French History @IHR: Roundtable on ‘The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory’
Date & Place: Monday 11th June, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Professor Richard J Golsan (Texas A&M), Dr Joan Tumblety (Southampton), Professor Hugo Frey (University of Chichester) Paper Title: Roundtable on ‘The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory’ Chair: Andrew WM Smith (University of Chichester) To listen to […]
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 […]
French History @ IHR: Andrew Smith, Terror and Terroir
Date & Place: Monday 31st October, Pollard Room, IHR, North block, Senate House Speakers: Andrew WM Smith (UCL), Máire Cross (Newcastle), Julian Jackson (QMUL), Kathy Burk (UCL) Paper Title: Roundtable on Terror and terroir: the winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France (Manchester University Press, 2016) Chair: Iain Stewart (UCL) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to […]
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: Harry Stopes, Politics of the Regional Opera in Lille, 1881-1896
Date & Place: Monday 28 February, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Harry Stopes (UCL) Paper Title: ‘Lydéric, sauveur de Flandres’: The Politics of the Regional Opera in Lille, 1881-1896 Chair: Iain Stewart (UCL) In Britain today the Royal Opera House lambasts our philistine politicians for being ‘scared to show their faces’ […]
French History @ IHR: Alison Carrol, The Return of Alsace to France in 1918
Date & Place: Monday 15 February, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Alison Carrol (Brunel) Paper Title: The Return of Alsace to France in 1918 Chair: Andrew Smith (UCL) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). Borders are curious things. Alison Carrol began by discussing how borders were, as […]
French History @ IHR: Roundtable discussion of Emile Chabal’s ‘A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France’
Date & Place: Monday 5 October, at the IHR, London. Speakers: Emile Chabal (Edinburgh) with responses from Julian Jackson (QMUL), James McDougall (Oxford), Claire Eldridge (University of Leeds) and David Priestland (Oxford) Paper Title: A roundtable discussion of Emile Chabal’s ‘A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France’ Chair: Iain Stewart (QMUL) Click HERE to listen to an […]
