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CFP: SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES
SAINT LOUIS, MO
26-29 MARCH 2009

The 55th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS) will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at Union Station in Saint Louis, Missouri, 26-29 March 2009. SFHS President for 2008-09, Steven C. Hause, Senior Scholar in the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis, will host the meeting.

Plenary speakers include Roger Chartier (Collège de France, EHESS, and the University of Pennsylvania), John Merriman (Yale University), and Karen Offen (Stanford University) who will discuss recent trends in social, cultural, and gender history. Christine Bard (Université d’Angers) will speak on the historiography of the women’s movement at the Friday luncheon. A reception, sponsored by Southern Illinois University Carbondale, will be held on Thursday evening; and a tour of St. Louis’s historical heritage is planned for Sunday.

The Program Committee requests submissions of panels, including a chair, two (preferably three) presenters, and a commentator. Individual papers are also encouraged, and they will be fitted together into coherent panels as much as possible. Anyone not giving a paper may volunteer to chair or comment on a panel, as well.     

Proposals are invited on any historical topic in French history writ large, including interdisciplinary and comparative approaches and all periods of inquiry from early medieval to contemporary history. In keeping with recent work, scholarship on the historical redefinition of the French métropole and its empire is especially welcome. 

Please do not send proposals for papers that have already been presented or scheduled for presentation at other conferences or that have already been published. In the interest of fostering the next generation of historians, the SFHS seeks the active participation of advanced graduate students who are engaged in original research of their own.

Please note that all conference participants must be SFHS members in good standing at the time of the conference. Memberships are available at www.dukepress.edu/fhs.

Please send proposals for panels or papers as MS-Word attachments (all MS-Word Vista files must be reformatted for users of MS-Word XP) to James Smith Allen, SFHS Vice President and Program Committee Chair at SFHS2009@siu.edu. Proposals must include (integrated into one file) an abstract (no more than one double-spaced page, about 250 words) for each paper, a one-page c.v. (including complete contact information) for each presenter, and the following information for the chair and commentator: name, affiliation, e-mail address, and telephone number.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS:  15 September 2008