The 30th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History. “High and Low Culture – Elite and Popular Constructions”, 3-5 July 2016
University of Chichester – Department of History and Politics, College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, PO 19 6PE
Contacts: Dr Mark Bryant M.Bryant@chi.ac.uk; Professor Hugo Frey H.Frey@chi.ac.uk; Dr Andrew Smith Andrew.WM. Smith@ucl.ac.uk
Conference administrative contact - Alison Bell – Alison.Bell@chi.ac.uk
(Full panel chairs to follow)
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3 July 2016
Registration opens from 13.30.
1. 15.00-16.30
1. A. New Approaches to Emotion and Politics in the French Revolution
Marisa
Linton
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University of Kingston
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Two Women in Revolution: the Choices of Charlotte Robespierre and Elizabeth Le Bas after Thermidor Year II
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David
Andress
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University of Portsmouth
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High Sentiments and Low Emotions – the Affective Range of Debate in the French Revolutionary Assemblies, 1792/3
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Jacob Zobkiw
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University of Hull
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Serious Business: How to Laugh in the Terror, 1792-1794
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1. B. The Cultural and Gender Politics of Performance
Amanda Lee
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Washington University in St Louis
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Staging Queer Sexuality in Paris: Dance and Popular culture in the Belle Époque
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Illyana Karthas
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University of Missouri-Columbia
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A Nation (Re) Turns to Ballet: Renegotiating Ballet as a High Art in Early Twentieth-Century France
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Zakiya Adair
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College of New Jersey
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La Joie de Paris: Mapping Race, Gender and Nation on the Black Female Body in Popular Performance in Paris, France
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1.C. Algeria and the Algerian War of Decolonization
Itay
Lotem
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QM London
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Looking Back In Anger? The Very Different Resurgence of Memories of Colonial Torture in France and Britain
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Rachel
White
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Yale
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United Resistance? Christian Intellectuals and Youth Activists against Torture, 1954-62
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Xavier Guégan
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Winchester
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Writing History in the aftermath of Algeria’s Independence: La Revue d’Histoire et de Civilisation du Maghreb, 1966-1976
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Rabah Aissaoui
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Leicester
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Memory, History and National Belonging: the Discourse and Actions of the Jeunes Algériens movement in the early twentieth century in Algeria
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1. D. New Approaches to French Urban and Industrial History
Rebecca Shtasel
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Sussex
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Trade Unionism and Resistance in the Bréguet factory, Le Havre, 1936-1944
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Tom Beuamont
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Liverpool John Moores
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The ‘Moral Economy’ of the Workplace: Anonymous Denunciations and Communist Practice on the Interwar Railway Network
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Daniel Gordon
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Edge Hill University
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A Tale of Two New Towns: Planning, Transport and Social Inequality in Colomiers and Créteil During the Early Fifth Republic
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2. 17.30-18.30. Keynote plenary presentation by Professor Sylvie Lindeperg (Paris 1) "La voie des images : traces filmées de la Résistance ».
18.45- 19.45 Drinks reception
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4 July 2016
3. 9.15-10.45
3. A. Ancien Régime France
Anaïs Pedron
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QM London
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From Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni to Olympe de Gouges: the Models of Honest Men and Women
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Jonathan
Spangler
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Manchester Met.
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Loyalty to Place or Loyalty to Dynasty: Old and New Nobles and the Duchy of Lorraine
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Julia
Osman
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Mississippi State
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Of Officers and Men: Power Dynamics in the French army of the Old Regime
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3. B. Internal Colonialism
Andrew
Smith
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UCL
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The Last French Colony: The Global and the Local in the Languedoc, 1961-1981
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Alison
Carrol
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Brunel
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Paths to Frenchness: The Return of Alsace to France and the malaise alsacien, 1919-1939
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Harry Stopes
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UCL
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The Metropole of Textiles: Regionalism, Nationalism and Capitalist Cosmopolitanism at the Roubaix Exhibition, 1911.
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3. C. Boundary Making in Science and Medicine
Benoït
Pouget
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CNRS Aix-en Provence
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A Bottom up Public health strategy: the Sanitarisation of the “filles publiques” in Algiers and Marseille in the 19th century
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Aro
Velmet
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NYU
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Law, Science and Technology in Making Vietnamese Rice Wine French, 1890-1920
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Susannah
Wilson
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Warwick
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‘La fée brune’: Morphine and the French Cultural Imagination, 1870-1910
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3. D. Music History
James Arnold
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Birkbeck, London
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On Bat les Mains en Bâillant’: The Querelle des Bouffons and the Discovery of Boredom
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Jean Nicolas De Surmont
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Belgium
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Popular Song and its Popular Epithet
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Jonathan Smyth
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Birkbeck, London
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Popular music and verse in the culture of the early Revolution.
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4. 11.15-12.45
4. A. Intimacy, Race and Photography before and after the Liberation
Daniel Lee and Sandrine Sanos
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Sheffield/Texas A&M
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Collaborationists Looking for Love: Personal Ads in La Gerbe under the German Occupation
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Hanna
Diamond
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Cardiff
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Through the lens of Jean Dieuzaide: Visualizing the Liberation of Toulouse
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Johannes Heuman
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Uppsala
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Antiracism and Zionism after the Liberation of France
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4. B. French Gastronomy
Debra Kelly
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Westminster
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Cultural Hierarchies and the Practices and Challenges of French Gastronomy
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Ruth Cruickshank
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Royal Holloway London
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Questioning French Gastronomic Highs and Lows in a Changing Global Marketplace: Michel Houellebecq’s La Carte et le territoire (2010)
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Marion
Demossier
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Southampton
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Wine and Cultural Hierarchies : A Transnational Story?
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4.C. Intellectual and Political Elites in Medieval History
Christian Bratu
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Baylor
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Redefining Authorship and High Culture in French Medieval History- Writing
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Samuel Pollack
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Christ Church, Oxford
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Les larrons en foire s’entretenoyent: Criminality amongst the Officers of the Parlement of Toulouse, ca. 1490-1550
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Erika Graham-Goering
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University of York
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Recollections of Service and Joint rule in fourteenth-century Brittany
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4. D. Exiles and Protest in C18 and C19
Gabriel
Wick
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The New School
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The Colisée and the Exiles: Oppositional Representation during the Crisis of 1771-1772
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Tom
Stammers
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Durham
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The Orléans in Exile: Between Luxury and Liberalism 1848-70
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Noelle Plack
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Newman University
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The Politics of Consumption in Napoleonic France: Popular protest against the Droits Réunis
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4. E. Scientific Imaginations and Historicisms
Chris Manias
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King’s College London
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Constructing Lost Worlds: The Public Discussion of Palaeontological Knowledge in France, 1850-1900.
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Jessica Wardhaugh
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Warwick
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Frenchmen into Peasants: National and Popular Culture in the Third republic.
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Stewart McCain
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St Mary’s Twickenham
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Celtic Remnants and Civilizing Missions: Elites and Popular Culture in the Work of the Académie Celtique 1804-1813
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Elizabeth Macknight
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Aberdeen
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Cultural Property, Nobility, and the Heritage Industry in France
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12.45-13.15 Lunch
13.15-14.15 Working Lunch and the AGM for Society for the Study of French History
5. 14.15 - 15.15 Plenary: Professor Richard Golsan (Texas A&M)
Professor James B. Collins (Georgetown University, Washington)
6. 15.30 -17.00
6. A. C20: Intellectuals and Rights
Dan Callwood
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QM London
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The role of pornographic film in France’s gay liberation ‘moment’ 1968-82
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Marine Orain
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Birkbeck, London
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French Intellectuals and New Media: the Democratization of “engagement”
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Merve Fejzula
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Cambridge
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A Cultural Bandung: The First International Conference of Black Writers and Artists in Paris, 1956
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6. B. The Second World War and its Legacies
Alexandra Natoli
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University of Virginia
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Friends in ‘low’ places: Rethinking scatological space in Robert Antelme’s Buchenwald
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Audrey Mallet
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CEREV/Concordia
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"Official" vs popular memory - Remembering Vichy in Vichy
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Mason Norton
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Edge Hill University
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Aristocracy, Auxiliaries & Subalterns: Roles in Resistance
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6. C. New Perspectives on Louis XIV
Greg Monohan
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Eastern Oregon
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What the King Knew and When He Knew It: Louis XIV in the Late Reign
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Mark Bryant
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Chichester
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Visions and Phantoms: The Quietist and Jansenist Crises in Louis XIV's France, 1685-1715"
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Dr Philip Mansel
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The Society for Court Studies
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Louis XIV: Global Monarch
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6. D. Visual Culture and Ephemera
Brett
Bowles
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Indiana University - Bloomington
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Poster Art, Fundraising, and Public Opinion in France and the US, 1915-1920
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Kathleen
Pierce
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Rutgers
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Chocolate, Children, and Health: Unwrapping the Doctors Image on Fin-de-Siècle Trade Cards
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Ludvine
Broch
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Birkbeck London
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The Merci Train: Popular Culture in the Postwar period, 1947-
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7. Plenary .17.00-1815. Benoît Peeters, « De Hergé à Derrida : les aventures d’un biographe ».
18.30 Drinks and Conference Dinner including ‘after dinner’ address by Professor Robert Gildea (Oxford)
Day 3. 5th July
8. 9.00-11.00 Plenary on Cultural Histories:
Professor Margaret Atack (Leeds) Mode Rétro and Popular Success
Professor Máire Cross (Newcastle) Ode to Flora Tristan: Workers use of Song for Political Propaganda
Professor Denis Mellier (Poitiers) La littérature policière : stratégie critique et matériau générique.
Dr Matt Perry (Newcastle) The Odessa Waltz: the songs of the Black Sea Mutinies of 1919
9. 11.30-13.15
9. A. Commerce and Industrial Life
Christina De Bellaigue
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Oxford
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“Terminez à loisir votre beau voyage”: cultural life and generational conflict in the families of the industrial elite (Roubaix 1830-1914)
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Fiona Ffoulkes
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Southampton
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What do fashion merchants’ bankruptcy records tell us about attitudes to luxury and the consumption of different social groups in nineteenth century Paris?
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David Hopkin
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Hertford College Oxford
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The Normandy Lacemaker: Contrasting Visions of Domesticity, Labour and Femininity
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9. B. Selected Micro and Cultural Histories
William Pooley
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Bristol
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Counting Witches 1789-1940
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Russell Stephens
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UBC Vancouver
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Quels sont les plus Chinois? Or, the great “debate” between the Caricaturists - Honoré Daumier and Cham
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Geoff Levett
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Westminster
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The Chequered History of a Parisian Monument: Remembering Frantz Reichel, Athlete and Journalist
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9. C. French Revolutionary Challenges
Louis Seaward
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UCL
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Revolution and Reaction : The French Revolution in Savoy 1789 - 1792
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Linda Frey and Marsha Frey
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University of Montana
Kansas State University
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A ‘New Diplomatic Code’: The French Revolutionary Challenge
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Howard Brown
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Binghamton SUNY
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Individuals in Formation: The Psychology of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare.
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9. D. Modern Political History
Charlotte Faucher
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QM London
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Cultural diplomats? French women and the diplomatic services in twentieth-century Britain
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Gregg Burgess
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Birkbeck London
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The Repatriation of Soviet Prisoners of War from France at the end of the Second World War.
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Gino Raymond
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Bristol
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Low Culture and High politics: Presidential Passions in France
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9. E. The Secret War Network/ New Heritage Group
Martyn Cox
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Independent Scholar
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Presentation of the Project, including history of the Resistance in Sussex
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Martyn Bell
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Independent Scholar
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Presentation of the Project
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Lunch
14.00-15.00. Round table.
“French history in a time of crisis”, Round table and Discussion. Chair. Professor Hugo Frey. (Speakers to be announced).
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