Conferences
ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2022 Call for papers – Images: Past & Present
A virtual study day to be held on 23 April 2022
Keynote: To Be Confirmed
What happens when the images come into the world? With or without its consent, civil society has been constantly imaged, recorded, documented, archived and exhibited. This omnipresence of images created, circulated, and displayed merits an analysis of the multiplicity of its forms and its roots.
This year, we have decided to focus on images, their disconcerting plurality, and their power which keeps in reserve infinite possibilities of actualisation; we have decided to follow them through heterogeneous geographies and temporalities of the French and Francophone world.
We will focus on decentering our perspective on the production, representation, confrontation and reception of images, past and present, by openly admitting the multipolar character of the societies where they are born and set in motion. It is by uniting historical and contemporary perspectives and several disciplinary fields that we seek to grasp the historical, epistemic, political and social issues that unite images and representations.
The theme that we have selected for ASMCF-SSFH Study Day 2022 is evidently one that is rich in interpretation. We encourage our participants to reflect on the different ways in which images (re)present and/or question the past and the present. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in English or French from across French and Francophone history and society, literature, politics, linguistics, film and visual cultures, philosophy, critical theory, and other disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary approaches. We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduates overseas and those from under-represented groups in academia.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to contemporary or historical studies on the following:
• Face aux crises: images of trauma, pandemics and pain• Images and Agency: images subversives, images subverties• Images mentales, concrétisations imageantes• Images mise en trope(s): caricatures, clin d’œil, parody, emprunt, hommage, pastiche• Images et geste politique: press, propaganda and political images• Diverging from the norm: clandestine images, censorship and control• Picturing the margins: migrations et territoires• Images of War: violence, reconciliation and pardon• Images and symbolism in literature: ekphrasis• Images de l’autre, images de soi : imaginaire, fantastique, inventé, fantasmé• Vignettes de domination (post)coloniale• Illustration and textuality : aux frontières du lisible et du visible• Images en mouvement : cinema, technology and digital cultures• Images in the class : images fixes et supports audiovisuels• (Re)presenting/(re)inventing the past: mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli• Images in public spaces: statues, exhibitions, street art, billboards, posters, art installations • Œuvres hybrides : graphic novels, comics, magazines, documentaries• Archival images: preservation, conservation, restoration• Images patrimoniales: heritage and influence• Role of cultural institutions: archives, libraries, museums
Abstracts of no more than 250 words, in either English or in French, should be sent to asmcf.ssfh.pgstudyday@gmail.com. Submissions should be received by 9:00 AM (GMT) on 31 January 2021.
Call for Flash PresentationsShare your voice! We welcome proposals from MA and PhD students to explain their own research in three minutes, limited to one Powerpoint slide OR one creative method of their choice. Presentations on any topic connected to French and Francophone studies and histories are welcome.
Please email asmcf.ssfh.pgstudyday@gmail.com to express your interest.
The Study Day will include professional development panels and an opportunity to engage with senior academics from other institutions. It is generously funded by the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) and the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH). Attendance is free but all attendees are kindly requested to become members of one of the societes on or before the day via one of the society’s website. We will endeavour to ensure that the virtual conference is fully accessible, and we are very happy to discuss particular needs that participants might have and how we can best accommodate these.
Organising Committee: Pallavi Joshi (University of Warwick, ASMCF), Sophie Dubillot (Open University, ASMCF), Daniel Baker (Cardiff, SSFH)
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Past Conferences and Study Days:
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History joint Postgraduate Study Day: ‘Visibility/Invisibility’, 2nd March 2019, All Souls College, Oxford.
Read the full call for papers here.
ASMCF and SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2018.
Details here.
ASMCF and SSFH EARLY-CAREER STUDY DAY 2017
CELEBRITY: EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS DAY CONFERENCE
Wednesday 29th March 2017, Institute of Historical Research, London.
Keynote talk from Professor Antoine Lilti.
Deadline for abstracts 15th February 2017.
CFP*
MOBILITY/IMMOBILITY: POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Saturday March 4th March 2017, University of Nottingham.
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History. Deadline for abstracts 28th January 2017.
CFP*
GUT FEELING: DIGESTIVE HEALTH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE
26-27th May 2017, University of Aberdeen.
Deadline for abstracts 31st January 2017.
CFP*
RELIGION AND VIOLENCE IN FRANCE: FROM THE RELIGIOUS WARS TO THE REVOLUTION Workshop at the University of Warwick, Friday 23 September 2016:
For more details, see here.
PATRIMOINE: POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Saturday March 5th 2016, Queen Mary, University of London.
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History.
Programme * Poster * Report coming soon * CFP
GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL: POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Saturday March 7th 2015, University of Exeter.
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History.
Programme * Poster * Report * CFP
COMMEMORATION: POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Saturday 1st March 2014, Newcastle University.
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History.
CFP * Poster
IMPACT: POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Saturday 2nd March 2013, University of Warwick.
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History.
Download Programme
FUTURES: POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Saturday 3rd March 2012, University of Sheffield.
Association des études françaises et francophones d’Irlande; Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Society for the Study of French History.
Download Programme * Flyer * Poster
EUROPEAN REFORMATION RESEARCH GROUP
University of Newcastle 31 August to 2 September 2011.
Empire: Legality, Locality, Authority
A Symposium at the University of Plymouth, 10 September 2010
Information
EUROPEAN REFORMATION RESEARCH GROUP
Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 September 2009
Department of History, University of Plymouth
Information
CULTURES OF WAR AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION RESEARCH NETWORK
Cultures of War in Early Modern France
University of Warwick, Saturday 25 April 2009
Programme / Booking Form
COMING HOME: CONFLICT AND RETURN MIGRATION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE
1-3 April 2009, University of Southampton.
Call for Papers / Conference Poster
WAR, EMPIRE AND SLAVERY c. 1790-1820.
Call for papers for a conference at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, York, UK, 16-18 May 2008. [details] [poster]
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/conf/war/home.htm
‘ALLEZ LES BLEUS!’.
Conference on French rugby taking place at Twickenham’s Museum of Rugby on Monday 3 September 2007.
[details / details]
HISTORICISING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
A Graduate Conference organised by graduates from the History Faculties of Oxford University and the University of Cambridge Held at the St John’s College and New Hall, Cambridge 15-16 November 2007.
LA FRANCE OUTREMER: EXPEDITIONS, ENCOUNTERS AND EXCHANGES.
A workshop to be held at The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 7 July 2007, 10.30 AM- 5PM. [details]
The French Historical Studies 51st Annual Meeting – March 17-19, 2005
http://stanford.edu/dept/history/SFhs2005/
The Annual Meeting of the Western Society for the French History
http://www.lib.umich.edu/wsfh
Culture urbaine? L’exemple de Paris à la Belle Époque:
Journée d’étude organisée par le Centre d’Histoire de Science Po et le Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle – November 07, 2005
http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle5958.html
Conférence : “L’histoire sociale en revue : l’historiographie et les chantiers – November 3, 2005
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/index.php?rid=27&cid=3765
Colloque international: “Colonisation, décolonisation et immigration aux 19e et 20e siècles” – December 5, 2005
http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle5953.html
Colloque: “Patrimoine, savoirs et communautés savantes” – November 24/25, 2005
http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle5954.html
