Lunch Seminar with Michele Audin

Lunch seminars are for UNC faculty and grad students.  Reservations required.

Writing the Stories of Mademoiselle Haas

I had written a paper on the way French Jewish scientists had been forbidden to publish during the German Occupation of France. Then a biologist came to show me a list of French Jewish scientists who had been dismissed from the Ministry of agriculture at that time. Among them were two women. One of them was « Mlle Haas, auxiliary researcher ». He knew nothing of her. Not even her first name. And this is how it started…

Bio: Michèle Audin studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure de Sèvres in Paris, France and was a professor of mathematics for 35 years, spending most of her career at the University of Strasbourg. In 2009, Audin was elected to the French literary group OuLiPo, which seeks to create literary works using constrained writing techniques. Audin is the author of three major novels, a biography and a collection of short stories. Her work is based on historical facts, archival documents, and the narratives of notable figures in the history of mathematics, and specifically women.

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