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H-France Forum Volume 4, Issue 3, Fall 2009 is up!
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SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES
56th Annual Meeting, Arizona State University
April 8 – 10, 2010
Arizona State University will host the 56th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on Thursday April 8 – Saturday April 10, 2010. Featured speakers and guests include Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard), Lynn Hunt (UCLA), and Pierre Serna (Université de Paris I). Featured events include an outdoor banquet Saturday evening as well as receptions both Thursday and Friday evenings. The theme of this year’s conference is French History in Translation, understood both literally, and in its broadest, metaphorical sense.
All sessions will be held at the Fiesta Resort and Conference Center in Tempe. The Resort is only 10 minutes from Sky Harbor Airport. Sky Harbor is served by all major airlines, including U.S. Airways, Southwest and Jet Blue. The Resort offers a free shuttle to downtown Tempe, where you can find a number of excellent restaurants, pleasant walking and jogging trails along Tempe town lake, Gammage Auditorium, and the ASU campus. From downtown Tempe, you can also catch the Metro Light Rail, which will take you to the Heard Museum, the Phoenix Art Museum, and Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park. The Resort is also only minutes away from the Desert Botanical Gardens, the Phoenix Zoo and Old Town Scottsdale. Worthwhile excursions farther afield include Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West and of course, the Grand Canyon. In early April, the desert is in bloom and the weather is likely to be in the 80s during the day and the 50s at night.
If you are not submitting a paper or panel but would be willing to serve as chair or commentator, please send your name and area(s) of expertise to kent.wright@asu.edu.
Participants in the program must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join from the Duke Press webpage (www.dukeupress.edu) or by writing to: Journals Fulfillment, Duke University Press, Box 90660, Durham, N.C. 27708-0660. Members receive the quarterly journal French Historical Studies.
For further inquiries, please contact the President of the Society for 2009-2010, Victoria Thompson (victoria.thompson@asu.edu) or the Vice-President, Kent Wright (kent.wright@asu.edu).