H-France Salon, Vol. 12, Issue 8 (Week 4 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 4
27-31 July 2020

Keynote: “The Huguenots and the Fall of Louis XIV”

Robin Gwynn, Massey University
Introduction by Cynthia White, Pro-Vice Chancellor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University

Moderator: Kirsty Carpenter, Massey University

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #90)

Panel 25: “New Perspectives on Huguenots”

Thomas C. Sosnowski, Kent State University, “Views from the Mazarinades”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #91)

Nora Baker, University of Oxford (Jesus College), “Violence, Victims, and Virtue in Huguenot Memoir”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #92)

Tommy Barr, Independent Artist, “The Huguenots and their legacy in Ireland”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #93)
Tommy Barr has provided a copy of the pamphlet for his exhibit Un Beau Refuge: Art from the legacy of the Huguenots.

Panel Discussion with guest Owen Stanwood, Boston College
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #94)

Panel 26: “Feminism and Sex in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France”

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, “American Feminism and French Feminism at the International Council of Women, 1888-1914”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #95)

Judith Coffin, University of Texas Austin, “The Postwar Politics of Sex and Eros”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #96)

Alice Bullard, Human Rights Attorney, Washington DC, “‘Secularism is a Woman’s Issue’: Comparative Postcolonial Francophone Feminism”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #97)

Sarah Fishman, University of Houston, “Unexpected Ally: Marcelle Auclair of Marie-Claire on Birth Control and Abortion”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #98)

Panel Discussion with guest Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #99)

Panel 27: “Negotiating Boundaries of Belonging: Language, Gender, and Religious Dissent”

Anne-Hélène Miller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Jean Gerson and the French Language: Reflections on Lay Devotion and Vernacular Literacy in Late Medieval France”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #100)

Jonathan A. Reid, East Carolina University, “One Thousand Evangelical Clerics and ‘The Coming of the Wars of Religion,’ 1520–1562”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #101)

Corinne Gressang, Erskine College, “Gabriel Gauchat: The Senses and Catholicism during the Reign of Terror”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #102)

Jonathan Smyth, Birkbeck College, University of London, “The Peripatetic Guillotine and the Cemeteries of Paris during the Revolution”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #103)

Panel discussion with guest Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #104)

Panel 28: “Mysteries and Dreams: The French in New Zealand and the South Pacific”

Jann Matlock, University College London, “Desolate Islands: The Lapérouse Mystery, 1788-1828”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #105)

Ian Fookes, University of Auckland, “Autofiction in Noa Noa by Paul Gauguin and the figure of the exote in Victor Segalen’s Le Maître-du-jouir: Two visions of a certain ‘Gauguin’ ”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #106)

Alistair Watts, Massey University, “Options and opportunities for New Zealand and France 1918-1935: Les Liaisons dangereuses?”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #107)

Geoffrey Watson, Massey University, “New Zealand Perceptions of Pierre de Coubertin”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #108)

Panel discussion with guest Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega, University of French Polynesia
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #109)

Panel 29: “France and Algeria: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Interactions”

Andrew Bellisari, Fulbright University Vietnam, “A Tale of Two Mosques: Negotiating Postcolonial Sovereignty in Algeria and France”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #110)

Christina Carroll, Kalamazoo College, “Criticizing Colonial Practice and Redefining Empire: The Young Algerians, 1900-1914”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #111)

Sarah K. Miles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Edge of the Page: Francophone Anticolonial Solidarity and Magazines as Intellectual Borderlands in the 1960s”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #112)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #113)

Panel 30: “The French Revolution: Revisions and Precisions”

Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College, “Will the Real Catiline Please Stand Up?” Framing Intimidation in the National Assembly of 1789”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #114)

DMG Sutherland, University of Maryland, “The Sacking of St. Lazarre, 12-13 July 1789”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #115)

Justine Carré Miller, Florida State University, “A Necessary Evil: Prostitution, Regulation, and Men’s Utopia in the Age of Enlightenment”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #116)

Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, “Robespierre-Mahomet: Islam and the Framing of the Terror in the French Revolution”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #117)

Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Maryland, “Allies into Enemies: Imagining a Franco-Austrian War before the French Revolution”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #118)

Linda S. Frey, University of Montana, and Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University, “‘Fools, Rogues, Protected Spies’: Diplomats during the French Revolution”
Paper (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #119)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #120)

Panel 31: “Dressing-Up: Costume and Image Creation in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France”

Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina, “Costuming the Crimea: Zouave and Highlander Go to War”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #121)

Dantzel Cenatiempo, University of Washington, Seattle, “Dressing Up the Truth: Sarah Bernhardt as ‘little Madonna”’
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #122)

Holly Grout, University of Alabama, “Dolls of the Grand Revue: Mistinguett, Josephine Baker and the Commodification of Celebrity”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #123)

Helen Gramotnev, Independent scholar, “Presentation: The Hatted Nude in the art of Belle Epoque Paris”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #124)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #125)

Webinar: Rainbow Warrior Incident Thirty-five Years Later

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #126)

Introduction by Tracy AdamsTracy Adams is professor of European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland. She publishes on noble women of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period., University of Auckland

Discussants:

Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University (convener)
Ena Manuireva, Auckland University of Technology
Stephanie Mills, NZEI Te Riu Roa
Rebecca Priestley, Victoria University of Wellington
David Robie, Auckland University of Technology

Salon: “Grad Stories: Choosing French History Topics — A Global Future?”

Salon presented as an unrecorded live webcast
(H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #127)

Graduates:

Alistair Watts, Massey University (convener)
Briony Neilson, University of Sydney
Alexis Bergantz, RMIT University, Melbourne
Sarah Miles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Claire Rioult, Monash University and the University of Warwick
Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University
Corinne Gressang, Erskine College
Marina Ortiz, Florida State University
Daniel Arenas, Florida State University

Participating supervisors:

Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University

Links to other weeks of the conference:

Week 1: 5-11 July 2020
Week 2: 12-19 July 2020
Week 3: 20-24 July 2020

Robin GwynnRobin Gwynn is retired from the History Department at Massey University. His numerous books and articles focus on the French Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain. Mark Goldie, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, writes, 'Robin Gwynn’s works are immensely scholarly, displaying a lifetime’s accumulation of evidence and reflection ... Nobody before Gwynn has so comprehensively ransacked the vast surviving record for the key period when Britain confronted its first major refugee crisis. His three-volume The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain is the definite account of the British facet of the Huguenot diaspora.'Kirsty CarpenterKirsty Carpenter is Associate Professor of History at Massey University. She works on emigration during the French Revolution and 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).Thomas C. SosnowskiThomas C. Sosnowski is Emeritus Professor of History at Kent State University. The primary foci of his research is on the mazarinades of the Fronde and the émigrés of the French Revolution who took refuge in the United States. Numerous articles have resulted as well as many presentations at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, the Western Society for French History, the Ohio Academy of History, and French Historical Studies.Nora BakerNora Baker is a doctoral candidate at Oxford University. Her dissertation research focuses on representations of the self in Huguenot memoir.Tommy BarrTommy Barr is a Northern Irish artist, with his studio located just south of Belfast. His paintings are held in major public collections, including the national galleries of Jordan and Bulgaria and the national museums of Ireland, Romania and Malta. Barr is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an executive member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is exploring the artistic legacy of the Huguenots of Ireland.Owen StanwoodOwen Stanwood is associate professor of history at Boston College, where he specializes in early American, Atlantic, and global history, with a particular interest in religion and imperialism. His latest book is The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2020).Jean Elisabeth PedersenJean Elisabeth Pedersen is Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. She has published widely in French intellectual and cultural history, the history of the human sciences, and the history of French feminism. She is the author of Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920 (Rutgers University Press, 2003). She is currently completing a book on French men and women as public intellectuals.Judith CoffinJudy Coffin is Associate Professor of History at UT Austin. She has published on labor, consumerism, and sexuality. Her latest book is Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir (Cornell University Press, 2020).Alice BullardAlice Bullard, Ph. D. & Esq., is an attorney and mediator at Bullard Esq. Law in Washington, D.C. Formerly she was a tenured Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Exile to Paradise (Stanford University Press, 2000). More recently she published a documentary history of human rights in Mauritania called, Mauritania Look (2014). Her 'Spirit Crisis In Globalizing Dakar' is under contract with Rutledge.Sarah FishmanSarah Fishman is Professor of History at the University of Houston. She has published widely on family, gender, and social change in twentieth-century France. Her latest book is From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution: Gender and Family Life in Postwar France (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently working on a dual biography of Marcelle Auclair, founder and guiding spirit at Marie-Claire, and Marcelle Segal, who responded for decades to the 'Courrier du Cœur' at Elle Magazine, where they shaped discussions of issues critical to women’s lives in the 1950s and 60s.Sandrine SanosSandrine Sanos is Professor of Modern European History at Texas A & M University. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality, the aftermaths of violence, and the relation of aesthetics and politics in twentieth-century France. She is currently working on a book project, The Horror Of History, on gender and the sex of violence in Cold War France (1954-1967).Anne-Hélène MillerAnne-Hélène Miller is Advanced Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has published widely on late medieval French language and Literature, and with the support of a year-long NEH Fellowship, she has just completed a monograph entitled 'The Literary Status of French and Cultural Boundaries in the Long Fourteenth-Century: The Formation of a Francophone Identity', which is currently under review. She is also co-editor with Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago, of an upcoming MLA Teaching Approaches to the Romance of the Rose.Jonathan A. ReidJonathan A. Reid is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Reformation History at East Carolina University. He has published a monograph and several chapters on the figure of Marguerite of Navarre and the intersection of religion, politics, and culture in early sixteenth-century France. Currently, he is working on a study of the rise of the Reformed churches in French cities from the outbreak of the Luther Affair through the first War of Religion, 1520–1563.Corinne GressangCorinne Gressang will be an Assistant Professor at Erskine College beginning in August. She is currently researching the dissolution of convents during the French Revolution.Jonathan SmythJonathan Smyth is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published on various aspects of the French Revolution, particularly the religious question. His most recent publication is Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The search for a republican morality, hardback published by Manchester University Press in 2016, paperback edition 2018. He is currently researching on Prophets and Prophecies in the early Revolution.Tracy AdamsTracy Adams is professor of European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland. She publishes on noble women of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.Jann MatlockJann Matlock is Associate Professor at University College London. She has published widely on visual representation and cultural history of the long nineteenth century. She is completing a book entitled Looking at Risk: Invisible Women and Their Secrets Unveiled.Ian FookesIan Fookes is a Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland. He has published on Victor Segalen and exoticism. He is currently researching Pacific identities from a global perspective.Alistair WattsAlistair Watts has just completed a Ph.D. at Massey University. His doctoral research and current writing investigate the evolution of relations between France and New Zealand since 1835 as a complement to the currently favored national historiography that understates the role of international connections in the evolution of the New Zealand story.Geoffrey WatsonGeoff Watson is an Associate Professor in History at the School of Humanities, Massey University. He has published widely on sport in New Zealand. His most recent book, co-authored with Greg Ryan, is Sport and the New Zealanders: A History (Auckland University Press, 2018).Sylvie Largeaud-OrtegaSylvie Largeaud-Ortega is associate professor at the University of French Polynesia. She has published widely on literature and history in Oceania. Her latest book is Orientalisme ou Défi Postcolonial? Le cas de L’Âme des Guerriers d'Alan Duff (Honoré Champion, forthcoming).Andrew BellisariAndrew Bellisari is a founding faculty member in history at Fulbright University Vietnam. His research explores the political, social, and cultural processes of decolonization, particularly in French North Africa and Indochina, and he has published his work in the Journal of Contemporary History and the Journal of North African Studies. His current book project, 'The Loose Ends of Empire: Cultures of Decolonization in France and Algeria', examines the logistics of decolonization in French Algeria to understand how transfers of power work in practice and postcolonial sovereignty is constructed on a local level--from negotiations over museum collections to debates about how to keep Algeria's trains running after independence.Christina CarrollChristina Carroll is Marlene Crandell Francis Assistant Professor of History at Kalamazoo College. She has published several articles on French colonial history and is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850-1900, which is under contract with Cornell University Press.Sarah K. MilesSarah K. Miles is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her dissertation research focuses on radical leftist publication networks and the global history of solidarity in the francophone world, centered on exchanges between France, Quebec, and Algeria in the 1960s and 1970sRobert H. BlackmanRobert H. Blackman is Elliott Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College. He has published widely on concepts of political representation in the early French Revolution. His latest book is 1789: The French Revolution Begins (Cambridge University Press, 2019).DMG SutherlandDMG Sutherland is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Maryland. He has published widely on the French Revolution in the provinces. This contribution is part of a new project about the Revolution in Paris.Justine Carré MillerJustine Carré Miller is a second-year doctoral student at Florida State University. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century France, gender and sexuality, and medicine.Ian CollerIan Coller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He has published widely on Europe and the Muslim world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His latest book is Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020).Thomas E. KaiserThomas E. Kaiser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland.He has published widely on the political, cultural, and diplomatic history of eighteenth-century France and is currently writing a book provisionally titled 'Marie-Antoinette and the Austrian Plot, 1748-1794'.Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. FreyLinda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey are graduates of the Ohio State University and currently professors at the University of Montana and Kansas State University. They specialize in eighteenth- century international relations and international law. They have in tandem co-written, co-edited and co-annotated numerous books and articles including The History of Diplomatic Immunity, The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession, and 'Proven Patriots': the French Diplomatic Corps, 1789-1799. The duo are currently completing a monograph on the culture of French Revolutionary diplomacy and yet another on the French Revolutionary challenge to international law.Carol E. HarrisonCarol E. Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She has published widely on women and gender in the nineteenth century. Her latest book is Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith (Cornell University Press, 2014).Dantzel CenatiempoDantzel Cenatiempo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on fashion's sociological relationship to gender, class and race; forthcoming articles include an investigation of Josephine Baker's use of whiteface, as well as Colette's sartorial negotiations with gendered animality. Her current research project is a case study of dress and grooming as a power technique in the careers of George Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker.Holly GroutHolly Grout is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama. She has published widely on gender, beauty, consumer culture, and celebrity. Her first book is The Force of Beauty: Transforming Ideas of French Femininity in the Third Republic (Louisiana State University Press, 2015), and she is working on a second book, 'Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France'.Helen GramotnevHelen Gramotnev is an Independent curator and an Art Historian specializing in French Modern art and Dutch art of the Golden Age. Her current research projects focus on the hat in French modern art; the aesthetics of the violin; and the relationship of the artist with the frame.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.Ena ManuirevaEna Manuireva is a Ph.D. candidate at the Auckland University of Technology and a Tahitian Cultural Coordinator who was born in Mangareva (Gambier), the smallest archipelago in Ma'ohi Nui (French Polynesia). Manuireva has relatives who have died from or are coping with cancer of the thyroid, the biggest concern for the local population in the area of France's nuclear tests.Stephanie MillsStephanie Mills is Director of Campaigns at NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand's largest education union. She worked in the 1990s as Greenpeace's Pacific nuclear test ban campaigner until France declared an end to testing at Moruroa in 1995. She has since worked as Greenpeace International's nuclear and disarmament coordinator and most recently chaired the board of Greenpeace New Zealand/Aotearoa.Rebecca PriestleyRebecca Priestley is Associate Professor at the Centre for Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She has published widely in the history of science and science communication, with an emphasis on climate change, sea level rise, and nuclear issues. Her latest book is Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica (Victoria University Press, 2019).David RobieDavid Robie is Professor of Communication Studies and Pacific Journalism and Director of the Pacific Media Centre-Te Amokura in the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Professor Robie has authored several books on the Pacific region, indigenous struggles for independence and environmental and developmental issues. He is the author of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior. Originally published in 1986, the book’s 30th-anniversary edition appeared in 2015 (Little Island Press, NZ). He was on board the ship as a journalist for almost 11 weeks leading up to the bombing.Alistair WattsAlistair Watts is a recent graduate of Massey University, New Zealand. His PhD thesis, ''Options and opportunities for New Zealand and France 1918-1935: Les Liaisons dangereuses?'' explores aspects of New Zealand’s evolving ambivalent relationship with France, as the nominally independent post-colonial state, New Zealand tried to reconcile the new post-war world order with membership of the British Empire.Briony NeilsonBriony Neilson is a sessional academic in History at the University of Sydney and is affiliated with the CNRS lab 'Centre pour les humanités numériques et l'histoire de la justice' in Paris. She has published widely on the history of crime and criminal justice in nineteenth-century France, including the history of juvenile justice reform and the entangled histories of British and French convict transportation and penal colonialism in Oceania. She is also Editor of French History & Civilization.Alexis BergantzAlexis Bergantz is a Lecturer in Global and Language Studies at RMIT University. His research focuses on Franco-Australian history, the French Pacific and New Caledonia. He is currently writing a book for New South Publishing on the history of the idea of French culture in Australia in the nineteenth century. He is currently preparing an exhibition on the history of the French penal colony in New Caledonia in collaboration with Dr Briony Neilson and the Musée du Bagne in Noumea.Sarah MilesSarah K. Miles is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her dissertation research focuses on radical leftist publication networks and the global history of solidarity in the francophone world, centered on exchanges between France, Quebec, and Algeria in the 1960s and 1970s.Claire RioultClaire Rioult is agrégée d’histoire and a doctoral candidate at Monash University and the University of Warwick. Her research explores the role played by diplomatic and consular agents in the commercial competition waged by Britain and France on the Spanish market between 1783 and 1808.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).Corinne GressangCorinne Gressang will be an Assistant Professor at Erskine College beginning this fall. Her dissertation research focuses on the identity and the dissolution of convents during the French Revolution.Marina OrtizMarina Ortiz is a doctoral candidate at the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. Her dissertation research focuses on counterrevolutionary material and visual culture.Daniel ArenasDaniel Arenas is a doctoral student in the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution under Dr. Rafe Blaufarb. His research focuses on the Napoleonic occupation of Spain from 1808-1814, specifically the political structure of the attempted Bonapartist state.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).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).