The Society for the
Study of French History 15th Conference
With the Support of
the University of Manchester
150th Anniversary funds
and of the Ambassade
de France in London
Being French:
Perspectives on Identity,
Nation and Community
Monday 9, Tuesday10
April 2001
Dalton Ellis Hall
9.30-10.30 Registration
11.30-12.30 (Lecture Room)
Chairs: Joe Bergin & Bertrand Taithe
Being French in the world of Publishing:
round table with publishers
1.30-300 Parallel Sessions
2. Revolutions and Empire: revising
French identity (Lecture Room) Chair: Peter Campbell
Tom Kaiser (University of Arkansas
at Little Rock), "On Not Being French Enough: Marie-Antoinette
and the French Revolution."
Mike Rapport, (Stirling), ‘Patriots
and Cosmopolitans in Revolutionary France, 1789-99’
3. The French and the other (Committee
Room) Chair: Maire Cross
Daniel Gordon (University of Sussex),
‘Français, immigrés, même biberon? The Far Left
and Ethnic Minorities in nanterre, 1968-1971'
Steve Garner (University College,
Cork), ‘Republican Order vs ‘Ethnic Disorder': Constructions of the
Idea of Ethnicity in France’
3.00-3.30 Tea
3.30-5.00 Parallel Sessions
5. Reinventing France (Committee
Room) Chair to be announced
Marion Demossier (University of Bath),
‘Fragmented France: Cultural policies and the heritagisation of the
French national identity’
Judith K. Proud (University
of Exeter),
‘The Importance of ‘The Other’ in Establishing National
Identity and Unity: The Example of France in WW2.’
6. Medieval identities (Reading
Room) Chair to be announced
Sean McGlynn (London School of Economics)
‘War and National Identity in the France of Philip Augustus’
Michael Jones (Nottingham) 'Les
enseignes du pouvoir': the ducal use of symbols and ceremonial in late
medieval Brittany'.
7. Patriotism in times of crisis (Gallery
Room) Chair to be announced
Eric Cahm (Université
de Tours), ‘Jean Jaurès: Dreyfusard and Patriot’
Peter Tame (Queen’s University Belfast),
‘Divided France: French Writers at War (1939-1945)’
5-6.30 Plenary Session (Lecture Room):
Chair: Joe Bergin
Francoise Bayard (Lyon) ‘De L'utilité des cadavres pour connaître
la vie quotidienne en France sous l'ancien régime: l'exemple des
poches’
6.30-7.30 RECEPTION.
A few words from the Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Manchester
Professor Sir Martin Harris
7.30 DINNER
Tuesday 10 April
SSFH: AGM
9.00-9.30
9.30-10.30 Plenary Session (Lecture
Room)Chair: Iorwerth Prothero
Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky)
Autobiography
and Identity in France
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-1.00 Parallel Sessions
2. Borderlands II (the East) (Committee
Room) Chair to be announced
Detmar Klein (University of London,
Royal Holloway), ‘Alsace aux Alsaciens: The Quest for National Identity
in Alsace under German rule, 1870-1914’
Elizabeth Vlossak (Peterhouse), ‘Women
and French Nation-Building in Alsace, 1918-1940’
3. Foreign gaze and foreign places
(Lecture Room) Chair Bertrand Taithe
Pamela Pilbeam (University of London,
Royal Holloway), ‘Marketing the Nation: Tussaud's and French Identity’
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (University of
Middle Georgia),‘Jeanne d’Arc: Emblem of Lorraine and French Identity
in 1912’
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.30 Parallel Sessions
4. Liberalism, religion and national
identity, ideology and voting practices. (Lecture Room)
Malcolm Crook (University of Keele),
‘How
the French Learned to Vote: Suffrage and Citizenship, 1800-1848’
Judith Bowen (University of York)
‘Citoyen
de Rome Souterraine: Religion and Identity during the Second Empire’
5. Provincialism and identity. (Committee
Room) Chair to be announced
Kiva Silver (University of
Cambridge), ‘Urban Regionalism: Provincial Identities in Paris, 1895-1925’
Margaret Butler (University
of Essex), ‘Paysage, Paysan, Patrie: French Film and Rural Life 1940-1950’
Julian Wright (New College,
Oxford),
‘Unity or Uniformity? Regionalism and the Acceptance of Diversity
in the Belle Époque’
6. In the papers of the absolutist
state. (Gallery Room) Chair to be announced
Marie-Catherine Vignal-Souleyreau
(La Sorbonne, Paris), 'Les papiers de Richelieu sous Louis XIV'
Mark Bryant (Queen Mary and Westfield),
'Madame de Maintenon: Religion, power and politics'
3.30-4.0 Tea
4.00-5.00 Plenary Session: round
table: Being French then and now (Lecture Room).
Please send all correspondence to
Dr Bertrand Taithe,
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
Email: bertrand.taithe@man.ac.uk
Tel:(0)161 275 3102
Society for the Study of French History
15th Annual Conference
At the
University of Manchester
9-10 April 2001
‘Being French: perspectives on identity, nation and community’
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