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SSFH Conference 2013 at Cardiff University

SUNDAY

Registration 4-6pm Aberdare Hall
SSFH Committee
Meeting
5-6 Isabel Bruce Room in Aberdare Hall
Reception 6-8 pm Aberdare Hall

MONDAY
MONDAY PARALLEL A: 8.45 10.10

MA1
Chair: Malcolm Crook (University of Keele)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.85
Estelle Paranque
(University College
London)
The Catholic Community under Henri III's Reign: Alliances and
Defiance (1585-1589)
Nicole Hochner
(The Hebrew
University of
Jerusalem)

Controversies over Concordia/Discordia in Fifteenth-Century
France
Caroline Maillet-
Rao
(University of
Alberta)

Le renouvellement de la question de la nature du conflit entre
Richelieu et le parti dvot

MA2
Chair: Joseph Clarke (Trinity College Dublin)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
Richard Taws
(University College
London)

A History of Violence: tienne Bricourt's French Revolution
Julia Osman
(Mississippi State
University)
Civilian-Soldiers: Civil-military entanglements in the Early
Revolution
Alex Fairfax-
Cholmeley
(Queen Mary,
University of
London)
Writing, reading and exploiting the terror: conflict and solidarity in
the pamphlet culture of the Thermidorean reaction and the
Directory in France, 1794-1799
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MA3
Chair: Chris Millington (Swansea University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Ross Collins
(North Dakota State
University)
American Volunteers and the French Press during the First World
War
Donal Hassett
(European
University
Institute)
Morts pour Quelle Patrie? Commemorative Culture and the
Mobilisation of Memory of the Great War by Political Movements
in French Algeria (1919-1939)

MA4
Chair: Karen Adler (University of Nottingham)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.64
Joanna Warson
(University of
Portsmouth)
Entangled ends of empire: the role of France and Francophone
Africa in the decolonisation of Rhodesia
Alan Granadino
(European
University
Institute)
Transnational socialist cooperation: The influence of the Parti
Socialiste on the PSOE before the Spanish Transition to Democracy
(1972-1975)

Break:
10.10-10.25


10.25-11.25 PLENARY ONE

Jinty Nelson (Kings College London) - Charlemagne or Karl der
Grosse? - a question of entanglement
Glamorgan Building Committee Rooms


Break:
11:25-11:40
Refreshments available
in Glamorgan Building
Coffee shop


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MONDAY PARALLEL B: 11.40-13.05

MB1
Chair: Sin Reynolds (University of Stirling)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.85
Sarah Easterby-
Smith
(University of St
Andrews)

Networks, expertise and diplomacy: Tipu Sultan and the Jardin du
Roi in 1788

Gabriel Wick
(Queen Mary,
University of
London)

Choiseul and Chanteloup: the performance and construction of
opposition in a domain of exile
Noelle Plack
(Newman
University)
Bringing down the barriers in July 1789: tax revolt, intoxication
and commemoration in the French Revolution

MB2
Chair: Melissa Byrnes (Southwestern University)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
Chris Millington
(Swansea
University)

Antifascism and violence, 1934-1936
Joe Starkey
(Cardiff University)
Conflict within a social class: The Syndicats professionnels franais
and the Popular Front
Alison Carroll

The entanglement of regional and transnational concerns in
interwar Alsace


MB3
Chair: Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Andrew Tompkins
(Oxford University)
"Larzac-Gorleben: mme combat?": Competing Franco-German
Solidarities in Local Struggles of the 1970s
Anna Gurun
(University of
Dundee)

Just not in that way': British and French Second Wave Feminism
Roberto Colozza
(Centre dhistoire
de Sciences Po
Paris)

Chrtiens de gauche dans les annes 1968: Robert Buron et
Objectif 72

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MONDAY PARALLEL D: 14.00-15.30

MD1
Chair: Noelle Plack (Newman University)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.85
Marisa Linton
(Kingston
University)

The Enemy Within: Jacobin Ideology and the Politicians' Terror
Jacob Zobkiw
(University of Hull)
Letters to the National Convention: The Art of Political Persuasion
in the French Revolution
Fergus Robson
(Trinity College,
Dublin)
Community solidarity and state conscription under the Consulate
and Empire


MD2
Chair: Alison Carrol (Brunel University)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
Andrew Smith
(Queen Mary,
University of
London/ University
of Chichester)

Une clipse dans les annes noires: The Resistance, the SOE and the
Secret flights to Occupied France
Alexandre Niess
(Universit de
Reims)
Lactivation des rseaux familiaux dans le cadre de conflits codifis
et pacifis: analyse du personnel politique sous la Troisime
Rpublique (1871-1940) dans la Marne





LUNCH 13:05-14:00
Coffee Shop Glamorgan Building

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MD3
Chair: Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Elvira Fente
(Universidad
Complutense de
Madrid)

Solidarit Franaise Avec Les Mres Europennes de l'xil
Karen Adler
(University of
Nottingham)

Children, the Black Forest and France after the Second World War
Laure Humbert
(Exeter University)
Nearly all of them were DPs without even knowing it': UNRRA and
the Displaced Persons problem in Lindau 1945-1947


Break:
15:30-15:45
Refreshments available
in Glamorgan Building
Coffee shop



MONDAY PARALLEL E: 15.45-17.15

ME1
Chair: Joseph Clarke (Trinity College Dublin)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.85
Bryan Banks
(Florida State
University)
The Not so Simple Quaker in France: Louis-Abel Beffroy de
Reigny's Reflection on the Nation, 1793
Jonathan Smyth
(Birkbeck,
University of
London)
Conflicts in history and historiography: The battle between de-
Christianisation and the re-emergence of religion in Revolutionary
France, 1793- 94
Nigel Ritchie
(Queen Mary,
University of
London)

An Anglo-French Revolutionary? Jean-Paul Marat channels the
spirit of Junius





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ME2
Chair: Estelle Paranque
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
Benjamin Darnell
(Oxford University)
Financing Louis XIVs Navy during the War of the Spanish
Succession (1701-1714)
Noureddine
Sghaier
(University of
Sharjah)

Rivalits europennes dans l'Ocan indien et le Golfe Arabe au
XVIIIme sicle
Aglaia Maretta
Venters
(Dillard University)
A Dark Reality within Civilization's Construction: French
Rationalization and Justification of Slavery in Louisiana before
1763


ME3
Chair: Alison Carrol (Brunel University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Adriana Bichis
(Babes-Bolyai
University)

La diplomatie de Vichy envers la Roumanie (1940-1944)
Gavin Bowd
(St Andrews
University)

Romanians of the French Resistance
Luc-Andr Brunet
(London School of
Economics)

Maintaining Vichy's New Industrial Order beyond l'anne zro

ME4
Chair: Melissa Byrnes (Southwestern University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.64
Bertrand Taithe
(University of
Manchester)
Fraud and legitimacy in humanitarian affairs: from the de
Rocquancourt to l'Arche de Zo
Eleanor Davey
(Overseas
Development
Institute)

The place of politics in humanitarian affairs: Mdecins sans
Frontires and the LSF controversy
Daniel Gordon
(Edge Hill
University)
Sans Frontire and Race Today: parallel carriers of a 'Mmoire du
peuple'

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PLENARY TWO 17:30-18.30

Fanny Cosandey (EHESS, Paris) -Dfendre son rang : les conflits de
prsances entre intrts lignagers et construction de l'tat (XVIe-
XVIIIe s)
Glamorgan Building Council Chamber


CONFERENCE DINNER 20.30
Aberdare Hall




TUESDAY

TUESDAY PARALLEL A: 9.00 10.30

TA1
Chair: Garthine Walker (Cardiff University)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.85
Robin Macdonald
(York University)
Sacred Boundaries?: Re-thinking Sacred Spaces in Seventeenth-
Century New France
Stefania Gargioni
(University of
Kent/ Freie
Universitat Berlin)
French Historical Books Translated into English in the Early
Seventeenth Century: Intellectual Networks and Cultural
Exchanges
Erica Charters
(Oxford University)
Military Enlightenment: Franco-British Medicine and the Seven
Years War


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TA2
Chair: Karine Varley (University of Strathclyde)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
Patricia
Dougherty
(Dominican
University of
California)

The Orleans Government and the Parisian Catholic Press, 1830-
1845
Laura O'Brien
(Trinity College,
Dublin)
A Catholic Martyr for the Republic: commemorating the death of
Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871
Christina de
Bellaigue
(Oxford University)
Family entanglements and family business among the bourgeois of
the Nord, c.1830-1900

TA3
Chair: Chris Millington (Swansea University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Emmanuelle
Cronier
(University of
Birmingham)

Morality and Transgressions: The Entertainment of Allied Soldiers
on Leave in Paris, 1914-1918
Emmanuelle
Chapin
(Cardiff University)
Experimenting Reciprocity: Soldiers Sacrifice and the Debt of
Pleasure (1914-1923)
Adam Derek
Zientek
(Stanford
University)

The Instrumentalization of Pleasure: The Alcoholization of the
French Army on the Western Front

TA4
Chair: Karen Adler (University of Nottingham)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.64
Andia Augustin
(Washington
University in St
Louis)

Changing Boy into Men: Aspects of Masculinity in French Algeria
Melissa
K Byrnes
(Southwestern
University)

A Cosmopolitan Approach to Community Policies: North African
Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon

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Break:
10.30-10.45
Refreshments available
in Glamorgan Building
Coffee shop





PLENARY THREE 10-45 11.45
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University) - Rape, Sodomy, France,
and "Arab Men" in the 1970s
Glamorgan Building Council Chamber



TUESDAY PARALLEL B: 12.00-13.30

TB1
Chair: Mary-Elizabeth ONeill
Glamorgan Building Room 0.85
David Gilks
(Queen Mary,
University of
London)
Cultural conflict and exchange in Europe: the seizing and
restitution of cultural property during the Wars of the French
Revolution and Napolon
Marina Bujoli-
Minetti
(Universit de
Provence)

La guerre d'Indpendance amricaine dans l'iconographie des
deux cts de la Manche : entre solidarits et rivalits multiples
Stewart McCain
(Oxford University)
Language Conflict in the Classroom: Imposing French in the Alpes-
Maritimes 1799-1814


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TB2
Chair: Emmanuelle Chapin (Cardiff University)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
James Arnold
(Birkbeck,
University of
London)

The battle for Grtry's heart: how a death in Paris led to the birth
of Belgium
Lori Lee Oates
(Exeter University)
The transmission of occultism between Britain and France

Charles Sorrie
(London School of
Economics)

Censorship and the May 1918 Strike Movement in the Loire

TB3
Chair: Sandy Wilkinson (University College Dublin)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Sian Reynolds
(University of
Stirling)
Biography as a field for solidarities, entanglements and conflicts:
individuals, couples, and biographical dictionaries in the French
historical landscape

Siobhan McGurk
(Cardiff University)
One of the most curious spirits of our time": Re-thinking Claude
Cahun as a way of re-thinking female subjectivity









LUNCH (and AGM of SSFH)13.30 14.15
Glamorgan Coffee Shop

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TUESDAY

PARALLEL C: 14.15-15.45


TC1
Chair Julia Osman (Mississippi State University)
Glamorgan Building Room 0.86
Louise Seaward
(University of Leeds)
Censorship, Slander and the State: Policing Foreign Books in
late Eighteenth Century France
Tom Hamilton
(Oxford University)
Reading and censorship in the Parlement of Paris: drolleries
and trifles in Pierre de L'Estoiles journals and collections
(1558-1611)
Mary-Elizabeth
O'Neill
(New York University)
Underground Critics of Napoleon: The Transformation of the
Secret Society after the French Revolution and its Transnational
Foundations

TC2
Chair: Karine Varley (Strathclyde University)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.63
Julia Nicholls
(Queen Mary,
University London)
Revolution, Republican Citizenship, and Colonial Encounter:
French revolutionary thought and the South Pacific, 1871-1899
Florian Wagner
(European University
Institute/University of
Freiburg)

French participation in International Colonialism (1870s-1914)
Tabetha Ewing
(Bard College)
Desertion, Extradition, and Subjecthood on a Colonial Frontier

TC3
Chair: Karen Adler (University of Nottingham)
Glamorgan Building Room -1.64
Sally Charnow
(Hofstra University)
"A rabbi, a priest, and a minister..." : Edmond Fleg's La Maison
du Bon Dieu, a Representation of Ecumenism in 1920
Rebecca Clifford
(Swansea University)
Memory, conflicts, generations, and Holocaust commemoration
in France