23rd George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation
(Version en français ci-dessous)
The George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation, previously advertised for early July 2022, will be conducted online. We welcome offers of 20-minute papers, in English or in French. The conference has no specific themes and welcomes papers on all aspects of French and Francophone history, from the Middle Ages to the present. Offers of panels (comprising 3 or 4 individually recorded papers and – if desired – discussion) will also be welcome.
The due date for offers of papers is 15 April 2022.
The George Rudé Seminar is the premier conference in French historical and cultural studies in the southern hemisphere. Held every second year, in Australia or New Zealand, it recognises the contribution of George Rudé to the study of French history and culture in Australasia and internationally. Each conference produces a peer-reviewed selection of papers in the journal French History and Civilization, published free and online through H-France. Please see our website for further information on the George Rudé Society and earlier conferences.
Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be sent to GRS2022-SOPHIS@monash.edu together with a 100-word bio., including name and professional affiliation.
Presenters whose papers are accepted will be asked to pre-record them, using Zoom, and to send them by 6 June 2022. They will be posted online over the first 3 weeks of July. Papers will be grouped into panels, and wherever possible, we will arrange for live discussion of the papers.
In addition to the prerecorded papers, there will be a number of streamed keynote lectures and discussion sessions. Confirmed keynote speakers for the 23rd George Rudé Seminar are:
Christopher Forth, Professor of History and the Dean’s Professor of Humanities at the University of Kansas. He has written, among other works, The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004), has co-edited (with Bertrand Taithe) French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics (2007) and (with Eleanor Accampo) Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender (2010). His most recent book is Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life (2019).
Constant Mews, Emeritus Professor, Monash University, who has written widely on medieval history, including The Lost Love Letters of Héloïse and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (1999), French translation La voix d’Héloïse. Un dialogue de deux amants (2005), and Abelard and Heloise (2005). His edited books and articles cover many aspects of medieval thought, but also music, spirituality, preaching and advice literature, the history of women and that of emotions.
Penny Roberts, Professor of History, University of Warwick. Penny is the author of Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars, c. 1560-1600 (2013), co-editor with Graeme Murdock and Andrew Spicer of Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France (2012); with Mark Levene and Rob Johnson, of History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (2010); and with Keith Cameron and Mark Greengrass, of The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early Modern France (2000).
Noah Shusterman (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Noah’s most recent book is Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment (2020). He has also written The French Revolution: Faith, Desire and Politics (2014) and Religion and the Politics of Time: Holidays from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2010), along with several important articles on the French Revolution.
Information on registration and the dates of keynote lectures will be posted closer to the event here.
General inquiries can be sent to GRS2022-SOPHIS@monash.edu
Organizing committee: Alexis Bergantz, David Garrioch, Julie Kalman, Una McIlvenna, Tim Verhoeven
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23e colloque George Rudé in French History and Civilisation
Le colloque George Rudé se tiendra en distanciel en juillet 2022. Nous sollicitons des propositions de communications de vingt minutes, en français ou en anglais. Le colloque n’a pas de thèmes spécifiques, et accueille des communications sur tout aspect de l’histoire française et francophone, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Elles peuvent être individuelles ou en panel de 3 ou de 4 communications préenregistrées. D’autres formats (tables rondes, etc.) sont également possibles.
Le colloque George Rudé rassemble des spécialistes de l’histoire et de la culture françaises venant du monde entier. Il est dédié à la mémoire de George Rudé et à sa contribution à l’étude en Australasie de l’histoire et la culture de la France. Depuis 2006, une sélection des communications (revues par les pairs) paraît dans French History and Civilization, publiée sur le site de H-France.
Les propositions de communications, comprenant un titre, un resumé d’environ 1600 signes, et une notice bio-bibliographique d’environ 700 signes, sont à envoyer au plus tard le 15 avril 2022 à GRS2022-SOPHIS@monash.edu
Nous informerons rapidement chaque participant de l’acceptation de sa communication. Nous lui demanderons ensuite de l’enregistrer, en utilisant de préférence le logiciel Zoom, et de nous l’envoyer au plus tard le 6 juin 2022. Les communications seront mises en ligne, à la disposition des personnes inscrites au colloque, au cours des trois premières semaines de juillet. Nous envisageons des discussions en ligne des panels, suivant la disponibilité des participants.
Le colloque comprendra également plusieurs conférences invitées et tables rondes, qui seront disponibles en direct, par Zoom.
Les conférenciers principaux du 23ème George Rudé Seminar incluent :
Christopher Forth, professeur à l’University of Kansas. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages, y compris The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004); Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender, co-dirigé avec Eleanor Accampo (2010); et French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics (2007), co-dirigé avec Bertrand Taithe. Son livre le plus récent est Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life (2019).
Constant Mews, professeur emerite d’histoire à Monash University. Il a écrit et dirigé de nombreux ouvrages, y compris La voix d’Héloïse. Un dialogue de deux amants (2005, 1re édition en anglais, 1999) ; et Abelard and Heloise (2005). Ses articles portent sur beaucoup d’aspects de la pensée médiévale, y compris la théologie et la spiritualité, mais également sur la musique, la pédagogie, et l’histoire des femmes et celle des émotions.
Penny Roberts, professeure à l’University of Warwick. Elle a publié Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars, c. 1560-1600 (2013); Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France, co-dirigé avec Graeme Murdock et Andrew Spicer (2012); History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure, co-dirigé avec Mark Levene et Rob Johnson (2010); et The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early Modern France (2000), co-dirigé avec Keith Cameron et Mark Greengrass.
Noah Shusterman, professeur à la Chinese University of Hong Kong. Il est l’auteur de Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment (2020); The French Revolution: Faith, Desire and Politics (2014); et Religion and the Politics of Time: Holidays from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2010); ainsi que d’importants articles sur l’histoire de la Révolution française.
D’autres détails seront bientôt disponibles ici.
Pour toute question, s’addresser à GRS2022-SOPHIS@monash.edu
Le comité d’organisation : Alexis Bergantz (RMIT University), David Garrioch (Monash University), Julie Kalman (Monash University), Una McIlvenna (University de Melbourne), Tim Verhoeven (Monash University).