The Society for French Historical Studies Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting
March 8–10, 2018 Marriott City Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1 Our Sponsors
Duquesne University: Office of the Provost MacAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Department of History
University of Pittsburgh: Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Science Department of History European Studies Center World History Center Humanities Center Early Modern Worlds Initiative
Thanks to the Florence Gould Foundation and Duke University Press
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Executive Committee
Bryant T. Ragan Executive Director Colorado College
Lynn Sharp Financial Officer Whitman College
Sarah Horowitz Secretary/Web Coordinator Washington and Lee University
Steve Zdatny Past Executive Director University of Vermont
Pernille Røge Co-President University of Pittsburgh
Jotham Parsons Co-President Duquesne University
Kathryn Edwards Co-Editor, French Historical Studies University of South Carolina
Carol Harrison Co-Editor, French Historical Studies University of South Carolina
Lisa Leff Immediate Past Co-President American University
Katrin Schultheiss Immediate Past Co-President George Washington University
Lauren Clay Past Co-President Vanderbilt University
Katherine Crawford Past Co-President
3 Vanderbilt University Daniella J. Kostroun President-Elect Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Roxanne Panchasi Member-at-Large (Canada) Simon Fraser University
Nina Kushner Member-at-Large Clark University
Brian Sandberg Member-at-Large Northern Illinois University
Darcie S. Fontaine Member•at•Large (Pre-tenure Faculty) University of South Florida
David Kammerling Smith H-France Representative Eastern Illinois University
Officer
James Coons Digital Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Program Committee
Allyson Delnore, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh Chloé Hogg, French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh Felix Germain, Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh Jehnie Reis, Point Park University Burce Venarde, History, University of Pittsburgh John Walsh III, French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Assistants
Jack Bouchard; Yevan Terrien; John Tipton, University of Pittsburgh Kerry Green, Duquesne University
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Thursday, March 8
3:00 p.m. – 7 :00 p.m. Conference Registration, Marriott City Center Foyer
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception with Cash Bar, Marriott City Center Foyer Sponsored by Duke University Press
7:00 p.m. Executive Board Meeting, Le Lyonnais
Friday, March 9
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. French Historical Studies Editorial Board Meeting, Steelhead Brasserie Private Room, Marriott City Center
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast Buffet, Marriott City Center Foyer
7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Conference Registration, Marriott City Center Foyer
Saturday, March 10
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration, Marriott City Center Foyer
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Friday, March 9
Session I: 8:30–10:15
Panels:
1 A. Challenges at Home and Abroad City Center A
Chair: Ralph Menning, Kent State University
Papers: The Pots Kept Boiling: France’s Failure to Stabilize Eastern Europe in the Late Old Regime Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas Little Rock
The Marquis de Maisonfort: The Making of a Counter- Revolutionary Conspirator Tim Carapella, Binghamton University
Danton v. Robespierre: A Real or a False Polarity? Marisa Linton, Kingston University
Comment: Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University
1 B. Slavery and Economic Life in the French Atlantic World Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Yvonne Fabella, University of Pennsylvania
Papers: “She Persisted in Her Revolt”: Slavery, Freedom, and Relationships in Saint-Domingue Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia
The Commodification of Enslaved Children in Nineteenth- Century Martinique Alix Rivière, Tulane University
6 To Turn an Eye Blind: Testimony and Human Property in the Illegal French Slave Trade Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière, Harvard University
Comment: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College-CUNY
1 C. Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality in the Belle Époque Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University
Papers: The Single Standard or the Double Standard? Public Debates over Proper Sexual Relations between Men and Women during the Belle Époque Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester
Charles Turgeon’s Le Féminisme français (1902): An analysis of the work and its reception Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
“Les injustices de nos lois”: Feminist Legal Thought and Practice in the Belle Époque Sara Kimble, DePaul University
Comment: Linda Clark, Millersville University
1 D. Putain de merde!: Hygiene from Medieval through Modern France Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Papers: A Good Investment? Parisian Bathhouses in the Late Middle Ages Ellen Wurtzel, Oberlin College
Insalubre and Incompatible: Manufacturing Fertilizers in the Parisian Region (1830–1849) Morag Martin, SUNY-Brockport 7
How the Military Made the French Cleaner Steve Zdatny, University of Vermont
Rural Healthcare in a Land of Marmots: the Hautes-Alpes in WWI Cherily Lacy, Hartwick College
Comment: The Audience
1 E. Labor and Labor Protest between Colony and Metropole Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Stephen Harp, University of Akron
Papers: Vexations to the Flame: Labor Unrest and Alleged Incendiarism in the Late Nineteenth-Century French Caribbean Christopher Church, University of Nevada, Reno
Somali Sailors and Colonial Frontiers: Race, Labor, and Mobility in Imperial France Minayo Nasiali, University of California Los Angeles
Sticks and Stones: Algerian Vineyard Workers and Rural Labor Protest during the Popular Front Owen White, University of Delaware
Comment: Jennifer Sessions, University of Iowa
1 F. The “Cultural Turn” in the Enlightenment: Writing Cultural Histories in the Eighteenth Century City Center B
Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Papers: Myths in the Age of Reason: Mythology as Cultural
8 History at the Académie des inscriptions Anton Matytsin, Kenyon College
What was the History of the Book? Drew Starling, University of Pennsylvania
Cultus and Unitas: A proto-Cultural Turn in the Enlightenment? Bernard and Picart’s Cérémonies Luke Freeman, University of Minnesota
Comment: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
1 G. Reconciling 1968 Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: Jehnie Reis, Point Park University
May 68, Marcel Ophuls, and French Television Brett Bowles, Indiana University
Les maoïstes en France. 1966–1976. Des entrepreneurs de la radicalité aux intellectuels sinophiles François Hourmant, Université Angers
« De Mai 68 à la « Mode rétro » : la Resistance française à l’épreuve de la vaguesoixante-huitarde/May 68 and the « Mode rétro » : The French Resistance Revisited Christophe Corbin, Haverford College
Comment: Jehnie Reis, Point Park University
Coffee break: 10:15-10:30
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Panels.
2 A. Early Colonial Détroit: Encounters, Societies, and Conflict in the Atlantic World, 1700–1720 City Center A
Chair: James Collins, Georgetown University
Papers: For Family or Empire: Troubling Accounts of the Fox Wars in Early Eighteenth-Century Detroit Karen Marrero, Wayne State University
« Sa Majesté vous permet de conceder des terres au Détroit comme vous trouverez bon et convenable au bien de la nouvelle colonie »: Cadillac and Feudalism in the Borderlands of New France Guillaume Teasdale, University of Windsor
Détroit to France and Back: Political and Cultural Networks and Colonial Exchanges during Louis XIV’s Reign. Sara Chapman, Oakland University
Comment: James Collins, Georgetown University
2 B. Revolutionary Emotions: Panic, Frustration and Enthusiasm 1789– 1799 Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Marisa Linton, Kingston University
Papers: Turbans of Liberty: Revolutionary Enthusiasm and Global Emotions Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine
The Panic of May 1792 Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
Taxes, Offices, Deadlines: Frustration as a Revolutionary Emotion Rebecca Spang, Indiana University
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Comment: Thomas Dodman, Columbia University
2 C. Family Politics: Marriage, Crisis, and Dynastic Strategies in Ançien Régime Court Society Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University
Papers: Marriage and Massacre: St. Bartholomew’s Day and the Problem of Religious Intermarriage Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University
Courtly Marriage and the Rules of Extramarital Relationships in Ancien régime France Pascal Firges, German Historical Institute Paris
Household Politics and Dynastic Crisis in French Court Society (1711–1712) Tom Tölle, Princeton University
Comment: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University
2 D. Internationalism and French Higher Education from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Whitney Walton, Purdue University
Papers: Valuing Strangers: Foreign Students and the Making of a New Domestic Vocation in the Ançien Régime Kit Heintzman, Harvard University
The Limits of Africanization: The University of Dakar in the 1970s Sean Beebe, Brandeis University
11 The Mobile Student-Citizen: The French Experience in ERASMUS, 1987–1997 Annalise Walkama, Purdue University
Comment: Whitney Walton, Purdue University
2 E. Building and Leveraging the Infrastructure State in the Eighteenth- Century French Atlantic Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Papers: Reframing the History of the corvée des grands chemins/corvée royale: A Generational Approach Katie McDonough, Stanford University
The Colonial Corvée: Complicating Creole-Metropolitan Relations in the Eighteenth-Century Lesser Antilles Arad Gigi, Florida State University
Empire and infrastructure Rivalry in the Heart of North America Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt, Pennsylvania State University/University of Missouri
Comment: Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY
2 F. Film and Fiction Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
Papers: La Grande Illusion (1937) de Jean Renoir, retour aux sources Frederic Leveziel, University of South Florida St. Peterburg
12 Un bon role de soutien : le film français à New York durant les années 1930 Suzanne Langlois, York University
Fictions of Social Death: Ourika and Slave Owners Elyssa Gage, University of Florida
Comment: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
PLENARY LUNCH 12:30–2:15pm Keynote. Catherine Desbarats, McGill University: Indigenizing New France: What's Left? Grand Ballroom 4–6
Session 3: 2:30–4:15pm
Panels:
3 A. Food Products and Alcoholic Beverages in Wartime France (20th century): New Issues, New Practices? Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Herrick Chapman, New York University
Papers: How to solve food and nutrition issues in occupied French territories during the Great War Clotilde Druelle-Korn, Université de Limoges
Drinking Wines in France during World War I and II: a comparison Sébastien Durand, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne
Anatomy of a Wartime Food Innovation: The Introduction of Frozen Meat in France during the Great War Kyri Claflin, Boston University
Comment: Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta
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3 B. Post-World War II Jewish Memory in France Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Ethan Katz, University of Cincinnati
Papers: Remembering the American Friends Service Committee’s Wartime Aid Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Remembering Jewish Life in the Arab-Muslim World: Oral Histories of Parisian Jews Nadia Malinovich, GSRL (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités), CNRS
Pour la Libération: Memories of Jewish Women in the Resistance Ashley Valanzola, George Washington University
Comment: Elizabeth Campbell, University of Denver
3 C. Roundtable Honoring the Life and Work of William Beik Grand Ballroom 3
Participants: Darryl Dee, Wilfrid Laurier University Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Maryville College Mack Holt, George Mason University Jeffrey Houghtby, University of North Florida
3 D. French Theology and the Twentieth-Century War Experience City Center A
Chair: Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University
Papers: Situating the War Mysticism of Teilhard de Chardin: Tillich and Studdert-Kennedy Joseph Byrnes, Oklahoma State University
14 The Weapons of the Spirit: Catholic Theology and the Resistance to Nazism in France during the Second World War Sarah Shortall, University of Notre Dame
A ‘Great Fire of Love Between Friends’: Louis Massignon, Mary Kahil, and the Algerian War Brenna Moore, Fordham University
Comment: Thomas A. Kselman, University of Notre Dame
3 E. Between Imperialism and Internationalism: The United Nations, UNESCO, and the French Empire in the Twentieth Century Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: Owen White, University of Delaware
Papers: ‘S.O.S. from the Past’: UNESCO’s Heritage Campaign in Post- Mandate Syria and Lebanon” Sarah Griswold, New York University
Schools as Ideological Battlegrounds: UNESCO and Amadou Moctar M’Bow in Senegal Rachel Kantrowitz, Brown University
The French Union Meets the United Nations: Global Perspectives on France's Postwar Empire Jessica Pearson, Macalester College
Comment: Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
3 F. Transnational Human Rights in the Twentieth Century Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
Papers: Humanitarian Relief as Human Rights in the Great War Era (1914–1933)? Michael McGuire, Salem State University
15 “Une nègre de drame”: Jane Vialle, Rayford W. Logan and the question of black representation at the United Nations Sarah Dunstan, University of Sydney
Awakening the Public Conscience: The French Committee for Amnesty in Portugal and Anti-Salazar Activism Melissa Byrnes, Southwestern University
Comment: Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Coffee Break: 4:15–4:30
Session 4: 4:30–6:15pm
Panels:
4 A. French Revolution and Religious Freedom City Center A
Chair: Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Papers: The Ambivalent Anti-Rousseauians: Christian Apologetics between Radicalizing Enlightenment and Jean-Jacques Rousseau before the French Revolution Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University
Huguenots and the Fight for Religious Freedom during the Revolution of 1789 Katrina Wheeler, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Breaking Habits: Identity and the Dissolution of Convents in France Corinne Gressang, University of Kentucky
Comment: Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
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4 B. Visualizing Global France: Image, Expertise, and Affect in the Postcolonial Era Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Jennifer Boittin, Pennsylvania State University
Papers: Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of France’s Global Image in Shanghai, c. 1984–1991 Catherine Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bodies of Evidence: Imaging French Nuclear Testing in the Sahara, 1960–1966 Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
Images of a “New Algeria”: Development and Propaganda in the Algerian War, 1954–1962 Terrence Peterson, Florida International University
Comment: Daniel Sherman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
4 C. Questions of Racial Mixing and Indigeneity at UNESCO and in France: Fernandes, Métraux, and Freyre Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
Papers: Roger Bastide, Florestan Fernandes, and the Tensions of Franco-Brazilian research on Race Relations Ian Merkel, New York University
Tout à fait unique: Alfred Métraux, Te Rangi Hiroa, and the Southern Oceanic Roots of Postwar Antiracism Sebastián Gil-Riaño, University of Pennsylvania
17 Brazil’s image between miscegenation and racism: the reception of Gilberto Freyre’s works in postwar France Cibele Barbosa da Silva Andrade, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
Comment: Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
4 D. Transnational Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Decolonization and Activism in the ’68 Years Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Papers: Vietnam in France: Antiwar Internationalism and May 68 Salar Mohandesi, Bowdoin College
Gender in a Postcolonial Empire Emily Fransee, University of Chicago
Reading Germaine Tillion after Empire: Social Aid Activism, Migrant Women, and Colonial Knowledge Elise Franklin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Fifty Years After: Simone Lellouche Othmani Burleigh Hendrickson, Dickinson College
Comment: Melissa Byrnes, Southwestern University
4 E. Roundtable Honoring the Life and Work of William Beik II Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Darryl Dee, Wilfrid Laurier University
Papers: James Collins, Georgetown University Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University Michael Breen, Reed College
18 4 F. Innovation and Tradition in the Modern French Farm and Food Economy City Center B
Chair: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College—CUNY
Papers: “Food Without Borders”: Culinary Exoticism and the Development of the Frozen Food Industry in France John P. Murphy, Gettysburg College
A Woman at the Helm: Flexibility and Diversification in Early 21st Century French Oeliculture Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University
Les même gestes: Marketing contemporary AOP cheeses through tradition and savoir faire Lynn Sharp, Whitman College
Comment: Tamara L. Whited, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
4 G. The “Disoccupation” of the Mind Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: Aude Fauvel, CHUV—Université de Lausanne
Papers : Revolution, Overdetermination, and the Citizen-Soldier’s Mind Thomas Dodman, Columbia University
Frantz Fanon, the Pathologies of Freedom, and the Decolonization of the Mind Camille Robcis, Cornell University
Resisting American Hegemony: The Classification française des troubles mentaux as 'Decolonization of the Mind'? Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau, McGill University
Comment: Aude Fauvel, Université de Lausanne
19 RECEPTION: 6:15–7:30, Marriott Foyer Luis Hernandez, piano.
20 SATURDAY, March 10
Session 5: 8:30–10:15
Panels.
5 A. Property and Identity in the French Colonial World Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Lynn Mollenauer, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Papers: White Masters, Black Labor, Green Coffee: Developing a Coffee Plantation Model in the Eighteenth-Century French Empire Julia Landweber, Montclair State University
Slavery, Race, and Proprietary Encroachment in the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado Boulder
Property Rights, Religious Identity, and the Right of Conquest in Early Colonial Algeria Rachel Schley, Harvard University
Comment: Naomi Andrews, Santa Clara University
5 B. Changing Winds: Synthesizing Revolution & Counter-Revolution under the Directory City Center A
Chair: Angela Haas, Missouri Western State University
Papers: The Coup of Fructidor Year V Philip Hazard, University of Central Missouri
Becoming a Counter-Revolutionary: Case Studies of Leaders of 13 Vendémiaire Nichole Lucero, Arizona State University 21
Revolutionary Vengeance; France, Ireland, and Chouanization under the Directory Nicholas Stark, Lehigh University
Comment: Katlyn Carter, University of Michigan
5 C. Conceptualizing Transparency in French History Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Timothy Scott Johnson, Texas A & M Corpus Christi
Papers: Patterns, Webs, and Warps: Geroulanos’ Methodology Michael Behrent, Appalachian State University
Framing Transparency: Algeria, UNESCO, and Post-1945 France Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
Comment: Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
5 D. Performance and Society Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Papers: Somewhere Between Love, Hell, and Politics: The Complex Symbolism of the Living Statue in Seventeenth- Century French Spectacle Devin Burke, University of Louisville
Anti-Truths: Satirical Portraits as Literary and Musical Salon Games John Romey, Case Western Reserve
22 The “New Soviet Man” on Stage: Soviet ballet tours in France, 1954–1975 Kayci Harris, University of Wisconsin Madison
Comment: Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina Charlotte
AV Panel. 5 E. French Identity in the Twentieth Century Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Daniel Lee, University of Sheffield
Papers: “De Gaulle must Die”: Petit Clamart and the Trial of Colonel Bastien-Thiry Mairead Ni Bhriain, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
The Union Patriotique des Français Israélites: An Extreme form of Franco-Jewish Patriotism? Florence Largilliere, Queen Mary, University of London
History as Heritage in the Maison de l’Histoire de France, 2007–2012 Joshua Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Comment: Daniel Lee, University of Sheffield
5 F. New Perspectives on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Nina Kushner, Clark University
Napoleon’s Revolutionary Narrative, 1790-1802 Noah Gentele, Yale University
Pouvoir des mots et opinion publique : Censure, renseignement intérieur et espionnage du Consulat à l’Empire (1799-1815) Maximilien Novak, University of Chicago
23 A Revolution in Duties: The French Revolution and its Legacy of Public Administration Richard Siegler, Florida State University
Comment: Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida
Coffee Break: 10:15–10:30
Session 6: 10:30–12:15pm
6 A. French Republicanism from the Margins Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Allyson Delnore, University of Pittsburgh
Papers: The Ship of State in the French Revolution Niklas Frykman, University of Pittsburgh
French Republicanism and the Body Politic, or How to Be French in a Globalizing World Lisa Bromberg, University of Pittsburgh
Measuring the effects of an electroshock to the French Republican Model in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les Raisins de la Galère Jennifer Boum Make, University of Pittsburgh
Comment: Allyson Delnore, University of Pittsburgh
6 B. Renegotiating French Algeria: Partnership, Development, and Conflict, 1930-1959 City Center A
Chair: Elizabeth Perego, Shepherd University
24 Papers: Setting Up a French Military-Industrial Complex in Algeria (1945-1959) Samir Saul, Université de Montréal
A Tale of Two Villes: The Ville d’Alger, Ville d’Oran, and Algeria’s Shipping in the 1930s John Perry, Ohio State University
The Fingers of a Hand are not All Alike: Algerian Soldiers in the Liberation of Alsace, 1944–1945 Lauren A. Henry, Ohio State University
Comment: Elizabeth Perego, Shepherd University
6 C. Clerical Identities and Empire in Early Modern France Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
Papers: French Franciscans, Bourbon imperialism and the early modern Holy Land Megan Armstrong, McMaster University
The Jesuit Career of René Robert Cavalier de La Salle Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Comments: Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
6 D. Of Ill Disputes: The Mutability and Mobility of Modern Hygienic Knowledge Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Steven Zdatny, University of Vermont
Papers: Tuberculosis and Civilizational Critique in Epidemiology and Anticolonial Activism, 1920–1940 Aro Velmet, University of Southern California, University of Oxford 25
All at Sea: How 1790s Hygiene Theories Travelled (and Didn’t Travel Well) Ralph Kingston, Auburn University
Dietary Regiment? The Rules and Reality of Hygiène alimentaire in the Écoles primaires supérieures de filles in Paris Samantha Presnal, New York University
Comment: Steven Zdatny, University of Vermont
6 E. Modern France in Comparative Perspective Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: David Troyansky, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Papers: The Arts of Protest: France and Mexico in 1968 Sarah Stokes, IBM
Liberalism, Religion, and 1960s Migrant Activism: Spaniards in France and Mexicans in the United States Julie Weise, University of Oregon
Comment: David Troyansky, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
6 F. Culture and Nation Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University
Papers: The Eiffel Tower of Babel: Counterfactual, Imperial Rewriting of a Monument in Les Concours publics d’architecture Julia Schrank, University of Virginia
26 From Visions of French Unity to Valorization of American Craft Labor: The Semantic Shift in Puvis de Chavannes’s Summer through the Decorative Aesthetic Anthony Huffman, Independent Scholar
“Journal bête et méchant et de mauvais goût”, Charlie Hebdo and the Reinvention of Satire in 1960s France Imen Neffati, University of Sheffield
Comment: Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University
BUSINESS LUNCH, 12:30–2:15pm Grand Ballroom 4–6
Session 7: 2:30–4:15pm
Panels.
7 A. Gender, Empowerment and the long French Revolution Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Tracey Rizzo, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Papers: A Gendered Perspective on the Theatricality of the French Revolution Théroigne de Méricourt and Olympe de Gouges as Political Personae Klaas Tindemans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Manipulating the System: How Students at the Maison d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur Made the Most of their Education to Achieve Independence and Power Maureen MacLeod, Mercy College
27 Imprisoned Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Paris: A Spatial Analysis Kirstyn Raitz, Durham University
Comment: Tracey Rizzo, University of North Carolina at Asheville
7 B. Big Data and French Historical Studies Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: Elizabeth Bond, Ohio State University
Papers: How Surprising Was the French Revolution? Insights from Information Theory Rebecca Spang, Indiana University and Simon Dedeo, Carnegie Mellon University
La Ville Lumière, the Prince of Troy and a Settlement in Kiribati: Designing and Using Historical Gazetteers Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Comment: The Audience
7 C. Representing Gender in Modern French History Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Andrew Ross, University of Southern Mississippi
Papers: Charm Offensive: Gender, Tourism, and Representation in Postwar France Kelly Colvin, Brown University
Gentlemen and Journeymen: Working Class Masculinity in Henri-Gabriel Ibels’s Programs for the Théâtre Libre Jason Vrooman, Middlebury College
28 Muscles, Manacles, and Masculinity: Physical and Sexual Charisma in the French Anti-Semitic Movement Elizabeth W. Everton, Concordia University
Comment: Andrew Ross, University of Southern Mississippi
7 D. Violence and Delinquency in the late Third Republic Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Papers: Colonial Violence in Paris: Fascism, Jean Ferrandi, and Colonial Officers in the 1930s Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota
Vulnerable Delinquents: Childhood and Criminality in the Interwar Period Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary
Brutes and Bludgeoners: Policing Interwar France Chris Millington, Swansea University
Comment: Vicki Caron, Cornell University
7 E. Transnational Appropriations in French Intellectual History City Center A
Chair: John Walsh, University of Pittsburgh
Papers: The Use of Pragmatism: Georges Sorel, William James, and the Philosophy of Religion Eric Brandom, Kansas State University
Shadows of Spengler: Albert Camus’s Settler Culture vs. French Civilization Christopher Churchill, University of Lethbridge
29 A Conservative Post-Colonial Thinker? Albert Memmi on Women and Arab Nationalism Daniel Gordon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Comment: John Walsh, University of Pittsburgh
7 F. Economic Interactions and the aftermath of the World Wars Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina
Papers: France and the Interwar Battle for the World Economy François Pelletier, Independent Scholar
Exploitation Colony or Bridge Between Peoples?: The Struggle Over Natural Resources in the French Zone of Occupied Germany, 1945–1955 Drew Flanagan, Brandeis University
Remembering the ‘Forgotten Zone’: Recasting the Memory of the post-1945 French Occupation of Germany Corey Campion, Hood College
Comment: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina
Coffee Break: 4:15–4:30
Session 8: 4:30–6:15pm
Panels.
8 A. Revolutionary Possibilities? Family and the Legal Regimes of Race in the Late Eighteenth-Century Outre-Mer Grand Ballroom 3
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Chair: Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia
Papers: Concubinage, Marriage and Race in Saint-Domingue Yvonne Fabella, University of Pennsylvania
Racialization and Community Networks in Saint-Marc and Léogane: Honor, Race, and “Passing” in Saint- Domingue’s Late Colonial Legal Regime Robert Taber, Fayetteville State University
“Dishonor in the Family”: Race and the Gendered Politics of Métissage on Réunion Island in the Age of Revolution Nathan Marvin, Johns Hopkins University
Interracial Families and White Support for Liberty and Equality in the Haitian Revolution Erica Johnson, Francis Marion University
Comment: Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado-Boulder
8 B. The French Revolutionary Prison Marquis Ballroom C
Chair: Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
Papers: Furnishing the prison cell in the French Revolution Sophie Matthiesson, National Gallery of Victoria
The peripatetic Guillotine and the problems of burial space in Revolutionary Paris Jonathan Smyth, Birkbeck, University of London
A Dislocated Assembly: Imprisoning Deputies in Revolutionary France Mette Harder, SUNY Oneonta
Comment: Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
31 8 C. Visual Studies and Empire Marquis Ballroom B
Chair: James D. Le Sueur, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Papers: The Body and the Archive Revisited: Thoughts on Photography and Social History in the Age of Digital Humanities Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Odd and Curious Monies: The Study, Collection, and Display of Indigenous Currencies in Fin-de-Siècle France Laura Kalba, Smith College
Photography, Identity, and Migration: Controlling Colonial Migrants in Interwar France and Senegal Johann Le Guelte, Pennsylvania State University
Comment: Catherine E. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8 D. Modern Colonialism and Empire City Center A
Chair: Amelia Lyons, University of Central Florida
Papers: «Le people indigène se lève à son tour» : Emeute et tensions raciales dans la Guadeloupe de la fin du XIXe siècle Timothée Valentin, Pennsylvania State University
Criminality in Martinique of the Postwar Era Felix Germain, University of Pittsburgh
Imperial Comparisons: Expeditions and New Visions of Empire in 1880s France Christina Carroll, Kalamazoo College
Comment: The Audience
32 8 E. Ways of Believing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Marquis Ballroom A
Chair: Xavier Marechaux, SUNY Old Westbury
Papers: Belief and Unbelief in the French Clergy: Letters to Renan Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame
Reconsidering Eighteenth Century Visual Culture: Franz Mesmer, Psychoanalysis, and Pornographic Caricatures Michael Feinberg, University of Wisconsin Madison
Comment: Xavier Marechaux, SUNY Old Westbury
8 F. Public Representations of Culture Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Venita Datta, Wellesley College
Papers: Sex Education during the Baby Boom Years: Over the Debate a Relative Consensus on the Objectives Virginie Barrusse, Université de Paris Panthéon Sorbonne
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 and the French Press Charles Sorrie, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Cultural Representations of Solidarity and Compassion: The Flood of 1910 in Paris Claire Mayo, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Comment: Venita Datta, Wellesley College
33 BANQUET, 7:30–9:30 Grand Ballroom 4–6
Keynote Talk: Julian Jackson, Telling the Truth about the Resistance
34 List of Participants
A Clark, Linda, IC Andrade, Cibele Barbosa da Silva, Cole, Joshua, 7D, 8C 4C Coller, Ian, 2B Andrews, Naomi, 5A Collins, James, 2A, 4E Armstrong, Megan, 6C Colvin, Kelly, 7C Conklin, Alice, 3E, 4C B Corbin, Christophe, IG Bacopoulos-Viau, Alexandra, 4G Crawford, Katherine, 2C Barrusse, Virginie, 8F Crowston, Clare Haru, 2E Beebe, Sean, 2D Behrent, Michael, 5C D Bergin, Joseph, 6C Datta, Venita, 8F Bhriain, Maireid Ni, 5E Dee, Darryl, 3C, 4E Boittin, Jennifer, 4B Delnore, Allyson, 6A Bond, Elizabeth, 7B Desbarats, Catherine, Plenary Bowles, Brett, IG Lunch Brandom, Eric, 7E Dodman, Thomas, 2B, 4G Breen, Michael, 4E Druelle-Korn, Clotilde, 3A Bromberg, Lisa, 6A Dunstan, Sarah, 3F Brown, Howard G., IA Durand, Sébastien, 3A Burke, Devin, 5D Burson, Jeffrey, 3D, 4A E Byrnes, Joseph, 3D, 4D Everton, Elizabeth W., 7C Byrnes, Melissa, 3F F C Fabella, Yvonne, IB, 8A Campbell, Caroline, 7D Fauvel, Aude, 4G Campbell, Elizabeth, 3B Feinberg, Michael, 8E Campion, Corey, 7F Firges, Pascal, 2C Carapella, Tim, IA Fishman, Sarah, ID Caron, Vicki, 7D Flanagan, Drew, 7F Carroll, Christina, 8D Fogg, Shannon, 3B Carter, Katlyn, 5B Franklin, Elise, 4D Chapman, Herrick, 3A Fransee, Emily, 4D Chapman, Sara, 2A Freeman, Luke, IF Charnow, Sally, 2F, 3F Frykman, Niklas, 6A Church, Christopher, IE Churchill, Christopher, 7E G Claflin, Kyri, 3A Gage, Elyssa, 2F Clark, Catherine, 4B, 8C Gentele, Noah, 5F 35 Gerber, Matthew, 5A, 8A Germain, Felix, 8D L Geroulanos, Stefanos, 5C La Hausse de Lalouvière, Joseph, IB Gigi, Arad, 2E Lacy, Cherily, 1D Gil-Riaño, Sebastián, 4C Landweber, Julia, 5A Gordon, Daniel, 7E Langlois, Suzanne, 2F Gressang, Corinne, 4A Largilliere, Florence, 5E Griswold, Sarah, 3E Le Guelte, Johann, 8C Le Sueur, James D., 8C H Lee, Daniel, 5E Haas, Angela, 5B Leveziel, Frederic, 2F Harder, Mette, 8B Linton, Marisa, IA, 2B Harris, Kayci, 5D Locklin-Sofer, Nancy, 3C Harrison, Carol, 7F Lucero, Nichole, 5B Harp, Stephen, IE Lyons, Amelia, 8D Haynes, Christine, 5D Hazard, Philip, 5B M Heath, Elizabeth, IB, 4F MacLeod, Maureen, 7A Heintzman, Kit, 2D Make, Jennifer Boum, 6A Hendrickson, Burleigh, 4D Malinovich, Nadia, 3B Henry, Lauren A., 6B Marechaux, Xavier, 8E Holt, Mack, 3C Marrero, Karen, 2A Horowitz, Sarah, IC, 6F Martin, Morag, ID Houghtby, Jeffrey, 3C Marvin, Nathan, 8A Hourmant, François, IG Matthiesson, Sophie, 8B Huffman, Anthony, 6F Matytsin, Anton, IF Mayo, Claire, 8F J McDonough, Katie, 2E Jackson, Julian, Plenary Banquet McGuire, Michael, 3F Johnson, Erica, 8A Menning, Ralph, IA Johnson, Timothy Scott, 5C Merkel, Ian, 4C Millington, Chris, 7D K Mohandesi, Salar, 4D Kalba, Laura, 8C Mollenauer, Lynn, 5A Kantrowitz, Rachel, 3E Monahan, Gregory, 4E Katz, Ethan, 3B Moore, Brenna, 3D Kaiser, Thomas E., IA Mostern, Ruth, 7B Kimble, Sara, IC Mouré, Kenneth, 3A Kingston, Ralph, 6D Murphy, John P, 4F Kostroun, Daniella, 6C Kselman, Thomas A., 3D, 8E N Kushner, Nina, 5F Nasiali, Minayo, IE
36 Neffati, Imen, 6F Siegler, Richard, 5F Novak, Maximilien, 5F Smith, Joshua, 5E Smyth, Jonathan, 8B O Sorrie, Charles, 8F O’Connor, Adrian, 5F Spang, Rebecca, 2B, 7B Offen, Karen, IC Stark, Nicholas, 5B Starling, Drew, IF P Steinberg, Ronen, 8B Panchasi, Roxanne, 4B Stokes, Sarah, 6E Pearson, Jessica, 3E Palmer, Jennifer L., IB, 8A T Pedersen, Jean Elisabeth, IC Taber, Robert, 8A Pelletier, François, 7F Tackett, Timothy, 2B Perego, Elizabeth, 6B Teasdale, Guillaume, 2A Perry, John, 6B Temkin, Moshik, 3F, 4D Peterson, Terrence, 4B Tindemans, Klaas, 7A Pichichero, Christy, IF Tipei, Alex, 6E Popkin, Jeremy, 4A Tölle, Tom, 2C Presnal, Samantha, 6D Troyansky, David, 6E
R V Raitz, Kirstyn, 7A Valanzola, Ashley, 3B Reichardt, Alyssa Zuercher, 2E Valentin, Timothée, 8D Reis, Jehnie, IG Vardi, Liana, 2E Risser, Nicole Dombrowski, 4F Velmet, Aro, 6D Rivière, Alix, IB Vrooman, Jason, 7C Rizzo, Tracey, 7A Robcis, Camille 4G W Romey, John, 5D Walkama, Annalise, 2D Ross, Andrew, 7C Walsh, John, 7E Walton, Whitney, 2D S Weise, Julie, 6E Sachs, Miranda, 7D Wellman, Kathleen, 2C Saul, Samir, 6B Wheeler, Katrina, 4A Schley, Rachel, 5A White, Owen, IE, 3E Schrank, Julia, 6F Whited, Tamara L. 4F Sessions, Jennifer, IE Wurtzel, Ellen, ID Sharp, Lynn, 4F Shepard, Todd, 4C, 5C Z Sherman, Daniel, 4B Zdatny, Steve, ID, 6D Shortall, Sarah, 3D
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