H-France Salon

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is an interactive journal that welcomes proposals which will enhance the scholarly study of French history and culture.

We have salons available in print, video and webinar. For instructions on how to participate in future webinars, click here.

A collection of similar papers, discussions, etc. published on H-France as "Occasional Papers" are available here.

 

5.4: PLENARY SESSION: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND NARRATIVES OF FRENCH HISTORY
Chair: Mary D. Lewis, Harvard University   
Michael Bess
, Vanderbilt University 
Caroline Ford, UCLA     
Jean-François Mouhot, Georgetown University 

 

5.5: FRENCH UNIVERSALISM AND ITS EXCEPTIONS
Chair: Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi H-France Salon

H-France Salon

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is an interactive journal that welcomes proposals which will enhance the scholarly study of French history and culture.

We have salons available in print, video and webinar. For instructions on how to participate in future webinars, click here.

A collection of similar papers, discussions, etc. published on H-France as "Occasional Papers" are available here.

 

5.4: PLENARY SESSION: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND NARRATIVES OF FRENCH HISTORY
Chair: Mary D. Lewis, Harvard University   
Michael Bess
, Vanderbilt University 
Caroline Ford, UCLA     
Jean-François Mouhot, Georgetown University 

 

5.5: FRENCH UNIVERSALISM AND ITS EXCEPTIONS
Chair: Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi
The UNESCO Campaign Against Racism and the New Ethnological Humanism of 1950s France, Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
From Complementarity to Asymmetry: Algeria, Counter-Insurgency, and the Emergence of the Guerrilla as Free Radical, Julian Bourg, Boston College
Republicanism and the Critique of Human Rights, Camille Robcis, Cornell University
Comment: Bruno Perreau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel Discussion

5.6: NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:  A DISCUSSION OF RECENT SCHOLARSHIP (I)

Chair: Lesley Walker, Indiana University South Bend

History of Science as Means:  Mediating the Materialist and Political Histories of the French Revolution
        Kenneth Alder, Northwestern University
Putting the 'New Positivism' to Work on Politico-Literary History:  The Case of the French Revolution
        Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame
Reassessing the Rhetoric and Reality of 'Nature' in the Politics of the French Revolution
        Mary Ashburn Miller, Reed College
Video (with audio) available here
Audio-only version available here

5.6: NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:  A DISCUSSION OF RECENT SCHOLARSHIP (II)

Chair: Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame

Cosmétiques, artifice, et nature
        Catherine Lanoë, Université d'Orléans
La physionotrace
        Guillaume Mazeau, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Audio-only version available here


H-France Salon, Volume 4, Issue 5

The fall webinar took place on 4 October 2012.  It can now be viewed here 

Mack Holt, George Mason University, led the webinar. Charles Walton, Yale University, moderated.

Readings:
(1) Natalie Z. Davis, "The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France, Past & Present 59 (1973): 51-91.

(2) Barbara B. Diefendorf, "Rites of Repair: Restoring Community in the French religious Wars," in G. Murdock, P. Roberts, and A. Spicer, eds., Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 2012), Past & Present Supplement no. 7, pp. 30-51.

(3) Penny Roberts, "Peace, Ritual, and Sexual Violence during the Religious Wars," in G. Murdock, P. Roberts, and A. Spicer, eds., Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 2012), Past & Present Supplement no. 7, pp. 75-99.

(4) Keith Luria, Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005), pp. xiii-xxxviii and 1-46 (introduction and chap. 1).

Questions to consider while reading these materials:

1. Was it possible to purify a community of pollution without violence in sixteenth-century France? And if so, how?
2. Why did violence break out in some confessionally divided communities but not in others?
3. Once violence broke out in a community, what strategies worked best to de-escalate the violence, or even end it altogether?
4. Was religious toleration possible in early modern France? Or is the best that could be hoped for simply a non-violent, yet uneasy co-existence?
5. What roles did the monarchy, the rival churches, and local communities play in promoting confessional conflict or coexistence?

H-France Salon, Volume 4, Issue 4

"Considering May '68"

April 12, 2012

Guest Presenter:  Julian Jackson, Queen Mary College, University of London

Organizer and Moderator:  Charles Walton, Yale University
Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

Video available HERE
The recording of the webinar begins about ten minutes into the seminar.

Webinar Readings:
Julian Jackson, "The Mystery of May 1968," French Historical Studies 33:4 (2010): 625-653.
Julian Bourg, "The Red Guards of Paris: French Student Maoism of the 1960s," History of European Ideas 31:4 (2005): 472-490.
Pierre Vidal Naquet and Alain Schnapp, The French Student Uprising, November 1967-June 1968; an analytical record (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), pp. 1-48.  
Virgini Linhart, Le Jour ou mon pere s'est tu, translated excerpt in English appearing in J.Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne, and James Williams, May 68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution New York: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 398-417.

Jackson

 

H-France Salon, Volume 4, Issue 3

In this issue, we present the recording of the panel entitled "The Work and Contributions of Lynn Hunt," which occurred at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, 23 March 2012, in Los Angeles, California. 

Video available HERE

The panel participants included:

Chair:  Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin

Participants:
        Jack Censer, George Mason University
        Antoine de Baecque, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
        Paul Hanson, Butler University
        Sarah Maza, Northwestern University

Comment:  Lynn A. Hunt, UCLA

LynnHunt

 

H-France Salon, Volume 4, Issue 2

Edited by Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

The following Salon was prepared as a continuation of a forum entitled "Remembering Tony Judt:  A Forum" that appears in French Historical Studies  (volume 35, winter 2012).  The Salon begins with three essays and concludes with an online conversation between Julian Bourg, Boston College, and Samuel Moyn, Columbia University..

Essays:

Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University    "Judgment, Understanding, and Tony Judt."

G. Daniel Cohen, Rice University    "Tony Judt, Historian."

Samuel Moyn, Columbia University    "Intellectuals, Reason, and History: In Memory of Tony Judt."

Conversation:

Click here for a conversation between Julian Bourg, Boston College, and Samuel Moyn, Columbia University.

Tony Judt

 

H-France Salon, Volume 4, Issue 1

Resistance and Order in Early Modern France

Introduction, Michael Breen, Reed College.

"Resistance and Order in Early Modern France," James Collins, Georgetown University.

Jim Collins

H-France Salon, Volume 3, Issue 2

H-France Webinar
"The Age of Revolutions in Global Context"
October 6, 2011

Guest Presenter:  Lynn Hunt, UCLA

Organizer and Moderator:  Charles Walton, Yale University
Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

Video available HERE

Webinar Readings:
Lynn Hunt, "The French Revolution in Global Context," in David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds.), The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Suzanne Desan, "Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution: The French Revolution, Sciotomanie, and American Lands," Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008), pp. 467-505.
William Max Nelson, "Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering," American Historical Review 115 (December 2010): 1364-1394.

 

H-France Salon, Volume 3, Issue 1

Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

The following paper was presented at the annual meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, SC, February 12, 2011.

Robert Tombs, St John's College, Cambridge "How bloody was la Semaine Sanglante? A revision."

The following papers were written as responses to Robert Tombs' paper:

Quentin Deluermoz, Université Paris 13/Nord "Les morts de la Semaine sanglante: retour sur la violence sociale et politique française au XIXe siècle ."

Karine Varley, University of Strathclyde "Reassessing the Paris Commune of 1871."

Response to the Salon and Webcast by Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge.

The video below is the webcast of the paper and responses given at the conference in Charleston. The session begins at 27:30:

The panel participants are:
Robert Tombs, St. John's College, Cambridge
Philip Nord, Princeton University
David Shafer, California State University Long Beach

This is followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Thanks must be given to Kurt M. Boughan, The Citadel, for his technical help in recording and streaming the session.

H-France Salon, Volume 2, Issue 1

Edited by Sannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology

The following essays were prepared in response to Meaghan Emery’s article and Richard Golsan’s response to that article published in French Historical Studies 33:4 (Fall 2010).

Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology "The Case of Jean Giono – the Debate Continues."

Meaghan Emery, University of Vermont, "Of Historical Hindsight and Oversight, and Why Reopening Giono's Case Is a Worthy Endeavor."

Julian Jackson, Queen Mary University, London, "The Rural Fantasies of Jean Giono."

Vera Mark, Pennsylvania State University, "Negotiating Jean Giono: Texts, History, and Ethics."

ISSN:2150-4873

 

H-France Salon, Volume 1, Issue 1

Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

The following essays are a response to a forum on "Twenty Years after the Bicentennial" appearing in French Historical Studies (volume 32, fall 2009).

David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University, "A la recherche d'un nouveau paradigme?"

Peter R. Campbell, "Redefining the French Revolution. New directions, 1989–2009."

Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University, "Self, Field, Myth: What We Will Have Been."

Responses to the Salon from the H-France Community.

ISSN:2150-4873

 

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