SSFH Conference Programme
Sunday
15h- 17h: Committee meeting
18h – 19h: PGR Welcome – Whitworth Art Gallery
19h – 21h30: Reception – Whitworth Art Gallery – General attendance
Day 1
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 10.15 Plenary: 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
10.15 – 10.30 – Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.00
| 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: tbc |
| 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 | Maxim Hoffmann (Ghent) Public and secret intimacy. Foreign queen consorts at the French court |
| 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 Lunch & EDI Open House
13.00 – 14.15 Plenary: 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
14.15 – 14.30 – Coffee Break
14.30 – 16.15
| B1. Revolutionary intimacy Chair: Chris Millington (Manchester) | B2. Race and intimacy Chair: Claire Eldridge (Leeds) | B3. Martial Intimacies Chair: Bertrand Taithe (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? | Yuval Tal (Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem) Fusing Mediterranean Bodies and French Minds: Eugenics and Republican Assimilation in Colonial Algeria | Julia Osman (Mississippi State) From La Rose to JoliCoeur: The Contradicting Multitudes of the French Soldier, 1648-1714 | Jessica L. Fripp (Texas Christian Univ) Age and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Parisian Theater |
| Michaela Kalcher (Oxford) Intimate histories? Exploring subjectivity and grief in diaries from the French Revolution | Catherine Phipps (Bristol) “What can they criticise us for, loving each other too much?”: Visa bans for mixed marriages between Moroccan soldiers and French women after the Second World War | Tania Sheikhan (UCL) Sensory Intimacies in Colonial Threads: Personal Identity and Mameluke Attire in Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign | 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. | Martin Evans (Sussex) Intimacy, Post-Colonial Reckoning, Anti-Colonial Solidarities: The Meknes Anti-French Violence in October 1956 | Anastasia Tsagkaraki (Sussex) Questing one’s identity through the autobiographical writing. The journal intime of a Greek-French officer from the Ionian Islands | 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 | Itay Lotem (Westminster) Talking about Race: New Antiracist Discourse and the Framing of Race as an Intimate Experience in the Fight against Racism in Contemporary France | 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 | Ryan Hilliard (Clemson) Queering the Singlewoman: Female Intimacy, Chosen Kinship, and Domestic Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris |
16.15-16.45 Coffee & PGR meeting space
16.45 – 18.15
| C1. Representing the Self in Early Modern French Commerce Chair: Julie Hardwick (Austin) | C2. Captivity, Imprisonment & intimacy Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) | C3. Intimate Politics Chair: Alison Carrol (Brunel) | C4. Medicine, Science and intimacy Chair: Chris Millington (Manchester) |
| Tessa de Boer (Leiden) Pretentious, moi? Mercantile aspirations towards and away from early modern French subjecthood | Quentin Arifon (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) Un ménage en prison. Les époux Mayoux, instituteurs pacifistes face à la guerre, et leurs enfants (1917-1919) | 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 | Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris) Intimate life in a Nazi concentration camp: from survival to resistance to history | 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 | 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 » | Nicolas Mary (Corsica) Une « intimisation» de la vie politique française sous la Vème République. La confession publique des politiques, de l’abaissement symbolique à l’exaltation du Je | Federico Dotti (Geneva)/Levon Pedrazzini (Lausanne) Le carnet de poche de Monsieur M. |
Dinner: 18.30 – Manchester Museum- Living Worlds
DAY 2
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
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)
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee
10.45 – 12.15
| D1. Making Vichy, from Bodies to Networks Chair: Laure Humbert (Manchester) | D2. Personality and Popular Politics in the 19th century Chair: Stuart Jones (Manchester) | D3. The intimate life of artistic production Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) | D4. Intimacy in Early Modern France Chair: Jérémie Foa (Aix-Marseille Université) |
| Luc Andre Brunet (Open Univ) Vichy France and South America during the Second World War | Alexandra Paulin-Booth (Humboldt, Berlin) Letters of the League: intimacy and right-wing political engagement in Third Republic France | David Gilks (UEA) An intimate history of Quatremère de Quincy | Marie-Anne Pepe (Nice Côte d’Azur) Quelles archives de l’intime pour une histoire de la vie privée publique au XVIIIe siècle? |
| Mark Wilson (Durham) Little worlds within the camps: intimate space and oral histories of Jewish internment in Vichy France | Will Clement (Oxford) Disaster photography, international media, and Bonapartist self-fashioning after the Great Floods of 1856 | Patrick Valiquet (Huddersfield) Daniel Charles, Vocality and Forgetting, 1958-1980 | Sara Barker (Leeds) Name translation in early modern French news pamphlets: considerations and approaches. |
| Martin Simpson (UWE) Nightmares on Wax: The Musée Républicain Affair in Toulouse (1883) | Kristin Soulliere (Florida)Translations of Self in Simone de Beauvoir’s Letters to Nelson Algren | 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). |
12: 15 – 13.15 LUNCH and AGM
13.30 – 14.45 Plenary 3: Clementine Vidal Naquet (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
15.00 – 16.30
| E1. 16th-century letters and papers: in honour of R.J.Knecht (1926-2023) Chair: tbc | 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 |
