2008
New Brunswick, New Jersey
April 3-5, 2008.
Co-Presidents:
Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University
Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University
Conference website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jemjones/sfhs2008.html

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will host the 54rd annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on 3-5 April 2008. Myriam Cottias (CNRS), director of the international research group on slavery based at the EHESS, author of numerous books and edited collections on gender, slavery and historical memory, and most recently filmmaker ("Tropiques Amers," 2007) will be our featured speaker at the Friday luncheon. The Zimmerli art museum at Rutgers, with a rich collection of French and European prints and paintings, will host the Friday evening reception, in conjunction with a major show on the works of Honoré Daumier. On our Saturday program, our very distinguished guest will be Professor Denis Crouzet (Sorbonne, Paris) the internationally known scholar of religion, violence, historiography, and apocalyptic thought. His many scholarly works and research projects include Les Guerriers de Dieu: La violence au temps des troubles de religion (1990). Un 'Haut Coeur' de Catherine de Médicis (2005) and Christophe Colomb Héraut d'une apocalypse (2006). We are honored to have the participation of both Professors Cottias and Crouzet at our annual meeting.

All sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regency, which from the banks of the Raritan River in downtown New Brunswick, overlooks the spot where George Washington and his troops crossed the Raritan. The hotel is a short two-block walk to the Zimmerli art museum and the historic Rutgers “College Avenue” campus. Downtown New Brunswick, a.k.a, “Hub City,” has witnessed a remarkable revitalization in the past ten years. The lively downtown is home to three major theaters, The Crossroads Theater, The George Street Playhouse, and The State Theater and over a dozen restaurants. The Hyatt is two blocks from a direct train line to Newark International airport, New York City (50 minutes), Princeton University (10 minutes), and Philadelphia (60 minutes via Trenton). Our location is ideal for exploring major cultural sites of the New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia before or after the conference.

Sessions normally include three papers, a commentator and a chair. We encourage panels to strive for gender balance. The program committee strongly urges submission of complete panels, but will consider individual papers. All proposals should include a session title, paper titles, short abstracts (300 words max), a one page c.v. for each panelist, and one cover sheet for the panel. The panel organizer is responsible for submitting all materials for the panel together with the cover sheet. Please send proposals (via email) to Jennifer Jones at jemjones@rci.rutgers.edu. 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 Jennifer Jones.

The deadline for proposals is SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Participants in the program must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join from the Duke Press webpage (http://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 two co-presidents of the Society for 2007-2008, Jennifer Jones (jemjones@rci.rutgers.edu) or Matt Matsuda (matt_matsuda1@yahoo.com)

Conference website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jemjones/sfhs2008.html.

The University of Houston will host the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on 15-17 March 2007. Featured speakers are Gérard Noiriel (EHESS) and Patrice Higonnet (Harvard). A plenary session with Dominique Veillon (IHTP), Valerie Steele (FIT) and Irene Guenther (Marquette) will explore fashion history. The Menil Collection, designed by Renzo Piano, will host our Friday evening reception.

All sessions will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Houston.  Home base for Continental Airlines, Houston is served by all major airlines, including Southwest (low fares).  Houston’s downtown boasts the Wortham Theatre housing the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera, Jones Hall (home to the Houston Symphony) and the Alley Theatre (frequent stage for productions of plays by Edward Albee, who serves on the faculty at UH). In addition to downtown, the Doubletree Hotel provides easy access to the Metro Rail line, which runs to the Museum District, Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. Eating out is one of the local sports and there are truly remarkable restaurants of every imaginable variety.  March is our best weather month—highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s, azaleas blooming.

Sessions normally include three papers, a commentator and a chair.* The program committee strongly urges submission of complete panels, but will consider individual papers.  All proposals should include a session title, paper titles, short abstracts (300 words max), a one page cv for each panelist, and, something new, a cover sheet (PDF) for the panel, enclosed with this Call for Papers. Please send proposals (email attachment is fine, but please integrate all materials into one file under the organizer’s name) to Sarah Fishman, chair of the program committee, at sfishman@uh.edu.

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 sfishman@uh.edu.

The deadline for proposals is SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

Participants in the program must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join from the Duke Press website 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 two co-presidents of the Society for 2006-2007, Sarah Fishman or Rob Zaretsky (local arrangements).

*program committee asks that panels strive for gender balance

2006
Champaign, Illinois
April 20-23, 2006.
Clare Crowston (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mark S. Micale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Co-presidents.
Conference website: http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/french2006

The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 20-23, 2006, with support from area universities. The official Conference web site, with information on submitting papers for the conference, may be found at: http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/french2006

Conference sessions on Friday April 21 and Saturday April 22 will be at the Illini Union, which anchors the university quad. The welcoming reception on Thursday evening will take place in the Krannert Art Museum. The campus is located in the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana, within 2-3 hours driving distance of Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. The Champaign airport is served by American Airlines, Northwest, and Delta, with connections through Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and Dallas. The conference hotel will be the Historic Lincoln Hotel (http://www.historiclincolnhotel.com); tel:1-800-251-1962.

As always, the SFHS organizers welcome submissions in all fields of French history. We particularly urge colleagues to submit proposals for full panels, which typically consist of three presenters, a commentator and a chair.

Proposals should include:

• Cover Sheet (available on the Website) with session title, participant names and email addresses, paper titles, and audio-visual needs,
• Short Abstracts of papers (no longer than one page each)
• Short CVs (no longer than one page each, with full mailing and email addresses for each participant).

Please submit your proposals by email AND by regular mail. It is particularly important that email proposals be complete and include all necessary information in the body of the text rather than in separate attachments.

Paper proposals should be postmarked no later than October 15, 2005 and sent to the organizers.

Also, for the first time, SFHS will be accepting proposal submissions on-line at our web site at:

For further information, please go to the website (above) or contact the two co-presidents of the Society for 2006 via e-mail at sfhs-2006@uiuc.edu .

Please note that all North American participants must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join by subscribing to the Society's journal, French Historical Studies, via the Duke University Press web page, www.dukeupress.edu/fhs, or by writing to Journals Fulfillment, Duke University Press, Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660.