SSFH Conference Code of Conduct
From its inception, SSFH has prided itself on providing a welcoming and supportive conference environment for scholars of all career-stages to engage in academic debate and networking. In this spirit, and with a continuing commitment to promoting equality and diversity in the conduct of our business, please take note of the following code of conduct to be observed at SSFH conferences and sponsored events:
- All participants are to be treated with respect, and as entitled both to a hearing for their views, and to feel secure in the conference environment.
- All participants are expected to speak and behave in a way which avoids causing others to feel disrespected, harassed, or threatened, for any reason.
- All participants should respect the authority of panel chairs, most notably:
- over the timing of presentations, which should be exercised to ensure equity between presenters, and adequate time for discussion within the session;
- over management of discussion to ensure that, with limited time available, an equitable range of individuals are given the opportunity to ask questions; if time is particularly short, then priority for further interventions should be given, as far as practicable, to early-career scholars.
- Questions and comments should always be directed to the subject-matter of presentations, and remain constructive in tone even, and especially, where appropriately critical.
- In the conduct of conference business, the following more specific points of protocol are to be adhered to:
- Presentations should NOT be recorded or photographed without the specific prior consent of the individual presenter;
- Conference proceedings are normally open to live-tweeting and any other indirect social-media dissemination, unless a specific presenter prefers that their material is kept within the room; panel chairs should make this clear where necessary, and all participants should respect any such restrictions.
- Any participant experiencing or witnessing conduct in contravention of the points above is encouraged to point it out, either directly, or confidentially by contacting Alexia Yates or Laure Humbert from the conference organising team, in the knowledge that their concerns will be taken seriously. Alexia and Laure can be contacted in person, via email alexia.yates@manchester.ac.uk and laure.humbert@manchester.ac.uk.
- Any participant may be asked to leave the event if their behaviour or speech breaches this code.
Conference hashtag: #ssfh2024
Sunday, June 30 – Business meetings and Welcome Reception
15.00 – 17.00 SSFH Committee meeting – Ellen Wilkinson Building
18.00 – 19.00 PGR Welcome – Whitworth Art Gallery
19.00 – 21.30 Welcome Reception, Whitworth Art Gallery
Monday, July 1 – Day One of Panels
8.30 – 17.00 Registration – Roscoe Building Foyer
9.00 – 10.15 Plenary address: Jérémie Foa (Aix-Marseille Université), ‘Nous ne tenons aux autres que par la parole.Mensonge et conscience de soi dans la France des guerres de Religion’
Chair: Bertrand Taithe. Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break – Roscoe foyer
10.30 – 12.00 Concurrent panels, Session A
| Roscoe 1.001 | Roscoe 1.003 | Roscoe 1.007 | Roscoe 2.10 |
| A1. Grief, Trauma and Faith in early Modern France Chair: Stuart Jones (Manchester) | A2. Gender, Political Activism and Intimate Friendships Chair: Laure Humbert (Manchester) | A3. Wartime Intimacies: Senses, Emotions and Memory in Twentieth-century France Chair: Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris) | A4. Space and Authority in the Longue Durée Chair: Alexia Yates (Manchester) |
| Tom Joashi (Cambridge) Spatial intimacy and religious violence: Huguenot conventicles and the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1555-1572) | Máire Cross (Newcastle) The self-making of a transnational activist: the case of Marie-Louise Puech-Milhau (1876-1966) | Chris Millington (Manchester Metropolitan) ‘Dear parents, I am still in good health’: (Re)constructing the experience of a French POW | Julia Viallon (Aix-Marseille) Intimité, pouvoir et espaces partagés. La mise en œuvre de la domination sociale par appropriation des espaces communs (Marseille, XVIIIe siècle). |
| Camille Hamon (ENS) Autour de la mort d’Anne de Joyeuse : l’expression du deuil dans les correspondances à la fin du XVIe siècle | Blanche Plaquevent (INED) Looking for intimacies in the history of Third-Worldism and political travels | Ludivine Broch (Westminster) Francesco Nitti and the ‘Train Fantôme’: Intimacy, Senses and the Body in the Second World War’ | Stuart Carroll (York) Intimate Enemies: Ego Documents and Identity in Early Modern France |
| Mita Choudhury (Vassar) Reading the Unwritten: Trauma, Faith, and Clerical Sexual Violence in Early Modern France | Irène Gimenez (Paris-Est Créteil) and Claire-Lise Gaillard (INED) (*online) Amies: des intimités à la marge ? Penser le genre des amitiés dans le continuum des intimités relationnelles (France XXe siècle) | Alison Carrol (Brunel) ‘Rumours of a Tunnel’. Invasion anxieties, hopes and fears about a Channel tunnel during the Second World War | Will Pooley (Bristol) and Tom Hamilton (Durham) (*online) Mapping Witchcraft in France, from the Wars of Religion to World War Two |
12.00 – 13.00 Catered Lunch – Roscoe Foyer
13.00 – 14.15 Plenary address: Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin), ‘A fireplace poker and a branding iron: an intimate history of racial capitalism in an eighteenth-century French port city.’
Chair: Alexia Yates, Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee Break – Roscoe Foyer
14.30 – 16.15 Concurrent panels, Session B
| Roscoe 1.001 | Roscoe 1.003 | Roscoe 1.007 | Roscoe 2.10 |
| B1. Revolutionary intimacy Chair: Chris Millington (Manchester Met) | B2. Captivity, imprisonment & intimacy Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) | B3. Martial intimacies Chair: Ana Carden Coyne (Manchester) | B4. Gender and performance Chair: Alexia Yates (Manchester) |
| Dave Andress (Portsmouth) Intimate Convictions and Terrible Distrust – what does the introduction of jury-trial in revolutionary France tell us about the politics of democratising change? | Quentin Arifon (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) Un ménage en prison. Les époux Mayoux, instituteurs pacifistes face à la guerre, et leurs enfants (1917-1919) | Julia Osman (Mississippi State) From La Rose to JoliCoeur: The Contradicting Multitudes of the French Soldier, 1648-1714 | Jessica L. Fripp (Texas Christian University) Age and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Parisian Theater |
| Michaela Kalcher (Oxford) Intimate histories? Exploring subjectivity and grief in diaries from the French Revolution | Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris) Intimate life in a Nazi concentration camp: from survival to resistance to history | Anastasia Tsagkaraki (NKUA, Greece) Questing one’s identity through the autobiographical writing. The journal intime of a Greek-French officer from the Ionian Islands | Pierre-Louis Poyau (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) Le rôle de la fleur coupée dans la construction du genre à Paris au XIXe siècle |
| Leon Hughes (TCD) ‘Avec Douceur et Humanité’: Living the Carceral, Prison Concierges during the French Revolution, 1789-1795. | Alexandre Millet (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in France (UPPA) « Dans l’intimité des histoires familiales d’anciens PGF du Stalag 325 de Rawa-Ruska : facteurs d’appropriation, de remémoration et de transmission de la mémoire de l’expérience captive » | Alexander Summers (Strathclyde) ‘A crisis of martial identity’: the memories and identities of former members of the Garde Mobile Nationale in post Franco-Prussian war memoirs | Nancy Bruseker (Independent scholar) Riding the Carrousel: transfeminine identities in postwar France |
| Samantha Wesner (Toronto) Intimacy and the City: Urban Life and Revolutionary Culture in Paris | Ryan Hilliard (Clemson) Queering the Singlewoman: Female Intimacy, Chosen Kinship, and Domestic Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris |
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break – Roscoe Foyer
PGRs are invited to meet one another in a dedicated meeting space, Roscoe 2.8
16.45 – 18.15 Concurrent panels, Session C
| Roscoe 1.001 | Roscoe 1.003 | Roscoe 1.007 | Roscoe 2.10 |
| C1. Representing the Self in Early Modern French Commerce Chair: Julie Hardwick (Austin) | C2. Race and intimacy Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) | C3. Intimate Politics Chair: Alison Carrol (Brunel) | C4. Medicine, Science and intimacy Chair: Laure Humbert (Manchester) |
| Tessa de Boer (Leiden) Pretentious, moi? Mercantile aspirations towards and away from early modern French subjecthood | Yuval Tal (Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem) Fusing Mediterranean Bodies and French Minds: Eugenics and Republican Assimilation in Colonial Algeria | Quentin Gasteuil (ENS Paris Saclay) Le politique saisi par le couple: une exploration de la correspondance entre Marthe et Louis Lévy (1918-1952) | Claire Barillé (Lille) Intimité féminine et pouvoir médical : protestations et silences des patientes (Paris, Londres, Bruxelles, 1850-1950 |
| Elisabeth Heijmans (Antwerp) Female Overseas Merchants’ Self-Representations in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic | Martin Evans (Sussex) Intimacy, Post-Colonial Reckoning, Anti-Colonial Solidarities: The Meknes Anti-French Violence in October 1956 | Andrew Smith (QMUL) “I am taking possession of France”: The Larzac Struggle and the Kanak Struggle for Independence in New Caledonia (1970 – now) | Sasha Rasmussen (Nottingham) La Sorbonne et La Salpêtrière: The Intimate History of a Russian Student in Paris, 1900. |
| Lewis Wade (Leiden) Both alike in Indignity? Conflict, Family and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Constantinople | Federico Dotti (Geneva)/Levon Pedrazzini (Lausanne) Le carnet de poche de Monsieur M. |
18.30 Conference gala dinner, Manchester Museum, Living Worlds Gallery (by registration)
July 2 – Day Two of panels
8.30 – 12.00 Registration – Roscoe Foyer
9.00 – 10.30 – Plenary Roundtable: The legacy of Natalie Zemon Davis – appreciation and
assessment. Chair – Sara Barker (University of Leeds)
Speakers: Penny Roberts (University of Warwick), Charles Walton (University of Warwick), Jérémie Foa (Université d’Aix-Marseille), Will Pooley (University of Bristol).
Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre.
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee – Roscoe Foyer
10.45 – 12.15 Concurrent panels, Session D
| Roscoe 1.001 | Roscoe 1.003 | Roscoe 1.007 | Roscoe 2.10 |
| D1. Making Vichy, from Bodies to Networks Chair: Laure Humbert (Manchester) | D2. Intimacy in Early Modern France Chair: Jérémie Foa (Aix-Marseille Université) | D3. The intimate life of artistic production Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) | D4. Personality and Popular Politics in the 19th century Chair: Stuart Jones (Manchester) |
| Luc Andre Brunet (Open Univ) Vichy France and South America during the Second World War | Marie-Anne Pepe (Nice Côte d’Azur) Quelles archives de l’intime pour une histoire de la vie privée publique au XVIIIe siècle? | David Gilks (UEA) An intimate history of Quatremère de Quincy | Alexandra Paulin-Booth (Humboldt, Berlin) Letters of the League: intimacy and right-wing political engagement in Third Republic France |
| Mark Wilson (Durham) Little worlds within the camps: intimate space and oral histories of Jewish internment in Vichy France | Sara Barker (Leeds) Name translation in early modern French news pamphlets: considerations and approaches. | Patrick Valiquet (Huddersfield) Daniel Charles, Vocality and Forgetting, 1958-1980 | Will Clement (Oxford) Disaster photography, international media, and Bonapartist self-fashioning after the Great Floods of 1856 |
| Maxim Hoffmann (Ghent) Public and secret intimacy. Foreign queen consorts at the French court | Kristin Soulliere (Florida) Translations of Self in Simone de Beauvoir’s Letters to Nelson Algren | Martin Simpson (UWE) Nightmares on Wax: The Musée Républicain Affair in Toulouse (1883) |
12.15 – 13.15 Catered Lunch – Roscoe Foyer
Attendees are invited to take their lunches to Roscoe 1.009 for the AGM. All are invited!
13.30 – 14.45 Plenary address: Clémentine Vidal Naquet (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), ‘Correspondances conjugales et partage de l’intime pendant la Grande Guerre
Chair: Laure Humbert. Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee break – Roscoe Foyer
15.00 – 16.30 Concurrent Panels, Session E
| Roscoe 1.001 | Roscoe 1.003 | Roscoe 1.007 | Roscoe 2.10 |
| E1. 16th-century letters and papers: in honour of R.J.Knecht (1926-2023) Chair: Sara Barker (Leeds) | E2. The intimacy of celebrity culture Chair: Bertrand Taithe (Manchester) | E3. Welfare in XXe France Chair: Laure Humbert (Manchester) | E4. Economic Intimacies: Networks and Family Chair: Alexia Yates (Manchester) |
| Mark Greengrass (Sheffield) ‘The death of Charles IX (1574), lived through the papers of Gaspard Simiane de Gordes’ | Jessica Wardhaugh (Warwick) The illusion of intimacy: politics, celebrity and material culture in Fin-de-siècle France | Chloé Pastourel (Clermont Auvergne) Faire une histoire intime de la philanthropie américaine: Étude des « ego-documents » du Comité Américain des Régions Dévastées (1918-1924) | Niccolo Valmori (EUI) Economic intimacies: identity and self-representation across the merchant world during the Age of revolutions |
| David Potter (Kent) ‘The Letters of Francis I project’ | Holly Grout (Alabama) And Who Created B.B.?: Brigitte Bardot and the Intimate Work of Celebrity | Owen Coughlan (Oxford) “I heard him let out a cry of pain”: workplace accidents, medical expertise, and sensory solidarity in interwar France | Leonard (Lenny) Hodges (Birkbeck) Keeping up with the Carvalhos: Power, Money, and Family between Eighteenth-Century India and France |
| Penny Roberts (Warwick) What a prince carries in his stockings: intimacy and death in sixteenth-century France | Julie Kalman (Monash) René Goscinny and the Asterix Series: Imagined Intimacy | Olivia Cocking (Emory) “Isolement qui allait de pair avec une très grande confiance à l’Aide Sociale à l’Enfance”: Child Welfare and Migration in France After Empire | Gill Stewart (Glasgow) The effect of the death of the breadwinner on the remaining family: a study of Nancy, France in the 1890s |
16.30 Departures
