French History @IHR: Shaping the Environment in 18th Century France
The Modern French History Seminar – traditionally hosted at the IHR – is relocating online for the summer term. SHAPING THE ENVIRONMENT IN 18C FRANCE Monday 6th July / 5.30pm / Live Q&A Chair: Prof Colin Jones (QMUL) Speakers: Gabriel Wick (NYU, Paris), Between palace and vauxhall: the duc d’Orléans at home on the Chaussée d’Antin and […]
French History @IHR: Sex & Sexuality in Post-war France
The Modern French History Seminar – traditionally hosted at the IHR – is relocating online for the summer term. Monday 15th June / 5.30pm / Live Q&A Chair: Daniel Lee (QMUL) Sandrine Sanos (Texas A&M) The Sex of Violence and Post-Holocaust Visions of War and Decolonization in France, 1958-1963 Dan Callwood (Civil Service) David et Jonathan: Christian Faith and Gay Liberation in France Questions […]
French History @IHR: Renée Poznanski on Jews in the Resistance
Date and Place: Monday 21st October 2019 in the IOE, Bedford Way, Room 728 Speaker:Prof Renée Poznanski (Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Paper Title: Jewish, French and/or Transnational? Jews in the fight against Occupation in WWII France Chair: Prof Julian Jackson. Freshly arrived from Oxford where she […]
French History @IHR: Roundtable on Richard Carswell – The Fall of France
Date and Place: Monday 7th October 2019 in the IOE, Bedford Way, Room 728 Speakers: Richard Carswell, Chris Millington (Manchester Metropolitan), Emily Hooke (Southampton), Ricchard Vinen (KCL) Paper Title: Roundtable discussion of Richard Carswell’s The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right […]
French History @IHR: Andrew WM Smith on Uprooting Identity in the Languedoc
Date & Place: Monday 29th April, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Dr Andrew WM Smith (Chichester) Paper Title: Uprooting identity: European Integration, political realignment, and the wine of the Languedoc (1984-2014) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) Andrew Smith introduced a paper based on an article […]
French History @IHR: Marisa Linton on Rethinking the Terror
Date & Place: Monday 10th May, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Professor Marisa Linton (Kingston) Paper Title: 230 Years Since the Revolution: Time to Rethink the Terror? To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) Professor Marisa Linton offered this paper surveying the legacy of the Revolution […]
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: Ludivine Bantigny on 1968
Date & Place: Monday 10th December, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Dr Ludivine Bantigny (Rouen Normandie) Paper Title: ‘1968 in France: General Strike, New Practices, New Hopes’ Chair: Professor Julian Jackson (QMUL) This event was generously supported by L’Ambassade du France. This fascinating paper surveyed recent approaches to 1968, […]
French History @IHR: Stewart McCain (St Mary’s), Language Question Under Napoleon
Date & Place: Monday 30th April, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Stewart McCain (St Mary’s, Twickenham), Michael Rowe (KCL), Professor David Hopkin (Oxford), Professor Jane Hodson (Sheffield) Paper Title: Roundtable on The Language Question Under Napoleon (Palgrave, 2017) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save […]
‘On this day’ – 21 May 1942 The Riom Trial
« Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France » The historical debate between Robert Aron and Robert O. Paxton on Vichy France, continues, by proxy, in current academia. While Aron argued that collaboration was forced on Vichy by the Nazis, Paxton maintains that collaboration was ‘a French proposal, that was ultimately rejected by Hitler’. These holistic […]
