Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is an interactive journal that welcomes proposals which will enhance the scholarly study of French history and culture. The following are the conference panels, roundtables, and lectures that have been a part of the Salon.
Volume 15, Issue 9
“Sex and Consent in France and Haiti: 1650-1802”
Roundtable at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 5, 2022
Moderator: Nina Kushner, Clark University
Discussants:
Justine Semmens, University of Victoria, “Seduction, Sexual Consent, and Blame in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Adultery and Bigamy Appeals at the Parlement of Paris”
Video
Marion Philip, Sorbonne Université / EHESS, “Réceptions masculines du consentement féminin, Paris (1600-1750)”
Video
Mita Choudhury, Vassar College, “Consent and the Paradox of Faith”
Video
Nina Kushner, Clark University, “The Marital Consent Paradox: Sexual Consent within Marriage in the Eighteenth Century”
Video
Volume 15, Issue 8
“Planting France, Planting Empire”
Roundtable at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 5, 2022
Moderator: Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and Graduate Center of CUNY
Discussants:
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University, “The Oak in French Culture: French Forests, Geo-Politics, and André Michaux’s Histoire des Chênes de l’Amérique”
Video
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Seeking Coffee in Yemen, Studying Coffee in Paris: The French ‘Discovery’ of Coffee, 1712- 1716”
Video
Volume 15, Issue 7
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Lecture: “The Revolutionary Journée as Narrative Challenge”
Memorial lecture at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 5, 2022
Colin Jones, Emeritus, Queen Mary University of London; Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
Video
Volume 15, Issue 6
“Roundtable: On Violence in the New French Empire”
Roundtable at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 5, 2022
Moderator: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of California, Davis
Discussants:
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of California, Davis
Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota
Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University
Bonnie Effros, University of British Columbia
Carolyn Eichner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Volume 15, Issue 5
“Tyler Stovall WSFH Mission Prize: A Celebration of the Inaugural Winners”
Celebratory event at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 4, 2022
Moderator: Emily Marker, Rutgers University, Camden
Winners:
Nimisha Barton, University of California, Irvine
Abdellali Hajjat, Université libre de Bruxelles
Sylvie Kandé, SUNY Old Westbury
Volume 15, Issue 4
“Sea of Change and New Waves: French Histories and Pacific Histories”
Keynote address at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 4, 2022
Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University
Video
Volume 15, Issue 3
“Diversifying Directions and New Perspectives on the French and Francophone Eighteenth-Century”
Roundtable at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 4, 2022
Moderator: Leslie Tuttle, Louisiana State University
Discussants:
Angela Haas, Missouri Western State University – Video
Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University – Video
Jakob Burnham, Georgetown University – Video
April Shelford, American University – Video
Mita Choudhury, Vassar College – Video
Daniel J. Watkins, Baylor University – Video
Volume 15, Issue 2
“Belief, Belonging, and Conflict from the Wars of Religion to Dreyfus”
Panel Session at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 4, 2022
Chair: Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, Independent Scholar
Thomas C. Sosnowski, Emeritus, Kent State University at Stark, “Defining Papal Power: Frondeur Perceptions and Critiques in the Mazarinades”
Video
Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, “Retelling St. Bartholomew’s Day in the Early Nineteenth Century: The White Terror, and the Memory of Massacre in Languedoc, 1815-1820”
Video
Bonnie Effros, University of British Columbia, “The Hypogée des Dunes, Poitiers: Faith and Science in Nineteenth-Century France”
Video
Rachel Eva Schley, Linfield University, “The Dreyfus Affair in French Algeria: A New Story about Religious Difference and the Future of the Imperial Nation-State”
Video
Volume 15, Issue 1
“Race, Community, and Governance in the French Antilles before 1789”
Roundtable at the 49th Annual Meeting of The Western Society for French History, Victoria, British Columbia, November 4, 2022
Chair and Comment: Michael Breen, Reed College
Discussants:
Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado Boulder – Video
Nancy Christie, Oxford Brookes University – Video
Volume 14, Issue 15
“French but not (Q)White?: Expanding Frenchness for the 21st Century”
Plenary lecture at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 26, 2022
Mame-Fatou Niang, Carnegie Mellon University
Video
Volume 14, Issue 14
“Roundtable: Decolonization at the Margins of Empire”
Roundtable at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 26, 2022
Co-Moderators: Jecca Namakkal (Duke University) and Sarah Griswold (Oklahoma State University)
Discussants:
Sung-Eun Choi, Bentley University
Sarah Miles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Volume 14, Issue 13
“Presidential Session: Haiti Beyond Saint-Domingue”
Presidential Session at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 26, 2022
Chair: Alyssa Sepinwall, California State University San Marcos
Panelists:
Crystal Eddins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Nathalie Pierre, Howard University
Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
Rob Taber, Fayetteville State University
Volume 14, Issue 12
“The BUMIDOM and Its Aftermath: Internal Migration, Race and the Post-Colonial Trajectories of the French Overseas Territories (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion Island) and Their Inhabitants”
Panel Session at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 26, 2022
Chair: Philip Slaby, Guilford College
Audrey Célestine (Université de Lille), Sylvain Pattieu (Université Paris 8), and Janoé Vulbeau (Université de Lille), “Assessing the Political and Institutional Logics Behind Migration and Mobility Policies in the French Overseas Departments”
Video
Pierre Odin, University of the Antilles, “About the ‘congés bonifiés’: Defending the Rights of Migrants from French Overseas Territories”
Video
Volume 14, Issue 11
“From the Margins of the Republic: Contemporary France and French Hip Hop, 1982-2021”
Panel Session at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 26, 2022
Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Melanie Barbier, Bentley University, “Dominant and Counter-Discourses of National Identity and Political Engagement in French Rap and Hip-hop”
Video
Paroma Ghose, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, “‘Quand la justice slalome’: Belonging and Existing in France Through the Voices of the Marginalised, 1981-2012”
Video
Ali Touilila, Yale University, “‘Puisque l’enfer c’est les autres, pourquoi vouloir faire comme les autres’: Rap and the Deconstruction of French Universalism”
Video
Timothée Valentin, The Pennsylvania State University, “Black M Cancelled at Verdun: Excluding Rap from French Memorialization”
Video
Volume 14, Issue 10
“Presidential Roundtable: Muslims in France Across Time and Space”
Roundtable at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 25, 2022
Chair: Ethan Katz, University of California-Berkeley
Panelists:
Elizabeth Casteen, Binghamton University, SUNY
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine
Junko Takeda, Syracuse University
Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University
Volume 14, Issue 9
“French Studies and the Public Humanities: Teaching, Training, Doing”
Panel Session at the 67th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 25, 2022
Chair: Denise Davidson, Georgia State University
Panelists:
Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Liz Fink, Editor, French Politics, Culture & Society, Institute of French Studies, New York University
Sarah Griswold, Oklahoma State University
Volume 13, Issue 15
Plenary Session: “Pouvoir des maîtres et contrôle de l’état dans les Antilles françaises, 1626-1789”
Plenary Session at the 34th Annual Conference for The Society for the Study of French History, June 30, 2021 (held virtually via Zoom)
Chair: Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London
Frédéric Régent, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Video
Volume 13, Issue 14
Plenary Session: “Exhibiting Resistance: Thoughts from the Front Line”
Plenary Session at the 34th Annual Conference for The Society for the Study of French History, June 28, 2021 (held virtually via Zoom)
Chair: Ludivine Bloch, University of Westminster
Hanna Diamond, Cardiff University
Video
Volume 12, Issue 7
“The Conception of Conservation and Protection of Natural Resources in Early Modern and Revolutionary France”
Panel Session at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 5, 2019
Chair: Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University
Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, “Bernard Palissy (c. 1510-1590) and Early Conservationist Perspectives in Renaissance France”
Video
Jan Synowiecki, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, “Plant conversation in the Jardin du Roi (1715-1789)”
Video
Constance de Font-Réaulx, Johns Hopkins University, “The Question of Water Preservation and the Case of the Compagnie des Eaux Filtrées in Paris (1763-1791)”
Video
Joshua Meeks, Northwest University, “Corsica and the Ruins of Empire”
Video
Commentary by the audience
Video
Volume 12, Issue 6
Plenary Luncheon: “Transformer le climat, gouverner les hommes. Le changement climatique comme enjeu politique dans la France des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles”
Plenary luncheon at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 5, 2019
Fabien Locher, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Video
Volume 12, Issue 5
Roundtable: “Histories of Homosexuality, Labor, and the Police in Modern French History: A Roundtable in Memory of Michael Sibalis”
Roundtable session at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 5, 2019.
Panelists:
Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
Andrew Israel Ross, Loyola University Maryland
Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York
William A. Peniston, The Newark Museum
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 12, Issue 4
Keynote Address: “Shifting Grounds: From Profit to Patrimony in the Landes of Gascony, 1780-1980”
Keynote lecture at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 4, 2019
Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles
Video
Volume 12, Issue 3
“People, Power, and Passion in the Archives: Presentations in Honor of John Merriman”
Panel Session at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 4, 2019
Chair: Mattie Fitch, Marymount University
C. Kieko Matteson, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, “Lucifer Sticks and Briquets Bics – Arson as Environmental Protest in France Past and Present”
Video
Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “‘Garder que les coupures’: Clipping in the Archaeological Archive”
Video
Jennifer Boittin, The Pennsylvania State University, “Women’s Passionate Mobility in Colonial Spaces, 1919-1948: Or How Nonstate Actors Shaped their Migrations”
Video
Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron, “North Africans, Mass Tourism, and the Rebuilding of the French Riviera: Police Files from the Provinces”
Video
Commentary by the audience
Video
Volume 12, Issue 2
“Roundtable in Honor of John Merriman”
Roundtable at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 4, 2019
Discussants:
Elinor Accampo, University of South California
David Bell, Princeton University
Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University
Judith Coffin, University of Texas, Austin
Catherine Dunlop, Montana State University
Joe Fronczak, Princeton University
Paul Hanson, Butler University
Charles Keith, Michigan State University
Ken Loiselle, Trinity University
John Monroe, Iowa State University
Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne
Sandy Ott, University of Nevada, Reno
Miranda Sachs, Denison University
George Sheridan, University of Oregon
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 11, Issue 11
Roundtable: “Thinking and Acting Historically with Édouard Glissant”
Roundtable at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 6, 2019
Moderator: Sandrine Sanos, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Discussants:
John Drabinski, Amherst College
Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
Emily Sahakian, University of Georgia
Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College
Commentary by the audience
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
MP3: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 11, Issue 10
“Recasting Race after World War II: Transnational Perspectives”
Panel session at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 6, 2019
Chair: Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
Muriam Haleh Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Governing for the Market and the Question of Islam in Algeria, 1958-1962”
Video | MP3
Julia Roos, Indiana University, “No Second ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’? Colonial French Occupation Soldiers and German Society after the Second World War”
Video | MP3
Emily Marker, Rutgers University at Camden, “Racial Reeducation in Liberated Europe and French Africa and the Making of Postwar Racial Common Sense, 1944-1950”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Emma Kuby, Northern Illinois University
Video | MP3
Volume 11, Issue 9
Roundtable: “L’Histoire mondiale de la France as Historical Experiment and Literary Phenomenon”
Roundtable at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 6, 2019
Moderator: Stéphane Gerson, New York University
Discussants:
Pierre Singaravélou, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Co-editor of Histoire mondiale de la France
Eric Jennings, University of Toronto and Contributing author, Histoire mondiale de la France
Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University
Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
Sarah Gensburger, CNRS
Commentary by the audience
Video: Part 1 | Part 2
MP3: Part 1 | Part 2
Volume 11, Issue 8
“Historians of the French Revolution and their Publics”
Panel session at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 6, 2019
Chair: Jack Censer, George Mason University
Timothy Scott Johnson, Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi, “The War over Hearts, Minds, and History. The Role of the French Revolution in Counter-Insurgency Theory during the Algerian War”
Video | MP3
John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University, “Did the British Overtake American Anglophone Interpretations of the French Revolution, 1970 to 2000?”
Video | MP3
Michael Scott Christofferson, Adelphi University, “The Historian and the Think Tank: François Furet’s Presidency of the EHESS and the Origins of the Fondation Saint-Simon”
Video and MP3 forthcoming
Commentary by Paul Hanson, Butler University
Video | MP3
Volume 11, Issue 7
Keynote Lecture: “L’histoire publique comme outil de production de la recherche : retours d’expériences”
Keynote lecture at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 5, 2019
Pierre Singaravélou, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Video | MP3
Volume 11, Issue 6
“The Old Regime on Screen: Representations and Misrepresentations of Kings and their Courts in Film and Fiction”
Panel session at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 5, 2019
Charlotte Wells, University of Northern Iowa, “The Man Had Issues, But….: The Unfortunate Afterlife of Louis XIII”
Video | MP3
Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University, “Will the Real Louis XIV Please Stand Up? The Sun King in Film and Television”
Video | MP3
Nicole Bauer, University of Tulsa, “A Swashbuckling Commissaire: The Eighteenth-Century Paris Police on the Small Screen”
Video | MP3
Commentary by James B. Collins, Georgetown University
Video | MP3
Volume 11, Issue 5
“Roundtable in Honor of Jack Censer”
Roundtable at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 5, 2019
Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Guest of Honor: Jack Censer, George Mason University
Discussants:
Lynn Hunt,University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Kates, Pomona College
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
MP3: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 11, Issue 4
“Cultural Exchanges Between France and the USSR”
Panel session at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 5, 2019
Chair: Steven Kale, Washington State University
Christine Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, “From Mettray to Makarenko: A Transnational View of Penitentiary Agricultural Colonies, 1839-1939”
Video | MP3
Kayci Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Bargaining Ballerinas: Shopping and Tourism during Franco-Soviet Ballet Exchanges, 1954-1972”
Video | MP3
Faye Bartram, University of Iowa, “Friends Among Enemies: Transnational Friendship Societies and Cultural Exchange between France and the USSR, 1945-1972”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Steven Kale, Washington State University
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 20
“The Politics of Fashion in Mid-20th Century France”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: Whitney Walton, Purdue University
Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “‘A Woman Dressed Like a Man’: Female Masculinity at the Sapphic Cabaret, Paris, 1930-1960”
Video
Drew Fedorka, New York University, “Dedicated Followers of Fashion?: André Courrèges, Youth, and the Limits of Haute Couture in 1960s Paris”
Video
Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University, “‘Save the Long Skirt’: Women, Sports, and Fashion in Third Republic and Vichy France”
Video
Commentary by Steven Zdatny, University of Vermont
Video
Volume 10, Issue 19
“Understanding War and Foreign Occupation through Archives: Trial Dossiers, Photography and Cinema”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno, “Archives as Fieldwork Sites: An Anthropologist’s Perspective”
Video
Abigail Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Secrets of Film: Rethinking Occupation through Visual Archives”
Video
Commentary by Julia Torrie, St. Thomas University
Video
Volume 10, Issue 18
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Lecture: “‘Without Distinction of… Sex’: The Constitutional Politics of Race and Sex in Contemporary France”
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Lecture at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Emmanuelle Saada, Professor of French and of History and Director of French and Francophone Studies, Columbia University
Video
Volume 10, Issue 17
“Order and Disorder in 18th-Century Paris: Stories from the Châtelet Criminal Court”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: Nina Rattner Gelbart, Occidental College
Kathryn Norberg, University of California-Los Angeles, “From the Châtelet Court: ‘Seduction,’ Madams and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
Video
Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Prosecution and Toleration of Sodomy in the 1720s”
Video
Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “‘Seditious’ Politics on the Eve of the October Days: Voices from the Palais Royal”
Video
Commentary by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
Video
Volume 10, Issue 16
“Scientific Fieldwork in France and the World in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: April Shelford, American University
Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, “Linnaeus and the Practice of Fieldwork in Revolutionary France”
Video
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University, “‘The neighborhood would be very interesting for a botanist to visit,’ or André Michaux, French Botanist in the American Field”
Video
Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “In the Field with Charles-Alexandre Lesueur: Considering Imperial and National Sciences”
Video
Commentary by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina
Video
Volume 10, Issue 15
“Painting, History, and Constructions of Cultural Identity in Early Modern France”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Leslie Tuttle, Louisiana State University
Lynn Mollenauer, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “Femme Forte and Femme Fatale: Posing ‘En Cléopâtre’ in the Ancien Regime”
Video
Christy Pichichero, George Mason University, “Cortegaerdje/Corps de Garde: Watteau and the Dutch Origins of Military Enlightenment”
Video
Valerie Mainz, University of Leeds, “Observation, Science and Experimentation in David’s double portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier”
Video
Commentary by Christine Adams, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
Video
Volume 10, Issue 14
“Border Crossings: Aristocratic Masculinities at the Fin de Siècle”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
Patrick Luiz Sullivan de Oliveira, Princeton University, “‘Ce gentlemen rider du turf atmosphérique‘ [sic]: Aristocratic Masculinity and Ballooning in Turn-of-the-Century France”
Video
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Venita Datta, Wellesley College, “Aristocratic Masculinities on the Global Frontier: The Marquis de Morès and Theodore Roosevelt”
Video
Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, “College Dueling at a Distance, 1901: Politics, Honor, Manhood, and Exile in the ‘Affaire Buffet-Déroulède'”
Video
Commentary by Catherine Clark, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://youtu.be/FJs2dWo9twY
Volume 10, Issue 13
“Intersectionality in French Visual Culture”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Johann Le Guelte, The Pennsylvania State University
Sun-Young Park, George Mason University, “Representing Disability, 1750-1850”
Video
Richard D. Sonn, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “Jewish Artists and Masculinity in France, 1914-1918”
Video
Zachary R. Hagins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “Visual Dialectics of Islam and French National Identity in France Keyser’s Nous sommes français et musulmans”
Video
Commentary by Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Video
Volume 10, Issue 12
“Reform and Crisis in the Early French Revolution”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Meghan Roberts, Bowdoin College
Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College, “Brutus and Benghazi on the Seine: Executive Power and Classical Analogy in 1790”
Video
Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, “From crise salutaire to j’ai vécu: The Emotional and Conceptual Politics of Crisis in Revolutionary France”
Video
Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri, “La Société des amis des noirs and the International Genesis of French Social Movements”
Video
Commentary by Mette Harder, State University of New York Oneonta
Video
Volume 10, Issue 10
Keynote Presentation: “Telling the Truth about the Resistance”
Keynote presentation at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary College, University of London
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 9
“Violence and Delinquency in the late Third Republic”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Chair: Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota, “Colonial Violence in Paris: Fascism, Jean Ferrandi, and Colonial Officers in the 1930s”
Video | MP3
Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary, “Vulnerable Delinquents: Childhood and Criminality in the Interwar Period”
Video | MP3
Chris Millington, Swansea University, read by Joshua Cole, “Brutes and Bludgeoners: Policing Interwar France”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Vicki Caron, Cornell University
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 8
“Clerical Identities and Empire in Early Modern France”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Chair: Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
Megan Armstrong, McMaster University, “French Franciscans, Bourbon imperialism and the early modern Holy Land”
Video | MP3
Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, “The Jesuit Career of René Robert Cavalier de La Salle”
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Commentary by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 7
“Conceptualizing Transparency in French History”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Chair: Timothy Scott Johnson, Texas A & M Corpus Christi
Michael Behrent, Appalachian State University, “Patterns, Webs, and Warps: Geroulanos’ Methodology”
Video | MP3
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, “Framing Transparency: Algeria, UNESCO, and Post-1945 France”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 6
Plenary Luncheon: “Indigenizing New France: What’s Left?”
Plenary luncheon at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9, 2018
Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 5
“Revolutionary Emotions: Panic, Frustration and Enthusiasm 1789– 1799”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9, 2018
Chair: Marisa Linton, Kingston University
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, “Turbans of Liberty: Revolutionary Enthusiasm and Global Emotions”
Video | MP3
Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine, “The Panic of May 1792”
Video | MP3
Rebecca Spang, Indiana University, “Taxes, Offices, Deadlines: Frustration as a Revolutionary Emotion”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Thomas Dodman, Columbia University
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 4
“Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality in the Belle Époque”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9, 2018
Chair: Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester, “The Single Standard or the Double Standard? Public Debates over Proper Sexual Relations between Men and Women during the Belle Époque”
Video | MP3
Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, “Charles Turgeon’s Le Féminisme français (1902): An analysis of the work and its reception”
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Sara Kimble, DePaul University, “’Les injustices de nos lois’: Feminist Legal Thought and Practice in the Belle Époque”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Linda Clark, Millersville University
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 26
“Disasters and Dislocation in France and the Empire”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017
Chair: Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher M. Church, University of Nevada, Reno, “Rhythms of Catastrophe, Iterations of Inequity: Disaster Memory, Dislocation, and Disparity during Pelée’s Eruption of 1929”
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Cindy Ermus, University of Lethbridge, “Plague and the Port City: Movement and Migration during an Eighteenth-Century Crisis”
Video | MP3
Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University, “Labor and Culture in Burgundy’s Phylloxera Epidemic”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Martha L. Hildreth, University of Nevada, Reno, and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 25
“Identity and Memory: Huguenots, Conversos, and Other Francophone Voyagers”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017
Chair: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan
Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton, “‘À la Ruine totale de la France’: A French Assessment of Portuguese and Spanish Immigration in Seventeenth-Century France”
Video | MP3
Catherine Naeve, Rutgers University, “Naturalizing Refugees: How Foreign Protestants Became British in the Eighteenth Century”
Video | MP3
Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College, “Huguenot Refugees in New York: Faith, Family, Slavery, and Legacy”
Video | MP3
Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “A Frenchman on the Frontier: Science and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Harmony, Indiana”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 24
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Plenary Lecture: “The Great War at One Hundred: Between Presence and Absence”
Plenary luncheon at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017
Annette Becker, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 23
“Women’s Agency and Activism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Special Session Honoring Elinor Accampo”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017
Chair: Cheryl Koos, California State University, Los Angeles
Andrea Mansker, University of the South, “The Lonely-Hearts Ad in Napoleon’s Paris”
Video | MP3
Carolyn J. Eichner, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Feminism’s Others: Gender, Race, and Frenchness in Late Nineteenth-Century Metropole and Empire”
Video | MP3
Patricia Tilburg, Davidson College, “La femme au corsage rouge: Monette Thomas, Midinette Militancy, and the Garment Strikes of 1918-1919”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Christopher Forth, University of Kansas, and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 22
“Heroines: Strong Women in Modern Popular Culture”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017
Chair: Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas
Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, “Heroines for the End of the World: Women, Physical Courage, and Martial Heroism during the Dreyfus Affair”
Video | MP3
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, “The Daughter of Fantômas: Belle Époque Action and Adventure Heroine”
Video | MP3
Joelle Neulander, The Citadel, “Moxie in Action: Heroines in Pre-World War Two French Popular Culture”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas, and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 21
“Teaching Gender and Sexuality in French History”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017
Chair: Patricia Tilburg, Davidson College
Discussants:
Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Maryville College
Video | MP3
Sun-Young Park, George Mason University
Video | MP3
Andrew Israel Ross, University of Southern Mississippi
Video | MP3
Jessie Hewitt, University of Redlands
Video | MP3
Lori Weintrob, Wagner College
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 20
“Cultivating the World in the Eighteenth Century”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017
Chair: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, City University of New York
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University, “Naturalizing the World in Eighteenth-Century Bayonne: A Garden Proposal by André Michaux”
Video | MP3
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Coffee Production in the Eighteenth-Century East and West French Indies”
Video | MP3
Oliver Cussen, University of Chicago, “Michel Adanson and the Gum Trade: In Imperial Meridian for Old Regime France?”
Video | MP3
April Shelford, American University, “The Enlightened Planter”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University, and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 19
Conference Plenary Roundtable: “Addressing Structural Racism in French History and French Historical Studies”
Conference plenary roundtable at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017
Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Discussants:
Jennifer Boittin, The Pennsylvania State University
Muriam Haleh Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles
Felix Fernand Germain, University of Pittsburgh
Tyler Stovall, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robin Mitchell, California State University, Channel Islands
Emily Marker, Rutgers University-Camden
Nimisha Barton, Princeton University
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
MP3: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 9, Issue 17
“Experiencing May ’68 in France”
Edited by Chris Reynolds, Nottingham Trent University
Assistant Editor: David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University
A Salon in 40 parts
As the 50th anniversary of May-June 1968 approaches, one can safely predict a continuation in the now traditional outpouring of interest that has been so important in helping shape the French collective memory of these seminal events. The anticipated commemorative surge will underscore the ongoing and durable legacy of “mai 68” as a watershed moment in the political, social, and cultural development of France as well as highlighting just how much debate remains over how 1968 should be understood and remembered. Central to shaping this narrative will be the experiences of those who were present at the time and whose stories of their diverse experiences go a long way to helping make sense of why 1968 remains such a focus of fascination 50 years later.
H-France has been developing several issues of H-France Salon on those events as its contribution to the decennial commemoration. We are delighted to share the first of these with you today.
Between Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, Chris Reynolds interviewed 22 academics from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France who experienced May-June 1968 in France. We present these interviews to you in two formats.
First, we have created 18 thematic videos focused on important themes in debates around the events of 1968. We hope that many of you might find these thematic videos useful for teaching modules or seminars on 1968.
Second, the full interviews with individual scholars are available as these might be of particular interest to scholars researching May 1968 and to those studying its continuing memory.
Thematic Videos:Volume 9, Issue 11
“Legacies of the French Revolution Across Time and Distance”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016
Chair: Suzanne M. Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, “The French Revolution and the European Project”
Video | MP3
Julian Bourg, Boston College, “From Ready-Made Solutions to New Doctrines: The French Terror and Russian Terrorism”
Video | MP3
Paul Hanson, Butler University, “Jacobins and Red Guards: Reflections on Revolutionary Terror from a Comparative Perspective”
Video | MP3
Commentary by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 10
Plenary Session: “A Tale of Two Texts, or Why Write French History Today”
Plenary sesssion at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017
Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 9
“Fashioning French Identities”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017
Chair: Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Coffee, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning in France, 1670-1780”
Video | MP3
Julia Gossard, Utah State University, “Hybrid Identities: Fashion and French Children in the Middle East and Asia, 1670-1780”
Video | MP3
Sima Godfrey, University of British Columbia, “From Jewish Rags to French Riches”
Video | MP3
Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, “Dress, Resistance and Deportation: Capturing Identity in WWII France”
Video | MP3
Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, “Anti-Semitism à la Mode: Fashion, Politics, and Identity at the Turn of the Century”
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 8
“Session in Honor of James B. Collins I: Culture, Society, Gender, and the State in Early Modern Europe”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017
Chair: Sara Chapman Williams, Oakland University
Karen L. Taylor, International School of Geneva, “A Geography of Knowledge: Saint-Cyr’s Cahiers de Géographie”
Video | MP3
Henriette Rahusen, Georgetown University/National Gallery of Art, “Urban Elites, Ambitious Princes, and Walking Sticks: Portraiture as Propaganda in La République Monarchique”
Video | MP3
Felicia Rosu, Leiden University, “The Politics of ‘This and That’: Republican Practices before the Birth of the State in East Central Europe, 14th-17th Centuries”
Video | MP3
Michael Breen, Reed College, “Law, Politics, and the Social History of the Ancien Régime State”
Video | MP3
Janine Lanza, Wayne State University, “Working Women’s Lives in Early Modern France”
Video | MP3
Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Women, Work, and the Household Economy: An Appreciation of James Collins’s Contribution and Thoughts on Future Directions”
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 7
Plenary Session: “The 2017 French Presidential Elections”
Plenary session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Chair: David A. Bell, Princeton University
Speakers:
Charlotte Cavaillé, Georgetown University
Erwan Lagadec, George Washington University
Simon Serfaty, Old Dominion University
Video available HERE
MP3 available HERE
Volume 9, Issue 6
“Women in the French Imaginary: Historicizing the ‘Gallic Singularity’”
Panel Session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Chair: Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, “The Gallic Singularity: The Long View”
Video | MP3
Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress”
Video | MP3
Jean Pedersen, University of Rochester,“’Outrageously Flirtatious’: Alexis de Tocqueville on Women and Democracy in America and France”
Video | MP3
Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840-1908)”
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 5
Roundtable: “What We Talk about When We Talk about Décolonisation”
Roundtable session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Chair: Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
Panelists:
Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia,
Sung-Eun Choi, Bentley University,
Kathryn Edwards, Tulane University,
Darcie Fontaine, University of South Florida
Commentary by Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
Video available HERE
MP3 available HERE
Volume 9, Issue 4
Plenary Session: “French Historians in the Public Sphere”
Plenary session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Speakers:
Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College
Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston
Video available HERE
MP3 available HERE (some sound quality issues exist)
Volume 9, Issue 3
“Crime, Theft, Revenge and the French Imagination”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, “The Dark Avenger as Popular Hero from the Count of Monte Cristo to Chéri Bibi”
Video | MP3
Venita Datta, Wellesley College, “Crimes against the Nation: The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911)”
Video | MP3
Dominique Kalifa, Université de Paris I, “The Long Arm of Fantômas, or the Myth of the Twentieth Century”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
Video | MP3
Volume 9, Issue 2
“Religious Minorities in the French Revolution: Tolerance, Violence and Emancipation”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Chair: Angela Haas, Missouri Western State University
Bryan Banks, SUNY Adirondack, “Subtle Protests: Rethinking the Edict of Toleration’s Reception in Calvinist France”
Video | MP3
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, “A Violent Tolerance: Islam and the End of the Ancien Régime”
Video | MP3
Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary, “A Jewish ‘Architect of Victory’: Jacob Benjamin, the Armée du Midi and the Politics of
Food, 1792-93”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College
Video | MP3
“Accommodating Vichy and the Germans in Occupied France”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Sandra Ott, University of Nevada – Reno, “A Pro-Vichy Mayor and Indiscreet Ladies: Cohabitation and Accommodation in a Basque Village”
Video | MP3
Brett Bowles, Indiana University, Bloomington, “À la recherche de Marcel Pagnol sous l’Occupation”
Video | MP3
Audra Merfeld-Langston, Missouri University of Science and Technology, “Confronting an Uncomfortable Past: Representations of Vichy France in Marcel Aymé’s Le Vin de Paris”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 18
“Emotions and Regime Change II: Revolutionary Emotions”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016
Chair: John W. McCormack, Aurora University
James Coons, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “The Sentimental Politics of the Princely Fronde”
Video | MP3
Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University, “Memories of Fear in the Early French Revolution”
Video | MP3
Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “Elite Women’s Stakes in Regime Changes During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Judith Miller, Emory University
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 17
“Regime Change and Money: Uncertain Futures I”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016
Chair: Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tabetha Ewing, Bard College, “False Coinage in an Eighteenth-Century Borderland”
Video | MP3
Andrew Billing, Macalester College, “Melancholic Markets: Commerce, Property, and bonheur in Diderot’s Economic Writings”
Video | MP3
Masano Yamashita, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Chance Encounters and Fortuna: Manon as Worker and ‘Nothing’ in l’Abbé Prévost’s Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut”
Video | MP3
Dean Ferguson, Texas A and M University—Kingsville, “Rags and Money: Chiffonniers and Consumers in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 16
“History Beyond the Archive: Exploring the Potential of Digital Tools to Excavate Unseen Connections and Overturn Existing Scholarship”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016
Chair: Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University
David Del Testa, Bucknell University, “Using Social Network Analysis Software in French Studies: The Example of the 1930-31 Nghe-Tinh Soviets Uprising in French Colonial Indochina”
Video | MP3
Jillian Slaight, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Sex and the Limits of Solidarity: Google Mapping Mobile Women in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
Video | MP3
Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University, “Googling Eighteenth-Century News: The Affiches de Bordeaux, 1758-1865”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 15
“The Circulation of Goods and Ideas in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016
Chair: Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University
Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College – City University of New York, “Visualizing Colonial Trade and Commodities in Early Modern Paris”
Video | MP3
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Caribbean Coffee, French Culture: Circulating Knowledge Between Colony and Metropole, 1715-1789”
Video | MP3
Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri, “The Gens de couleur, Voting Rights, and the Spread of Social Movement Models in Late Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1789-1791″
Video | MP3
Commentary by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 14
Plenary Luncheon: “Exit, Voice, Provocation: Menace and Vulnerability in Colonial and Contemporary France”
Plenary luncheon at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016
Joshua H. Cole, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Video available HERE
Volume 8, Issue 13
Plenary/Conference Roundtable III: “Crisis in French History”
Roundtable session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016
Participants:
John Merriman, Yale University
Lloyd Kramer, University of Norther Carolina
Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University
Volume 8, Issue 10
Banquet Plenary: “Le Spectacle de la Résistante: Female Dress and Gender Transformation”
Dinner banquet plenary at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016
Introduction: Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 9
Roundtable: “Theatrical Sites in the Eighteenth Century”
Roundtable session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016
Chair: Jack Censer, George Mason University
Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “Celebrity Women and a Judgmental Public: The Merveilleuses under the Directory”
Video | MP3
Mita Choudhury, Vassar College, “Performing Faith: Religious Spectacle, Authenticity, and the Public”
Video | MP3
Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “Public Spectacle, Revolution, and Conscription”
Video | MP3
James A. Johnson, Boston University, “Life as Theater in Eighteenth-Century France”
Video | MP3
Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University, “Conspiracy as Theater during the French Revolution”
Video | MP3
Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Performing…and Spectating, Writing, and Reading”
Video | MP3
Commentary by audience
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 8
“Amazons, Murderers, Neighborhood Toughs, and Husband Beaters: Women’s Use of Violence in Early Modern France”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016
Chair: Clare Crowston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jacob Melish, University of Northern Colorado, “‘Gave a Large Number of Kicks and Punches’: Women’s Violence and the Responses to it in Seventeenth-Century Paris”
Video | MP3
Julia Osman, Mississippi State University, “‘With a Man’s Valor’: Amazons on the French Battlefield and Imagination, 1630-1700”
Video | MP3
Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Maryville College, “After the Royal Pardon: Female Murderers Come Home in the Eighteenth Century”
Video | MP3
Nina Kushner, Clark University, “Female Violence, Cuckoldry, and Constructions of Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Julius Ruff, Marquette University and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 7
“‘L’Empire colonial dans tous ses états’: Reshaping ‘la mission civilisatrice’ in Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Textbooks”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016
Chair: Joel Vessels, Nassau Community College
Joel Vessels, Nassau Community College, “Tarzan in France: From Rejection to Revelation – First a Corrupter of Youth, Now the Way Towards Living Poetically”
Video | MP3
Christopher Thompson, Ball State University, “A New, Post-colonial ‘Roman National’? Teaching the Empire and its Legacies in Contemporary France”
Video | MP3
Sandra Rousseau, Carleton College, “Graphic Irony and Provocative History in Petite histoire des colonies françaises (2012)”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University and audience
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 6
Plenary Roundtable: “The Work of Roger Chartier”
Plenary roundtable at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016
Lauren Clay, Vanderbilt University, “Introduction”
Video | MP3
Lynn Hunt, UCLA, “The Precarious Cutting Edge”
Video | MP3
Robert Darnton, Harvard University, “Roger Chartier: Book Historian”
Video | MP3
Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London, “Roger Chartier sans frontières”
Video | MP3
Response by Roger Chartier
Video | MP3
Commentary by audience
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 5
“Sentiment and Statecraft: Political and Emotional Regimes in France, 1789-1848”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016
Chair: Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University
Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, “Designing a Sentimental Regime in Revolutionary France, 1789-1791”
Video | MP3
Ronald Schechter, College of William and Mary, “Terror and Reassurance in the Year II”
Video | MP3
Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University, “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Familial Love, Hierarchy, and Politics in the Choiseul-Praslin Affair of 1847”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 4
Plenary Luncheon: “France and the World”
Plenary luncheon at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University, “Introduction”
Video | MP3
Brett Rushforth, College of William and Mary
Video | MP3
Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
Video | MP3
Commentary by audience
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 3
Roundtable: “Consumer Cultures and Material Goods in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France”
Roundtable session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016
Chair: Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University
Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, “Coral Cordials and Pearl Juleps: Fashion and Fraud in the Seventeenth-Century Medical Marketplace”
Video | MP3
Kirsten James, University of Toronto, “Inside the Perfumer’s Boutique in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Paris”
Video | MP3
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Making Coffee French: Establishing a Material Culture for Coffee in France, 1670-1780”
Video | MP3
Carolyn Purnell, Illinois Institute of Technology, “Drinking Your Way to a New You: Self-Medication, Sensibility, and Sociability at the Café”
Video | MP3
Sydney Watts, University of Richmond, “Provisioning for Health: Comparing Lenten Butcheries across Eighteenth-Century Urban France”
Video | MP3
Commentary by audience
Video | MP3
Volume 8, Issue 2
“Marriage: Ideals, Practices, and New Critics”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016
Chair: Michelle Rhoades, Wabash College
Andrea Mansker, University of the South, “Marriage and the Politics of Police Repression under the Empire”
Video | MP3
Anne Verjus, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, “Marriage under the Code Napoléon: A New Social Problem?”
Video | MP3
Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University, “A Woman’s Critique of Marriage: Pauline Roland’s Lived Challenge to Bourgeois Domesticity”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 19
Workshop: “Teaching from Objects”
Workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 7, 2015
Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
Volume 7, Issue 18
“Eastern Exchanges: France in the Eighteenth-Century East”
Panel Session at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2015
Chair: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University
Julia M. Gossard, University of Texas, Austin, “Jeunes de Langues: French Children in the Ottoman Empire”
Video | MP3
Keith Luria, North Carolina State University, “Building a Global Catholic Community in Seventeenth-Century France and Vietnam”
Video | MP3
Ashley Bruckbauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Ambassadors, Missionaries, and Converts: Picturing Religious Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Images of Diplomatic Exchanges”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Steven Rowe, Chicago State University
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 17
“Intellectual Exchanges: Gender, Identity, and Embodiment Before, During, and After the Dreyfus Affair”
Panel Session at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2015
Chair: Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State University
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester, “Maxims to Keep in the Current Crisis”: Gender, Politics, and Pedagogy during the Dreyfus Affair”
Video | MP3
Elizabeth Everton (Margaret Zirbel, co-author), Concordia University, “A Republic of Letters for the Anti-Enlightenment: The Henry Subscription (December 1898 – January 1899)”
Video | MP3
Eric Brandom, Kansas State University, “Embodied Reason in French Philosophy around 1900: Emile Durkheim and the Liberal Revue de métaphysique et de morale”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 16
“‘Foreign’ Food in Contemporary France”
Panel Session at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2015
Chair: Julia Landweber, Montclair State University
Ben Poole, Texas Tech University, “The Politics of the Grain: Couscous in Post-Colonial France”
Video | MP3
Erica J. Peters, Culinary Historians of Northern California, “A Vietnamese Soup in France: From Soupe Tonkinoise to Soupe Nationale”
Video | MP3
Leora Auslander, University of Chicago, “Why Vegetarian Food in School Cafeterias is a Problem: Food and Frenchness in the 21st Century”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Lauren Janes, Hope College
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 11
“Teaching the World Wars in France: New Approaches and Ideas”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Bruno Cabanes, Ohio State University, “Teaching the Cultural History of World War I”
Video | MP3
Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Global History in a National Space: France as a Transnational Space, 1914-1918”
Video | MP3
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Épinal Project: Researching the Lives of American GIs Buried in Epinal Military Cemetery”
Video | MP3
Mary Louise Roberts, additional written comments on “The Épinal Project”
Commentary by audience
Volume 7, Issue 10
“Complicating the Narrative: Teaching the Algerian War”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Chair: Frédéric Viguier, New York University
Jessica Hammerman, Central Oregon Community College, “And What Is the Jewish Perspective on the War?”
Video | MP3
Lindsay Kaplan, New York University, “The Third Way: The Beur Novel and the Search for Identity”
Video | MP3
Commentary by James LeSueur, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 9
Roundtable: “Piketty in Historical Perspective”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015
Moderator: Geoff Read, Huron University College
Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma, “Culture, Capital, and Thomas Piketty’s Le capital au XXIe siècle (2013)”
Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University, “From Malthus to Piketty: Demography and Inequality in Political Economy”
Venus Bivar, Washington University in St. Louis, “Piketty and the Promise of Postwar Growth”
Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University, “Sully Redivivus? Piketty and the Deep History of French Political Economy”
Commentary by the audience
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 7, Issue 8
“Learning from the Courte Durée: Moments in Mediterranean Environmental History”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015
Chair: Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Horan, Colorado School of Mines, “The Pyrenean Cotton Boom: Acclimatization and Modernization in Napoleonic France”
Video | MP3
Cindy Ermus, Florida Southwestern State College, “The Peste of Provence and the Centralization of Crisis Management in the Early Eighteenth Century”
Video | MP3
Joshua Meeks, Florida State University, “Resources and Revolution: The Struggle for Corsican Timber”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Susan Carol Rogers, New York University
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 7
“Victims, Compensation, Melancholy: Shaping the Legacies of Revolution and Violence in France, 1794-1799”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015
Chair: David Garrioch, Monash University
Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London, “Maximilien Robespierre, Melancholic Victim of his own Virtue?”
Video | MP3
Note: The audio quality improves after about 8 minutes
Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley, University of Exeter, “The Victim Strikes Back? Print Culture after the Terror in France, 1794-1799”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 6
“Mediterranean France”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Chair, Susan Ashley, Colorado College
Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California, “Mediterranean French Modern: The Trans-Imperial Life of Abraham Ankawa, 1810- 1890”
Video | MP3
Ethan Katz, University of Cincinnati, “Making Mediterranean Spaces: Jews, Muslims, and Mainland France Between the Wars”
Video | MP3
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, “Jean Scelles and the Myth of a Trans-Mediterranean ‘Traite des Blanches,’ 1962-1979”
Video | MP3
Commentary by Naomi Davidson, University of Ottawa
Video | MP3
Volume 7, Issue 5
Plenary Luncheon: “Critical Education Yesterday and Today”
Plenary Luncheon at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Introduction, by Dennis McEnnerney, Colorado College
Critical Education Yesterday and Today, by François Cusset, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Volume 6, Issue 20
“Contested ‘Visions’ of ‘Metropole’ and ‘Colony:’ From ‘France’ to ‘French’ West ‘Africa’ in the Twentieth Century”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 15, 2014
Chair: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University
Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College, “Colonial Inspectors: French Policemen and Surveillance in French West Africa, 1914-1939”
Gillian Glaes, University of Montana, “Colonially Influenced Policing in the Cold War: African Dissidents, Immigrant Organizations, and French Policing Tactics in Paris after 1960”
Louisa Rice, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, “Reviewing Dakar: Urban planning at the end of Empire c.1945-1960”
Commentary by Melissa Byrnes, Southwestern University
Volume 6, Issue 19
“From Small Wars to Nuclear Weapons: Lessons from French Military Ventures in the Middle East and North Africa”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 15, 2014
Chair: Benjamin Brower, University of Texas-Austin
Andrew Orr, Kansas State University, “‘The Double Plan’: French Views of German and Soviet Influence in Post-World War I Middle Eastern Insurgencies”
Roxanne Panchesi, Simon Fraser University, “No ‘War,’ No ‘Bombs’: Representing French Military Acts in Algeria, 1958-1962”
Anndal Narayanan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “‘Ready to Fight’: Veterans of the Algerian War Take the Battle to France, 1958-1974”
Commentary by Andrew M. Daily, University of Memphis
Volume 6, Issue 18
“Representations of Childhood”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 15, 2014
Chair: Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University
Jennifer L. Sovde, Indiana University-Bloomington, “An Evening at the Théâtre Comte: Children and Commercial Theater in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris”
Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University, “La Poupée Modèle: Girls and their Dolls in Fin-de-Siècle France”
Julie Fette, Rice University, “Egalitarian Childhoods of the Twenty-First Century”
Commentary by Katharine Norris, Johns Hopkins University/National Cathedral School
Volume 6, Issue 17
Roundtable: “The Self at War: What Historians Can (Not) Learn about Conflicts from Ego Documents”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 14, 2014
Chair: Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Participants:
Whitney Walton, Purdue University
Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University
Richard Fogarty, University at Albany, SUNY
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 6, Issue 16
“Urban Conflict and Identity during the Wars of Religion”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 14, 2014
Chair: Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
Amanda Eurich, Western Washington University, “Anatomy of a Massacre: The Season of St. Bartholomew’s in Toulouse”
Scott Marr, Boston University, “‘Let us no longer speak among us of Huguenot and Papist’: Civic Identity and Religious Coexistence in the Career of Philippe Duplessis Mornay”
Commentary by Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University
Volume 6, Issue 15
“Hygiene, Public Health, and the Social Body”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 14, 2014
Chair: Sean Takats, George Mason University
Rudy Le Menthéour, Bryn Mawr College, “I Am Not a Number: From Repopulation to Regeneration in Eighteenth-Century France”
Sun-Young Park, George Mason University, “Body Building: Architecture, Hygiene, and Physical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris”
Gina M. Greene, University of Southern California, “Eugenic Domesticity: The Garden City as Reproductive Utopia in Interwar France”
Commentary by Sean Takats, George Mason University
Volume 6, Issue 14
“From Paris to Lyon: A Sisterhood Forged in Résistance”
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, November 14, 2014
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, “American Women in the French Resistance”
Zoë Egelman, New York District Attorney’s Office, “The Journal of Hélène Berr and the Promise of Literature”
Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University, “Les Périls de la Résistance: Lucie Aubrac and the Libération-Sud”
Commentary by Susan Conner, Albion College
Volume 6, Issue 13
Plenary Session: “France and the Origins of the Great War”
Plenary Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, April 26, 2014
Christopher Clark, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Video available HERE
Volume 6, Issue 12
Plenary Session: “A Total War? The French Experience of the First World War”
Plenary Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, April 25, 2014
John Horne, Trinity College
Video available HERE
Volume 6, Issue 9
Plenary Banquet: “Quelle guerre la France commémore-t-elle en 2014 ?”
Banquet dinner at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 26, 2014
Antoine Prost, Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
Video available HERE
Volume 6, Issue 8
“Genius, Celebrity, and the Self: Visions of Singularity and Transcendence in 18th-century France”
Panel Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 27, 2014
Chair: Kathleen Kete, Trinity College
Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University, “Liberty, Equality, Singularity: The Political Possibilities of Genius”
Anthony La Vopa, North Carolina State, “The Fuss about Genius in 18th-century France”
Antoine Lilti, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, “Un ‘bénéfice à charge d’âmes’: Grandeur et servitudes de la célébrité”
Commentary by Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia
Volume 6, Issue 7
Plenary Luncheon: “‘Somewhere in Belgium or France it don’t matter which’: Seeing France through Foreign Eyes, 1914-1918”
Plenary Luncheon at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 25, 2014
Martha Hanna, University of Colorado-Boulder
Video available HERE
Volume 6, Issue 6
“The Politics of Obligation, Eighteenth- and Twentieth-Century France”
Panel Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 27, 2014
Chair: David Avrom Bell, Princeton University
Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma, “‘Money Workers’, Tax, and the Problem of Representation in the mid-Eighteenth Century ‘Roman de finance’”
Charles Walton, University of Warwick, “The Birth of’ Reciprocity’ in Enlightenment France”
Nicolas Delalande, Sciences Po, “‘La Dette’ des Gueules cassées: Public Subscriptions, Moral Obligation, and the Memory of War in 1931-1933”
Commentary by Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
Volume 6, Issue 5
“Entre guerre et paix : mobilisation et démobilisation culturelle (1914-1950)”
Panel Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 26, 2014
Chair: John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin
Tomas Irish, Trinity College, Dublin, “Between the Nation and the Institution: Harvard’s Professorial Exchange with France during the First World War”
Marie-Eve Chagnon, Université de Montréal, “La fin de l’internationalisme scientifique ? Le processus de démobilisation de la science française au lendemain de la guerre”
Guillaume Marceau, Université Concordia, “Démobilisation culturel le au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale : la France et les États-Unis face au dilemme de la propagande en démocratie”
Commentary by Andrew Barros, Université du Québec à Montréal
Volume 6, Issue 4
“In Someone Else’s Land? Post-war France, Germany and the Spaces in Between”
Panel Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 25, 2014
Chair: Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University
Alison Carrol, Brunel University, “Building the Border between France and Germany 1871-1914”
Julia Wambach, University of California at Berkeley, “French-German Borderlands after the Two World Wars”
Karen Adler, University of Nottingham, “‘Everyone Knew how Many Women Had Been Raped’: French Occupiers and German Women after 1945”
Commentary by Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University
Volume 6, Issue 3
“Women and War in France’s Long Nineteenth Century”
Panel Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, QC, April 25, 2014
Chair: Denise Davidson, Georgia State University
Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth University, “The Life and Death of the Femme-Soldat”
Thomas Cardoza, Arizona State University, “‘J’ai vu la Cantinière’: Popular Representations of Military Women in French Theater, Art, and Song”
Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “Women’s Memories of Napoleon and War”
Commentary by Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University
Volume 5, Issue 16
Roundtable: “Reflections on Revolutionary Violence”
Panel Session at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
The links to the session appear below, divided into three sections.
Chair: Gary Kates, Pomona College
Presenters:
Paul Hanson, Butler University
Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles
Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Video Part #1
Video Part #2
Video Part #3
Volume 5, Issue 15
Roundtable: “Pedagogies of Change: Academics and Engagement in French History”
Panel Session at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
The links to the session appear below, divided into three sections.
Chair: Naomi Andrews, Santa Clara University
Presenters:
Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota
Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University
Paul Hanson, Butler University
Jean Pedersen, University of Rochester
Video Part #1
Video Part #2
Video Part #3
Volume 5, Issue 14
“Collaboration, Transgression and Protest in Vichy France”
Panel Session at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
Chair: Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Gayle Brunelle, California State University-Fullerton & Annette Finley-Croswhite, Old Dominion University (Presentation by Finley-Croswhite), “Terrorism and the Hard Edge of the Extreme Right in France, 1936-1942”
Gayle Brunelle, California State University-Fullerton & Annette Finley-Croswhite, Old Dominion University (Presentation by Brunelle), “Collaborating to Kill: Vichy and the Mouvement Sociale et Révolutionnaire in the Assassination of Marx Dormoy”
Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University, “Transgressive Exercises: How Vichy’s Sports Societies Shielded Social Outcasts”
Commentary by Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Volume 5, Issue 13
Session in Memory of Donna Ryan (1948-2012)
Panel Session at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
Organizer: Kathryn Norberg, UCLA
Moderator: Hines Hall, Auburn University
Presenters:
John Sweets, University of Kansas
Anne Quartararo, United States Naval Academy
Barry Bergen, Gallaudet University
April Shelford, American University
Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
Video Part #1
Video Part #2
Video Part #3
Volume 5, Issue 12
“Disharmony: War, Decolonization, and National Identity in 1960’s French Popular Music”
Conference Panel at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
Chair: Rachel Gillett, Harvard University
Bronson Long, Georgia Highlands College, “Le Diable (Çava): War and Belgian National Identity in the Music of Jacques Brel”
Elizabeth McGregor, Anna Maria College, “Jazz, the Algerian War, and Decolonization”
Jonathyne Briggs, Indiana University Northwest, “Johnny à l’armée: Nationalist Visions of Youth in the Era of Decolonization”
Commentary by Sandrine Sanos, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Volume 5, Issue 11
“Humanities in a Digital Age: Using Digital Tools for Research and Teaching”
Conference Panel at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
Chair: Sean Takats, George Mason University
Christopher Church, University of California, Berkeley, “The Language of Citizenship and the Calculus of Disaster: Civic Duty and Economics following the 1891 Hurricane in the French Antilles”
Hélène Huet, Pennsylvania State University, “Mapping Decadence: Visualizing Relationships Between Writers and Publishers”
Commentary by David Del Testa, Bucknell University
Volume 5, Issue 10
“Popular Culture under the Occupation and Liberation”
Conference Panel at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
Chair: Joelle Neulander, The Citadel
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, “Crime au marché noir: Detective Fiction under the Occupation”
Scott Haine, University of Maryland, “The Drama of Daily Life: Simone de Beauvoir’s Literary and Autobiographical Writings on Cafe Life during WWII”
Audra Merfeld Langston, Missouri University of Science and Technology, “Judging Justice: Marcel Aymé’s La Tête des autres and the Press”
Commentary by Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Volume 5, Issue 9
“Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century France”
Conference Panel at Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2013
Chair: Paul Hanson, Butler University
Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University, “Women and Male Friendship in Old Regime Freemasonry”
Christine Zabel, University of Heidelberg, “Disguising Gender and Cloaking Sex: Authenticity, Appearance, and Affect in the French Enlightenment”
Claire Cage, University of South Alabama, “The Père de Famille and the Priest in Revolutionary France”
Commentary by Gary Kates, Pomona College
Volume 5, Issue 7
“Nature and Technology in the French Revolution: A Discussion of Recent Scholarship (II)”
Conference Panel at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 6, 2013
Chair: Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame
Catherine Lanoë, Université d’Orléans, “Cosmétiques, artifice, et nature”
Guillaume Mazeau, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, “La physionotrace”
Audio-only version available HERE
Volume 5, Issue 6
“Nature and Technology in the French Revolution: A Discussion of Recent Scholarship (I)”
Conference Panel at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 6, 2013
Chair: Lesley Walker, Indiana University South Bend
Kenneth Alder, Northwestern University, “History of Science as Means: Mediating the Materialist and Political Histories of the French Revolution”
Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame, “Putting the ‘New Positivism’ to Work on Politico-Literary History: The Case of the French Revolution”
Mary Ashburn Miller, Reed College, “Reassessing the Rhetoric and Reality of ‘Nature’ in the Politics of the French Revolution”
Video (with audio) available HERE
Audio-only version available HERE
Volume 5, Issue 5
“French Universalism and its Exceptions”
Conference Panel at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 6, 2013
Chair: Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi
Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, “The UNESCO Campaign Against Racism and the New Ethnological Humanism of 1950s France”
Julian Bourg, Boston College, “From Complementarity to Asymmetry: Algeria, Counter-Insurgency, and the Emergence of the Guerrilla as Free Radical“
Camille Robcis, Cornell University, “Republicanism and the Critique of Human Rights“
Commentary by Bruno Perreau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Volume 5, Issue 4
Plenary Session: “Environmental History and Narratives of French History”
Plenary session at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 5, 2013
Chair: Mary D. Lewis, Harvard University
Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University, Plenary Presentation #1
Caroline Ford, UCLA, Plenary Presentation #2
Jean-François Mouhot, Georgetown University, Plenary Presentation #3
Volume 5, Issue 3
“Visions of Enlightenment”
Conference session at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 5, 2013
Chair: Keith Baker, Stanford University
Darrin McMahon, Florida State University, “Seeing the Light in the Age of EnLIGHTenment: Reflections on a Future Study”
Dan Edelstein, Stanford University, “Enlightenment Rights Talk”
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University, “Inner Shuddering in the French Provinces”
Commentary by J. Kent Wright, Arizona State University
Volume 5, Issue 2
Plenary Luncheon: “For Whom Do We Write?”
Plenary luncheon at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 5, 2013
Moderator: Stéphane Gerson, New York University
Participants:
David A. Bell, Princeton University
Gayle A. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton
Jeffrey Jackson, Rhodes College
Caroline Weber, Barnard College
Video available HERE
Volume 5, Issue 1
“The Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century France”
Conference session at Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 5, 2013
Chair: Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago
James Johnson, Boston University, “Paul Verlaine, Masks, and the French Fin-de-Siècle”
Dominique Kalifa, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, “The ‘Bas-Fonds’ as a Social Imaginary”
Erin-Marie Legacey, Texas Tech University, “A Grave Accord: Reimagining Paris in the City of the Dead (1804-1830)”
Volume 4, Issue 3
“The Work and Contributions of Lynn Hunt”
Conference panel at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles, CA, March 23, 2012
Chair: Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin
Participants:
Jack Censer, George Mason University
Antoine de Baecque, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Paul Hanson, Butler University
Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
Commentary by Lynn A. Hunt, UCLA
Video available HERE