H-France Salon, Volume 9 (2017)

Volume 9, Issue 26

“Disasters and Dislocation in France and the Empire”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017

Chair: Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles

Christopher M. Church, University of Nevada, Reno, “Rhythms of Catastrophe, Iterations of Inequity: Disaster Memory, Dislocation, and Disparity during Pelée’s Eruption of 1929”
Video | MP3

Cindy Ermus, University of Lethbridge, “Plague and the Port City: Movement and Migration during an Eighteenth-Century Crisis”
Video | MP3

Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University, “Labor and Culture in Burgundy’s Phylloxera Epidemic”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Martha L. Hildreth, University of Nevada, Reno, and audience
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 25

“Identity and Memory: Huguenots, Conversos, and Other Francophone Voyagers”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017

Chair: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan

Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton, “‘À la Ruine totale de la France’: A French Assessment of Portuguese and Spanish Immigration in Seventeenth-Century France”
Video | MP3

Catherine Naeve, Rutgers University, “Naturalizing Refugees: How Foreign Protestants Became British in the Eighteenth Century”
Video | MP3

Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College, “Huguenot Refugees in New York: Faith, Family, Slavery, and Legacy”
Video | MP3

Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “A Frenchman on the Frontier: Science and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Harmony, Indiana”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, and audience
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 24

Edgar L. Newman Memorial Plenary Lecture: “The Great War at One Hundred: Between Presence and Absence”
Plenary luncheon at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017

Annette Becker, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 23

“Women’s Agency and Activism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Special Session Honoring Elinor Accampo”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017

Chair: Cheryl Koos, California State University, Los Angeles

Andrea Mansker, University of the South, “The Lonely-Hearts Ad in Napoleon’s Paris”
Video | MP3

Carolyn J. Eichner, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Feminism’s Others: Gender, Race, and Frenchness in Late Nineteenth-Century Metropole and Empire”
Video | MP3

Patricia Tilburg, Davidson College, “La femme au corsage rouge: Monette Thomas, Midinette Militancy, and the Garment Strikes of 1918-1919”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Christopher Forth, University of Kansas, and audience
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 22

“Heroines: Strong Women in Modern Popular Culture”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017

Chair: Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas

Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, “Heroines for the End of the World: Women, Physical Courage, and Martial Heroism during the Dreyfus Affair”
Video | MP3

Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, “The Daughter of Fantômas: Belle Époque Action and Adventure Heroine”
Video | MP3

Joelle Neulander, The Citadel, “Moxie in Action: Heroines in Pre-World War Two French Popular Culture”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas, and audience
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 21

“Teaching Gender and Sexuality in French History”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017

Chair: Patricia Tilburg, Davidson College

Discussants:

Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Maryville College
Video | MP3

Sun-Young Park, George Mason University
Video | MP3

Andrew Israel Ross, University of Southern Mississippi
Video | MP3

Jessie Hewitt, University of Redlands
Video | MP3

Lori Weintrob, Wagner College
Video | MP3

Discussion – Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 20

“Cultivating the World in the Eighteenth Century”
Panel Session at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 3, 2017

Chair: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, City University of New York

Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University, “Naturalizing the World in Eighteenth-Century Bayonne: A Garden Proposal by André Michaux”
Video | MP3

Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Coffee Production in the Eighteenth-Century East and West French Indies”
Video | MP3

Oliver Cussen, University of Chicago, “Michel Adanson and the Gum Trade: In Imperial Meridian for Old Regime France?”
Video | MP3

April Shelford, American University, “The Enlightened Planter”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University, and audience
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 19

Conference Plenary Roundtable: “Addressing Structural Racism in French History and French Historical Studies”
Conference plenary roundtable at the 45th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 4, 2017

Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University

Discussants:

Jennifer Boittin, The Pennsylvania State University
Muriam Haleh Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles
Felix Fernand Germain, University of Pittsburgh
Tyler Stovall, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robin Mitchell, California State University, Channel Islands
Emily Marker, Rutgers University-Camden
Nimisha Barton, Princeton University

Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
MP3: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Volume 9, Issue 18

“In Honor and Memory of Rachel Ginnis Fuchs: Scholar, Teacher, Colleague, Mentor, and Friend”
Edited by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester

The salon begins with a brief introduction:

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester, “Introduction“

The salon continues with a memorial roundtable held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017

“Colleague, Scholar, Mentor, and Friend: A Memorial Roundtable Honoring the Life and Work of Rachel Ginnis Fuchs,”

Organizer:  Cheryl Koos, California State University, Los Angeles
Chair:  Elinor A. Accampo, University of Southern California

Participants:

Linda Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Venita Datta, Wellesley College
Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
Richard Hopkins, Widener University
Joelle Neulander, The Citadel
Katie Jarvis, University of Notre Dame

Video available HERE

The salon continues with six essays:

Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère, Conservateur général du patrimoine (h), Paris, “Une histoire d’enfants trouvés“

Sylvia Schafer, University of Connecticut, “On Rereading Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France“

Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State University, “More to Offer: Rachel Fuchs and Poor and Pregnant in Paris“

Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University, and Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California, “Producing Gender and the Politics of Social Reform with Rachel Fuchs: A Model for Co-Authorship, Collaboration, and Friendship“

Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University, “Gendering Family History in Modern France: An Assessment of Rachel G. Fuchs’s Scholarly Contributions“

Anne R. Epstein, Independent Scholar, “Remembering Rachel Fuchs: Transnational mentor and co-editor par excellence“

Volume 9, Issue 17

“Experiencing May ’68 in France”
Edited by Chris Reynolds, Nottingham Trent University
Assistant Editor: David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

A Salon in 40 parts
As the 50th anniversary of May-June 1968 approaches, one can safely predict a continuation in the now traditional outpouring of interest that has been so important in helping shape the French collective memory of these seminal events. The anticipated commemorative surge will underscore the ongoing and durable legacy of “mai 68” as a watershed moment in the political, social, and cultural development of France as well as highlighting just how much debate remains over how 1968 should be understood and remembered. Central to shaping this narrative will be the experiences of those who were present at the time and whose stories of their diverse experiences go a long way to helping make sense of why 1968 remains such a focus of fascination 50 years later.

H-France has been developing several issues of H-France Salon on those events as its contribution to the decennial commemoration. We are delighted to share the first of these with you today.

Between Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, Chris Reynolds interviewed 22 academics from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France who experienced May-June 1968 in France. We present these interviews to you in two formats.

First, we have created 18 thematic videos focused on important themes in debates around the events of 1968. We hope that many of you might find these thematic videos useful for teaching modules or seminars on 1968.

Second, the full interviews with individual scholars are available as these might be of particular interest to scholars researching May 1968 and to those studying its continuing memory.

Thematic Videos:

  1. Why in France?
  2. Surprised?
  3. How Involved?
  4. A Foreigner in France?
  5. Students and Workers
  6. La Prise de Parole
  7. Violence
  8. Nationwide
  9. International Zeitgeist
  10. The Political Elites
  11. Relief or Disappointment?
  12. Back Home?
  13. Consequences for France
  14. Understanding of France?
  15. Effects, Personal and Political
  16. Effect on Scholarship
  17. The Dominant Interpretation
  18. Summary

Individual Videos:

  1. Carolyn A. Durham, The College of Wooster
  2. Eric Freedman, Benjamin Cardozo Law School
  3. William Kidd, University of Stirling
  4. Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
  5. Rosemary Lloyd, Indiana University
  6. Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
  7. Marie-Elisabeth Deroches-Miles, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
  8. Jim Freedman, Western University
  9. Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University
  10. Bernard Roussel, l’École Practique des Hautes Études
  11. Dennis Wood, University of Birmingham
  12. John Hurt, University of Delaware
  13. Gillian Thompson, University of New Brunswick
  14. Donald Sutherland, University of Maryland
  15. Yves Montenay, Président de l’Institut Culture Economie et Géopolitique
  16. Mike Kelly, University of Southampton
  17. Paul Werner, Ph.D., DSFS, Editor WOID and Publisher, The Orange Press
  18. Mary Anne O’Neil, Whitman College
  19. Willem Frijhoff, Université Érasme de Rotterdam
  20. John Molyneux, Editor, Irish Marxist Review
  21. Martin Staum, University of Calgary
  22. Eileen Tilly, Bangor University

Volume 9, Issue 16

H-France Webinar: “Colonialism and Sexuality”
October 20, 2017.

Host: Camille Robcis, Cornell Universirty

Invited Participants:
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Judith Surkis, Rutgers University
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
Carolyn Eichner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Video available HERE

Volume 9, Issue 15

“In Memoriam: William Humphrey Beik, 1941-2017”
David Parker, University of Leeds

Volume 9, Issue 14

“The Social History of Impressionism”

Alexis Clark, Washington University in St. Louis, and David Peters Corbett, The Courtauld Institute of Art, “Introduction to ‘Questionnaire on Impressionism and the Social History of Art’”

“Responses to ‘Questionnaire on Impressionism and the Social History of Art’”

Emily C. Burns, Auburn University, “‘Local Color’: Social Art History, Global Impressionism, and Comparative Interpretation”
Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University, “Impressionism: A Procrustean Bed?”
Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh, “Peripheral Impressionisms”
Anna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading, “Impressionist Futures”
Laura Anne Kalba, Smith College, “Is Impressionism History?”
Richard Kendall, Independent curator and art historian, “The Positive and the Negative”
Morna O’Neill,  Wake Forest University, “Moving Beyond ‘Post T. J. Clark Ad-Hocism’”
Samuel Raybone, Courtauld Institute of Art, “‘A millionaire who paints in his spare time’. The social history of art and the multiple rediscoveries of Gustave Caillebotte”
Harmon Siegel, Harvard University, “Social Art History, A Thing of the Past?”
Marnin Young, Yeshiva University, “On the Limits of Context”

Alexis Clark, Washington University in St. Louis, “Teaching the Social History of Art”

Video Discussion: “The Social History of Impressionism:  A Conversation” 

Moderator: Alexis Clark

Participants:

Frances Fowler, University of Edinburgh
Marnin Young, Yeshiva University

Volume 9, Issue 13

“Communities and Religious Identities in the Early Modern Francophone World, 1550-1700: A Collaboration with French Historical Studies”

The most recent issue of French Historical Studies contained a special forum “Communities and Religious Identities in the Early Modern Francophone World, 1550-1700,” an outgrowth of series of panels held at the 2014 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in honor of Barbara B. Diefendorf and the impact of her scholarship on the study of early modern history.

The French Historical Studies special forum was edited by Sara Beam, University of Victoria, and Megan Armstrong, McMaster University, and included essays by Barbara B. Diefendorf, Virginia Reinburg, Christian Grosse, Jérémie Foa, Scott M. Marr, and Keith P. Luria.

Beam and Armstrong have extended the forum into this issue of H-France Salon. The salon begins with two reflections on the essays in the forum:

Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara “In Medias Res, A Review Essay”

Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, “Conflict and Change in Early Modern Communities”

The salon concludes with a video interview with Barbara Diefendorf:

Sara Beam, University of Victoria, and Megan Armstrong, McMaster University, “An Interview with Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University”

Volume 9, Issue 12

“In Memoriam: Roger L. Williams, 1923-2017”
John F. Freeman, Laramie, Wyoming

Volume 9, Issue 11

“Legacies of the French Revolution Across Time and Distance”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016

Chair: Suzanne M. Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, “The French Revolution and the European Project”
Video | MP3

Julian Bourg, Boston College, “From Ready-Made Solutions to New Doctrines:  The French Terror and Russian Terrorism”
Video | MP3

Paul Hanson, Butler University, “Jacobins and Red Guards: Reflections on Revolutionary Terror from a Comparative Perspective”
Video | MP3

Commentary by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 10

Plenary Session:  “A Tale of Two Texts, or Why Write French History Today”
Plenary sesssion at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017

Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 9

“Fashioning French Identities”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017

Chair:   Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University

Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Coffee, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning in France, 1670-1780”
Video | MP3

Julia Gossard, Utah State University, “Hybrid Identities: Fashion and French Children in the Middle East and Asia, 1670-1780”
Video | MP3

Sima Godfrey, University of British Columbia, “From Jewish Rags to French Riches”
Video | MP3

Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, “Dress, Resistance and Deportation: Capturing Identity in WWII France”
Video | MP3

Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, “Anti-Semitism à la Mode: Fashion, Politics, and Identity at the Turn of the Century”
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 8

“Session in Honor of James B. Collins I: Culture, Society, Gender, and the State in Early Modern Europe”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 22, 2017

Chair: Sara Chapman Williams, Oakland University

Karen L. Taylor, International School of Geneva, “A Geography of Knowledge: Saint-Cyr’s Cahiers de Géographie”
Video | MP3

Henriette Rahusen, Georgetown University/National Gallery of Art, “Urban Elites, Ambitious Princes, and Walking Sticks: Portraiture as Propaganda in La République Monarchique”
Video | MP3

Felicia Rosu, Leiden University, “The Politics of ‘This and That’: Republican Practices before the Birth of the State in East Central Europe, 14th-17th Centuries”
Video | MP3

Michael Breen, Reed College, “Law, Politics, and the Social History of the Ancien Régime State”
Video | MP3

Janine Lanza, Wayne State University, “Working Women’s Lives in Early Modern France”
Video | MP3

Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Women, Work, and the Household Economy: An Appreciation of James Collins’s Contribution and Thoughts on Future Directions”
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 7

Plenary Session: “The 2017 French Presidential Elections”
Plenary session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017

Chair:  David A. Bell, Princeton University

Speakers:

Charlotte Cavaillé, Georgetown University
Erwan Lagadec, George Washington University
Simon Serfaty, Old Dominion University

Video available HERE
MP3 available HERE

Volume 9, Issue 6

“Women in the French Imaginary: Historicizing the ‘Gallic Singularity’”
Panel Session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017

Chair:  Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, “The Gallic Singularity: The Long View”
Video | MP3

Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress”
Video | MP3

Jean Pedersen, University of Rochester,“’Outrageously Flirtatious’: Alexis de Tocqueville on Women and Democracy in America and France”
Video | MP3

Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840-1908)”
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 5

Roundtable: “What We Talk about When We Talk about Décolonisation”
Roundtable session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017

Chair: Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University

Panelists:

Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia,
Sung-Eun Choi, Bentley University,
Kathryn Edwards, Tulane University,
Darcie Fontaine, University of South Florida

Commentary by Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University

Video available HERE
MP3 available HERE

Volume 9, Issue 4

Plenary Session: “French Historians in the Public Sphere”
Plenary session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017

Speakers:

Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College
Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston

Video available HERE
MP3 available HERE (some sound quality issues exist)

Volume 9, Issue 3

“Crime, Theft, Revenge and the French Imagination”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017

Chair:  Sally Charnow, Hofstra University

Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, “The Dark Avenger as Popular Hero from the Count of Monte Cristo to Chéri Bibi”
Video | MP3

Venita Datta, Wellesley College, “Crimes against the Nation: The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911)”
Video | MP3

Dominique Kalifa, Université de Paris I, “The Long Arm of Fantômas, or the Myth of the Twentieth Century”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 2

“Religious Minorities in the French Revolution: Tolerance, Violence and Emancipation”
Panel session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017

Chair:  Angela Haas, Missouri Western State University

Bryan Banks, SUNY Adirondack, “Subtle Protests: Rethinking the Edict of Toleration’s Reception in Calvinist France”
Video | MP3

Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, “A Violent Tolerance: Islam and the End of the Ancien Régime”
Video | MP3

Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary, “A Jewish ‘Architect of Victory’: Jacob Benjamin, the Armée du Midi and the Politics of
Food, 1792-93”
Video | MP3

Commentary by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College
Video | MP3

Volume 9, Issue 1

“The Impossible Subject of Charlie Hebdo: A Collaboration between Contemporary French Civilization and H-France Salon”
Edited by Mayanthi Fernando and Catherine Raissiguier

The Summer 2016 issue of Contemporary French Civilization presented a fascinating forum on Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the tragic events of January 2015. Guest edited by Mayanthi Fernando and Catherine Raissiguier, the forum included an introduction, six articles, four vignettes, and two education portfolios.

H-France commissioned a review of the entire forum by Michael O’Riley:

Michael O’Riley, The Colorado College, “Post-Charlie:  Community, Representation, and Terrorism’s Foreclosures“