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 8
H-France Webinar: “Writing the History of Empire: Past Approaches, New Perspectives”
April 18, 2013
Leader: Eric Jennings, University of Toronto
Invited Participants:
Alice Conklin, The Ohio State University
Laurent Dubois, Duke University
Moderator: Charles Walton, Yale University
Video available HERE
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)“