the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750, published by Cambridge University Press. He delivered his prize lecture, “A Life Between Cultures in Twentieth-Century France: Louis Massignon’s Islamic Catholicism,” when accepting the award. Seigel’s first field of historical specialization was the Italian Renaissance, but he has since concentrated on more recent topics. He has held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and was twice a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has served as a visiting lecturer (maître d’études associé) at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, and in 2000 was a resident at the American Academy in Rome.

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