Cian Cooney on the far-right and the guerre révolutionnaire doctrine
In the latest Hors d’Oeuvres post, we caught up with Cian Cooney to talk about his new article in French History. Cian Cooney is a Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College Dublin and is currently working on a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Une certaine idée de l’Algérie: The Far right, the French Army and the Fight for […]
French History @IHR: Iain Stewart on Raymond Aron and the Liberal Retreat from Empire
Date and Place: Monday 10th February 2020 in the Chadwick Building, UCL Speaker: Iain Stewart (UCL) Paper Title: Rethinking Raymond Aron on Decolonization and the End of Ideology Chair: Andrew WM Smith To listen to a recording of this paper please click here (right click to save) In this paper Iain Stewart built on a […]
French History @IHR: Arthur Asseraf on Electric News In Colonial Algeria
Date & Place: Monday 4th March, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Dr Arthur Asseraf (Cambridge) Paper Title: Electric News in Colonial Algeria To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) The peaceful protests which have swept Algeria formed a compelling backdrop to this fascinating paper by […]
French History @IHR: Grey Anderson, ‘French May 1958-1968’
Date & Place: Monday 29th October, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Speakers: Grey Anderson (Caen) Paper Title: ‘French May, 1958-1968’. Chair:Professor Julian Jackson (QMUL) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) The Fifth Republic can perhaps be viewed by its proponents as a tonic for the chaos that […]
French History @ IHR: Claire Eldridge (Leeds), The Pied-Noir Community and the French State
Date & Place: Monday 15 January, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Claire Eldridge (Leeds) Paper Title: Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Pied-Noir Community and the French State Chair: Andrew Smith (Chichester) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) The passing of an […]
French History @ IHR: Itay Lotem, Memories of Colonialism in Britain and France
Date & Place: Monday 14 March, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Itay Lotem (QMUL) Paper Title: Memories of Colonialism in Britain and France Chair: Rob Priest (RHUL) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). Concepts of national memory are at once seductively simple and extraordinarily complex. […]
