Professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva, Michel Jeanneret was one of the pillars of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Centuries French literature.
Well known in the US, where he gave numerous lectures, he served as Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and has held posts as Visiting Professor in Harvard, Princeton, Seattle, Irvine, UCLA as well as the College de France, the Sorbonne, and the Universities of Lausanne, Nottingham, Bristol, Beijing, and Kyoto. Among his works translated into English: A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991) and Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne (Johns Hopkins, 2001). Colleagues and friends from the US and Europe will participate in this international homage.
Organized by Jean-Claude Carron (UCLA), the event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
