H-France Salon Volume 10

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is an interactive journal that welcomes proposals which will enhance the scholarly study of French history and culture.

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H-France Salon
Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11

The Tallahassee Report and Graduate Training in French History

April 13-14, 2018

On April 13 and 14, 2018, approximately 35 doctoral students and their faculty advisors working on Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary French history met at Florida State University to examine how doctoral education in this broad field has changed in the U.S. in recent years and to identify ways teaching, research, and the job search might be reconfigured in light of these changes. Together they represented 20 of the American universities currently granting doctoral degrees in this area of French history; observers from France and the UK were also present. The Tallahassee Report is the result of that meeting. In it the group identifies key challenges and puts forward some suggestions for how to address them. Over the summer the report was shared with several historians who did not participate in the meeting and represent a range of generations, institutions, and perspectives. Their responses are presented here along with the report with the aim of initiating a conversation on these important issues among the H-France community at large. We welcome your comments.

H-France Salon
Volume 10 (2018), Issue,11, #1
The Tallahassee Report:
Rethinking Graduate Education in Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary French History

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11, #2
Some Reflections on De-specialization at a Small Graduate Program
Junko Takeda
Syracuse University

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11, #3
Recommendations from the Teaching Trenches: Supporting Graduate Students and Junior Scholars in Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary French Studies
Laura Talamante
California State University, Dominguez Hills

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11, #4
On the Tallahassee Report
Julia M. Gossard
Utah State University

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11, #5
Plus ça change
Lynn Hunt
UCLA

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11, #6
On the Tallahassee Report:
Is It Time for Re-Specialization?
J.P. Daughton
Stanford University

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 11, #7
Enjamber l’Atlantique. Réflexions sur le Tallahassee Report
François-Joseph Ruggiu
Sorbonne Université & CNRS

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 10
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10 March 2018

Keynote Presentation

Telling the Truth about the Resistance
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary College, University of London
VIDEO
MP3

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 9, #1-4
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10 March 2018
Violence and Delinquency in the late Third Republic
Chair: Joshua Cole, University of Michigan

Colonial Violence in Paris: Fascism, Jean Ferrandi, and Colonial Officers in the 1930s
Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota
VIDEO
MP3
Vulnerable Delinquents: Childhood and Criminality in the Interwar Period
Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary
VIDEO
MP3
Brutes and Bludgeoners: Policing Interwar France
Chris Millington, Swansea University, read by Joshua Cole
VIDEO
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Comment: Vicki Caron, Cornell University
VIDEO
MP3

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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 8, #1-3
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10 March 2018
Clerical Identities and Empire in Early Modern France
Chair: Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester

French Franciscans, Bourbon imperialism and the early modern Holy Land
Megan Armstrong, McMaster University
VIDEO
MP3
The Jesuit Career of René Robert Cavalier de La Salle
Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
VIDEO
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Comments: Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
VIDEO
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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 7, #1-3
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10 March 2018
Conceptualizing Transparency in French History
Chair: Timothy Scott Johnson, Texas A & M Corpus Christi

Patterns, Webs, and Warps: Geroulanos’ Methodology
Michael Behrent, Appalachian State University
VIDEO
MP3
Framing Transparency: Algeria, UNESCO, and Post-1945 France
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
VIDEO
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Comment: Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
VIDEO
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H-France Salon
Volume 10 (2018), Issue 6, #1
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9 March 2018
PLENARY LUNCH
Indigenizing New France: What's Left?
Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
VIDEO
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Volume 10 (2018), Issue 5, #1-
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9 March 2018
Revolutionary Emotions: Panic, Frustration and Enthusiasm 1789– 1799
Chair: Marisa Linton, Kingston University

Turbans of Liberty: Revolutionary Enthusiasm and Global Emotions
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine
VIDEO
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The Panic of May 1792
Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
VIDEO
MP3
Taxes, Offices, Deadlines: Frustration as a Revolutionary Emotion
Rebecca Spang, Indiana University
VIDEO
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Comment: Thomas Dodman, Columbia University
VIDEO
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H-France Salon
Volume 10 (2018), Issue 4, #1-4
Society for French Historical Studies
64th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9 March 2018
Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality in the Belle Époque
Chair: Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University

The Single Standard or the Double Standard? Public Debates over Proper Sexual Relations between Men and Women during the Belle Époque
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester
VIDEO
MP3
Charles Turgeon’s Le Féminisme français (1902): An analysis of the work and its reception

Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
VIDEO
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“Les injustices de nos lois”: Feminist Legal Thought and Practice in the Belle Époque
Sara Kimble, DePaul University
VIDEO
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Comment: Linda Clark, Millersville University
VIDEO
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H-France Salon

Volume 10 (2018), Issue 3,

Interpreting May '68

Edited by Chris Reynolds, Nottingham Trent University

As part of its continuing series of issues focused on '68, the current issue of H-France Salon presents excellent essays by Julian Bourg, Boston College, and Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University. These two essays respond to a forum entitled "May '68: New Approaches, New Perspectives" in volume 51, issue 2 of French Historical Studies edited by Donald Reid and Daniel J. Sherman. The essays extend the discussion and debate found in the original six essays, which SFHS and Duke University Press have kindly made access to the six forum essays freely available through June 2018 (https://read.dukeupress.edu/french-historical-studies).

Introduction

Christopher Reynolds

Still, It Moves: May ’68 at Fifty

Julian Bourg, Boston College

Commentary on French Historical Studies Special Issue: May ‘68: New Approaches, New Perspectives

Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University

H-France Salon, Volume 10, Issue 2
Early Modern Capitalism

H-France Webinar from 4 April 2018

Video can be viewed here.

Webinar host: Camille Robcis, Cornell University

Invited Participants:

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University

Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University

Charly Coleman, Columbia University

H-France Salon
Vol. 10 (2018), Issue 1

Le Cas '68
As part of its recognition of the 50th anniversary of May '68, H-France Salon has teamed up with students in Chris Reynolds’ course on May '68 at Nottingham Trent University to produce a historical blog of those dramatic months. These blog entries address many of the key events and people that marked the spring of 1968 and provide both descriptions of various issues and people and links to more detailed information. The blog begins on 22 March and then picks up again on 3 May charting pivotal moments of these seminal events. There will be a total of 12 blog entries which will be published during these months. We encourage you to share these blogs with your students and with anyone interested in learning more about Le Cas '68 in France.