French Studies Forum on the Paris Attacks

The University of Kentucky recently hosted a French Studies Forum on the Paris Attacks, organized by French and Francophone Studies within the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. The participants in the forum address the cultural and political context of, as well as the emerging and continuing fallout surrounding, the recent deadly attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher market (January 7-9, 2015). Discussion participants (in the order in which they speak): Jeffrey Peters, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC) Leon Sachs, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC) Jeremy Popkin, Department of History Suzanne Pucci, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC) Michael Samers, Department of Geography Sadia Zoubir-Shaw, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC) Ihsan Bagby, Arabic and Islamic Studies (MCLLC) Joel Pett, political cartoonist, Lexington Herald-Leader