MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD Conference: “Rewriting History: The Second World War in France” Co-organised by H. Diamond (University of Bath) and J.C. Sergeant (Maiso

MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD

Conference: “Rewriting History:
The Second World War in France”

Co-organised by H. Diamond (University of Bath)
and J.C. Sergeant (Maison Française d’Oxford)

Friday 8th and Saturday 9th June 2001



The Occupation and Liberation of France never cease to be a subject of intense intellectual debate. Recent years have seen the development of new and exciting lines of research which are not only shedding new light on existing controversies but also opening up new areas of questioning. This conference will offer an ideal opportunity for the presentation of this new research to interested scholars. It also seeks to provide scope for discussion of how this new work fits into the existing body of literature and interpretation. How is the history of the Second World War in France being ‘rewritten’?

Friday 8th June

9.00am: Registration

9.30am: Welcome: Jean-Claude Sergeant, Director of Maison Française

9.45am-12.30pm, Morning Session: Vichy and the Occupation (Chair: Hanna Diamond)

- “Profit, pleasure and community in Occupied France” Robert Gildea (Oxford)

- “Towards a Third Way: Between Vichy and the Resistance” Julian Jackson (Swansea)

- “Vichy counter-espionnage against the Axis 1940-42” Simon Kitson (IHTP, Birmingham)

2.00-5.30pm, Afternoon session: Resistance (Chair: Siân Reynolds)

2.00-3.30pm: Resistance Structures

- “Toponymie urbaine et années quarante en France: combats symboliques, combats politiques”
Jean-Marie Guillon (Aix-Marseille)

- “Resistance and exile” Rod Kedward (Sussex)

4.00-5.30pm: Resistance Personalities

- “The Posthumous Reputation of Jean-Moulin, 1943-99” Alan Clinton (Open University)

- “Germaine Tillon and Jacques Soustelle: Comparative trajectories, Resistance and the Algerian war” Nancy Wood (Sussex)

Saturday 9th June

9.30am-12.30pm: STO and Liberation (Chair: Douglas Johnson)

- “Vedette involontaire: le Service du Travail Obligatoire: its filmic representation and associated material” Steve Wharton (Bath)

- “The experience and memory of STO” Richard Vinen (London)

- “Demography at Liberation: Using history to forget the past” Karen Adler (Nottingham)

- “Imagining transnational communities” Hilary Footitt (Stirling)

12.30pm: Close

For details and registration (£3 including tea and coffee), please contact:
Maison Française d’Oxford, Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE
Tel. (01865) 274220, Fax. (01865) 274225
email: maison@herald.ox.ac.uk