In 1925, Contact Editions Press (founded in Paris by Robert McAlmon) published 500 copies ofThe Making of Americans—the 925-page novel that Stein had written between 1903 and 1911. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of that event, this conference asks how Americans were made, unmade, and remade by a city whose cultural magnetism famously drew artists, musicians, dancers, and writers across the Atlantic, often for years.

Participants: Yasna Bozhkova, Université Paris Nanterre – Bill Brown, University of Chicago – Brad Evans, Rutgers University – Jonathan Flatley, University of Chicago – Jennifer Iverson, University of Chicago – Tina Post, University of Chicago – Cécile Roudeau – Sabine Sielke, University of Bonn – Chloé Thomas, Université Paris Cité – Babette Tischleder, University of Göttingen – Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago