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: Akhila Yechuri on the French Borderland in India
Date & Place: Monday 18th February, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Dr Akhila Yechury (St Andrews) Paper Title: Rethinking Imperial Sovereingty: The French Borderland in India 1815-1947 Akhila Yechury offered a rich and engaging insight into the ways in which French India was far from a colonial backwater, but instead a unique lens […]
French History @IHR: David Todd, ‘Empire of Taste’
Paper Title: Empire of Taste: French Commodities and Global Power in the Nineteenth Century Speaker: David Todd (KCL) Chair: Dr Simon Jackson (Birmingham) Date: 17 October 2018 Eugene Rimmel’s business card, by Jules Chéret, from the Driehaus Museum For this week’s seminar, Modern French History teamed up with Rethinking Modern Europe to enjoy some […]
French History @ IHR: David Andress on Globalizing French History in the Age of Revolutions
Date & Place: Monday 16 May, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Professor David Andress (Portsmouth) Paper Title: Globalizing French History in the Age of Revolutions: necessary step, or step too far? (1763-1848) Chair: Professor Colin Jones (QMUL) The nation remains one of the most adaptable, creative, and dangerous appeals in […]
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. […]
French History @ IHR: Caroline Campbell, Transforming the Radical Right in France and North Africa
Date & Place: Monday 1 February, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Caroline Campbell (University of North Dakota) Paper Title: Transforming the Radical Right in France and North Africa: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Croix de Feu and Parti Social Français, 1927-1945 Chair: Iain Stewart (UCL) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Alice Conklin
Welcome to ‘under the spotlight’, a monthly interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions – all summarised in less than ten minutes. You can catch up with previous posts here. As we approach the conference season, the next few months will feature key note speakers from the […]
