French Historians under the spotlight: Jessica Wardhaugh
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. To kick off 2017 we hear from Dr Jessica Wardhaugh, Associate Professor in French History at the […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Jean-Marc Dreyfus
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. This month we hear from Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Reader in Holocaust Studies at Manchester University. Among his numerous […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Jennifer Sessions
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. We’re excited to welcome Jen Sessions as the first subject of 2016-17. Jen is Associate Professor of […]
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 Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Robert Gildea
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. Continuing with our current spotlight on speakers at the SSFH 2016 conference, this month’s subject is Robert […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Richard J. Golsan
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. Continuing with our current spotlight on speakers at the forthcoming SSFH conference in July, this month’s subject […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Margaret Atack
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. May’s subject, Margaret Atack, is Professor of French at the University of Leeds. Prof. Atack is one […]
Voices of Early Career Researchers: Anna Konieczna
Welcome back to ‘Voices of Early Career Researchers’, a monthly feature on the French History Network blog. Each month we’ll post a short interview with an Early Career Researcher of French History, giving you an insight of the different paths that ECRs are following after their PhDs in and outside of academia: what do the […]
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 Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Mary Lou Roberts
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. Going under the spotlight in April is Mary Lou Roberts, Professor of History at the University of […]