Rhodes College Professor Jeff Jackson conducts a guided tour of the City of Light, discussing its history, landscape, and culture.  Using historical photographs and other images from the era, this presentation provides a new look at a familiar city and how it influenced art in the years around 1900.

Author of two books delving into particular historical aspects of Paris, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, and Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910, Jackson leads courses on the history of Paris including a seminar on Americans in Paris, and Paris: Myth and Reality.

In his teaching, Dr. Jackson gives students “a deep sense of what it was like for people to live at a particular moment in time, including music, literature, film, [and] art.” Join us for an exciting peek into the city of Paris in the Belle Époque.