H-France Salon, Vol. 12, Issue 8 (Week 3 of 4)

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 3
20-24 July 2020

Keynote: “Revisiting the Cahiers de Doléances: What do the people really want?”

Pierre Serna, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut Universitaire de France, IHRF IHMC
Introduction by Rafe BlaufarbRafe Blaufarb is Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. He has published on military, Atlantic, financial, and legal topics. His last book is The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property (Oxford, 2016)., Florida State University

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #52)

Panel 15: “Emigration, Monarchy and Money in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic State”

Zachary Stolzfus, Florida State University, “Credit and Emigration in Revolutionary Alsace”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #53)

Patrick Harris, Rutgers University, “Transimperial Exiles: Emigration and the Making of the Revolutionary Caribbean”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #54)

Dominic Bellenger, University of Cambridge, “What to do with the émigré priests: home or overseas?”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #55)

Erik Braeden Lewis, Florida State University, “Diamonds and Dashing: Countess du Barry’s Extravagant Escape, 1791-93”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #56)

Mark Edward Hay, Erasmus University Rotterdam, “Making War Pay for War: Napoleon and the Dutch War Subsidy, 1795-1806”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #57)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #58)

Panel 16: “Revolution, Laws and Borders”

Edward Kolla, Georgetown University, “Passports, Borders, and Limits on Movement in French History”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #59)

Netta Green, Princeton University, “‘United We Stand, Divided We Fall?’ Egalitarian Inheritance under Scrutiny during the French Revolution”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #60)

Alexander Kither, University of Oxford, “Beyond Legality: Considerations Taken on the Restitution of Art from Allied Occupied Paris (July-November, 1815)”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #61)

Carine Renoux, Université de Paris-Est Créteil, “The traffic of men, merchandise and ideas across the departmental borders during the Revolution of 1848”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #62)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #63)

Panel 17: “The French and Other Cultures”

Benjamin Hoffmann, The Ohio State University, “Bayle and the Genealogy of the Cult of Nothingness”
Handout: PDF
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #64)

William Jennings, University of Waikato, “Dibia’s People: Life for enslaved people on a French colonial plantation in 1690”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #65)

Panel discussion with guest Colin Foss, Austin College
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #67)

Panel 18: “Political and Religious Philosophy in the Enlightenment”

Rebecca Kingston, University of Toronto, “Plutarch Reception in Sixteenth-Century France: ‘la chose publique’ in Geoffroy Tory and Jacques Amyot”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #68)

Geoff Kemp, University of Auckland, “John Locke and Élie Bouhéreau: An Encounter”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #69)

Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University, “Early Modern Renovations of the Sacred and the Entangled Emergence of the French Enlightenment”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #70)

Panel discussion with guest Mita Choudhury, Vassar College
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #71)

Panel 19: “Returning to the Sources: Manuscript and Material”

Andrew Brown, Massey University, “Pardon Letters: the Rhetoric of Recreation in Late Medieval Flanders”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #72)

Carol Neel, Colorado College, “The Medieval Orders and God’s Plagiarist: Philip of Harvengt, the Migne Text, and the Manuscript Evidence”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #73)

Amanda McVitty, Massey University, “Men in the Margins: Constructing Identity and Authority through Medieval Legal Manuscripts”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #74)

Panel discussion with guest Joseph Zizek, University of Auckland
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #75)

Panel 20: “Trans-imperial & Trans-colonial Connections”

Charlotte Ann Legg, University of London Institute in Paris, “Paul Robin and his ‘tribe’: French perspectives on settler colonialism and social reform in New Zealand in the 1890s”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #76)

Briony Neilson, The University of Sydney, “Bagnards and Convicts: Trans-colonial Penal Heritage in New Caledonia and Australia”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #77)

Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University, “Maori Rugby in 1920s France: Sport, Race, and Indigeneity”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #78)

Panel discussion with guest Robert Aldrich, The University of Sydney
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #79)

Panel 21: “Twentieth-Century French Republic and Rights Issues”

Greg Burgess, University of Melbourne, “Why did the French Constitution of 1946 not include a Declaration of Rights?”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #80)

Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “‘Slavery’ During World War II: French Workers’ Perceptions and Reactions”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #81)

Melissa K. Byrnes, Southwestern University, “Anti-Salazarism and Transnational Solidarity: Franco-Portuguese Student Activism in the 1960s”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #82)

Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University, “The Obligation of Memory: The Urgency of Holocaust Testimony”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #83)

Panel discussion with guest Emma Kuby, Northern Illinois University
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #84)

Webinar: “Publishing French and Francophone History in a Global Age”

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #85)

Host: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina

Discussants:

Kathryn Edwards, University of South Carolina (convener)
Briony Neilson, The University of Sydney
Julia Osman, Mississippi State University
David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

Salon: “French Identities and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions”

Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Interpreting a Symbol of Progress and Regression: French Views of America’s Revolution and Early Republic, 1780-1790”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #86)

Janet Polasky, University of New Hampshire, “A ‘Whirlpool of Gain’ between the American and French Revolutions: French Aristocrats and American Merchants Together”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #87)

Sydney Watts, University of Richmond, “Enterprising Emigrées: Work and Livelihood for Emigrant Women of the French Revolution’s Channel Migration”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #88)

Panel discussion with guests Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University, and Anne Verjus, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #89)

Links to other weeks of the conference:

Week 1: 5-11 July 2020
Week 2: 12-19 July 2020
Week 4: 27-31 July 2020
Conference Main Page

Pierre 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.Rafe BlaufarbZachary StolzfusZachary M. Stoltzfus is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. His dissertation research focuses on l'hypothèque and credit from the ancien régime through the French Revolution.Patrick HarrisPatrick Harris is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His dissertation research follows the trajectories of French colonial exiles in the British Empire during the Revolutionary era and their impact on emerging conceptions of global order.Dominic BellengerDominic Aidan Bellenger is a Senior Research Associate at the Von Hugel Institute, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on the emigrés of the French Revolution, most recently contributing a chapter to Laure Philip and Juliette Reboul, eds., French Emigrants in Revolutionised Europe: Connected Histories and Memories (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).Erik Braeden LewisErik Braeden Lewis is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. His dissertation research takes a microhistorical approach to trans-Pyrenean migration during the French Revolution, investigating agency, motives, and tactics of the French émigrés who fled to Spain and its Empire.Mark Edward HayMark Edward Hay's research explores French war financing and the role of Amsterdam merchant-banking houses in the construction of the Napoleonic fiscal-military system, 1780-1813. A study on Napoleonic resource extraction in the Netherlands is due for publication in the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History in June 2020.Edward KollaEdward Kolla is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University's campus in Qatar. His latest book is Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is currently writing a book on the history of passports.Netta GreenNetta Green is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University. Her dissertation research focuses on the origins of the social sciences in France and the development of the study of the family from 1750 through 1850.Alexander KitherAlexander Kither is a graduate student at St Anne's College, Oxford. His dissertation research focuses on the legal disputes raised during the restitution of cultural property from French collections following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.Carine RenouxCarine Renoux is a doctoral candidate at Université Paris-Est Créteil, CRHEC. Her research focuses on revolution and the politicization of the Revolution of 1848 in the Ain Department and the border regions.Benjamin HoffmannBenjamin Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Early Modern French Studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of novels and monographs published in France and the United States, including American Pandemonium (Gallimard, 2016), Posthumous America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and Les Paradoxes de la postérité (Minuit, 2019).William JenningsWilliam Jennings is a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He has published on French colonisation in the seventeenth-century Caribbean and nineteenth-century Pacific. His latest book is coauthored with Stefan Pfänder and titled Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a usage-based account of French Guianese Creole (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).Colin FossColin Foss is Assistant Professor of French at Austin College, where he studies the cultural history and literature of the nineteenth century.Rebecca KingstonRebecca Kingston is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She has published widely in the history of political thought (esp. Montesquieu, Christine de Pizan, emotions and political theory). She is completing a book on Plutarch reception in French and English political thought 1500-1800.Geoff KempGeoff Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Auckland, where he works on intellectual history, book and press history, and politics and the media. His most recent publications are an introduction to John Locke's writings on liberty of the press in Literary and Historical Writings (2019), part of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke; and the chapter 'Locke the Censor, Locke the Anti-Censor' in Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain (2019).Jeffrey D. BursonJeffrey D. Burson is Professor of French History at Georgia Southern University. He has published widely on the History of French Enlightenment, in particular on the cultural history of the intersection of Enlightenment and Catholicism in France. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and chapters and has authored or edited five books, most recently The Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019).Mita ChoudhuryMita Choudhury (she/her/hers) is Professor of History at Vassar College. Her latest book is a volume, co-edited with Daniel J. Watkins, Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley (2019) for Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. She is currently working on a book on sexual assault in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French Catholic Church.Andrew BrownAndrew Brown is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Massey University. He has published widely on late medieval religion and ceremony in late medieval Flanders and England. His latest book, edited with Jan Dumolyn, is Medieval Bruges c.850-1550 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).Carol NeelCarol Neel is Professor of History at Colorado College. Her publications center on medieval spiritual life, especially among the twelfth-century Premonstratensians.Amanda McVittyAmanda McVitty is a Lecturer at Massey University. She has published widely on gender, law and political culture in medieval England. Her latest book is Masculinity and Treason in Medieval England (Boydell Press, 2020).Joseph ZizekJoseph Zizek is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland. His current research explores practices of individual and collective voluntarism during the French Revolution.Charlotte Ann LeggCharlotte Ann Legg is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris. She has published a number of articles on journalism and medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria and her first book, entitled The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914, will be published by University of Nebraska Press in 2020/2021.Briony NeilsonBriony Neilson is a sessional academic at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the history of crime and criminal justice in nineteenth-century France and New Caledonia.Keith RathboneKeith Rathbone is a lecturer at Macquarie University. He has published widely on physical education and sports in interwar and Occupation-era France. His latest book is Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France: Authoritarianism, Agency, and Everyday Life (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2021).Robert AldrichRobert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney and has written widely on European colonial history. His most recent books are Banished Potentates: Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815-1955 (2018) and the co-edited Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020).Greg BurgessGreg Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on politics of asylum and the rights of refugees in France and Europe since the Revolution. His latest book is Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Post-war France, 1945-1995 (Palgrave, 2019).Michael SeidmanMichael Seidman is professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has published widely on twentieth-century European history. His latest book is Transatlantic Antifascisms from the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2017, Spanish translation, 2017).Melissa 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.Rosamond Hooper-HamersleyRosamond Hooper-Hamersley retired in 2016 as a former Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Honors Program Coordinator at New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey. Her first book, The Hunt After Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour, Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment, was published by Lexington Books (2011). Hooper-Hamersley's current research deals with the reclamation of memory in the Holocaust and the French Resistance through the prism of oral and written testimony (memoirs, diaries, journals, letters) as well as historiographical assessments. She continues to present at the Western Society of French History and the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.Emma KubyEmma Kuby is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She has published widely on political violence in postwar France and its colonies. Her first book, Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell, 2019), is the winner of this year's David H. Pinkney Prize from the SFHS.Carol HarrisonCarol E. Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and co-editor with Kathryn Edwards of French Historical Studies.Kathryn EdwardsKathryn A. Edwards is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and has been co-editor with Carol E. Harrison of French Historical Studies for the past six years.Briony NeilsonBriony Neilson is a sessional academic in History at the University of Sydney and is the editor of French History & Civilization.Julia OsmanJulia Osman is an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University and for the past six years has co-edited the Journal of the Western Society for French History with Bethany Keenan (Coe College) and Sarah Shurts (Bergen Community College).David Kammerling SmithDavid Kammerling Smith is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University and for the past twenty years has served as Editor-in-Chief of H-France.Lloyd KramerLloyd Kramer is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published widely on the history of cross-cultural exchanges, national identities, and intellectual life in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. His most recent book is A History of Europe in the Modern World (McGraw-Hill, 2020).Janet PolaskyJanet Polasky is Presidential Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. Her latest book is Revolutions without Borders. The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World. She is currently writing a book on refugees: Asylum between Nations. Revolutions and their Refugees.Sydney WattsSydney Watts is Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, Virginia. She has published widely on butchers and the meat trade in eighteenth century France and is currently researching emigrants in the Revolutionary Era. Her latest publication appears in French Emigrants in Revolutionized Europe: Connected Histories and Memories, edited by Laure Philip and Juliette Reboul (Palgrave, 2019).Denise Z. DavidsonDenise Z. Davidson is Professor of History and Founding Director of the Humanities Research Center at Georgia State University. She has published on society and culture in the first decades of the nineteenth century and on marriage and family life. Her latest book is Le Roman conjugal: Chroniques de la vie familiale à l'époque de la Révolution et de l'Empire, co-authored with Anne Verjus (Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2011).Anne VerjusAnne Verjus is Senior Researcher at CNRS. She has published widely on Women, Citizenship and Family during the French Revolution. Her latest book is Ecrire le Mariage en France au XIXème siècle (with Stéphane Gougelmann (dir.)), Presses universitaires de Saint Etienne, 2017.