"The Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks" series publishes selected papers in English and French drawn from international conferences held at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. This volume contains papers presented during the 2007-8 academic year at three conferences: 'Paris/Chicago - Urban Cultures in Comparative Historical Perspective'; 'Emigration, Influence, Exile - Models of Cultural Interaction between Russia and France'; and, 'Freud in the Twenty-first Century'.