H-France Salon, Volume 15 (2023)

Volume 15, Issue 18

Webinar: “Sima Godfrey, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
NCFS Unbound (Season 4, Episode 3)

Sima Godfrey (emerita University of British Columbia) discusses her new book, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot, with Judith Miller of Emory University. This conversation was recorded on December 1, 2023.

Video available Here.

The schedule of past and future episodes is here: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

For more information about this series, contact organizers Masha Belenky, Susan McCready, and Rachel Mesch at ncfsbookseries@gmail.com.

Volume 15, Issue 17

Webinar: “Cheryl Krueger, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France
NCFS Unbound (Season 4, Episode 1)

Season 4 of NCFS Unbound opens with Cheryl Krueger of the University of Virginia spoke about her new book, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France with Holly Dugan of George Washington University on October 13, 2023.

Video available Here.

The schedule of past and future episodes is here: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

For more information about this series, contact organizers Masha Belenky, Susan McCready, and Rachel Mesch at ncfsbookseries@gmail.com.

Volume 15, Issue 16

Webinar: “Sharon Larson, Resurrecting Jane de la Vaudére
NCFS Unbound (Season 3, Episode 7)

In the last episode of Season 3, recorded on May 11, 2023, Sharon Larson of Christopher Newport University discusses her new book, Resurrecting Jane de la Vaudère, Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Époque with Margot Irvine of the University of Guelph.

Video available Here.

The schedule of past and future episodes is here: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

For more information about this series, contact organizers Masha Belenky, Susan McCready, and Rachel Mesch at ncfsbookseries@gmail.com.

Volume 15, Issue 15

Webinar: “Michael Rosenfeld, William Peniston, and Clive Thomson discuss The Italian Invert
NCFS Unbound (Season 3, Episode 6)

Listen as Michael Rosenfeld, William Peniston, and Clive Thomson talk about their new book, The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola with Brian Martin.  This conversation was recorded on April 28, 2023.

Video available Here.

The schedule of past and future episodes is here: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

For more information about this series, contact organizers Masha Belenky, Susan McCready, and Rachel Mesch at ncfsbookseries@gmail.com.

Volume 15, Issue 14

Webinar: “Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee in conversation with Andrea Goulet”
NCFS Unbound (Season 3, Episode 5)

Tune in to Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee (all of Brigham Young University) in conversation with Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania). They discuss Belnap, Cropper and Lee’s new book, Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France. They spoke on March 10, 2023.

Video available Here.

The schedule of past and future episodes is here: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

For more information about this series, contact organizers Masha Belenky, Susan McCready, and Rachel Mesch at ncfsbookseries@gmail.com.

Volume 15, Issue 13

Webinar: “Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust”
NCFS Unbound (Season 3, Episode 4)

On Friday, February 10, 2023, Melanie Conroy of the University of Memphis spoke about her new book, Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust with Anne O’Neil Henry of Georgetown University.

Video available Here.

The schedule of past and future episodes is here: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

For more information about this series, contact organizers Masha Belenky, Susan McCready, and Rachel Mesch at ncfsbookseries@gmail.com.

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

Video

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

Video

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