3 - 4 July 2006, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
With the support of the Ambassade de France, the British Academy
and The Royal Historical Society Day One: Monday 3 July 2006
TimeEventVenue 9.30 - 10.00 Coffee and Registration Meeting House 10.00 - 11.00 Plenary 1: James B Collins
1(Georgetown University) Meeting House
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Meeting House 11.30 - 12.50 Parallel Sessions 1 Russell Building
1A
1B
1C
1D
1E
Room RB21
RB20
RB32
RB33
RB34
Law and Sovereignty in the Ancien Regime Martine GRINBERG 1(CNRS Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris), “Le triomphe de la «voix morte». L'écriture du droit coutumier et ses effets dans le monde seigneurial (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)”
Cesare CUTTICA 1(European University Institute (Florence)), “Monarchical Power under Siege in Early Modern France. French Absolutist Discourse versus the Dangerous Doctrines of Robert Bellarmine: Two Polar Visions of Sovereignty”
Early Modern Commercial Power Bertie MANDELBLATT 1(Royal Holloway, University of London), “The Marine and Colonial Networks of Power under Louis XIV and Louis XV: Mercantilism and Food Provisioning in the Franco-Caribbean”
David K SMITH 1(Eastern Illinois University), “Speaking of the Economy: the Language of Economic Policymaking in the French Council of Commerce, 1700-1715”
Rebuilding France 1800-1830 Rebecca McCOY 1(Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania), “‘Les Lieux de Mémoire’: Protestants, Catholics and the Reconstruction of the Churches After the Concordat, 1802-1830”
Bettina FREDERKING 1(Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Institut d'Histoire de la Révolution Française)), “‘Il ne faut pas être le Roi de deux peuples’: stratégies de réconciliation nationale de la monarchie restaurée française”
Power and Autonomy
Peter JONES 1(University of Birmingham), “Power in the Village”
Marc-Olivier BARUCH 1(EHESS, Paris), “L'administration dans la France du XXe siècle: pouvoir subordonné ou pouvoir autonome?”
Power and Architecture Susan COLLARD 1(University of Sussex), “Power and the Grands Travaux”
Frédéric SEITZ 1(Université de Technologie de Compiègne), “Power and the Politique de la ville”
12.50 - 14.00 Lunch Meeting House
The Society for the Study of French History “Power in France, 1500 – 2000”
Day One: Monday 3 July 2006 (cont)
TimeEventVenue 14.00 - 16.00 Parallel Sessions 2 Russell Building
2A
2B
2C
2D
2E
2F
Room RB20
RB21
RB32
RB33
RB34
RB38
Image and Power in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Olivier CHRISTIN 1(Université Lumière Lyon II), “Prov-dentialisme monarchique et négociation politique: deux Puys amiénois du début du XVIIe siècle”
Nicole HOCHNER 1(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Visualizing Fear of Diversity, or the Rise of Absolutist Ideas Through the Lens of Visual Culture”
Delphine MONTARIOL 1(Université de Toulouse I), “Un jeu de Masque au XVIIe siècle. Quand Blanche de Castille devient Anne d’Autriche”
Philippe CRÉMIEU-ALCAN 1(Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III), “Les limites du pouvoir royal au XVIIIe siècle, à travers l’exemple des délits forestiers dans la Guyenne” (Philippe’s paper will be read on his behalf)
Hamish GRAHAM 1(University of New South Wales), “‘La Police des Bois’: ‘Absolute’ Monarchy and Attempts at Resource Management in the Eighteenth Century”
Richard GROVE (University of Sussex), “‘Poivre, Saint- Pierre et Commerçants’: Environmentalism under the Compagnie des Indes”
1Absolute Monarchy
Jérôme LOISEAU 1(Université de Bourgogne (Dijon)), “Les recherches de noblesse en Bourgogne (1664-1670): de l'exception en tant que règle de gouvernement”
Bruno TRIBOUT 1(National University of Ireland), “Retz et Mazarin: contestations et pratiques du pouvoir dans les Mémoires de Retz”
Robin BRIGGS 1(All Souls College, University of Oxford), “Louis XIV and the Paradoxes of Absolute Power”
Power in Action: the Regulation of Social Problems in the 19th Century Charity MEWBURN, “Images of the Irish in French Satires: the Exchange of Poverty and Revolution between France and Britain in the mid-Nineteenth Century”
Aaron FREUNDSCHUH 1(University of California-Berkeley), “The Guns of Paris: Urban Social Space and Firearms in the Age of the Farcy Law”
Representations, Gender and Colonial Power
Kate MARSH 1(University of Liverpool), “‘L’Inde perdue’: Representations of 1763 and the Loss of France’s Colonies in India”
Carolyn EICHNER 1(University of South Florida), “‘In the Interest of Civilization’: Feminisms for the Empire, Feminisms for France”
Charlotte LEGG 1(University of Southampton/New York University), “Rearticulating Colonial power: a Colonial Conversation on Masculine Identity Between European Algerian Colons and Anti-Semites, and French Metropolitan Colonialists, 1870-1914”
Immigration, Exile, Memory
Laure TEULIÈRES 1(Université de Toulouse II), “Quand l’histoire de l’immigration refait surface: enjeux de mémoire et d’identité”
Scott SOO 1(Université de Toulouse I/University of Southampton), “Authority, Remembrance, and the Spanish Civil War Refugees in Post-Liberation France”
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee Russell Building
The Society for the Study of French History “Power in France, 1500 – 2000”
Day One: Monday 3 July 2006 (cont)
TimeEventVenue 16.15 - 18.05 Parallel Sessions 3 Russell Building
3A
3B
3C
3D
3E
3F
Room RB20
RB21
RB32
RB33
RB34
RB38
Power and Patronage in the Ancien Regime Glenn RICHARDSON 1(St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill (University of Surrey)), “‘Un estat beau, grand, honorable’: The Gentilshommes de la Chambre in the Household and Regime of Francis I”
Olivier CABAYÉ (Université de Toulouse II), “Le pouvoir consulaire à Albi: une affaire de familles (1500-1693)”
Mathieu DA VINHA 1(Centre International de Recherche du Château de Versailles), “Les valets de chambre du Roi ont-ils un pouvoir sur Louis XIV?”
French Revolution I
David ANDRESS 1(University of Portsmouth), “Popular Identification with the Convention in the Civil War Summer of 1793”
Clay BURLINGHAM 1(University of Saskatchewan), “St. Just: The Paradigm and Personification of Republican Power”
Marisa LINTON 1(Kingston University), “Private Friendships and Public Power: Tensions Within Revolutionary Politics, 1793-1794”
Image, Language and Power in the Third Republic Julian WRIGHT 1(University of Durham), “Power and Language: the Struggle Over Republican Discourse in the Third Republic”
David HOYT 1(University of Chicago), “The Dialect Debate and the Ideology of Assimilation”
Marie AYNIÉ 1(Université de Toulouse II), “Des mots et des images: le pouvoir vu par l’opinion dreyfusarde”
Censorship: Power in the Media Ross F COLLINS 1(North Dakota State University), “Power and Control of the Press in France, 1815-1914”
Karen L CARTER 1(University of North Florida), “The Censorship of Late Nineteenth-Century Political Posters”
Jane WESTON 1(University of Bristol), “Censorship and Satirical Magazines”
Local Power and Politics in the Interwar Period Alison CARROL 1(University of Exeter), “Political Power on a Local Level: Municipal Socialism in Interwar Strasbourg”
Louisa ZANOUN 1(London School of Economics), “The Political Forces of the Right and the Front Populaire in the Moselle Between 1934 and 1938”
Intellectuals, Politics and Power Emmanuelle LOYER 1(Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris), “‘L'impitoyable aujourd'hui’: les intellectuels français et leur présent. Essai de typologie”
Annelien de DIJN 1(University of Leuven/Columbia University), “Tocqueville and French Liberty”
Martyn CORNICK 1(University of Birmingham), “Mediating Power: the Nouvelle Revue Françaiseas Cultural Institution, 1920-1940”
18.10 – 18.40 AGM SSFH (Society members only) Meeting House Quiet Room 18.15 – 18.45 Drinks Meeting House 18.45 - 19.30 Plenary 2: Jean-Pierre Séréni Meeting House 19.45 - 24.00 Conference Dinner Bramber House
The Society for the Study of French History “Power in France, 1500 – 2000”
Day Two: Tuesday 4 July 2006
TimeEventVenue 9.00 - 11.00 Parallel Sessions 4 Russell Building
4A
4B
4C
4D
4E
Room RB20
RB21
RB32
RB33
RB34
The Practice of Absolute Power: Monarchy and Politics in Detail
Erik GOLDNER 1(Columbia University), “Power and Justice in the Chamber of Justice of 1716”
John HARDMAN (Independent), “The Assembly of Notables”
Peter CAMPBELL 1(University of Sussex), “State Failure and Crisis in the 1780s”
Propagating an Image of Power: 16th - 18th Century
Nadine D PEDERSON 1(The University of Texas at Dallas), “Before the Master of the Revels: Commissioned Officers for Festivals and Ceremonies in Paris, 1500-1550”
Isabelle BRIAN 1(Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), “Le pouvoir des prédicateurs, les prédicateurs et le pouvoir en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles”
Julia PREST 1(University of Yale), “The Politics of Ballet at the Court of Louis XIV”
Literary Sites of the Political: Fiction and Law in Ancien Regime and Revolutionary France Jack THOMAS (1Université de Toulouse II), “Les enfants de Martin Guerre: identité, imposture et justice royale en France, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles”
Lisa Jane GRAHAM 1(Haverford College), “Witnesses in Law and Literature: The Construction of Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century France”
Judith A MILLER 1(Emory University), “The Interior Spaces of the Law: Legal Subjectivity and Criminal Law in France, 1780-1810”
Politics, Opinion and Power in the 19th Century
John DUNNE 1(University of Greenwich), “Power and Opinion during Napoleon's Hundred Days: Reviewing the
Electoral Evidence”
Christopher GUYVER 1(Keble College, University of Oxford), “The National Assembly and the Second Republic 1848-1851”
Malcolm CROOK 1(Keele University), “Power for the People? Practising Democracy in the Second Empire”
Re-establishing Power at the Liberation
M R D FOOT 1(University of Manchester)
André HEINTZ (Independent)
Panel co-hosted with CEISR, University of Portsmouth, UK
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Russell Building 11.15 - 12.30 Plenary 3: Annie Jourdan
The Society for the Study of French History “Power in France, 1500 – 2000”
Day Two: Tuesday 4 July 2006 (cont)
TimeEventVenue 13.30 - 15.30 Parallel Sessions 5 Russell Building
5A
5B
5C
5D
Room RB20
RB33
RB32
RB34
Women and Power in Early Modern France
Sonja KMEC 1(Université du Luxembourg), “Married Women and the Exercise of Power. The Duchesse de La Tremoïlle as Estate Manager and Patron of the ‘Reformed Church’”
Jonathan SPANGLER 1(University of Glasgow), “Apanage or Engagement? Land Management, Feminine Independence, and the Exceptional Case of Elisabeth d’Orléans and the Duchy of Alençon”
Mark BRYANT 1(University of Chichester), “Madame de Maintenon, Quietism and the Crisis of Authority”
French Revolution II
Rodney DEAN 1(Independent), “The Ancien Régime Bishops and the Struggle with the Assemblée Nationale over Religious Reform, 1790-1791”
Dan EDELSTEIN 1(Stanford University), “Terror and Territory: National Sovereignty and Natural Right”
Jonathan SMYTH 1(Royal Holloway, University of London), “The Fête de l’Être Suprême in June 1794: an Example of the Imposition of Power from the Centre”
Transitions in French Overseas Power 1900-1955
Andrew ARSAN 1(St John's College, University of Cambridge), “The Ineffectualities of Colonial Power: Lebanese Migrants and the Government of French West Africa, 1890-1939”
Ben WHITE 1(St Antony's College, Oxford), “Rhetorical Power in Syria and France in the Mandate Era”
Victor GAVÍN MUNTÉ 1(University of Barcelona), “Power Through Europe? The Case of the European Defence Community in France (1950-1954)”
Civil Disobedience in Post-war France: The Interaction of Authority and Civil Society Genevieve MAITLAND-HUDSON 1(Christ Church, Oxford), “Agricultural Anger: The Confédération paysanne and the New Disobedience”
Chris REYNOLDS 1(University of Bath), “Evolving Attitudes to Civil Disobedience? – The Case of May-June 1968”
Manus McGROGAN 1(University of Portsmouth), “Anatomy of a Poster:
Imagery of the Paris Art School Occupations May-June 1968”
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Meeting House 16.00 - 17.30 Round Table: “Rethinking Power” Meeting House
