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This event is in the past.It took place on February 17, 2026 at Pigott Hall (Building 260).

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After the Coup: Literature in an Age of Tyranny 1
Literature Talk
After the Coup: Literature in an Age of Tyranny 2
After the Coup: Literature in an Age of Tyranny 3
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After the Coup: Literature in an Age of Tyranny

At Pigott Hall (Building 260)

Stanford

Yale's Maurice Samuels unpacks how Baudelaire responded to the 1851 coup d'état, finding surprising political complexity in a poet we thought we knew. The parallels to our own moment are hard to miss.

Literary scholarship
Political history
Academic lecture
Free campus event

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📚focus on Baudelaire's prose poem 'Assommons les pauvres!'
🏛️hosted by Stanford Global Studies

Pigott Hall (Building 260)

Building 260, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

+1 650-723-2300

sgs.stanford.edu

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