Ferri, Laurent

Curator and Adjunct Professor

Laurent Ferri graduated from the Université Lyon-II (1994) and completed his formation at the Ecole des chartes (1994-1999) and the Institut national du patrimoine (1999-2000). There, he wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Michel Pastoureau about Balzac's use of the social code of heraldry. In December 2002, acting in his capacity as both chartist and an editorial board member of the journal Labyrinthe, he has organized a pluridisciplinary conference on Georges Bataille, featuring Jacques Derrida and several historians. Prof. Ferri has recently edited two books: the first is a collection of studies on Bataille; the second, an anthology about the narratives of globalization from the Antiquity to the present time, is intended to benefit the “public at large”, and has sold about 10,000 copies. He is also the author of many articles about intellectual and artistic history in 19th and 20th century Europe, which forms the core of his current research.

Laurent Ferri currently serves as the Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. He is also a member of the Instruction Committee of Cornell University Library. Before joining Cornell as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2006, he had been appointed Curator at the Archives Nationales in Paris (2000-2005). He also taught regularly, especially as Professor at the Ecole nationale d’administration in Rabat, Morocco (2002, 2004).

Born in Lyons, the city that received his Italian paternal grandparents, Laurent Ferri knows some French, English, German (which he tends to speak with an Austrian accent since an internship in Vienna), Latin (which he rarely speaks, indeed), Italian, and even a bit of Rumanian. An avid pianist and recreational alpinist, he is interested in diplomacy and collects ties.

 

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ONLINE FINDING AID

#8036 "National Movement and Revolutions in German States, 1848-1849"

Autographs of Washington, Franklin, Lafayette

EXPERTISE

Of a 16th-century heraldic roll, Cheshire, England.

EXHIBITIONS

On the Renaissance French Court, at the Johnson Museum, opening in January 2010

TEACHING

In the Fall of 2010, FR2240 "The French Experience" [Romance Studies Department]

TRANSLATION INTO FRENCH

Hayden White, Metahistory [Introduction, 80 p.] (2009).

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EDITED BOOKS

  1. L’Histoire-Bataille [co-editor], Geneva: Droz, 2006, 150 p. http://books.google.com
  2. Ils racontent la mondialisation, de Sénèque à Lévi-Strauss, Paris: Saint-Simon, 2005, 274 p. http://www.edsaintsimon.com/catalogue.php

EXHIBITIONS

  • Curator of: Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds, Cornell University, Kroch Library, RMC, September 2007-June 2008. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/
  • Paper Catalog: Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds, Ithaca: Kroch Library, RMC, 2007, 46 p.
  • Co-curator of an exhibition about the 16th-century Renaissance, Spring of 2010, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, with Andrew Weislogel.

CATALOGS (ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS)

  1. Guide to the Witchcraft Collection, Unbound Manuscripts, #4620, 1560-1973 [Bulk 16th and 17th centuries / German provinces], RMC, Cornell Library.http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04620.html
  2. Guide to the French Revolution and Napoleon Manuscripts Collection 4606, 1752-1882 [Bulk 1788-1815], RMC, Cornell Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04606.html
  3. Guide to the Lafayette Collection 4611 (50 linear feet), RMC, Cornell Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04611.html
  4. Archives de Pierre Laroque [with Viktoria Prozorova and alii, under the supervision of Christine Pétillat], Archives nationales, Paris, Paris: La Documentation Française, 186 p.
  5. Archives de Charles Fiterman (1981-1984). Archives nationales, Paris.
  6. Archives du Commissariat à l’énergie solaire (1973-1982). Archives nationales, Paris. http://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/Repertoire-detaille-AN-20010454.html
  7. Archives et Bibliothèque du Ministère des Affaires étrangères (1720-1970). Ministère des Affaires étrangères. http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/ministry_158/archives-and-heritage_3562/index.html
  8. Archives of the Aide Sociale à l’Enfance (1968-1990s). Archives départementales de la Seine Saint-Denis.
  9. Archives of the painter and collector Henri Duhem (c. 1860-1940), Douai Museum of Fine Arts.
  10. Photographies d’Edgar and Jules Imbert, Algérie et Maroc [in coll.] Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense [Military Archives], Ivry.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Journal Articles

  1. "Lafayette: The Musical Fabrication of a Political Myth", with Damien Mahiet, forthcoming in 2010
  2. “A Different take on the Biographical Phenomenon: Samuel Johnson's Status in Literary History as Explained by the Development of Literary Tourism,” forthcoming in 2010
  3. “Fukuyama, ou la Chauve-Souris” and “Deux coups de théâtre: Sartre, le Nobel, et le refus de venir à Cornell, 1964-65”, in Labyrinthe, 32, June 2008
  4. "Cornell and the Marshall Plan (1947-51)", in Cornell International Affairs Review, 2008, p.7-16. http://www.ciar.moonfruit.com/
  5. "Zola et ces messieurs de l’Ecole des chartes", in Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, vol. 164, 2007, p. 595-604
  6. "Universités et mluridisciplinarité après mai 68", Labyrinthe, 27, 2007, 15 p.
  7. [bis] "Institutional Mluridisciplinarity in France After Mai 68", e-print, sans papier, November 2007. http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/files/sanspapier/Ferri%20Nov%2007.pdf
  8. "Les intellectuels s'intéressent-ils au patrimoine ?", Livraisons d'histoire de l'architecture, 2003, p. 129-153.
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  9. "Le chartiste dans la fiction littéraire (XIXe et XXe siècles) : une figure ambiguë", in Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, vol. 159, 2001, p. 615-629.

Articles in Collections

  1. "Les Lettres d'Alibert à Pierre Laroque, 1926-1940," in Cotillon, Jérôme (ed.) Raphaël Alibert, Juriste engagé et homme d'influence à Vichy, Paris: Economica, 2009
  2. Annotations relatives à la vie politique in T. Sarmant and S. Garçon (ed.)"Gouvernement et Haut Commandement au déclin de la IIIe République," Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2009
  3. "Disparues sans fantômes: Les bibliothèques de Wyndham Lewis" in Fr. Levaillant and J.-R. Bouiller (ed.), Les Bibliothèques d’artistes, Paris: Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2009.
  4. "Moreau", "Brasillach", "Maulnier", in A. Callu and P. Gillet (ed.), Lettres à Charles Maurras. Amitiés politiques, lettres autographes, 1898-1952, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 2009. http://books.google.com
  5. "L’Héraldique des jeunes filles (16e-18e siècles)" in Les Femmes et l’écriture de l’histoire, Rouen : Presses universitaires de Rouen,  2009.
  6. Pages on Jefferson in "Two Nations, one Vision of Liberty," Claire Germain ed., p. 22-25, Cornell Law School, 2007, p. 22-25 http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/WhoWeAre/upload/LawSchoolcommgift7127.pdf

 

talks and presentations

Cornell University (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Harvard University (2009)
French Senate, Palais du Luxembourg (2008)
École nationale des Chartes (1995, 1996, 2000, 2002)
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris (2006)
Université Paris-IV (2006)
Université Paris-8 (2002, 2003)
Université de Rouen (2005)
Vienna University, Austria (2000)

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