Philippe Gumplowicz is a musicologist and Dean of Humanities atthe University of Paris Saclay. Author of Le Roman de jazz (1991 and 2000) and creator of documentaries for radio and television, he is writing a book about James Reese Europe, a native of Mobile, Alabama who brought ragtime to France.Gumplowicz will take part in an Afro-French Studies Colloquium with Pap Ndiaye, a historian at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. The colloquium will begin with a buffet lunch at 11:30 a.m. followed by Gumplowicz’s talk at noon and Ndiaye’s talk, “The Minority Paradox: Blackness in France,” at 1 p.m.This event is free and open to the public. Please contact Rachel Gabara at rgabara@uga.edu to RSVP for lunch.Sponsored by the Willson Center, the UGA department of Romance languages, the French Embassy in the United States, the Mission Centenaire 14/18,the Alliance Française, and the University of Montevallo Department of Modern Languages and Classics.