The Society for French Historical Studies 57 th Annual Meeting 10-12 February 2011

Sponsored by The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina The Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, South Carolina

 

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  Society for French Historical Studies Officers and Executive Committee:

Linda L. Clark (Millersville University of Pennsylvania), Executive Director Joelle Neulander (The Citadel), President B. Robert Kreiser (American Association of University Professors and George Mason University), Financial Officer Patricia Lorcin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Editor, French Historical Studies David Kammerling Smith (Eastern Illinois University), Editor-in-Chief, HFrance Victoria Thompson (Arizona State University), First Past President Steven C. Hause (Washington University), Second Past President Vicki Caron (Cornell University), Member-at-Large Julie Hardwick (University of Texas, Austin) Member-at-Large Michael Sibalis (Wilfrid Laurier University) Member-at-Large Program Committee: Jonathyne Briggs, University of Northwest Indiana Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University Eliza Ferguson, University of New Mexico Erin Jordan, Old Dominion University Nina Kushner, Clark University Joelle Neulander, The Citadel Jennifer Popiel, Saint Louis University Rebecca Pulju, Kent State University Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University Local Arrangements (The Citadel): Kurt Boughan Andrew Davis Katherine Grenier Stefan Kosovych Joelle Neulander Kerry Taylor

 

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Schedule of Events Unless otherwise noted, the events will take place at the Francis Marion Hotel.

Thursday, February 10 Registration 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. Hotel Upper Lobby

Cash-Bar Reception 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Colonial Room

Executive Committee M eeting, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Rutledge Room

Friday, February 11 Registration 7:30 a.m . – 4:00 p.m. Hotel Upper Lobby

Book Exhibit 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Carolina B Pre-Function

Continental Breakfast 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Sponsored by Duke University Press Carolina B Pre-Function

French Historical Studies Editorial Board M eeting 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Parkview Room

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Session One: 8:30 – 10:15 a.m. 1A “Representation and Commemoration in France and Its Colonies” Calhoun CHAIR: Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island Black and White: Figuring the Senegalese Signares Thérèse De Raedt, University of Utah Sanctifying Sacrifice, yet Forgetting the Unforgettable: The Disregarded FrancoAmerican Commemoration of American Aid to World War I French Refugees, 1914-20 Michael E. McGuire, Boston University King Leopold’s Bust: A Story of Monuments, Culture, and Memory in Colonial Europe Matthew G. Stanard, Berry College COMMENTATOR: Sarah Farmer, University of California, Irvine 1B “Beauté, Propreté, and Douceur across the Ages” Pinckney CHAIR: Patricia A. Tilburg, Davidson College Agnès Sorel: Purity, Power, and Beauty Tracy Adams, University of Auckland “Aucun être humain n’était sorti si beau des mains du Créateur”: Madame Tallien and the Moral and Political Power of Beauty Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland How Beauty Cleaned Up Steven M. Zdatny, University of Vermont COMMENTATOR: Rebecca J. Pulju, Kent State University

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1C “Vichy Refugees in Spain and Switzerland” Laurens CHAIR: Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno L'Espagne ou la Suisse confrontées par les Réfugiés et les Evadés: Deux Neutralités et deux politiques Robert Belot, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard Ambassador Carlton J.H. Hayes and the Spanish Refuge from Hitler Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University COMMENTATOR: Vicki Caron, Cornell University

1D “Cause Célèbre: Celebrity and Popular Culture in Postwar France” Carolina A CHAIR: Whitney Walton, Purdue University Evolving Identities: French Jazz and the Remembered Celebrity of Django Reinhardt Elizabeth V. McGregor, Anna Maria College Anquetil Abroad: Frenchness, Celebrity, and Athletic Excellence in the Global Era Eric Reed, Western Kentucky University The Punk Adventure: Celebrity as Labor in the Late 1970s Jonathyne Briggs, Indiana University Northwest COMMENTATOR: Whitney Walton, Purdue University

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1E “Politics in the French Revolution” Rutledge CHAIR: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston How Well Do We Understand the Terror? A Reassessment of “Revolutionary Justice” in France, 1793-94 Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley, Queen Mary College, London Robespierre, Oratory, and Democracy Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne The Suspensive Veto’s Success: Letter Writing, Participatory Politics, and the General Will under the Legislative Assembly Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg COMMENTATOR: Howard Brown, State University of New York at Binghamton

1F “Setting Official Boundaries: Crime, Medicine, and Surveying during the Old Regime” Middleton CHAIR: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University Crime, Commercialism, and Civilization: Thinking About Old-Regime Homicide Henry C. Clark, Clemson University Diagnosing the Supernatural: Miracles and Medical Discourse in Enlightenment France Angela Haas, State University of New York at Binghamton Forest Inspection as Theatre: Boundary Performance in the Sénéchaussée d’Auvergne Neil E. Schomaker, University of Kansas COMMENTATOR: Liana Vardi, State University of New York at Buffalo

  1G “Sinners, W arriors, and Kings: Religion and Political Intrigue in the Early Modern Era” Drayton CHAIR: Charlie Steen, University of New Mexico Excommunication in Calvin’s Geneva, Evidence from the Consistory, 1542-49 Carolyn Corretti, Suffolk University The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend: The War of the Camisards Seen from Abroad (1702-10) Lionel Laborie, University of East Anglia COMMENTATOR: The Audience

1H “From ‘Others’ to ‘Problems’: Managing Difference in France, 1920s-1970s” Carolina B CHAIR: Ian C. Fletcher, Georgia State University The Lives of the North African Brigade in Paris, 1925-70 Amit Prakash, Columbia University The French Connection: Drugs, Danger, and Difference in Representations of Postwar Marseilles Yaël S. Fletcher, Emory University Private Associations and the Politics of Social Aid during the Algerian War Elizabeth Sloan, State University of New York at Stony Brook COMMENTATOR: Lizabeth Zack, University of South Carolina Upstate

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Session Two: 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

2A “Culture for the Public from the 1930s to the 2000s” Calhoun CHAIR: Philip Nord, Princeton University A Modern Museum for the Masses: American and Soviet Influences on the New Musée de l’Homme in 1930s Paris Alice Conklin, Ohio State University Acculturation for the Non-Public at Maisons de la culture Hunter Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Culture and Difference: Constructing Publics at the Musée du Quai Branly and the Cité National de l’histoire de l’immigration Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill COMMENTATOR: Philip Nord

2B “Material Identities and the Making of Postwar France” Pinckney CHAIR: Rebecca J. Pulju, Kent State University “Making a French Home Abroad”: Everyday Life and French Forces in Occupied West Germany, ca. 1945 – ca. 1960 K. H. Adler, University of Nottingham Beyond the Grand Ensemble: State-Sponsored Housing Innovation and the Meaning of Home in France, 1966-72 Nicole Rudolph, Adelphi University Génération Moulinex: Producing the Worker-Consumer in Provincial France, 1950s-1970s Jackie Clarke, University of Southampton COMMENTATOR: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston

 

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2C “Activism in Twentieth-Century France” Laurens CHAIR: Hugo Frey, University of Chichester Mai 68 in Black Felix Germain, University of North Carolina at Charlotte The French Communist Party and the Working Classes (1920s-1970s): A Perspective from Local Activism Julian Mischi, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique – Centre d'Économie et Sociologie Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux COMMENTATOR: Bethany Keenan, Coe College

2D “History, Memory, and Identity in Religious-War France” Carolina A CHAIR: Rebecca Church, University of Iowa The Legacy of Iconoclasm: Renewing the Relic Landscape of the Central Loire Valley Eric W. Nelson, Missouri State University Jeanne d’Arc, Iconoclasm, and Marian Devotion in the Orléanais Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University Remembering Religious Conflict: Urban History Writing and the Wars of Religion Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara COMMENTATOR: Allan A. Tulchin, Shippensburg University

 

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2E “Suspects, Citizens, and Political Networks in the Revolutionary Era” Rutledge CHAIR: Charles Walton, Yale University Suspect Strangers: The Police of Foreigners and Diplomats in Paris, 1774-91 Robert Nelson, University of California, Berkeley Private Epistolarity and the Making of a Jacobin network, ca. 1790-91 Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Columbia University Priests into Citizens: The Politics of Clerical Celibacy and Marriage, 1794-99 Claire Cage, Johns Hopkins University COMMENTATOR: Edward Kolla, Georgetown University

2F “Re/Constructing the Past: Historiography in Early Modern and Modern France” Drayton CHAIR: Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University Léon Werth and Jules Michelet: The Story of History, Past and Present Nathan Bracher, Texas A&M University The Centre of Power and the Power of the Centre: Constructions and ReConstructions of Alphonse Aulard's Jacobin Centrism Joseph Tendler, University of St. Andrews Present Past Palimpsest and the Breaking of Chronological History: Political Imaginary in the Close-up Lens and the Rearview Mirror Hunter Vaughan, Washington University in St. Louis COMMENTATOR: Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont

 

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2G “Coping with Decolonization: From Pondicherry to Paris” Middleton CHAIR: Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Decolonization and the Post-Colonial Nation: French Colonial Interests in India after Independence, 1947-54 Jessica Namakkal, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities From Comrades-in-Arms to Community Burden: How Decolonization Reshaped Municipal Migration Policies in Saint-Denis Melissa K. Byrnes, Southwestern University From Soldiers to Traitors and Exiles: Reinventing the Harkis during Decolonization Jeannette E. Miller, Goucher College Defending the Rhine in Asia: France’s 1951 ‘Troop Surge’ in Indochina and the Cold War Mark Thompson, Stephen’s College COMMENTATOR: Michael G. Vann, Sacramento State University 2H “Clients, Patrons and Brokers: Roundtable Discussion of Seventeenth-Century History in Memory of Sharon Kettering” Carolina B CHAIR: Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University Patronage Patterns and Legal Culture in Provincial Urban Politics of Early Modern France Michael Breen, Reed College Provincial Urban Intellectuals, Parisian Cultural Brokers, and the Establishment of State Policy Katherine S. Brennan, Loyola University Maryland Family Ambitions, Patronage, and Noble Identities Sara E. Chapman, Oakland University Resistance and Order in Early Modern France James B. Collins, Georgetown University The Undermining of Roland Mousnier’s Notion of Fidélité and the Role It Played in Clientage Patterns in Early Modern France Mack P. Holt, George Mason University People, Law, and Politics in Early Modern France and Why You Should Care Jeffrey Sawyer, University of Baltimore

  Intellectual Friendships: Past and Present April Shelford, American University

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Luncheon 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Gold Ballroom Presiding: Joelle Neulander, The Citadel Keynote Speaker: Sylvain Venayre, Université de Paris I, Centre de Recherche du XIXème Siècle ‘L’aventure coloniale’ : histoire et critique d’une expression ambiguë

Session Three: 2:15 – 4:00 p.m. 3A “Through a Different Lens: New Perspectives on the Dreyfus Affair” Calhoun CHAIR: Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University The Dreyfus Affair as (National) Theater Venita Datta, Wellesley College Buying Politics: Gender and Consumption during the Dreyfus Affair Elizabeth Everton, University of California, Los Angeles French Jewish Nationalism in the Wake of the Dreyfus Affair: The Story of Edmond Fleg Sally Charnow, Hofstra University COMMENTATOR: Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California 3B “Religious Minorities and Dissidents in Early Modern Paris” Pinckney CHAIR: Mita Choudhury, Vassar College Religion, Crime, and Order: The Struggle of a Used-Clothes Seller and Her Colleagues in Old-Regime Paris Jacob Melish, University of Cincinnati Jansenist Women and the Struggle over Port-Royal’s Legacy in the Eighteenth Century Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Protestants and Citizenship in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris David Garrioch, Monash University COMMENTATOR: Mita Choudhury, Vassar College

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3C “Marriage, Music, and Movement: St. Domingue and Its Early Legacy” Laurens CHAIR: Amanda Mushal, The Citadel A Mortifying but Honorable Expedient: The Role of Music in the Relief and Recovery of Saint-Domingan Refugees in Charleston Nicholas M. Butler, Charleston County Public Library Making Marriages Work: Tracing the Evolution of Marriage in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue Tara L. Fallon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign COMMENTATOR: The Audience 3D “Defining Race, Nation, and Frenchness in the French Atlantic W orld” Carolina A CHAIR: Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University Print Culture and Racial Exclusion in Saint Domingue: The “Affiches américaines” on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution Yvonne Fabella, University of Pennsylvania Negotiating Frenchness: The Méline Tariff in Guadeloupe and Martinique Elizabeth Heath, University of Chicago “The Quality of the Blood”: Immigration, Race, and Sexuality in the Writings of Poncet de la Grave Alexandra Tolin-Schultz, Independent Scholar COMMENTATOR: Christopher Hodson

 

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3E “Militarized Politics from Napoleon to the Croix de Feu ” Carolina B CHAIR: Troy Feay, Belmont Abbey College Notability and Conscription in French-Controlled Holland Sarah Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Conscripting Democracy: Deputies and Draft Dodging in the Third Republic Andrew Orr, Sam Houston State University Militarism, Masculinity, and Christianity: The Great War Legacy and Croix de Feu/Parti Social Français Veterans, 1927-40 Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota COMMENTATOR: Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University

3F “Religion in Modern France: Contests and Concords” Rutledge CHAIR: Barry Rothaus, University of Northern Colorado The Search for God at the Paris Expositions universelles, 1855-1900 Elizabeth Gralton, University of Western Australia Imagining the Holy Land French: The Significance of Jews in NineteenthCentury Pilgrimage Accounts Julie Kalman, University of New South Wales COMMENTATOR: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina

3G “Left-W ing Intellectuals and Their Role in Political Change” Middleton CHAIR: John Merriman, Yale University Georges Sorel’s Mythical Liberal Moment: Ethics, Politics, and a Solidariste Revolution Eric Brandom, Duke University Neither Right nor Left? Interpreting Raymond Aron’s Legacy Emile Chabal, Trinity College, University of Cambridge The Beach-Walker of San Sebastián: Gambetta, Identity, and the Birth of the French Third Republic Eric M. Sacco, University of Connecticut COMMENTATOR: Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

 

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3H “De l’immigré à l’immigrée: Women, Gender, and Immigration in Post-W orld W ar One France” Drayton CHAIR: Tyler Stovall, University of California - Berkeley A Quantity of Men: Gender Politics and the Immigration Regime of Interwar France Nimisha Barton, Princeton University The Service international d’aide aux émigrantes in Marseille between the Wars Linda Guerry, Université de Québec à Montréal Republican Women, Migrant Habitantes: Social Work and Citizenship in Decolonized France Jaime Wadowiec, State University of New York at Binghamton COMMENTATOR: Amelia H. Lyons, University of Central Florida

Plenary Session: 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Roundtable A Call to Action: The Present and Future of French History and the Humanities Citadel Holliday Alumni Center, Courvoisie Ballroom Buses leave from the Francis Marion Hotel to the Citadel Campus at 4:15 p.m. and return from the Citadel to the hotel at 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. PRESIDING: Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University PARTICIPANTS: Brett Bowles, State University of New York at Albany James B. Collins, Georgetown University Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont Colin Jones, Queen Mary College, London Laura Mason, University of Georgia Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne

Reception: 6:15 – 8:00 p.m. Cityview Lounge, Johnson Hagood Stadium, The Citadel

 

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Saturday, February 12 Registration 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Hotel Upper Lobby

Book Exhibit 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pre-Function Carolina B

Continental Breakfast 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Pre-Function Carolina B

Session Four: 8:30 – 10:15 a.m. 4A “Surviving Untimely Nobility: Aristocratic Adaptation in the Long Nineteenth Century” Calhoun CHAIR: Stephen D. Kale, Washington State University From Enlightenment to Revolution at the Château de Villevieille Melissa M. Wittmeier, Northwestern University Blockheads with Hearts of Gold: Catholic Nobles and the Expansion of Primary Education in Nineteenth-Century Angers Scott A. Gavorsky, University of Alaska Anchorage Aristocracy and Cultural Identity in Brittany: Considerations on a Failed Nationalism Daniel DeGroff, Queen Mary College, London COMMENTATOR: Steven D. Kale, Washington State University

4B “On Nostalgia in Modern France: Variations on a Theme” Pinckney CHAIR: Kathryn Amdur, Emory University Nostalgia and Mythologies in Advertising Train Travel in Modern France Natalia Starostina, Young Harris College The Legend of Auguste Blanqui in Modern Memory Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont Nationalist Anger, Colonial Illusions: Nostalgia as Colonial Women’s Response to Decolonization Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

 

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COMMENTATOR: Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University

4C “Birth of a Nation: The Development of Capetian Historiography in the Twelfth Century” Laurens CHAIR: Robyn Holman, College of Charleston Monastic Rivalries and Dynastic Legitimization in Twelfth-Century France James Naus, Saint Louis University How French History Became Capetian History in the Twelfth Century Julian Fuehrer, University of Zurich The Figure of Charlemagne in the Capetian and German Kingdoms in the Twelfth Century Damien Kempf, University of Liverpool COMMENTATOR: Marcus Bull, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

4D “The Business of Life: Transactions, Careers, and Commerce in Early Modern France” Carolina A CHAIR: Thomas Luckett, Portland State University Managing Credit, Narrating Crisis: The Business of Female Fashion Merchants in Paris, 1770-91 Clare H. Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Accounting for the Transition to Capitalism: Cultural Practices and Financial Accounting in Seventeenth-Century Lyon Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin Beyond the Book Market: Family Strategies, Literary Careers, and Court Capitalism in the Perrault Family, 1620-1705 Oded Rabinovitch, Harvard University COMMENTATOR: Thomas Luckett

 

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4E “Revolutionary Exchanges: English, Americans, and the Shaping of the French Revolution” Rutledge CHAIR: Stephen Auerbach, Georgia College and State University Am I Not A Brother? Political Divergences and Philosophical Convergences in Eighteenth-Century French and British Antislavery G. Matthew Adkins, Columbus State Community College Washington in Paris: The Creation of a Republican Noble Julia Osman, Council of Library and Information Research The London Revolution Society and the Founding of the French Revolutionary Jacobin Network Micah Alpaugh, Mount Allison University COMMENTATOR: April Shelford, American University 4F “Historicizing ‘French Theory’: Anti-Humanism, ’68, and Beyond” Middleton CHAIR: Jonathyne Briggs, University of Indiana Northwest “China in Our Heads”: Althusser, Maoism, and Structuralism Camille Robcis, Cornell University Cornelius Castoriadis and Post-1968 French Thought Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania Un-Human Rights: Blandine Kriegel’s Foucauldian Defense of the État de Droit Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University COMMENTATOR: Lloyd S. Kramer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4G “Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, Religion, and Homosexuality in Modern France” Drayton CHAIR: Joseph Renouard, The Citadel Julien Benda and the “Jewish Question”: Problems of Identity and the Modern French Intellectual, 1880-1950 Sarah K. Danielsson, Queensborough Community College–City University of New York Les interactions homosexuelles dans les lieux publics à Paris, 1945-75 Geoffroy Huard de la Marre, Université de Picardie/Universidad de Cádiz Péril Jaune Meets Menace Rouge: Visions of Race War in France, 1926-36 David H. Slavin, Emory University

  COMMENTATOR: The Audience

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  4H “Children and Families in the French Empire” Carolina B CHAIR: Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Chicago Supporting the Famille Nombreuse: French Familialist Organizations in North Africa in the 1920s and 1930s Margaret C. Andersen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Of Boubous, Rice, and Running Away: Children’s Agency in Senegal’s Schools, 1857-1914 Kelly D. Bryant, Rowan University Who is French? Mixed-Race Children in the First Indochina War Christina Firpo, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo COMMENTATOR: Elisa Camiscioli, State University of New York at Binghamton

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Session Five: 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 5A “Constructing Feminine Virtue” Calhoun CHAIR: Nina Kushner, Clark University L’Empresse Gagne Tout: Games and the Social Construction of Gendered Virtue Jennifer Popiel, Saint Louis University Sex and the Single Girl: Work, Desire, and Purity in Nineteenth-Century Paris Eliza Earle Ferguson, University of New Mexico The Modern Protestant Girl: Morality, Knowledge, and Social Engagement in Early Twentieth-Century France Emily Machen, University of Northern Iowa COMMENTATOR: Nina Kushner

5B “Popular Culture and Left Political Narratives in War and PostW ar, 1936-85” Pinckney CHAIR: Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno War Now, Revolution Later: French Communist Newspapers, the Spanish Civil War, and Narratives of French History, 1936-39 Paul Schue, Northland College Photography as an Act of Liberation: Paris, August 1944 Catherine E. Clark, University of Southern California Tourism, Labor, and the Postwar Critique of Consumption in France: Tourisme et Travail, 1945-85 Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky COMMENTATOR: Susan Whitney, Carleton University

 

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5C “Spectacles of Art: Exhibiting Commodity and Culture at the Parisian W orld’s Fairs, 1900-31” Laurens CHAIR: Michael Wilson, University of Texas, Dallas Electric Flowers: Vision and Commodity at the 1900 Exposition Universelle Isabel Suchanek, University of Pennsylvania “Veneering” the Colonial: Palettes of Colonial Wood, Art Deco Furniture, and Parisian Expositions Internationales, 1925-31 Laura Sextro, University of California, Irvine Contracting Individuals or Commodities? Women and Dance at the Exposition Coloniale of 1931 Rachel Gillett, Northeastern University COMMENTATOR: Michael Wilson, University of Texas, Dallas 5D “Claude Langlois’ Vision of France: Regional Identity, Royal Imaginary, and Holy W omen (Roundtable)” Carolina A CHAIR: Katherine Brennan, Loyola University Maryland PARTICIPANTS: Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame Donald M. G. Sutherland, University of Maryland, College Park Guillaume Cuchet, Université du Littoral – Côte d’Opale Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine COMMENTATOR: Claude Langlois, Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV) 5E “Beyond Theories of Sovereignty: Parlements and Local Politics in the Formation of the Early Modern French State” Middleton CHAIR: Mack P. Holt, George Mason University The Ormée: Corrupt Magistrates and a City’s Betrayal? Douglas C. Powell, Saint Joseph’s University La grande épicerie judiciaire: Money, Judicial Practice, and Politics in the Parlement de Toulouse (1550-1650) Guillaume Ratel, Cornell University Local Politics and the Custom of Sens, or, Why the County of Tonnerre Has No Coutume Tyler Lange, University of California, Berkeley COMMENTATOR: Michael Breen, Reed College

 

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5F “French Microhistory in the Twenty-first Century (Roundtable)” Drayton CHAIR: Sarah Maza, Northwestern University PARTICIPANTS: Laura Mason, University of Georgia Jeff Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mita Choudhury, Vassar College Lynn Mollenauer, University of North Carolina, Wilmington 5G “From Deficit to Deluge: Reinterpreting the Origins of the French Revolution” Carolina B CHAIR: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston E Uno Plures: From One to Too Many “Origins” Dale K. Van Kley, Ohio State University Constructing the French Revolution, Not a Different One, in 1787-89 Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Financial Origins of the French Revolution Gail Bossenga, College of William and Mary Saint-Domingue, Slavery, and the Origins of the French Revolution Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky COMMENTATOR: Jack Censer, George Mason University 5H “Revenge of the Nerds: History of Technology’s Contribution to Modern French Cultural History” Rutledge CHAIR: Miriam Levin, Case Western University Georges Méliès’s “Voyages Extraordinaires”: Film Technology and Technological Critique Brian R. Jacobson, University of Southern California “Ces Vulgaires Chromos”: Color in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Laura A. Kalba Hiding the Machinery: The Cultural Politics of Paris Streetcar Infrastructure Peter Soppelsa, University of Oklahoma COMMENTATOR: Miriam Levin, Case Western University

 

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Business and Awards Luncheon: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Gold Ballroom Presiding: Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania Executive Director, Society for French Historical Studies

Session Six: 2:15 – 4:00 p.m. 6A “Another ‘Battle of the Rails’: Railways, Nation, and Society in France, 1918-40” Calhoun CHAIR: Jackie Clarke, University of Southampton “Une inertie que vous n’imaginez pas”? Modernization and the French Railway Industry, 1921-38 Thomas W. Beaumont, University of Exeter Le Rôle Social du Technocrat: Applying New Social Theories to the French Railway Services (1920-38) Ludivine Broch, Birckbeck, University of London National Integration, Language, and Politics: The Railways of Alsace-Lorraine in France, 1918-40 Louisa Zanoun, Concordia University COMMENTATOR: Herrick Chapman, New York University

6B “Living with the Enemy: Collaboration and Cohabitation in France” Pinckney CHAIR: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston Ideologies of Silence: Franco-German Relations in “Le Silence de la mer” (19412004) Brett Bowles, State University of New York at Albany Unthinkable House Guests: Representations of Franco-German Cohabitation in Suite Française and Post-Liberation Trial Dossiers Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno Black Market Fictions: Marcel Aymé, Jean Dutourd, and the Black Market in Occupied France

  Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta COMMENTATOR: Nathan Bracher, Texas A&M University

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6C “The Gendered Marketplace in Early Modern France” Laurens CHAIR: Daryl Hafter, Eastern Michigan University Work Culture: The Gendered Practices of Wigmaking in Eighteenth-Century Paris Mary K. Gayne, James Madison University “Wise Guidance:” Gender and Work in the Barbou Family of Limoges, 15501800 Erin K. Lichtenstein, Stanford University Fishwives, Butchers’ Wives, and the Gendered Marketplace at Lent in Eighteenth-Century Paris Sydney Watts, University of Richmond COMMENTATOR: Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University

6D “The Professionalization of the Arts in the Twentieth Century” Rutledge CHAIR: Sheryl Kroen, University of Florida Colette’s Profession: Managing a Literary Reputation in France, 1900-25 Kathleen Antonioli, Duke University The Ecole Professionnelle de Cuisine: A Recipe for Success? Eileen S. DeMarco, Georgetown University French Culture and the Politics of the Body: The Rise of the Professional Dancer in Early Twentieth-Century France Ilyana Karthas, University of Missouri-Columbia COMMENTATOR: Lela Felter-Kerley, University of South Florida

6E “Gender, Family, and Nation in Nineteenth-Century France” Drayton CHAIR: Eliza Earle Fergusen, University of New Mexico The Domestic Refuge under Siege: Visites Domiciliaires and Legitimist Discourses of Liberty in July Monarchy France Jeffrey Hobbs, University of Wisconsin-Madison A Woman’s Work: Beauty in the Service of Family and Nation at the Fin de Siècle Holly Grout, University of Alabama Gender and Nation in the Spotlight: Constructing la juive through Rachel Félix Katherine Eade, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

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COMMENTATOR: Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

6F “Pleasure and Intimacy in Early Modern France” College of Charleston – Maybank 105 CHAIR: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan The Making of the Modern Will: Pierre Gassendi and Epicurean Pleasure Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University Curing Desire in the Early Renaissance: Symphorien Champier’s “La Nef des dames vertueuses” (1503) Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh Pleasure and the Case for Marriage in Eighteenth-Century France Lisa J. Graham, Haverford College COMMENTATOR: Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College

6G “Illegitimacy and Race in France and Its Colonies” College of Charleston – Maybank 110 CHAIR: Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin Colonial Fortunes in a Metropolitan Court: the Curious Case of Antoine Casse Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado at Boulder “It Is Not Natural that the Legitimate Children Have Nothing”: Race and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century France and Saint-Domingue Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Chicago COMMENTATOR: David Troyansky, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

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  6H “W hither the N/nation in Twentieth-Century French History (Roundtable)” College of Charleston – Maybank 111 Joseph Tendler, University of St. Andrews Jim Winders, Appalachian State University Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University Marvin Cox, University of Connecticut Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island Lawrence Davis, North Shore Community College Hugo Frey, University of Chichester James Friguglietti, Montana State University Billings Harvey Chisick, University of Haifa

6J "Communal Myths?" Special Session Co-Sponsored by SFHS and H-France Carolina A CHAIR: David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University

How bloody was la Semaine Sanglante? A revision. Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge COMMENTATORS: Philip Nord, Princeton University David Shafer, California State University, Long Beach The Audience Note: Professor Tombs paper is being pre-distributed and is available at: http://www.h-france.net/Salon/Salonvol3no1.pdf

 

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Session Seven: 4:15 – 6:00p.m. 7A “Engineering, Science, and Administration in the Early French Colonies” Calhoun CHAIR: Jennifer Palmer, University of Chicago Engineering an Empire: A Cultural Approach to Evaluating Colonial Settlements and Fortifications in New France Robert J. Fulton, Jr., Northern Illinois University Arboreal Negotiations: André Michaux, William Livingston, and Colonial Botanizing in the Atlantic World Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University The Martinican Model: Patterns of Development in the French Caribbean Laurie M. Wood, University of Texas at Austin COMMENTATOR: Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado

7B “Levantines in France and French in the Levant: France’s Engagement with the Eastern Mediterranean World from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries” Pinckney CHAIR: Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Royal Carrousels and the Theatrics of Mercantilism in Seventeenth-Century France Junko Takeda, Syracuse University Out of Arabia: Louis XIV and the Project to Domesticate Coffee for France Julia Landweber, Montclair State University Chateaubriand’s Voyage and French Communities in the Ottoman Empire Carlton Hickock, State University of New York at Buffalo COMMENTATOR: Katharine J. Hamerton, Columbia College Chicago

 

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7C “Commerce and Culture in Belle-Epoque Paris” Laurens CHAIR: B. Robert Kreiser, George Mason University and American Association of University Professors Selling Parisian Taste: Culture and Commerce at the Maison Vever Willa Z. Silverman, Pennsylvania State University Typologie du luxe parisien à travers les achats du grand-duc et de la grandeduchesse Wladimir Wilfried Zeisler, Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV) Without Rival: Cross-Channel Visions of the Parisian Garment Industry, 190817 Patricia A. Tilburg, Davidson College COMMENTATOR: Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 7D “Imperial Transitions: Empire after Revolution” College of Charleston – Maybank 105 CHAIR: Sheryl Kroen, University of Florida Tocqueville, the Law, and the Debate over Algeria, 1837-48 Andrew Aisenberg, Scripps College Breaking Ties: The Perilous Transition from Dependency to Autonomy in Romantic Socialist Thought Naomi Andrews, Santa Clara University COMMENTATOR: Jennifer Sessions, University of Iowa 7E “Loss, Return, and Memory: Emigration and Its Impacts in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France” College of Charleston – Maybank 110 CHAIR: Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst The Cost of Citizenship: Émigré Property and the Jacobins Hannah Callaway, Harvard University Accidental Outlaws: Directorial Responses to the Émigré Shipwreck at Calais, 1795-99 Kelly Summers, Stanford University Exile and Identity: Emigré Claims to French National Identity at the End of the Napoleonic Era Mary A. Miller, Reed College COMMENTATOR: François Furstenberg, Université de Montréal

 

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7F “Teaching French History through Travel and Study Abroad (Roundtable)” College of Charleston – Maybank 111 CHAIR: Whitney Walton, Purdue University PARTICIPANTS: Jennifer Duncan, Bridgewater College Janet Horne, University of Viriginia Kathleen Keller, Eckerd College Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

7G “Integrated Communities: Religious Women and the World around Them” Rutledge CHAIR: Erin L. Jordan, Old Dominion University My Sister for Abbess: Election Disputes at Sainte-Croix in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers Jennifer C. Edwards, Manhattan College Cross-cultural Contact in the Ursuline Convent of Québec: Hybridity and Francisization Ann M. Little, Colorado State University Working in a Man’s World: The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Castres in Colonial Senegal, 1880-1900 Elizabeth A. Foster, Tufts University COMMENTATOR: Michelle Herder, Cornell College

7H “Imaging the Territories of Modern and Contemporary France” Drayton CHAIR: Amanda S. Vincent, University of Florida Representing Future Paris: Plan Jaussely 1919 Kory Olson, Richard Stockton College Judging a Town by Its Cover: Advertising Strategies of the French villages du livre Audra Merfeld-Langston, Missouri University of Science and Technology COMMENTATOR: Amanda S. Vincent

 

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Cash-Bar Reception, 6:30 p.m. Gold Ballroom Pre-Function

Dinner Banquet, 7:00 p.m. Gold Ballroom Presiding, Eliza Earle Ferguson, University of New Mexico Keynote Speaker: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan Stories, Lives, and Writing History from the Inside Out

 

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Acknowledgements The Society for French Historical Studies gratefully thanks the following individuals and offices for their support: The Provost’s Office and Provost Sam Hines, The Citadel The Department of History, The Citadel The Department of History, The College of Charleston The IT Department, The Citadel The Citadel Foundation The Florence Gould Foundation Duke University Press

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3A 1B 1B 4E 2B 7D 4E 4B 4H 7D 6D 4E 3H 6A 4F 1C 2D 5G 6B, Plenary Session 2F, 6B 3G 4F 2H, 5E 2H, 5D 1D, 4F 6A 1E 4H 4C 3C 2G 2E 7E 4H 3E 1C 5G 3G 6A 2H 3A

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  Chisick, Harvey Choudhury, Mita Chrastil, Rachel Church, Rebecca Clark, Catherine E. Clark, Henry C. Clark, Linda L. Clarke, Jackie Collins, James B. Conklin, Alice Corretti, Carolyn Cox, Marvin Crawford, Katherine Crowston, Clare H. Cuchet, Guillaume Danielsson, Sarah K. Datta, Venita Davis, Lawrence DeGroat, Judith DeGroff, Daniel DeMarco, Eileen S. De Raedt, Thérèse Duncan, Jennifer Eade, Katherine Edwards, Jennifer C. Everton, Elizabeth Fabella, Yvonne Fairfax-Cholmeley, Alex Fallon, Tara L. Farmer, Sarah Feay, Troy Felter-Kerley, Lela Fergusen, Eliza Earle Firpo, Christina Fishman, Sarah Fletcher, Ian C. Fletcher, Yaël S. Foster, Elizabeth A. Frey, Hugo Friguglietti, James Fuchs, Rachel G.

6H 3B, 5F 3E 2D 5B 1F Business and Award Luncheon 2B, 6A 2H, Plenary Session 2A 1G 6H 6F 4D 5D 4G 3A 6H 6C 4A 6D 1A 7F 6E 7G 3A 3D 1E 3C 1A 3E 6D 5A, 6E, Dinner Banquet 4H 2B, 6B 1H 1H 7G 2C, 6H 6H 3A

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  Fuehrer, Julian Fulton, Jr., Robert J. Furlough, Ellen Furstenberg, François Garrioch, David Gavorsky, Scott A. Gayne, Mary K. Gerber, Matthew 6G, 7A Germain, Felix Gillett, Rachel Goodman, Dena Graham, Lisa J. Gralton, Elizabeth Grout, Holly Guerry, Linda Haas, Angela Hafter, Daryl Hamerton, Katharine J. Hardwick, Julie Harrison, Carol Heath, Elizabeth Herder, Michelle Heuer, Jennifer Hickock, Carlton 7B Hobbs, Jeffrey Hodson, Christopher Holman, Robyn Holt, Mack P. Horne, Janet Huard de la Marre, Geoffroy Hutton, Patrick Hyde, Elizabeth Jacobson, Brian R. Jones, Colin Jordan, Erin L. Kaiser, Thomas E. Kalba, Laura A. Kale, Steven D. Kalman, Julie Karthas, Ilyana Keenan, Bethany

4C 7A 5B 7E 3B 4A 6C 2C 5C 6F, Dinner Banquet 6F 3F 6E 3H 1F 6C 7B 4D, 6G 3F 3D 7G 6E, 7E 6E 3D 4C 2H, 5E 7F 4G 2F, 4B, Plenary Session 7A 5H Plenary Session 7G 7B, 5G 5H 4A 3F 6D 2C

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  Keller, Kathleen Kempf, Damien Kennedy, Emmet Kolla, Edward Kostroun, Daniella Kramer, Lloyd S. Kreiser, B. Robert Kroen, Sheryl Kselman, Thomas Kushner, Nina Laborie, Lionel Landweber, Julia Lange, Tyler Langlois, Claude Levin, Miriam Lichtenstein, Erin K. Little, Ann M. Lorcin, Patricia Luckett, Thomas Lyons, Amelia H. Machen, Emily Martin, Hunter Mason, Laura Matsuda, Matt Maza, Sarah McCoy, Rebecca McGregor, Elizabeth V. McGuire, Michael E. McPhee, Peter Melish, Jacob Merfeld-Langston, Audra Merriman, John Miller, Jeannette E. Miller, Mary A. Mischi, Julian Mollenauer, Lynn Mouré, Kenneth Namakkal, Jessica Naus, James Nelson, Eric W. Nelson, Robert

7F 4C 1C, 6H 2E 3B 4F 7C 6D, 7D 5D 5A 1G 7B 5E 5D 5H 6C 7G 2G, 4B, 7F 4D 3H 5A 2A 5F, Plenary Session 4B 5F 6F 1D 1A 1E, Plenary Session 3B 7H 3G 2G 7E 2C 5F 6B 2G 4C 2D 2E

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  Neulander, Joelle Nord, Philip O’Connor, Adrian Olejniczak, Bill Olson, Kory Orr, Andrew Osman, Julia Ott, Sandra Palmer, Jennifer L. Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan Popiel, Jennifer Popkin, Jeremy Powell, Douglas C. Prakash, Amit Pulju, Rebecca J. Rabinovitch, Oded Ranum, Orest Ratel, Guillaume Ravel, Jeff Rearick, Charles Reed, Eric Reeser, Todd W. Renouard, Joseph Robcis, Camille Robinson, Sarah Rollo-Koster, Joëlle Rothaus, Barry Rudolph, Nicole Sacco, Eric M. Sawyer, Jeffrey Schomaker, Neil E. Schue, Paul Seidman, Michael Sessions, Jennifer Sextro, Laura Shafer, David Shelford, April Sherman, Daniel J. Silverman, Willa Z. Slavin, David H. Sloan, Elizabeth

Saturday Luncheon 2A, 6J 1E 1E, 5G 7H 3E 4E 1C, 5B, 6B 4H, 6G, 7A 2E 5A 5G 5E 1H 1B, 2B 4D 2H 5E 5F 7C 1D 6F 4G 4F 3E 1A, 6H 3F 2B 3G 2H 1F 5B 3G 7D 5C 6J 2H, 4E 2A 7C 4G 1H

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  Smith, David K. Smith, Jay M. Soppelsa, Peter Spicer, Andrew Stanard, Matthew G. Starostina, Natalia Steen, Charlie Stovall, Tyler Suchanek, Isabel Summers, Kelly Sutherland, Donald M. G. Tackett, Timothy Takeda, Junko Tendler, Joseph Thompson, Mark Tilburg, Patricia A. Tolin-Schultz, Alexandra Tombs, Robert Troyansky, David Tulchin , Allan A. Van Kley, Dale K. Vann, Michael G. Vardi, Liana Vaughan, Hunter Venayre, Sylvain Vincent, Amanda S. Wadowiec, Jaime Walton, Charles Walton, Whitney Watts, Sydney Wellman, Kathleen Whalen, Philip Whitney, Susan Wilson, Michael Winders, Jim Wittmeier, Melissa M. Wood, Laurie M. Zack, Lizabeth Zanoun, Louisa Zdatny, Steven M. Zeisler, Wilfried

6J 5F 5H 2D 1A 4B 1G 3H 5C 7E 5D 5D 7B 6H, 2F 2G 1B, 7C 3D 6J 6G 2D 5G 2G 1F 2F Friday Luncheon 7H 3H 2E 1D, 7F 6C 1F 2F, Plenary Session 5B 5C 6H 4A 7A 1H 6A 1B 7C

 

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Map to Rooms on College of Charleston Campus The Francis Marion Hotel is on the corner of King and Calhoun. No. 26: Maybank Hall Maybank Hall entrance is west of St. Philip Street off Calhoun.

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Meeting Rooms at the Francis Marion