"Local Bureaucracy, Universal Power: The Political Construction of Scale in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1815," will be presented by Dr. Stephen Sawyer, assistant professor of history and chair of the Department of History, American University of Paris. Sawyer specializes in urban political history with an emphasis on the role of cities in territorial and state construction in the Atlantic world. He has published in Annales: Histoire et Sciences Sociales as well as chapters in several books. He is currently preparing a book manuscript for publication on the history of the Paris Municipality from 1789 to 1880.