Society for French Historical Studies 47th Annual Meeting Chapel Hill, North Carolina March 8 - 11, 2001 The annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies for the year 2001 will be hosted by the University of North Carolina, Chap

Society for French Historical Studies
47th Annual Meeting
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
March 8 - 11, 2001


The annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies for the year 2001 will be hosted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The meeting will take place at the historic Carolina Inn , a charming southern-style hotel on the campus of the University and close to downtown Chapel Hill. The hotel reservation form is now available for viewing or downloading. Special events include exhibits of French art and rare French books at UNC’s Ackland Art Museum and Wilson Library. There will be receptions on each evening of the conference. A concluding banquet at the Carolina Inn will feature a talk by Professor Robert Forster (John Hopkins University) on "France Overseas" and a concert by Mamadou Diabate . Conference registration forms are available on this site for viewing or downloading.

A plenary session featuring Professors Eric Fassin (Ecole Normale Supérieure) and Richard Kuisel (Georgetown University) will examine the recent history and problems of French-American cross-cultural perceptions, conflicts, and stereotypes. . The Friday lunch at the Carolina Inn will be organized like a collection of French salons. A host or “salonniere” at each table will provoke conversation on a specific theme or era or problem in French history, and everyone will have opportunities to add a “bon mot.” Participants will select a particular,thematic table when they register for lunch.

Apart from invited guest speakers, all participants in the program must be members of the Society. To join the Society, simply subscribe to French Historical Studies, or write to: Journals Fulfillment, Duke University Press, Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660.

For other queries, please contact the President (Lloyd Kramer) or Vice-President (Don Reid) of the Society for 2000-2001: lkramer@unc.edu and
dreid1@email.unc.edu.




Society for French Historical Studies

47th Annual Meeting

March 8-10, 2001

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC


Schedule of Events





Thursday, 8 March


Registration

5:00-8:00 pm

Carolina Inn, Lobby

Reception at Wilson Library

6:00-8:00 pm

Special Exhibition: Art and Books in the Age of Napoleon



Friday, March 9

Continental Breakfast

7:30-8:30 am

Carolina Inn, Lobby

Registration

8:00 am-4:00 pm

Carolina Inn, Lobby

Book Exhibit

8:30 am-4:30 pm

Carolina Inn, Sunroom

Session 1

Friday

8:30-10:15 am

All events at the Carolina Inn


1A: French as an International Language

North Parlor

Chair: Robert Kreiser, AAUP

Paul Cohen, Princeton University: Courtiers and Peasants in the Empire of French: The Social Implications of the Promotion of French in the Seventeenth Century

Debra Everett-Lane, Columbia University: The Search for Common Understanding: French at International Scientific Conferences in the Nineteenth Century

Jonathan Gosnell, Smith College: "Francisation" and the Politics of Language in Colonial Algeria

Comment: Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia

1B: Bad Bachelors, Bad Couples, Bad Kids: Violence, Democracy and the Family in Fin-de-Siècle France

South Parlor

Chair: Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University

Katharine Norris, University of California, Berkeley: The Wages of Severity: Rethinking Childhood Discipline in Turn-of-the Century France

Judith Surkis, Cornell University: The Perversion of "Bachelors": Education and Desire in the Belle Époque

Eliza E. Ferguson, Duke University: Out of Control: Cultural Constructions of Violence in the fin-de-siècle

Comment: Patricia O'Brien, University of California, Riverside

1C: Intellectuals and the Left in the 1950s

Alumni Room

Chair: Leslie Derfler, Florida Atlantic University

Michael Christofferson, Penn State University, Erie: The Politics of French Intellectuals' Protest Against the Repression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

James Le Sueur, La Verne University: No Middle Ground for French Intellectuals: Frantz Fanon and the Anti-Colonial Left Wing

Craig Keating, University of British Columbia: Adherence as Performance: University Intellectuals and Communism in Postwar France

Comment: Michael Kelly, University of Southampton

1D: Visions of Race and Ethnicity in the Twentieth Century

Club Room

Chair: Owen White, University of Delaware

Dana S. Hale, Howard University: "La Force Noire": Images of Africans and Blacks in Colonial Propaganda and Advertising Trademarks, 1914-1940

Anne Ruffin, Brigham Young University: Regenerating the Race Through Sport in Indochina and France During World War II

Richard L. Derderian, National University of Singapore: Algeria as a "Lieu de Mémoire": Ethnic Minority Memory and National Identity in Contemporary France

Comment: David Prochaska, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne

1E: Spaces and Networks of Political Communication in the French Revolution

Chancellors' Ballroom East

Chair: Jack Censer, George Mason University

Bette W. Oliver, University of Texas, Austin: Chamfort at the Palais Royal: An Alternative Sphere of Influence

Jill Maciak, University of York: Stepping Over the Official Line: Revolutionary Authorities and Rural Political Communication Networks

David Andress, University of Portsmouth: Spaces and Publics—the Problems of Parisian Democracy in the First Year of the French Revolution

Comment: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston

1F: Roundtable: When Did it Become Likely that France would Lose a Second World War?

Chancellors' Ballroom West

Chair: Stuart Campbell, Alfred University

Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford

Michael Carley, University of Akron

Richard Crane, Greensboro College

Carole Fink, Ohio State University

William Irvine, York University

Eugenia Kiesling, United States Military Academy

Sally Marks, Providence, Rhode Island

Stephen A. Schuker, University of Virginia

Comment: The Audience

1G: Female Readers and Reading Practices in Nineteenth-Century France

Hill Ballroom South

Chair: Lisa Tiersten, Barnard College

James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: George Sand the Freemason? A Gendered Reading of Masonic Works

Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, San Angelo State University: How Compulsory Schooling and the "Loi Naquet" Put Female Genres and Reading Habits on the Line

Willa Z. Silverman, Penn State University: Of Books and Bookwomen: Discourses on Women's Reading Practices in fin-de-siècle France

Comment: Eileen S. De Marco, University of California, San Diego

1H: Dilemmas of Social Reform in the 20th Century

Hill Ballroom North

Chair: Joel Colton, Duke University

Bernard Grindel, Ohio State University: The Economic Basis of Populist Protest: Pierre Poujade's Shopkeepers

Steven Zdatny, West Virginia University: Implementing the 8-hour Day in Petite Entreprise

Comment: Judith Stone, Western Michigan University

Comment: Michael Hanagan, New School for Social Research



Coffee Break

10:15-10:30 am

Carolina Inn, Lobby



Session 2

Friday

10:30 am –12:15 pm

All Events at the Carolina Inn

2A: Seeing and Being Seen: Private and Public Uses of the Paris Opera

North Parlor

Chair: André Spies, Hollins College

David Chaillou, Paris IV: La mise en scène des entrées et des sorties de l'Empereur à l'Opéra de Paris entre 1810 et 1815 est-elle un rituel politique?

Vincent Burret, Paris I: Le Foyer de la Danse de l'Opéra de Paris: un Observatoire privilegié de la vie culturelle mondaine au XIXe siècle

Christina E. von Koehler, City University of New York, Graduate Center: Invisible Men: Privatization and Its Impact Upon the Dancers of the Paris Opéra

Comment: Lenard Berlanstein, University of Virginia

2B: Rethinking the Public and Public Opinion in the Eighteenth Century

Club Room

Chair: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan

Thomas Kaiser, University of Arkansas, Little Rock: The Public and Public Opinion in Pre-Enlightenment France

Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas: Defining Society in the Old Regime and Habermas's Public Sphere

Jon Cowans, Rutgers University—Newark: On the Blatant Illiberalism of the French Revolution: Public Opinion and Political Culture

Comment: James Van Horn Melton, Emory University

2C: Women at Court: Queens and Mistresses in the Ancien Regime

Alumni Room

Chair: Joan Landes, Penn State University

Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina, Wilmington: The King's Touch: Ritual, Power, and Place at the Court of Louis XVI

Jennifer Germann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Conflicting Images: (Re)viewing the Portraits of Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768)

Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, SUNY, Albany: Mme de Pompadour at the French Academy of Painting and Sculpture, 1745-1764

Comment: Sheila Ffolliott, George Mason University

2D: Law and Resistance: Encoding and Decoding Privilege, Piety, and Practice

Club Room

Chair: Janine Lanza, Appalachian State University,

Michael Breen, Reed College: "The Consent of the People and the Authority of the Sovereign": Provincial Custom and Royal Absolutism in Burgundy

Daniella J. Kostroun, Duke University: Convents and Constitutionalism: Port Royal and the Struggle for Legal and Religious Reform under Absolutism, 1661-1681

Sydney Watts, University of Richmond: Lenten Rules and Claims of Subsistence in the 18th-century Parisian Meat Trade

Comment: Albert N. Hamscher, Kansas State University

2E: France and America: Celluloid Exchanges

Chancellors' Ballroom East

Chair: Richard Kuisel, Georgetown University

Jacques Portes, Paris VIII: Protectionism or Anti-Americanism: French Policy towards American Movies Since 1946

Jens Ulff-Moller, University of Copenhagen: Franco-American Film Diplomacy in the Post World-War II Period

Richard Abel, Drake University: The Reception of Gaumont Films in the USA, 1910-1914

Comment: Richard Kuisel and the Audience

2F: French Intellectuals and Vichy: The Problem of Collaboration

Chancellors' Ballroom West

Chair: Donald Reid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Andrés H. Reggiani, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires: From New York to Vichy: Alexis Carrel and the Politics of Reactionary Modernism

Seth Armus, Saint Joseph's College: Amérique-juive: The Convergence of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in the work of Pierre-Antoine Cousteau

Norman Ingram, Concordia University: From the Rue d'Ulm to Hard Labour: The Political Trajectory of René Gerin

Comment: Alice Kaplan, Duke University

2G: Colonial Versions of France, French Versions of the Colonial

Hill Ballroom South

Chair: Alison Klairmont-Lingo, Raleigh, North Carolina

Malick W. Ghachem, Stanford University: The Anxiety of Atlantic Influence: Free Blacks in Saint-Domingue, Slaves in France

Joshua S. Schreier, New York University: Domesticating the Civilizing Mission: Colonial Categories for Metropolitan Jews

Michael R. Shurkin, Johns Hopkins University: Tocqueville, Algeria, and France's Jewish Quesiton

Comment: David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University

Luncheon and Salon Tables

12:15-1:45 pm

Hill Ballroom

Each table has a theme for a salon-style conversation


Salon Table Hosts and Themes

David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University: Debates and Controversies in Historical Studies of French Jews

Jack Censer, George Mason University: Teaching French History with New Technologies

Herrick Chapman, New York University: New Approaches and Debates in 20th-century French History

Judith Coffin, University of Texas: Debates and Controversies in French Colonial History

Dena Goodman, University of Michigan: The Salon Tradition in French Culture

Nancy Green, EHESS: Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity in Modern France

Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa: Gender, State and Society in Early Modern France

Alice Kaplan, Duke University: Rethinking the Occupation and the Meaning of Vichy France

Joan Landes, Penn State University: Nationalism and Gender Identities in Post-Revolutionary France

Sarah Maza, Northwestern University: The Bourgeoisie in French History

Robert Nye, Oregon State University: Gender and the History of the Body in France

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky: The Challenges of Teaching French History Today

Prochaska, David, University of Illinois: The French in North Africa and North Africans in France

William Sewell, University of Chicago: Has the New Cultural History Grown Old?

Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California: What Happens when Historians Study Visual cultures?

Debora Silverman, UCLA: Art History and Social/Political History: Exchanges and Dissonances



Session 3

Friday

2:00-3:45pm

All Events at the Carolina Inn


3A: The Social and Political Life of Things: Architecture and Material Culture in the 18th Century

North Parlor

Chair: Christine Adams, St. Mary's College of Maryland

James Livesey, Trinity College, Dublin: What Difference does it Make? Ploughs and Politics in Revolutionary Languedoc

Rebecca L. Spang, University College, London: The Stuff of Virtue: Materiality and Sensibility in Revolutionary Paris

Marie-France Morel, CNRS: Un Palais pour les petits abandonnés? L'hôpital des Enfants Trouvés à Paris au XVIIIe siècle

Comment: Cissie Fairchilds, Syracuse University

3B: French-Jewish Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

South Parlor

Chair: Torbörn Wandel, Truman State University

Nancy Grey, University of South Alabama: Rewriting the Gospel in Twentieth-Century France: Edmond Fleg's Franco-Jewish Vision

Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis: "To be or not to be French, that was never the question": Soixante-Huitard Reflections on "la question juive"

Simon Sibelman, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh: "Le coupe de Sirocco": Sephardi Jewish Identity at the Fin-de-siècle

Comment: Jeffrey Haus, Tulane Univerisy

3C: Forging French Identity: France and Its Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Alumni Room

Chair: Jill Casid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Anne Meyering, Michigan State University: The Louvre's "Négresse": An Icon of Imperialism

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Duke University: Slave-Owner Relationships in early 19th-century France

Tom Hill, University of Chicago: The Parisian Proletariat and the Re-Ordering of Algerian Society after 1848

Comment: Judith Coffin, University of Texas

3D: French State Development: Nobles, Taxes, and Finances in early-modern France

Club Room


Chair: Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University

Michael Wolfe, Penn State, Altoona College: The Logistics of Municipal Fortification Construction in Early Modern France

Brian Sandberg, Millikin University: Warrior Nobles, Civil Violence, and State Development in the French Wars of Religion

Stephen Miller, UCLA, The Social Underpinning of Absolutism: Taxation and Private Fortunes in 18th-century Languedoc

Comment: George Comninel, York University

3E: Violence, Seduction, and the History of Women and Gender in Transatlantic Perspective

Chancellors' Ballroom East

Chair: Nancy Green, EHESS

Cécile Dauphin, Centre de Recherches historiques: Violence and Seduction: New Themes for the Study of Women And Gender

Laura Lee Downs, University of Michigan: Transatlantic Studies of Women and Gender: A response to Cécile Dauphin

Laura Frader, Northeastern University: Transatlantic Studies of Women and Gender: A response to Cécile Dauphin

Comment: Nancy Green and the Audience

3F: Roundtable: Approaches and Problems in Cultural History

Chancellors' Ballroom West

Chair: Jennifer Popiel, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Kathleen Kete, Trinity College: Where do we locate "culture-building"?

Anna Maslakovic, SUNY, New Paltz: The Spatial Turn and "Espace Public": The Case of Lyon

Alison Murray, University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Film as a Source for Cultural History

Allan Pasco, University of Kansas: Revolutionary Divorce, Literature, and Cultural History

Comment: The Audience

3G: Fraternity, Sociability and Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Hill Ballroom South


Chair: Scott Haine, Holy Names College

Steven Kale, Washington State University: High Society and the Organization of French Political Life in the Early Nineteenth Century

Carol E. Harrison, Kent State University: Catholic Fraternity and the Bourgeois Public Sphere: The Early Years of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

Patricia Turner, Lehigh University: Civic Feasts: Club Banquets and the Growth of Civil Society in the Early Third Republic

Comment: Ted Margadant, University of California, Davis

Session 4

Friday

4:00-5:30 pm

Hanes Art Center Auditorium

Plenary Session: Contemporary French Views of the United States: New Images, New Fears, and New Exchanges

Chair: Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Eric Fassin, École Normale Supérieure: Good Cop, Bad Cop: "America" in French Intellectual Life since the 1980s

Richard Kuisel, Georgetown University: No Thanks Uncle Sam: The Paradox of Contemporary French Anti-Americanism



Reception

5:30-7:30 pm

Ackland Art Museum


The Ackland Museum's special exhibition, "Seasons of Paris," will be open for conference participants at this time.















Saturday, March 10


Continental Breakfast

7:30-8:30 am

Carolina Inn, Lobby

Registration

8:00-11:00 am

Carolina Inn, Lobby

Book Exhibit

8:30 am-4:30 pm

Carolina Inn, Sunroom



Session 5

Saturday

8:30-10:15 am

All Events at the Carolina Inn


5A: Images of Confinement: Femininity, Science, Medicine and the Body in France and its Dominions

North Parlor

Chair: John Rothney, Ohio State University

Robert Hendrick, St. John's University: Negative Stereotypes of Women in Images of Science in fin-de-siècle France

Jonathan Marshall, University of Melbourne: Hysterical Mimicry: The Performativity of Hysteria at the Salpêtrière Women's Asylum in the Late Nineteenth Century

Richard Keller, Rutgers University: Pinel in the Maghreb: Madness, Liberation, and Confinement in French Tunesia

Comment: Alice Bullard, Georgia Institute of Technology

5B: France and America: Exchanges and Rivalries in the Modern Era

South Parlor

Chair: Michael Smith, University of South Carolina

Carol Armbruster, Library of Congress: French Pulp Fiction in Turn-of-the-Century America

Brian A. McKenzie, SUNY, Stony Brook: "The Key to Plenty": Promoting the American Way of Life in France Through Film

François Le Roy, Northern Kentucky University: France's "Mirage" Challenge: French Military Jets Sales and the United States, 1958-1969

Comment: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles

5C: The City of Paris: Photography, Memory, and the Museum

Alumni Room

Chair: Robert Brown, University of North Carolina, Pembroke

Carol Mavor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Childhood Regained: The Boyhood Photographs of Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Kirsten Hoving, Middlebury College: Indecisive Moments: Paris, Through Surrealist Lens

Elizabeth Gray Buck, Independent Scholar, Chapel Hill: Long and Silent Confidences: The Musée Gustave Moreau, the Musée Rodin and the Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner under the Third Republic

Comment: Matthew Affron, University of Virginia

5D: The Creation of Culture Heroes in Revolutionary France

Club Room

Chair: Morag Martin, SUNY, Brockport

Sheryl Kroen, University of Florida, Gainesville: "Tartufferie": Molière's Revolutionary Legacy

Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley: Revolutionary Transformations of Rousseau: the Story of His Editions, 1789-1800

Comment: Margaret Waller, Pomona College

5E: Race, Immigration, and the Republican Tradition

Chancellors' Ballroom East

Chair: Wendy Perry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Clifford Rosenberg, New School University: Immigration and the Ambiguities of Political Policing in Interwar Paris

Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Smith College: Beyond Inclusion Versus Exclusion: Immigrants and Citizenship in Interwar France

Sandrine Bertaux, EHESS/Istituto Univeritario Europeo: Catégories juridiques et categories raciales pour représenter la population métropolitaine, 1898-1945

Comment: Tessie Liu, Northwestern University

5F: New Perspectives on the Occupation

Chancellors' Ballroom West

Chair: Linda Orr, Duke University

Stephen Kargère, Brandeis University: Jewish Collaboration in France under the German Occupation: The Joinivici Case

Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo: Popular Protest in Northern France, 1940-1945

John Hill, Brandeis University: Some Dangers of Resistance and Collaboration in Occupied France: The Raymond Beure Case

Comment: Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University

5G: Rethinking Labor in the Revolutionary Era

Hill Ballroom South

Chair: Cynthia Koepp, Wells College

Leonard N. Rosenband, Utah State University: Reconsidering Discipline at the End of the Old Regime

Jeff Horn, Manhattan College: Coalitions, Compagnonnage and Competition: Bordeaux's Labor Market (1775-1825)

Jennifer J. Davis, Penn State University: Labor Organization and Practices Among Rouen's Culinary Professionals, 1778-1791

Comment: T. G. A. Le Goff, York University

5H: Mood and Moment: 1789, 1938, 1968

Hill Ballroom North

Chair: Jay Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Gilbert Shapiro, University of Pittsburgh: The Mood of the French in 1789

Benjamin F. Martin, Louisiana State University: The Mood of the French in 1938

Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Supplying Paris: Food and Fuel in May 1968

Comment: Sarah Maza, Northwestern University



Coffee Break

10:15-10:30 am

Carolina Inn, Lobby

Session 6

Saturday, 10:30-12:15 am

All Events in the Carolina Inn


6A: Imagining the Nation: Race, Alsace, and Versailles in Modern France

North Parlor

Chair: Barry Bergen, Gallaudet University

Roland Hsu, University of Idaho: Seeing a Past-Perfect: The Construction of a National Museum and Counter-Terrorism at Versailles

Shane Story, Rice University: The Myth of French Alsace, 1871-1918

Elisa Camiscioli, University of Chicago: Race, Nation, and Citizenship in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate

Comment: Jo Margadant, Santa Clara University

6B: Crime, Citizenship, and Community, 1750-1900

South Parlor

Chair: Alan Williams, Wake Forest University

Jeremy Hayhoe, University of Maryland: Crime, Local Communities, and the State in northern Burgundy, 1750-1789

Miranda Spieler, Columbia University: French Ex-convicts and the Limits of Citizenship

James M. Donovan, Penn State University, Mont Alto: Not a Right but a Public Function: The Debate in the National Assembly over the 1872 Law on the Formation of the Jury

Comment: William Reddy, Duke University

6C: Religion and Authority from the Reformation to the Revolution

Alumni Room

Chair: Kristen Neuschel, Duke University

Michelle Marshman, Northwest Nazarene University: Religious Reform in the Correspondence of Marguerite of Navarre

Mita Choudhury, Vassar College: "In the Shadows": The Denunciation of Monastic Despotism in the Eighteenth Century

Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University: Constitutional Bishops of the Convention: Accommodating or Promoting Revolution

Comment: James Collins, Georgetown University

6D: Rethinking the Modernity and Modernization of 19th-Century France

Club Room

Chair: Helen Chenut, University of California, Irvine

Steven E. Rowe, Duke University: Literacy and the Birth of Modernity?: The Social Role of Working-Class Writing Practices in the 19th Century

Diana Snigurowicz, Depaul University: Modernity Embodied: Spectacles of Monstrosity and the Transition to Urban Modernity

Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga: Making Modern France: Just Add Religion?

Comment: Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University







6E: Revolution and Terror

Chancellors' Ballroom East


Chair: George Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Patrice Gueniffey, Centre Raymond Aron, EHESS: La terreur: accident ou fatalité des revolutions?

Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University: Classical Republicanism and the Terror

Comment: Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University

6F: What is the Place of the French Language in the World Today?

Chancellors' Ballroom West

Sponsored by the Institut Français de Washington to mark the Institut's 75th anniversary

Chair: Catherine Maley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Albert Valdman, Indiana University: French in the Caribbean Basin

Julie Auger, Indiana University: French in Canada and in France

Carl Blyth, University of Texas: French in Africa and in Global Technology

Comment: The Audience

6G: Vichy and Regional Historians

Hill Ballroom South

Chair: Kolleen Guy, University of Texas

Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont: Philippe Ariès and the Secrets of the History of Mentalities

Claude Reynard, University of Western Ontario: History Dismissed: Assessing the Contribution of Local Historians to Academic Research

Philip Whalen, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Cultural Project of Burgundian Regionalism and Vichy

Comment: Caroline Ford, University of British Columbia







SFHS Awards Luncheon

12:15-1:45 pm

Hill Ballroom


Presiding:

Lenard Berlanstein: University of Virginia

Executive Director of SFHS


Session 7

Saturday

2:00-3:45 pm

Events at the Carolina Inn and Peabody Hall


7A: Roundtable: Contemporary Music in the Francophone World: A Conversation with Musicians from Mali

North Parlor

Chair: James Winders, Appalachian State University

Mamadou Diabate, Kora player

Famora Diabate, Balafon player

Fuseini Kouyate, Nagoni player


Abdoulaye Diabate, Jeli singer

Comment: The Audience

7B: Visual Culture, Mass Culture, and the Writing of History

South Parlor

Chair: Aaron Segal, East Carolina University

Don Lacoss, University of Michigan: Pensez à votre maman: Reading Surrealist Détornement as Propaganda

Greg Shaya, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University: Reading the Illustrated Newspaper in France, c. 1900

Comment: Michael L. Wilson, University of Texas, Dallas

Comment: Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California: Historians and Visual Culture

7C: Gender-Identity and Power in Modern France

Alumni Room

Chair: Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California

Barbara Day-Hickman, Temple University: Fashion, Gender and Power in Popular Caricature and Texts During the Second Republic

Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University: Fabric and Femininity

Robert Nye, Oregon State University: Embodiment and the Transmission of Masculinities

Comment: Gretchen van Slyke, University of Vermont



7D: Adolphe to the Avant-Garde: Religious Sensibility in Constant and Cocteau

Club Room

Chair: Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University

Helena Rosenblatt, National Humanities Center: Sentiment and Sociability in Benjamin Constant: From Adolphe to De la religion

Stephen Schlosser, Boston College: Antimodernist/Ultramodernist?: Jean Cocteau, Jacques Maritain, and the 1920s Parisian renouveau catholique

Comment: Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University

7E: Gender/Politics: Women, Suffrage, and Political Expression in the French Third Republic

Peabody Hall 215

Chair: Birgitte Soland, Ohio State University

Daniella Sarnoff, Xavier University: Voting Right: Suffrage, the Jeunesses Patriotes, and the Croix de Feu

Karen Huber, Ohio State University: The Duty to Vote: Catholic Women and Suffrage in Third Republic Brittany

Sara Kimble, University of Iowa: Political Uses of the Law and Feminism in the Third Republic

Comment: Joy Hall, Auburn University



7F: Defining France: National Identity and Myth, 1900-1940

Peabody Hall 216

Chair: Nancy Fitch, California State University, Fullerton

Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick: André Siegfried and the Articulation of French National Identity

Nadia Malinovich, Lehman College, CUNY: Reshaping Franco-Judaism: Discourses of Jewish Identity in France, 1900-1932

Paul Schue, California State University, Fullerton: The Creation of French Fascist Myths in the Spanish Civil War Writings of Robert Brasillach

Comment: David Schalk, Vassar College

7G: Writing Reform: Intellectuals on Social Reform in the July Monarchy

Peabody Hall 217

Chair: Keith Luria, North Carolina State University

Carolyn Johnston, University of North Texas: Theophile Gautier's Theater Criticism During the 1840s

Lynn L. Sharp, Whitman College: Reincarnation, Socialism, and Reform in the Writings of Jean Reynaud

Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University: Urban Space and Social Reform During the July Monarchy

Comment: Matthew Ramsey, Vanderbilt University

7H: Media and Cultural Politics in the Popular Front

Peabody Hall 104

Chair: Sarah Farmer, University of Iowa

Brett Bowles, Iowa State University: Screening the Popular Front: The Sociology and Politics of Moviegoing, 1935-1938

Joelle Neulander, University of Iowa: Radio and Cultural Propaganda: The Popular Front, the 1937 Radio Elections and Marius Riollet's "France"

Robin Walz, University of Alaska, Southeast: Tout à fait Maigret (malgré lui-même): The French Detective as National Icon in the Era of Americanization

Comment: Herrick Chapman, New York University



Coffee Break

3:45-4:00 pm

Carolina Inn, Meeting Room Corridors

Session 8

Saturday

4:00-5:45 pm

Events at Carolina Inn and Peabody Hall

8A: Roundtable: Rethinking French Colonial History

North Parlor

Chair: John Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota

Robert Forster, Johns Hopkins University: France in America

William Cohen, Indiana University: French Western Africa

Patricia Lorcin, Texas Tech University: France Outre-mer: Gender and Women in the Colonies

Michael G. Vann, University of California, Santa Cruz: Teaching the French Colonial Period of Vietnamese History

Comment: The Audience

8B: Art, History, and Pedagogy

South Parlor

Chair: Mary Sheriff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Beth Wright, University of Texas, Arlington: Education/Emulation/Illustration: The ABCs of Patriotism in 1793

Anne Schroder, Duke University: Fragonard and David at the Louvre: Re-Considering History

David O'Brien, University of Illinois: Colonial Reproduction: France's Orient in its Art and History

Comment: Candace Clements, University of Hartford

8C: Cultural Entanglements: France and America in an Age of Revolution

Alumni Room

Chair: Sylvia Neely, Penn State University

Doina Pasca Harsanyi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Jacques-Pierre Brissot, the Marquis de Chastellux, and the Images of America in pre-Revolutionary France

William Chew, Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussels: Yankees Caught in the Cross-fire: The Trials and Travails of Americans in Revolutionary France

Comment: William Stinchcombe, Syracuse University

8D: Enacting Citizenship: Ritual and Practice in the Republican Tradition

Club Room

Chair: John I. Brooks III, Fayetteville State University

Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv University: Festival and Utopia in the Republican Tradition: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Emile Durkheim

Timothy Baycroft, Univeristy of Sheffield: Cultural Appropriation in Modern France

Sue Peabody, Washington State University: Slave, Subject, Citizen: Gender, Freedom, and Politics in the French Caribbean, 1635-1848

Comment: William Sewell, University of Chicago

8E: Feminist Worldviews in the Third Republic

Peabody Hall 215

Chair: Judith A. DeGroat, St. Lawrence University

Venita Datta, Wellesley College: Feminist Nietaxcheans or Nietzschean Feminists? Fremch Women Writers look at Nietzsche

Carolyn J. Eichner, University of South Florida: "A Wild Woman in Petticoats": Feminism, Socialism, and Anti-Clericalism in the fin-de-siècle Public Lectures of Paule Mink

Comment: Karen Offen, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University

8F: Legacies of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)

Peabody Hall 216

Chair: Michele Longino, Duke University

Raymond Spiteri, University of Western Australia: Surrealism in Henri Lefebvre's Critique de la vie quotidienne: Between the Everyday and the Marvellous

Erica J. Peters, University of Chicago: Revolutions in Everyday Life: A Colonial Reading of Lefebvre

Michael Kelly, University of Southampton: Henri Lefebvre: The Intellectual as Prophet

Comment: Bud Burkhard, University of Maryland University College

8G: Belonging to the French Nation, 1945 to the Present

Peabody Hall 217

Chair: Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky

Yaël Simpson Fletcher, University of the South: Catholics, Communists and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Post-War Marseilles

Joshua Cole, University of Georgia: Discipline and Punish or Preserve and Protect? The "Action sociale pour les français musulmans d'Algérie," 1959-1962

Catherine Raissiguier, University of Cincinnati: Gender, Migration, and the French Republic: The "sans-papiers" Movement in the 1990s

Comment: Todd Shepard, Rutgers University/Université de Paris X

8H: Clientage, Wealth and Power: New Views on the Early Modern French Nobility

Peabody Hall 104

Chair: Mack P. Holt, George Mason University

J. H. M. Salmon, Bryn Mawr College: A Second Look at the "noblesse seconde": The Key to Noble Clientage and Power?

Stuart Carroll, University of York: The Peace In the Feud in 16th- and 17th-century France

Sharon Kettering, Montgomery College: Household Patronage and the Court Career of the duc de Luynes

John J. Hurt, University of Delaware: The parlementaires of Louis XIV and the Bankruptcy of 1709

Comment: Jonathan Dewald, SUNY, Buffalo