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: 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: Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), Rethinking Toussaint L’Ouverture
Date & Place: Monday 14th May, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford) Paper Title: Rethinking Toussaint L’Ouverture Chair: Andrew WM Smith (University of Chichester) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) Toussaint L’Ouverture is an important and much mythologized […]
French History @ IHR: Julia Nicholls on Revolution
Date & Place: Monday 16 November, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Julia Nicholls (QMUL) Paper Title: ‘The Revolution is over, long live revolution: history, science and social change in post-Commune revolutionary thought’ Chair: Iain Stewart (QMUL) The long shadow of the French Revolution has often clouded the way we view we have […]
French History @ IHR: Colin Jones on Robespierre
Date & Place: Monday 19 October, in the Athlone Room, Senate House. Joint session between European History 1500-1800 with Modern French Seminar. Speakers: Colin Jones (QMUL) Paper Title: `What did Robespierre really want? Thoughts on 9 Thermidor’ Chair: Julian Swann (Birkbeck) ‘What did Robespierre really want?’ In this question we are faced with the quandary of how exactly to […]
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 […]
