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Jones(Rutgers University) Co-Prestdent Matt Matsuda (RutgersUniversity) Co-President SECONDFLOOR CONFEFENCE CONFERENCE BOOM C ROOU B SarahFishman (University of Houston) CONFERENCE First PastCo-President BOOM D Rob Zaretsky^(Unrversity of Houston) First PastCo-Prestdent ts ClareCrowston (University of lllinoisat Urbana-Champaign) r. ser.orc 1*"r, --) $ilo r)--=/- \'--)- | Second PastCo-President Mark Micale(University of lllinoisat Urbana-Champaign) Second PastCo-President Alice Conklin (Ohio State University) Member-at-large Sean Kennedy (Universityof New Brunswick) Member-at-large KeithLuria (North Carolina State University) Member-at-large StevenC. Hause(Washington University) Pre side nt'Ele ct for 2009 Program Committee: BOAROROOM Edward Berenson,New York University Jeff Hom, ManhattanvilleCollege Jennifer M. Jones, RutgersUniversity Matt Matsuda, RutgersUniversitY PhiliPNord, PrincetonUniversitY BonnieSmith, Rutgers UniversitY clD I Jacob Soll,Rutgers University, Newark BRI'NSWIOK EALLR@M KristenStromberg Childers,University of Pennsylvania _t_____ James Swenson,Rutgers University, French department LisaTiersten, Barnard College Committee: I Local Arrangements JenniferJones, Rutgers University RutgersUniversity +-LI Cynthia Kreisel, ReneS. Marion,Bard High SchoolEarly College, Hotel Coordinator Matt Matsuda, RutgersUniversitY 7 H @r,*gfi,,iW*,*rt, %ro,oniil @*,/i", i 2 o oI ffi,g,"rd Qhmenif/ AII sessions,unless noted, will take place at the Hyatt New Brunswick Thursday,April 3 Registration 3:00to 7:00p.m., ConferenceReception, 2nd floor "Honor6 Daumier and La Maison Aubert: Politicaland SocialSatire in Paris," ExhibitOpening, 4:00 to 6:00p.m., ZimmerliArt Museum,Lower Dodge gallery EdouardPapet, curator, Orsay Museum, Paris, The Celebritiesof the JusteMilieu 6:00 p.m. ZimmerliArt Museum,Lower Dodge gallery Cash bar reception at hotel, 6:30 to B:30p.m. Sponsoredby the FrenchDepartment, HyattAtrium SFHSExecutive Committee meeting 7:00to 10:00p.m. ConferenceC Friday, April 4, 2OO7 Registration 7:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. ConferenceReception, 2nd floor Continental breakfast 7:30a.m. to 8:30a.m. sponsoredby DukeUniversity Press Adjacentto ConferenceReception, 2nd floor, FrenchHistorical Studies editorial board breakfast, 7:30to 8:30a.m. ConferenceE Book Exhibit B:30a.m to 4:30p.m. Adjacentto ConferenceReception, 2nd floor Coffee,Tea and Beverages availablethroughout the conference Salonfoyer, 2nd floorand near GardenState ballrooms, 1st floor RUTCERS \ r"rvERslrY ffiei,:U rti, i'.,Wrrr,/r,!Wotienl €ltnrli"s 900,y SessionOne. 8:30 to 1O:75a.m. 1A LiberalismBetween Republicand Empire: Constant,Sta6l, and Tocqueville ConferenceB Chair:Lloyd Kramer, University of NorthCarolina at ChapelHill AndrewJainchill, Oueen's University, Ontario, Benjamin Constant's Consular LiberalRepublicanism ChinatsuTakeda, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Sociological Implicationsof Stael'sOpen Aristocracy John Savage,Lehigh University, Protecting Colortial Ltberty: Tocqueville'sCritique of Legallnstitutionsfrom the Amertcasto Algeria Comment:Lloyd Kramer 1B Law, Governance and the French Legal lmagination Salon C/D Chair: Ben Kafl<a,New York University Camille Robcis, Cornell University, Regulating Bioethics in the 1980s: From Human Rights to the Anthropological Function of the Law Judith Su*is, Harvard University,Civilization and the Civil Code: The Scandal of "child marriage" in French Algeria 0)/,6nn?e,aa Syfvia Schafer, University of Connecticut, The Civil lndividual and the Chicaning Crowd: /Asslstance judiciaire, Liberal lmagination, and the Specter of Revolutionary Litigation Comment: Miranda Spieler, Universityof Arizona 1C Thinking Right? La Droite, Culture,and ldentity in the Twentieth Century ConferenceRoom I Chair:Lori Weintrob, Wagner College Jon Cowans,Rutgers University, Newark, Film and the Far Right: Responsesto Multiculturalismin the 1980sand 1990s SarahShurts, Montclair State University, Redefining the Engage: Right-W in g Conce ptu a lizati o ns of I nteI I e ctu a I Id e ntity, 189 B - 19 68 ChristopherChurchill, Oueen's Un iversity, Onta rio, LouisBertrand's Barbarians:The ColonialOrigins of a FrenchFasclsm Comment:Seth Armus, Saint Joseph's College, New York 1D Pr6sencedes Femmes,R6sistance des Femmes,M6moires des Femmes, 1939-1959:Roundtable SalonA Chair:Miranda Pollard, University of Georgia ^ SarahFishman, University of Houston,Resistance and EverydayLife ,) MirandaPollard. Gender and Survival:Hidden Childrenin OccupiedFrance MONDIV, APRIL 4 2OO8 1 goOcf (i[niogr/"o,ffinr] 9/iiin ri*/ @nrfr*s @-'g/.*Waiii/t".W eoQs PaufaSchwartz, Middlebury College, Occupying the Occupiers: 28 Capetian History: Past, Present, and Future Women Againstthe Wehrmacht Salon C/D DominiqueVeillon, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique, Chair:Sean L Field,University of Vermont Paris,Anonymes et R6sistantes M. CecifiaGaposctrkin, Dartmouth College, Questioningthe Comment:The Audience Capetians ParisX-Nanterre, De l'histoire 1E Spectacleand the City in Provincial France Anne-H6fdneAllirot, Universit6de des rois A cellede leurs parentes.Les princesses royales de France, Garden State C des derniersCap6tiens aux premiersValois Chair:N. ChristineBrookes, Central Michigan University ChrisJones, University of Canterbury,Christchurch, NZ, Chronicles KoryOfson, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey,En Vacance: and the Constructionof ldentity in CapetianFrance (1886) BaedekerbMidi de la Francedepuis la Loire Comment:Wlliam ChesterJordan, Princeton University Audra Merfeld-Langston,Missouri University of Scienceand Technology,Celebrating Heritage, Literary Style: Franceb Annual 2C Intellectuals,Society, and Democracy in 1848 "Lireen Fete" ConferenceB LukeEilderts, Pennsylvania State University, Libert6, 6galit6, Chair:David Troyansky, Brooklyn College, City Universityof visibilite:Strasbourg's "Marche de la visibilit6" New York Comment:N. ChristineBrookes JonathanBeec*ter, University of California,Santa Cruz, 1848and the lntellectuals:A Book Proiect 1F After the Revolution(s):Medicine, Politics, GeorgeSheridan, University of Oregon, Lyon'sLuxembourg in Religion,and Critical Histories ?848:Nostalgic or Modern? ConferenceC Jeremy Popkin,University of Kentucky,Practicing Democracy: The Chair:Jeffrey Menick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee April 1848E/ections in Lyon RitaHermon-Belot, Ecole des hautes6tudes en sciencessociales, Comment:Carol Hanison, University of SouthCarolina Politiqueet religion: les paradoxesde la Restauration PatrickHutton, University of Vermont,emeritus, Walter Benjamin 2D In/Visible Presences:Race, Culture, and and the Afterlife of the FrenchRevolutionary Tradition the Construction of ldentities in S6verineMathieu, Ecole Pratique des HautesEtudes, Quelle la Nineteenth-Century France laicisationde la m5decinefranqaise au xixdmesiec/e? satonA Comment:Denise Davidson, Georgia State University Chair:Carla Hesse, University of California,Berkeley Amy Aisen Elouafi,Syracuse University, Where the Orient and Coffee and Tea break, 10:15 to 10:30 a.m. AfricaMeet: The Racializationof French OrientalistWritings on Salonfoyer, 2nd floor and near Garden State ballrooms, Tunisia 1st floor fanCofler, University of Melbourne,Arab Paris:Picturing Race and Spacein EarlyNineteenth -Centun/ France RobinMitchell, University of California,Berkeley, Another Means of lJnderstandingthe Gaze: SarahBartmann and the Developmentof SessionTwo, 7O:30a.m to 72:15 p.m. Nineteenth-Century French Nationa/ ldentity Comments:Leora Auslander, University of Chicago 2A Origins of the French Revolution Revisited ConferenceC 2E Nation and Culture in French Chair:Vivian Gruder, OueensCollege, emerita, City University of Colonial Education New York Garden State B Jack Goldstone,George Mason University,Revisiting the Material Chair:Lisa Tiersten, Barnard College World: SocialCausesof the FrenchRevolution AfisonMurray Levine, University of Virginia,"Making the Fictionof DaleVan Kley,Ohio StateUniversity, fhe "Origins"of the EducationalFilm in the FrenchColonies, RevolutionAfter Revisionism the Empirea Reality": 1912-1940 PeterCampbefl, University of Sussex,UK, Crisisand Revolution: HarryGamble, College of Wooster,From Gor6e to S6bikotaneto StateFailure and the Origins of the FrenchRevolution Katibougou:Reframing the Cultural Positionof Schoolteachersin Comment:Jack Censer, George Mason University French West Africa ,9i; FRIDAY,AFRIL .,1[,?008 FRIUAYJAPRIT 4 2OO8 ffi,*rt g@ @**{y/** W,i&r,ni,/@r;i"t @.*r"gj,o W*nofi Wi,horienl@rrr{iol 900rf Janet Home, Universityof Virginia,"To Spreadthe Frenchlan- guage is to Extendthe Patrie":The Educationaland Colonial SessionThree, 2:00 to 3:45 P.m. Missionof the AllianceFrangaise Politics in the French Revolution Comment:Alice Conklin,Ohio StateUniversity 3A Fear and ConferenceC 2F The Nature(s) of Tourism: Landscape, Chair:James Swenson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Camping,and Nudism in Modern France ThomaslGiser,
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