Spotlight on Keith Rathbone
Welcome to another edition of Historians Under the Spotlight – an occasional interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions. You can catch up with previous posts here. This month, our spotlight is being trained on Keith Rathbone (Macquarie University, Sydney) guest editor of the latest French History Virtual Special Issue on the subject […]
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: 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: 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 Historians under the spotlight: Constance Bantman
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. Constance Bantman is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Surrey. In the length of a […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Laura O’Brien
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. Laura O’Brien is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University, and Head of Postgraduates for […]
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 […]
