France and Beyond:
The Global World of the Ngāti Wīwī (The French)
The joint
66th Society for French Historical Studies Conference and
22nd George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation
Week 2
12-19 July 2020
Bastille Day Keynote
“Emotions, Democracy and the Laboratory of the Revolutionary Years 1789-1796”
Sophie WahnichSophie WahnichSophie Wahnich, is Research Director (DR1) in political science and history at the CNRS in the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain. She has published widely on the reactivation of the laboratory of the French Revolution between past and present, especially on the role of emotions in building social ties and social representations. She is now working on the role of emotions in the transmission of democratic values both in the revolutionary period and in the present. Her latest book is La Révolution française n'est pas un mythe (Klincksieck, 2017)., Directrice de Recherche Première Classe, Directrice de l’Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain, EHESS/CNRS Paris
Introductions by Stéphane Ré, Conseiller de coopération et d’action culturelle, Ambassade de France en NZ, and Peter McPheePeter McPheePeter McPhee was appointed to a Personal Chair in History at the University of Melbourne in 1993, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. His most recent books are Robespierre: a Revolutionary Life (Yale University Press, 2012) and Liberty or Death: the French Revolution (Yale University Press, 2016)., University of Melbourne
Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #25)
Panel 8: “Data, Digital Humanities and the Practices of History: Illuminating Historical Problems”
David Joseph WrisleyDavid Joseph WrisleyDavid Joseph Wrisley is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. He has published widely in the fields of medieval French and digital humanities., NYU Abu Dhabi, “Exploring the Geographies of Froissart’s Chroniques”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #26)
Jean-Pierre Le GlaunecJean-Pierre Le GlaunecJean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Professor of History at the Université de Sherbrooke, in the co-director of the digital project 'Marronnage in the Atlantic World: Sources and Life Trajectories.' He is the author of The Cry of Vertières, Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti (McGill Queen's University Press, 2020) and Esclaves, mais résistants, Dans le monde des annonces pour esclaves en fuite (Karthala, forthcoming)., Université de Sherbrooke, “Marronnage in the French Atlantic World (1760-1848): Sources and Life Trajectories”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #27)
Aimee HobsonAimee HobsonAimee Hobson earned her M.A. at Adams State University, Colorado. Her work focuses on Franco-American intellectual exchange associated with the Annales School, traced across multiple disciplines, and developed with methodologies borrowed from sociology and library sciences. Interested in the broad picture of institutional scholarship throughout the long-twentieth century, she animates her research with attention to the personal relationships that scholars establish across the Atlantic and between centers of academic study., Adams State University, “A Study of US-French Exchange Around the Annales School”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #28)
Simon BurrowsSimon BurrowsSimon Burrows is Professor of History and Professor of Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University. He has published widely on the print culture, intellectual history and politics of enlightenment and revolutionary and Napoleonic France and Europe and has since 2007 led the French book trade in Enlightenment Europe database project. His most recent book is The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe 2. Enlightenment Bestsellers (London: Bloomsbury, 2018)., Western Sydney University, “The Geography and Control of the Clandestine Book Trade in France, 1770-1789”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #29)
Panel discussion with guest Melanie ConroyMelanie ConroyMelanie Conroy is Associate Professor of French at the University of Memphis. She has published widely on French salons and social networks. Her current research is on digital geography and social networks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France., University of Memphis
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #30)
Panel 9: “George Rudé, Alfred Cobban, and Beyond”
Doug MunroDoug MunroDoug Munro is an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published widely on historians, history departments, and academic controversies. His latest book, which was co-edited with John G. Reid, is Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians (ANU Press, 2017), which is available as a free download:
https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/clio’s-lives, University of Queensland, “How George Rudé became respectable”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #31)
Pamela PilbeamPamela PilbeamPamela Pilbeam is Professor Emeritus in French History, Royal Holloway, University of London and Birkbeck, University of London. Her most recent books include Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France (Palgrave, 2014), Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks (paperback, print on demand Bloomsbury, 2017, 1st ed. 2003), and The 1830 Revolution in France (Palgrave, e edition 2014)., Royal Holloway, University of London and Birkbeck, University of London, “The Impact of Alfred Cobban on Approaches to 1789”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #32)
Peter McPheePeter McPheePeter McPhee was appointed to a Personal Chair in History at the University of Melbourne in 1993, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. His most recent books are Robespierre: a Revolutionary Life (Yale University Press, 2012); and Liberty or Death: the French Revolution (Yale University Press, 2016)., University of Melbourne, “Revisiting George Rudé and 1789”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #33)
Panel discussion with guest Rod PhillipsRod PhillipsRod Phillips is a professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has published widely on the history of wine and is currently researching aspects of wine during the French Revolution., Carleton University
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #34)
Panel 10: “Ideas that Motivated the French Revolution”
Jeffrey Ryan HarrisJeffrey Ryan HarrisJeffrey Ryan Harris received his Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an independent scholar. He has previously published on early modern French intellectual history and political culture. His current book project is 'The Struggle for the General Will and the Making of the French and Haitian Revolutions.', Independent scholar, Runner-up Alison Patrick Scholarship, “The General Will and the Right Wing of the National Constituent Assembly, 1789-1790”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #35)
Thomas LalevéeThomas LalevéeThomas Lalevée is a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University. His thesis is a study of the science of society and ideas of progress in France, c. 1750-1850., Australian National University, Winner of the Alison Patrick Memorial Scholarship, “Science sociale and the Idea of Progress in the French Revolution”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #36)
Michael James MulryanMichael James MulryanMichael Mulryan is an associate professor of French at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He has published widely on eighteenth-century prison literature and the works of Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814). He recently published a bilingual edition: Comment fonder la morale du peuple : Traité d’éducation pour l’avènement d’une société nouvelle by Louis Sébastien Mercier, a book he co-edited and co-translated with Geneviève Boucher of the University of Ottawa (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020)., Christopher Newport University, “Louis Sébastien Mercier’s (1740-1814) Enduring Belief in the ‘Perfectibility of Man’: The Re-Naissance of l’Homme Nouveau in the Wake of the Reign of Terror”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #37)
Daniel J. WatkinsDaniel J. WatkinsDaniel J. Watkins is an assistant professor of History at Baylor University. He has published articles and essays on the Enlightenment and religion in the early modern world. His latest book is Berruyer's Bible: Public Opinion and the Politics of Enlightened Catholicism in France (McGill-Queens University Press, forthcoming)., Baylor University, “‘Hate-Reading’ in Eighteenth-Century France: The Complexity of Book Ownership in the Age of Enlightenment”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #38)
David BriscoeDavid BriscoeDavid Briscoe is a doctoral candidate at Trinity College Dublin. His dissertation focuses on ideas of poverty and community in eighteenth-century French poor relief reforms., Trinity College Dublin, “Representing Poverty in Petitions for Assistance in Revolutionary Bordeaux, 1791-1795”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #39)
Panel discussion presented as an unrecorded live webcast
Discussion guest: Ronen SteinbergRonen SteinbergRonen Steinberg is Associate Professor of history at Michigan State University. He has published widely on terror in the French Revolution and on transitional justice. His latest book is The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France (Cornell University Press, 2019)., Michigan State University
Panel 11: “Surveillance and Liberation: Educating Young French Women and Men in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries“
Victoria BergbauerVictoria BergbauerVictoria Bergbauer is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University. Her dissertation research focuses on the treatment of ex-prisoners in modern European history., Princeton University, “Beyond Delinquency: The Destinies of Adolescent Girls after Prison in France, 1850-1900”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #40)
Meagan PoolMeagan PoolMeagan Pool completed her Master’s degree at Monash University in 2019. Her dissertation focused on the female religious congregation, the Filles du Saint-Esprit, in Brittany during the second half of the nineteenth century, examining their political activism within the region., Monash University, “« Vivent les Sœurs, vive la liberté ! »: Congregational women and the fight for schools during the protests of 1902”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #41)
Virginie De Luca BarrusseVirginie De Luca BarrusseVirginie De Luca Barrusse, professor of demography at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, has published on the Population Debate and the Population politics during the Third Republic. Barrusse and Catherine Rollet have authored a biography of Paul Strauss: Paul Strauss, dans l'ombre de la réforme sociale (INED, 2020 forthcoming)., Université Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, “L’éducation sexuelle et la construction de la masculinité, 1900-1945”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #42)
Una McIlvennaUna McIlvennaUna McIlvenna is Hansen Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely on execution ballads and the singing of news. Her forthcoming book is Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2020/21)., University of Melbourne, “French Execution Ballads in the Nineteenth Century”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #43)
Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #44)
Panel 12: “The Texts and Letters of Revolution“
Céline BorelloCéline BorelloCéline Borello is Professor of Modern History at the Le Mans Université - TEMOS. She is currently researching the history of modern Protestantism. Her most recent book is Dieu, Cesar et les protestants. Anthologie de discours pastoraux sur la res publica (1744-1848) (Honoré Champion, 2019)., Le Mans Université – TEMOS (UMR 9016), “Faire ou écrire l’histoire. Rabaut Saint-Étienne et Le Précis de l’Histoire de la Révolution Française ”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #45)
Pierre SernaPierre SernaPierre Serna is professor of history of the French Revolution and Empire at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the l’Institut Universitaire de France. His areas of research include the history of ideas and public policy in the eighteenth century, especially the history of representative democracy, leftist radical movements, and movements of the “extreme center.” His most recent publications include Que demande le peuple ? 1789 histoire des cahiers de doléances (Textuel, 2019) and L’extrême centre ou le poison français, 1789-2019 (Champ Vallon, 2019). His most recent research focuses on animals in politics (1750 -1850) and how to write history during a revolution time., Université Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, Institut Universitaire de France, IHRF IHMC, “Les crimes des reines de France. Ecrire l’histoire des reines, faire sortir de l’histoire les citoyennes”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #46)
Kirsty CarpenterKirsty CarpenterKirsty Carpenter is Associate Professor of History at Massey University. She published The Novels of Madame de Souza in social and political perspective (Peter Lang, 2007) and a Scholarly Edition, Eugénie et Mathilde by Madame de Souza, MHRA Critical Texts Volume 26 (MHRA, 2014), and this paper is part of a biography of Madame de Souza, also known as the comtesse de Flahaut., Massey University, “Re-integrating the writing of Madame de Souza into the revolutionary debate”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #47)
Colin JonesColin JonesColin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. He has published on many aspects of French history, particularly on the eighteenth century. His most recent book is Versailles (Basic Books, 2018).,Queen Mary University of London and University of Chicago, “An Unemigrated Émigré in Revolutionary Paris: The Duchesse d’Elbeuf and Her Letters to a Friend”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #48)
Antonia PernaAntonia PernaAntonia Perna is a doctoral candidate at Durham University. Her dissertation research focuses on children’s engagement with politics in Revolutionary France., Durham University, “Patriotic Giving and Republican Girlhood in Revolutionary France: The Public Speeches of Twelve-Year-Old Joséphine Fontanier, 1793–94”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #49)
Panel discussion with guest David GarriochDavid GarriochDavid Garrioch is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University. He has published on many aspects of the history of Paris, as well as on urban social history. His most recent book is The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom, 1685-1789 (Cambridge University Press, 2014)., Monash University
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #50)
Webinar: “Teaching French History in a Global Frame“
Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #51)
Discussants:
Melissa K ByrnesMelissa K. ByrnesMelissa K. Byrnes is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on migration, race, activism, and human rights in France and the French empire. Her current projects include a monograph on post-1945 community activism for North African rights and welfare and a set of articles on Franco-Portuguese rights movements in the 1960s., Southwestern University
Darcie FontaineDarcie FontaineDarcie Fontaine is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida-Tampa. Her first monograph, Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria, was published in 2016 with Cambridge University Press. She is in the final stages of completing a textbook on France and its empire since Louis XIV, titled Modern France and the World (Routledge), and is currently researching how the idea of adventure shaped the colonization of Algeria., University of South Florida,
Roxanne PanchasiRoxanne PanchasiRoxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of several publications focused on French culture and politics, anticipation, military technologies/imaginaries, and film. Her most recent article, '''No Hiroshima in Africa': The Algerian War and the Question of French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara'' appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of History of the Present., Simon Fraser University
Jennifer SessionsJennifer SessionsJennifer Sessions is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She has published widely on the history of French settler colonialism in Algeria. Her first book is By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2011)., University of Virginia
Links to other weeks of the conference:
Week 1: 5-11 July 2020
Week 3: 20-24 July 2020
Week 4: 27-31 July 2020
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