THE UNIVERSITY of MANCHESTER Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni The Society for the Study of French History 15th Conference With the Support of the University of Manchester 150th Anniversary funds and the Being French: Perspectives on Identity

THE UNIVERSITY of MANCHESTER

Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni

The Society for the Study of French History 15th Conference
With the Support of the University of Manchester
150th Anniversary funds and the

Being French:
Perspectives on Identity, Nation and Community'

Monday 9, Tuesday lO April 2001
Dalton Ellis Hall

9.30-10.30 Registration

10.30-11.30 Plenary Session

Jean-Francois Sirinelli (Institut des Etudes Politiques, Paris): 'Y-a-t'il une crise des intellectuels français? Le regard de l'historien.'

11.30- 12.30 Being French in the world of Publishing
Round table with French, American and British publishers

12.30-1.30 LUNCH
1.30-300 Parallel Sessions

1. Wars of Religion: Identity in crisis?

Arlette Jouanna (Montpellier), 'Etre bon français au temps des guerres de religion'
Penny IRoberts ('Warwick3 'Identifying the Enemy during the wars of religion'

2. Revolutions and Empire: revising French identity

Tom Kaiser (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), "On Not Being French Enough:
Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution."
Mike Rapport (Stirling), 'Patriote and Cosmopolitans in Revolutionary France,
1789-99'

3. The French and the other

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 'Ethnie Disorder':
Constructions of the Idea of Ethnicity in France'

3.00-3.30 TEA

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3.30 5.00 Parallel Sessions

4. Borderlands I (The South)

Bernard Rulof (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research & Nijmegen), 'A Land Unlike the Rest of France: Travellers and Prefects Views on Southern Mentality and Southern Politics'
Noelle L. Plack (University of Birmingham), 'Common Land in the Department of Gard 1770-1819'
Roger Mettam (University of London, Queen Mary), 'The Roussillonais and France in the Seventeenth Century'.

5. Reinventing France

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 identifies
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 symbole and ceremonial in fate medieval Brittany'.

: 5-6.30 Plenary Session

Françoise Bayard (Lyon) 'Dans les poches des morts'

6.30-7.30 RECEPTION
7.30 DrNNER

Tuesday 10 April

9.00-9.30 SSFH: AGM

9.30-10.30 Plenary Session
Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky) Autobiography and Identity in France

10.30-1 1.00 COllý~:E
11.00-1.00 Parallel Sessions

1. Ancien régime identifies

Jean François Dubost (Université de Caen), 'Naturalization in Ancien Régime France' Luc Racaut (Crichton College, University of Glasgow) 'Astrology, Hermeticism and the Occult during the French Wars of Religion'

2. Borderlands II (the East)

Detmar Nein (University of London, Royal Holloway), 'Alsace aux Alsaciens: The Quest for National Identity in Alsace under German rule, 1870-1914'
Carolyn Snipes- Hoyt (University of Middle Georgia),'Jeanne d'Arc: Emblem of Lorraine and French Identity in 1912'
Elizabeth Vlossak (University of Cambridge), 'Women and French Nation-Building in Alsace, 1918- 1940'

3. Foreign gaze and foreign places

Helene Cecilia de Burgh (University of Melbourne3, 'Being French in Foreign
Places: Identity and Colonialism in the Oeuvre of Pierre Loti'
Pamela Pilbeam (IJniversity of London, Royal Holloway), 'The Revolting French:
British Attitudes to C19 Revolutions'

1.00-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-3.30 Parallel Sessions
4. Liberalism, religion and national identity, ideology and voting practices

Malcolm Crook (University of Keele), 'How the French Learned to Vote: Suffrage and Citizenship, 1800-1848'
Georgios Varouxakis (Aston University), 'The National Question in French Liberal Thought during the Restoration and the July Monarchy'
Judith Bowen (University of York), 'Citoyen de Rome Souterraine: Religion and Identity during the Second Empire'

4. Provincialism and identity

Kiva Silver (University of Cambridge), 'Urban Regionalism: Provincial Identities Paris, 1895-1925'
Margaret Butler (University of Essex), 'Paysage, Paysan, Patrie: French Film and Rural Life 1940-1950'
Julian Wright (New College, Oxford), 'Unity and Uniformity? Regionalism and the Acceptance of Diversity in the Belle Epoque'

5. Patriotism in times of crisis

Eric Cahm (Université de Tours), 'Jean Jaurès: Dreyfusard and Patriot'
Peter Tame (Queen's University Belfast), 'Divided France: French Writers at War (1939-1945)'

6. In the papers of the absolutist stase

Marie-Catherine Vignal (La Sorbonne), les papiers de Richelieu sous Louis XIV'
Mark Bryant, Madame de Maintenon: Religion, power and politics'
Diego Venturino (Université de Metz), 'Louis XIV, ses mémoires, sa correspondance'
3.30-4.0 Tea

4.00-5.00 Plenary Session: round table: Being French then and now.

Please send all correspondance to Dr Alan James and/or Bertrand Taitbe, Department of History, Facult,v of Arts, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, E-mail : a.james@man.ac,uk / bertrand.taithe@man.ac.uk