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 a 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 a 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 France, which forms the core of his current research.

Before joining Cornell as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the spring of 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’s interested in diplomacy and collects ties.

EDITED BOOKS

[I] L’Histoire-Bataille [co-editor], Geneva: Droz, 2006, 150 p.
http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/etudes-et-rencontres.html

[II] Ils racontent la mondialisation, de Sénèque à Lévi-Strauss, Paris: Saint-Simon, 2005, 274 p. http://www.edsaintsimon.com/catalogue.php

EXHIBITION

Curator of: Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds, Cornell University, Kroch Library, RMC, September 2007-June 2008

Website: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/

Paper Catalog: Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds, Ithaca: Kroch Library, RMC, 2007, 46 p.

CATALOGS (ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS)

[1] Archives de Pierre Laroque [with Viktoria Prozorova and alii, under the supervision Christine Pétillat]

Archives nationales, Paris

Paris: La Documentation Française, 186 p.

[2] Archives de Charles Fiterman (1981-1984).

Archives nationales, Paris

[3] Archives du Commissariat à l’énergie solaire (1973-1982)

Archives nationales, Paris
http://www.environnement.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=334

[4] 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

[5] Archives of the Aide Sociale à l’Enfance (1968-1990s)

Archives départementales de la Seine Saint-Denis

[6] Archives of the painter and collector Henri Duhem (c. 1860-1940)

Douai Museum of Fine Arts

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Journal Articles

[i] "Cornell and the Marshall Plan (1947-51)", in Cornell International Affairs Review, forthcoming in April 2008, 20 p.

[ii] "Zola et ces messieurs de l’Ecole des chartes", in Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, vol. 164, 2007, p. 595-604

[iii] "Universités et mluridisciplinarité après mai 68", Labyrinthe, 27, 2007, 15 p.

[iii 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

[iv] "Les intellectuels s'intéressent-ils au patrimoine ?", Livraisons d'histoire de l'architecture, 2003, p. 129-153.

http://www.persee.fr/

[v] "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

[a] "Disparus sans fantômes: Les bibliothèques de Wyndham Lewis" in Les Bibliothèques d’artistes, Paris: Institut national d’histoire de l’art, forthcoming in 2008.

[b] "L’Héraldique des jeunes filles (16e-18e siècles)" in Les Femmes et l’écriture de l’histoire, Rouen : Presses universitaires de Rouen, forthcoming in 2008.

[c] "Moreau", "Maulnier", "Brasillach" in [Correspondance de Charles Maurras], Lille: Septentrion UP, forthcoming in 2008.

[d] "La correspondance entre Raphaël Alibert et Pierre Laroque (1927-1940)"
in Raphaël Alibert, Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, forthcoming in 2008.

TALKS

Cornell University (2006, 2007, 2008)
Ecole nationale des Chartes (1995, 1996, 2000, 2002)
Institut national d’histoire de l’art (2006)
Université Paris-IV (2006)
Université Paris-8 (2002, 2003)
Université de Rouen (2005)
Vienna University, Austria (2000)