The 2016 SSFH Annual Conference
The Society for the Study of French History held its 30th annual conference at the University of Chichester, from 3rd-5th July 2016.
Theme: High and Low Culture: Elite and Popular Constructions
Invited speakers included:
Professor Margaret Atack (Leeds); Professor James B. Collins (Georgetown University, Washington); Professor Máire Cross (Newcastle); Professor Robert Gildea (University of Oxford); Professor Richard Golsan (Texas A&M); Professor Denis Melier (Poitiers); Benoît Peeters (independent scholar and biographer of Hergé, Paul Valéry, and Jacques Derrida); and Professor Sylvie Lindeperg (Sorbonne, Paris 1)
The conference programme is available here and the poster is available here.
Past Annual Conferences:
32nd Annual Conference at University of Warwick.
Theme: Political Economy and Cultures of Inequality
[conference programme and details]
31st Annual Conference at University of Strathclyde.
Theme: France, Europe, and the World
[conference programme and details]
30th Annual Conference at the University of Chichester
Theme: High and Low Culture: Elite and Popular Constructions
[conference programme and details]
29th Annual Conference at University of St Andrews.
Theme: Turning Points in French History
[conference programme and details]
28th Annual Conference at St John’s College, Durham, from 10-12 July 2014.
Theme: Theme: History and the Senses
[conference programme and details]
27th Annual Conference at Cardiff University, Sunday 30 June to Tuesday 2 July 2013.
Theme: Solidarities, Entanglements and Conflict in French History.
[conference programme]
26th Annual Conference at King’s Manor, University of York, 1-3 July 2012.
Theme: France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History
[conference programme] [watch video of plenary speakers]
25th Annual Conference at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 14-15 July 2011.
Theme: Celebrating France
[conference overview] [draft programme].
24th Annual Conference at Newcastle University on 27-29 June 2010.
[Programme] [Abstract]
23rd Annual Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 June 2009
[Programme] [Conference Website]
22nd Annual Conference at the University of Aberystwyth, 3-4 July 2008
[Programme] [Abstract]
21st Annual Conference at the University of St Andrews, 1-3 July 2007
[Programme] [Conference Website]
20th Annual Conference at the University of Sussex, 3-4 July 2006
[Programme] [Abstract]
19th Annual Conference at the University of Southampton, 4-5 July 2005
[Programme] [Abstract]
18th Annual Conference at the University of Warwick, 1-2 April 2004
[Programme] [Abstract]
17th Annual Conference at the University of Nottingham, 10-11 April 2003
[Programme] [Abstract]
16th Annual Conference
2002 Programme
15th Annual Conference
2001 Programme
14th Annual Conference
2000 Programme
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1st Annual Conference at the University of Liverpool, April 1987.
Theme: ‘The Growth of the French State’.
