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‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Twenty-Second Annual Conference
Aberystwyth University, 3-4 July 2008
Day One: 3 July 2008
8:30-9:10 – Coffee & Registration
9:10-10:40 – First parallel sessions
1(a) France abroad. 1(b) Confrontation in the Mediterranean.
1(c) Republican cultures and the politics of confrontation.
Aurelie Chabrier (Université Toulouse II), ‘France and Persia in the 17P
thP century: history of a
paradigm’.
Martin Thomas (University of Exeter), ‘Empire between the two World Wars’.
Gabrielle Maas (Christ Church, Oxford), ‘Ideology versus the institution? Conflict between republican principles and multicultural demands in French state education’.
Gabriel Leanca (University of Iasi, Romania), ‘La France dans la querelle des Lieux Saints pendant les preliminaries diplomatiques de la guerre de Crimée: les ambitions bonapartistes ou la tradition catholique’.
Mathilde Von Bülow (University of Nottingham), ‘The French Foreign Legion in FLN propaganda during the Algerian war’, (provisional).
Elise Marie Moentmann (University of Portland), ‘Interwar Cultural Conflicts over French Cinema and Radio: The Impact of Sound Technology on Language Politics in Alsace and Moselle’.
Paul Douglas (Towson University), ‘Confronting French Deficiencies: Jacolliot’s Voyage to California’.
Jennifer Dueck (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘‘The Uses and Abuses of Fascism in Syria and Lebanon under the French Mandate’.
Guillaume Marceau (Concordia University), ‘Ernest Pezet: Parcours Atypique d’un Parlementaire français face à la propagande étatique’.
‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Day One: 3 July 2008 (cont)
11.00-12.30 – Second parallel sessions
2(a) Interwar Confrontations.
2(b) Politics of confrontation during the French Revolution.
2(c) Empire and affrontement.
2(d) Cultural affrontement in wartime France.
Chris Millington (Cardiff University), ‘Youth versus Age: The veteran challenge to the Republic, 1933-1939’.
William Doyle (University of Bristol), ‘Sieyès and the attack on Nobility in 1797’.
Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), ‘Colonial confrontation: heroics and horror in the commemoration of the conquest of Niger’.
Matt Perry (University of Newcastle), ‘Confronting Defeat: Amateur Ethnography of French Prisoners of War, 1940’.
Alison Carrol (University of Exeter), ‘Socialising the City: Competition over public spaces in Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse’.
Micah Alpaugh (University of California, Irvine), ‘Political Demonstrations in the French Revolution: Nonviolence and Violence in the Grands journées of 1789’.
Berny Sebe (Durham University), ‘Imperial confrontation: the ‘English argument’ of Third-Republic colonial advocates’.
Alison Appleby (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Networks and Narratives of French Resistance within Britain during World war two’.
Michelle Perkins (University of Southampton), ‘Competition and Consensus: Women’s Municipal Social Action in Interwar France’.
Roger Duck (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Local Government versus National Government during the directoire: the Example of the Bas-Languedoc’.
Pamela Pilbeam (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘‘Prolétaires’ becoming ‘propriétaires’? Emigrants meet the army in Algeria in 1848’.
Ludivine Broche (Brasenose College, Oxford), ‘Confronting the German Occupation: Practical Jokes, Humour and Irony’.
12:30-13:40 – Lunch
13.40-14.40 – First Plenary: Patricia Lorcin, ‘Paradoxical Lives: Nostalgia, Modernity, and Race in European Women’s Writing in Colonial Algeria’.
‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Day One: 3 July 2008 (cont)
14.50-16.20 – Third parallel sessions
3(a) Post-war paradigms. 3(b) War and militarization.
3(c) Regional dynamics in the Enlightenment period.
3(d) Memory and identity in the nineteenth century.
Éric Dussault (Université York (Canada)/École Normale Supérieur Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon), ‘Saint-Germain-des-Prés: un microcosme en ébullition après la Seconde Guerre mondiale’.
William Philpott (King’s College London), ‘Confronting the British on the Battlefield: The 1916 Somme Offensive’.
Tabetha Ewing (Bard College), ‘Subject, citizenship, and extradition’.
Isabel DiVanna (Newnham College, Cambridge), ‘French Identity in France and Outside: textbooks, race and the new colonial experience (1870-1914)’.
Helen Parr (University of Keele), ‘De Gaulle and Harold Wilson: France’s second rejection of Britain’s application for EEC membership in 1967’.
Jonathan Krause (King’s College London), ‘Le Cambrai Français: Anglo-French Relations in May, 1915’.
Fabien Salesse (Université de Toulouse II), ‘Entre enjeux nationaux et intérêts régionaux: Montferrand et Riom dans l’Auvergne des guerres de Religion’.
Karine Varley (University of Edinburgh), ‘“En 1940 Bazaine a réussi” (Marc Bloch): Memories of l’année terrible in perceptions of the defeat of 1940’.
Caitlin McMullin (London School of Economics), ‘Why May 1968? Mobilization and Political Opportunity of the “May Movement”’.
Chris Pearson (University of Bristol), ‘Confronting Humans and Nonhumans in French Militarized Landscapes’.
Laurent Jalobert (Université Nancy 2), ‘Catholics and Protestants on the left bank of the Rhine: Rights, confessions and religious coexistence from 1648 to 1789’.
Claire Eldridge (University of St Andrews), ‘When history and memory collide: Benjamin Stora, the Pied-Noir community, and guerres de mémoire in France’.
16.20-16.45 – Coffee
‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Day One: 3 July 2008 (cont)
16.45-18.15 – Fourth parallel sessions
4(a) France and international relations between the wars.
4(b) Intellectuals, radicalism and the Republic.
4(c) Social confrontation during the 1960s and 1970s.
4(d) Satire, anarchism and the politics of representation.
Andrew Webster (Murdoch University), ‘The Political Dynamics of French Engagement with the League of Nations’.
Julian Wright (Durham University), ‘Beyond confrontation: young intellectuals and the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair’.
Didier Francfort (Université Nancy 2), ‘Chansons, politique et conflits dans la France des années 1960 et 1970’.
Laura O’Brien (University College Dublin), ‘‘Behold the new barbarians: dealing with the June Days in the satirical press, 1848’.
Daniel Hucker (Aberystwyth University), ‘Is it us who have need of Russia? Or is it Russia who has need of us?: The French Press and the 1939 Anglo-Franco-Soviet Negotiations’.
Dawn Dodds (St John’s College, Cambridge), ‘Accusing the State of Violence: Radical defenses in court in nineteenth-century France’.
Michaël Rolland (Université Nancy 2), ‘Gauchisme et contre-cultures: divergences et conflits’.
Jessica Wardhaugh (Christ Church, Oxford), ‘Between Sabotage and the Sublime: Anarchist Culture in Belle Époque Paris’.
Martin Laberge (Université de Québec en Outaouais), ‘The French Navy and Franco-British relations in the Mediterranean, 1930-1939’.
Uta Protz (European University Institute, Florence), ‘Royalist Ambition vs. Republican Defence: France’s Cathedrals and the Formulation of the Loi du 31 décembre 1913 sur les monuments historiques’.
Agnieszka Szmidt (Université Nancy 2), ‘Un cas de censure: Le Château de Cène (1969) de Bernard Noël’.
Helen Graham (University College Dublin), ‘Sex, Death, and Self-representation: The Case of François Bertrand, the Vampire of Montparnasse’.
18.30-19.40 – Second Plenary: Maurice Vaïsse, ‘L’affrontement franco-américaine de De Gaulle à J Chirac’.
19.50-20.25 – SSFH AGM (Society members only)
19.45-20.30 – Drinks
20.30-00.00 – Conference Dinner
‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Day Two: 4 July 2008
09:00-10:30 – Fifth parallel sessions
5(a) Scenes of confrontation during the Occupation, Vichy and beyond.
5(b) Identity, the aristocracy and cultural representation.
5(c) Nature and classicism in the French Revolution.
5(d) Confrontation and Social Order.
Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews), ‘Debating French imperial futures at the Liberation: the Comité de l’Afrique du Nord and the failure of consensus, 1943-47’.
Elizabeth C. Macknight (University of Aberdeen), ‘Aristocratic Manhood: Honour and the Military Formation of French Noblemen, 1870–1920’.
Dan Edelstein (Stanford University), ‘The Jacobin Republic of Nature’.
Berengere Moulin (Université de Toulouse II), ‘L’enfance aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Enjeu des confrontations familiales, religieuses et politiques’.
Kenneth Mouré (University of California, Santa Barbara), ‘Law and Disorder: The faux policier in Occupied Paris’.
Sophie Heywood (University of Edinburgh), ‘La comtesse de Ségur: Reading the Nation’s Grandmother’.
Mary Ashburn Miller (John Hopkins University), ‘Nature Returned to Itself: The Mountain and the Swamp in Revolutionary Rhetoric’.
Emmanuelle Chaze (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘French Huguenots abroad: being a stranger in Ireland, 17th – 18th century’.
Daniel Lee (St Hugh’s College, Oxford), ‘Jewish Youth under Vichy: Les Éclaireurs Israélites de France’.
Rebecca De Roo (Washington University in St. Louis), ‘The Aesthetics of Confrontation: Agnes Varda's One Sings, The Other Doesn't’.
Marisa Linton (Kingston University), ‘The Role of Antiquity in the Political Trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just’.
Sophie Vergnes (Université de Toulouse II), ‘‘Le duc et la duchesse de Bouillon contre le cardinal Mazarin pendant la Fronde des Princes: la guerre à trois ou les stratégies conjugales de l’opposition’.
‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Day Two: 4 July 2008 (cont)
10:30-10.55 – Coffee
10.55-12.25 – Sixth parallel sessions 6(a) Cultural affrontements in the Enlightenment period.
6(b) French diplomacy in the era of the Great War.
6(c) Cultural confrontations in Revolutionary France.
6(d) Dynamics of confrontation in pre-1500 France.
Margaret Carlyle (McGill University), ‘Contemplating the Canon through Cadavers: Women’s Knowledge Creation in the French Enlightenment’.
Robert Young (University of Winnipeg), ‘Family Feuds: Mandarins, Academics, and Ambassador Jules Jusserand’.
Eric Johnson (Kutztown University), ‘Saints and Soldiers: The Fabrication of Martyrdom in Revolutionary Avignon, 1793-94’.
Justine Firnhaber-Baker (All Soul’s College, Oxford), ‘Violent Confrontations: ‘Private’ War and Royal Government in Later Medieval Languedoc’.
Jeff Burson (Macon State College), ‘Rotting Carcass or Center of Catholic Enlightenment?: The Costs and Consequences of Theological Renewal and Enlightenment at the Sorbonne, 1729-1750’.
Lora Gibson (Aberystwyth University), ‘Confronting the Security Dilemma: France and the Question of International Sanctions during the 1920s’.
Isobel Brooks (Kingston University), ‘Bienfaisance and empowerment in Old Regime and Revolutionary France’.
Melissa Pollock (University College Dublin), ‘Sons, Stepfathers, and Kings: Dynastic Confrontations, legitimacy and the politics of power in late twelfth-century Brittany’.
Maria Neklyudova (Russian State University of Humanities), ‘How to write a history of Louis XIV: La Beaumelle vs. Voltaire’.
Peter Jackson (Aberystwyth University), ‘The Social Universe of the Quai d’Orsay in the Era of the First World War’.
Matthew Adkins (City University of New York), ‘Revolutionary Culture War: The Education Reform Debates in the National Assembly’.
Tania Colwell (Australian National University), ‘Confronting historical discontinuity: Guillaume l’Archevêque’s patronage of the poetic Mélusine romance (c.1400)’.
‘Confrontations/Affrontements’
Day Two: 4 July 2008 (cont)
12.30 – 13.30 – Third Plenary: Rob Schneider, ‘Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of Richelieu’.
13:30-14:40 – Buffet Lunch
14:40-16:10 – Seventh parallel sessions
7(a) Confronting the occupation: An international perspective.
7(b) Social confrontation and politico-economic culture.
7(c) Confrontation and the politics of identity.
Martin Horn (McMaster University), ‘A tale of two banks: Morgan, Chase & Occupied France’.
David Todd (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘The “Englishness” of free trade: the reception of liberal ideas about international trade and the making of modern French politico-economic culture, 1814-1851’.
Junko Thérèse Takeda (Syracuse University), ‘Foreigners into Frenchmen: Citizenship and Commerce in Early Modern Marseille’.
Talbot Imlay (Université Laval), ‘American Assets in Occupied France: The German View’.
Marie-Claire Vitoux (Université de Haute-Alsace), ‘La confrontation sociale au XIX P
ème
Psiècle: Manchester Vs Mulhouse?’
Maximilian Owre (University of North Carolina), ‘Post-Revolutionary Division and Fictional Dialogues in Restoration France’.
Andrew Barros (Université de Québec à Montréal) ‘Different Maps, Different Peace: Britain, the United States, and France, 1918-1920’.
Pascal Raggi (Université Nancy 2), ‘L’Etat face aux mineurs en France: entre contestation syndicale des politiques gouvernementales et gestion sociale de la disparition de l’activité minière (années 1960-années 2000)’.
Jonathan Smyth (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Creating a Revolutionary Festival – how did the designers and construction engineers confront the practical problems? The example of the Festival of the Supreme Being in June 1794’.