Volume 15, Issue 12
“Enabling Curiosity & Starting Careers: Honoring the Retirement of James R. Farr”
Edited by:
Chris Corley, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Edward Gray, IR* Huma-Num (CNRS) / DARIAH-EU / Ecole nationale des chartes
In May 2020, as the world remained within the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, James R. Farr retired from his position as Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History at Purdue University. Due to his contributions to the discipline and his inspiring teaching and friendship developed with many of his graduate students over the years, his students subsequently decided to honor him with a modest series of essays in H-France. We believe this setting is most fitting because Jim was one of the early advocates and architects of H-France in the 1990s. These pieces emerged from a Retirement Symposium held in his honor in April 2021, hosted online by the Department of History at Purdue University.
“Introduction”
Chris Corley, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Edward Gray, IR* Huma-Num (CNRS) / DARIAH-EU / Ecole nationale des chartes
“Becoming a Historian and Walking Through Burgundy’s Vineyards”
Mack P. Holt
George Mason University
“Jim Farr and French Historical Studies“
John J. Contreni
Purdue University
“Work on the Margins: Rags and Ragpickers—Some Thoughts on Recycling as a Dimension of the Industrious/Industrial Revolutions”
Dean Ferguson
Texas A&M-Kingsville
“The Making of Credit and Debt in Pre-Industrial France”
Elise Dermineur
Stockholm University
“The Alchemical Order: The Social World and the Cosmos of Jean d’Espagnet”
Alexander S. Dessens
Platte River Academy
“Louis de Marillac’s Genealogy of 1625: The Importance of Lineage in Seventeenth-Century France (and in Twenty-First-Century Academia)”
Edward Gray
IR* Huma-Num (CNRS) / DARIAH-EU / Ecole nationale des chartes
“Response to the Forum”
James R. Farr
Purdue University
Volume 15, Issue 11
Webinar: The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Reflections in Covid Era
June 9, 2023
Moderator: Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
In this webinar, Cindy Ermus (University of Texas, San Antonio) discusses her recently published book, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and its implications for today with panelists Junko Takeda (Syracuse University), Jessie Hewitt (University of Redlands), Sara Black (Christopher Newport University) and a live audience.
Video available HERE
Volume 15, Issue 10
“Dividing up the Past: Thinking about Periodization in Medieval and Early Modern Francophone History”
Edited by:
Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, University of Vermont
For scholars who study the eras traditionally classified as medieval and early modern, concerns around periodization—how we divide and label the past—are particularly complicated and fraught. Periodization is deeply ingrained in academic life, but traditional divisions are problematic, obscuring as much as they reveal. While current modes of periodization lie in the history of history, interdisciplinarity and the widening of the historical and regional lens have implications for how we think about the slicing up of our historical past. The editors for this special issue, Christine Adams (Department of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland) and Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (Department of Romance Languages and Culture, University of Vermont) invited a diverse group of medieval and early modern scholars to discuss the ways in which these concerns about periodization affect their own work. This salon reflects the fruits of that exchange. These nine essays challenge us to reconsider traditional modes of periodization and to play with the boundaries—temporal and geographical—that shape our understanding of the past.
“Introduction to H-France Salon on Dividing up the Past: Thinking about Periodization in Medieval and Early Modern Francophone History”
Christine Adams (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) and Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (University of Vermont)
“Periodization and Publication in Premodern French History”
Kathryn A. Edwards
University of South Carolina
“La périodisation en histoire : une problématique modernité”
Éloïse Adde
Central European University, Vienna
“Entre Moyen Âge et époque moderne : pesanteur et ´épaisseur des différents « temps » historiques”
Indravati Félicité
Université de La Réunion
“Reflections on Periodization: the case for late medieval French literature”
Tracy Adams
University of Auckland
“Marco Polo and the Courte-Durée Global Middle Ages”
Sharon Kinoshita
University of California, Santa Cruz
“The Great Reversal: Fast Geology and Slow Humanities”
Phillip John Usher
New York University
“Western(ish): Periods and Maps”
Anna Klosowska
Miami University
“Entities out of Time”
Daniel Lord Smail
Harvard University
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