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: 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: 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: Hanna Diamond, ‘Paris and its liberation: photography, memory and the Second World War’
Date & Place: Monday 14 December, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Hanna Diamond (Cardiff) Paper Title: ‘Paris and its liberation: photography, memory and the Second World War’ Chair: Iain Stewart (UCL) Hanna Diamond introduced new research which considered the importance of the visual record of the Liberation. She stressed how the events in […]
