The Society for French Historical Studies Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting
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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 2 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 4 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 5 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 9 Session 2: 10:30–12:15pm 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 10 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