Volume 7, Issue 20
“The Scholary Critique”
H-France Practices and Standards
David Kammerling Smith, H-France Editor-in-Chief, Eastern Illinois University, “H-France Review: Policies, Procedures, and a Bit of History”
The Scholarly Critique: Some Historical Perspective
Ann Blair, Harvard University, “Scholarly Critique in Early Modern Europe”
John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University, “The Lamentations of Jameson and Clio’s ‘Critical Eye’”
Michael Christofferson, Adelphi University, “Scholarly Critique in the Twenty-First Century”
The Scholarly Critique: Personal Experiences
Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara, “A Personal Perspective on Book Reviewing”
G. Matthew Adkins, Columbus State Community College, “Fear and Loathing at the H-France Review Publication Desk: Nausée and the Hostile Review”
Reviewing Across Boundaries
Daniel Brewer, University of Minnesota, “The Bounds of Critique, Critique out of Bounds”
Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam, “Un métier, mais des pratiques différentes”
Colin Jones, Queen Mary College, University of London, “Cat Massacres, the Jones Conundrum, and Peer Review”
Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, “Scholarly Critique between Institution and Interpretation”
The Scholarly Critique: Reflections on Practices and Ethics
Nancy Green, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, “‘How violently the hands of even very senior figures shook’: Peer Review between Encomium and Invective”
Maurice Samuels, Yale University, “Reviewing Across Disciplines”
Dominique Kalifa, Université Panthéon – Sorbonne /Institut Universitaire de France, “Le compte rendu, une « police scientifique » ?”
David Bell, Princeton University, “In Defense of Criticism”
Margaret Atack, University of Leeds, “Criticism and Critique: A View from French Studies”
The Scholarly Critique: Editors’ Perspectives, a conversation
A conversation between:
Michael Wolfe, H-France Review Chief Review Editor, Queen’s College, CUNY
Penny Roberts, French History, Co-Editor, University of Warwick
Robert Schneider, American Historical Review, Former Editor, Indiana University
Video available HERE
Volume 7, Issue 19
Workshop: “Teaching from Objects”
Workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 7, 2015
Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
Volume 7, Issue 18
“Eastern Exchanges: France in the Eighteenth-Century East”
Panel Session at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2015
Chair: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University
Julia M. Gossard, University of Texas, Austin, “Jeunes de Langues: French Children in the Ottoman Empire”
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Keith Luria, North Carolina State University, “Building a Global Catholic Community in Seventeenth-Century France and Vietnam”
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Ashley Bruckbauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Ambassadors, Missionaries, and Converts: Picturing Religious Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Images of Diplomatic Exchanges”
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Commentary by Steven Rowe, Chicago State University
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Volume 7, Issue 17
“Intellectual Exchanges: Gender, Identity, and Embodiment Before, During, and After the Dreyfus Affair”
Panel Session at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2015
Chair: Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State University
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester, “Maxims to Keep in the Current Crisis”: Gender, Politics, and Pedagogy during the Dreyfus Affair”
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Elizabeth Everton (Margaret Zirbel, co-author), Concordia University, “A Republic of Letters for the Anti-Enlightenment: The Henry Subscription (December 1898 – January 1899)”
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Eric Brandom, Kansas State University, “Embodied Reason in French Philosophy around 1900: Emile Durkheim and the Liberal Revue de métaphysique et de morale”
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Commentary by Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California
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Volume 7, Issue 16
“‘Foreign’ Food in Contemporary France”
Panel Session at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2015
Chair: Julia Landweber, Montclair State University
Ben Poole, Texas Tech University, “The Politics of the Grain: Couscous in Post-Colonial France”
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Erica J. Peters, Culinary Historians of Northern California, “A Vietnamese Soup in France: From Soupe Tonkinoise to Soupe Nationale”
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Leora Auslander, University of Chicago, “Why Vegetarian Food in School Cafeterias is a Problem: Food and Frenchness in the 21st Century”
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Commentary by Lauren Janes, Hope College
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Volume 7, Issue 15
“Donald A. Bailey, 1940-2015“
Robert Young, University of Winnipeg
Volume 7, Issue 14
“The Robespierre Problem”
Edited by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne
Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne, “The Robespierre Problem: An Introduction”
David Andress, University of Portsmouth, “The Robespierre Problem”
Marisa Linton, Kingston University, “The Choices of Maximilien Robespierre”
Michel Biard, GRHis, Normandie Université, Rouen, “Robespierre pris au piège des mécanismes d’épuration politique”
Hervé Leuwers, Université Lille 3 – UMR IRHiS, “Aux origines du « problème » Robespierre: l’historien face à ses interrogations”
Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London and Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne, “The Robespierre Problem: A Conversation”
Volume 7, Issue 13
“New Directions: French Scholarship on Early Modern France”
Edited by Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Introduction”
Conference Presentations at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montreal, QC, April 25, 2014
Hugues Daussy, “Écrire une Histoire Politique de la Reforme française”
Claire Chatelain, “Positions and Roles dans la Parente”
Elie Haddad, “Une histoire sociale de la noblesse française”
Commentary by audience
Anglophone Written Commentaries
James C. Collins, Georgetown University, “Calm waters”
Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, “Family, self-expression and defense of the faith”
Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, “Microclimates”
Michael P. Breen, Reed College, “Concluding Remarks”
Volume 7, Issue 12
“Stanley Hoffman, 1928-2015”
Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University
Volume 7, Issue 11
“Teaching the World Wars in France: New Approaches and Ideas”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Bruno Cabanes, Ohio State University, “Teaching the Cultural History of World War I”
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Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Global History in a National Space: France as a Transnational Space, 1914-1918”
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Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Épinal Project: Researching the Lives of American GIs Buried in Epinal Military Cemetery”
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Mary Louise Roberts, additional written comments on “The Épinal Project”
Commentary by audience
Volume 7, Issue 10
“Complicating the Narrative: Teaching the Algerian War”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Chair: Frédéric Viguier, New York University
Jessica Hammerman, Central Oregon Community College, “And What Is the Jewish Perspective on the War?”
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Lindsay Kaplan, New York University, “The Third Way: The Beur Novel and the Search for Identity”
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Commentary by James LeSueur, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Volume 7, Issue 9
Roundtable: “Piketty in Historical Perspective”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015
Moderator: Geoff Read, Huron University College
Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma, “Culture, Capital, and Thomas Piketty’s Le capital au XXIe siècle (2013)”
Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University, “From Malthus to Piketty: Demography and Inequality in Political Economy”
Venus Bivar, Washington University in St. Louis, “Piketty and the Promise of Postwar Growth”
Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University, “Sully Redivivus? Piketty and the Deep History of French Political Economy”
Commentary by the audience
Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Volume 7, Issue 8
“Learning from the Courte Durée: Moments in Mediterranean Environmental History”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015
Chair: Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Horan, Colorado School of Mines, “The Pyrenean Cotton Boom: Acclimatization and Modernization in Napoleonic France”
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Cindy Ermus, Florida Southwestern State College, “The Peste of Provence and the Centralization of Crisis Management in the Early Eighteenth Century”
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Joshua Meeks, Florida State University, “Resources and Revolution: The Struggle for Corsican Timber”
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Commentary by Susan Carol Rogers, New York University
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Volume 7, Issue 7
“Victims, Compensation, Melancholy: Shaping the Legacies of Revolution and Violence in France, 1794-1799”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015
Chair: David Garrioch, Monash University
Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London, “Maximilien Robespierre, Melancholic Victim of his own Virtue?”
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Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley, University of Exeter, “The Victim Strikes Back? Print Culture after the Terror in France, 1794-1799”
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Commentary by Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
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Volume 7, Issue 6
“Mediterranean France”
Panel Session at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Chair, Susan Ashley, Colorado College
Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California, “Mediterranean French Modern: The Trans-Imperial Life of Abraham Ankawa, 1810- 1890”
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Ethan Katz, University of Cincinnati, “Making Mediterranean Spaces: Jews, Muslims, and Mainland France Between the Wars”
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Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, “Jean Scelles and the Myth of a Trans-Mediterranean ‘Traite des Blanches,’ 1962-1979”
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Commentary by Naomi Davidson, University of Ottawa
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Volume 7, Issue 5
Plenary Luncheon: “Critical Education Yesterday and Today”
Plenary Luncheon at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2015
Introduction, by Dennis McEnnerney, Colorado College
Critical Education Yesterday and Today, by François Cusset, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Volume 7, Issue 4
“Thing of the Day”
Presented by Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
The use of material culture as evidence has a long and honorable history among scholars of France. The last two decades has, however, seen a resurgence of interest in its possibilities. Inspired by this renewed interest, the Society for French Historical Studies conference at Colorado College in April 2015 featured a plenary session entitled “Teaching from Objects.” Envisaging a workshop format, we invited participants to bring an object that had given them insight into a problem or question in French history that they had used successfully in the classroom or an object that intrigued them but that they could not figure out how to interpret or teach. The session was very well-attended and discussion so lively that we could barely begin to talk about the objects people had brought.
We will be having a follow-up workshop at the Western Society for French History Meetings in Chicago in November and hope that, along with many new participants, those who came to the first will join in this one. (We promise to be better organized so that more things can be discussed!)
Looking forward to that session, and building on the workshop in Colorado, we have put out a call for a “Thing of the Day” post, which will be presented as part of H-France Salon. Each “Thing of the Day” post will include images and a description of a “Thing” and a discussion blog so that individuals can join a conversation about the “Thing.”
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Volume 7, Issue 3
“Peter Gay, A Remembrance”
David Avrom Bell, Princeton University
Volume 7, Issue 2
“Considering Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
Edited by Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta
Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta, “Introduction”
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology, “Historians should pay much more attention to what people do and perhaps pay a little less to what they say or think”
Richard Kuisel, Georgetown University, “What can Capital in the Twenty-First Century teach French historians? Beaucoup”
Patrice Baubeau, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, IDHES, “History really enters the picture”
Mary O. Furner, University of California at Santa Barbara, “A major contribution to public philosophy”
Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta, “Interview of Thomas Piketty”
Volume 7, Issue 1
“Marriage Equality in Contemporary France”
A Collaboration between Contemporary French Civilization
and H-France
Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University
In its December 2014 issue, Contemporary French Civilization published a special forum entitled “Au-delà du mariage: De l’égalité des droits à la critique des normes” guest edited by Éric Fassin and Daniel Borrillo. In collaboration with Contemporary French Civilization, H-France developed an issue of H-France Salon to further the discussion over the issues raised in CFC. In order to facilitate this collaboration, Liverpool University Press has kindly agreed to make freely available until March 21, 2015, Éric Fassin’s article “Same-sex marriage, nation, and race: French political logics and rhetorics” from the CFC special issue.
This issue of H-France Salon contains two pieces:
Carolyn Dean, Yale University, “Marriage for All—Theory of Gender for All: A Response to Éric Fassin’s ‘Same-Sex Marriage, Nation, and Race: French Political Logics and Rhetorics’”
A response to Éric Fassin’s essay that seeks to clarify its arguments and offer broad comparisons
Denis Provencher, CFC Editor-in-Chief, “Interview with Éric Fassin”
Interview includes Fassin’s thoughts on his own essay, Carolyn Dean’s response, and the CFC special issue.