Society for the Study of French History Annual Conference University of
Warwick, 1 -2 April 2004
CONFERENCE THEME: 'BELIEF AND DISSENT'
Thursday 1 April
10.30-11.30 a.m. Registration and coffee
11.30-12.45 Plenary session (chair Joseph Bergin)
12.30-1.30 p.m Lunch (FB Dining Room)
1.15-1.45 p.m. SSFH Committee Meeting (FB SCR)
1.45-3.45 p.m. Parallel sessions (I) (HISTORY DEPT.)
3.45-4.15 p.m. Tea (FB Dining Room)
4.30-5.45 p.m. Plenary lecture II (FB JCR), Chair: Joe Bergin (Manchester)Michel Nassiet
(Poitiers), Le centre à la périphérie (le roi en province): François I et la Bretagne d'après les
lettres de rémission
6.15-7.00 p.m. University Reception (FB JCR)
7.15 p.m. Conference Dinner (FB Dining Room)
9.15-10.00 p.m. Outremer: Chansons de croisade et de la mer, introduced and performed by
Paul Bracken (FB JCR)
11 April 2003:
8.00-8.45 a.m. Breakfast (FB Dining Room)
8.45-9.15 a.m. AGM (HISTORY DEPT. A18)
9.15-11.15 a.m. Parallel sessions (II) (HISTORY DEPT.)
11.15-11.45 a.m. Coffee (FB Dining Room)
11.45-1.00 p.m. Plenary lecture III (FB JCR), Chair: Colin Heywood (Nottingham) Laura Lee
Downs (EHESS, Paris), 'Les règles du jeu': working-class childhood in the colonies de
vacances, 1920-1950
1.00-1.45 p.m. Lunch (FB (Dining Room)
1.45-3.45 p.m. Parallel sessions (III) (HISTORY DEPT.)
4.00-4.30 p.m. Tea and dispersal (FB Library)
Provisional Panels Programme (NB these will all take place in the Department of
History, Lenton Grove; approximately 5 minutes walking time)
Ia Medieval and Early Modern (B13) Chair: Michael Jones (Nottingham)
Claire Taylor (Nottingham), The Basque Princes and Gascony in the Central Middle Ages
Graeme Small (Glasgow), Centres and peripheries: aspects of the experience of the Bonnes
Villes in Later Medieval France
Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State), The Representation of Centre and Periphery in
some French Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century
David Potter (Kent), La Rochepot: court and country in the reign of Francis I
Ib The early modern state and its provinces (B14) Chair: Richard Bonney (Leicester)
Jason Nice (York), La glorie de nos Saints Patriotes, or, a Hagiographer's View from the
Periphery: Gallia Christiana, Les Vies des Saints de la Bretagne and Early Modern France
Mark Potter (Wyoming University), Provincial Estates and Political Accommodation under
Louis XIV
Darryl David Dee (Emory University), The Politics of Integration: the élites of FrancheComté and the Monarchy of Louis XIV, 1674-1694
Ic The Revolution and its aftermath (A25) Chair: Peter Jones (Birmingham)
Charles Walton (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris), Obsessions with Calumny in the French
Revolution
1788-1793
Marie-Claire Thoral (Université de Grenoble), L'administration locale et les notables locaux
dans le département de l'Isère, de 1800 à la fin des années 1830: L'action de l'administration
locale se résume-t-elle à une domination de la périphérie par le centre ?
Id The Politics of National Security in inter-war France (A18) Chair: Martin Alexander
(Aberystwyth)
Peter Jackson (Aberystwyth), The idea of national security: culture, ideology and power in the
making of French foreign policy after the First World War
Andrew Webster (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), Reinventing Security: the problem of
disarmament in France during the 1920s
Sabine Jansen (Centre National des Arts et Metiers, Paris), Pierre Cot et le problème de
securité en France 1932-1938
IIa Medieval (B13) Chair: Katie Attwood (Nottingham)
Paul Bracken (Nottingham), Old Wines in slightly Newer Bottles: Research into Medieval
Song and the Chaucer Studio Roland Project
Katherine Benson (Reading), France and England 1375-1422: a prosopographic study of
diplomats
Kathleen Daly (Open University), A view from the periphery: Mathieu Thomassin (1391-after
1463) and the Dauphiné
IIb Problems of Modernity (A18) Chair: Mike Heffernan (Nottingham)
Edward Eigen (Princeton), An Elastic Institution: The École Pratique and the Reconstruction
of French Science
Robert Anderson (Edinburgh), Rethinking Taine and Liard: the centralization of higher
education in the nineteenth century
François Nectoux (Kingston), Local peripheries, local centres: the formation of the labour
force in France's industrial capitalism - the case of Le Creusot 1842-1939
Jackie Clarke (Southampton), The Rationalised Home and the Making of a New Middle Class
in Interwar France
IIc Art and society (A25) Chair: Helen Meller (Nottingham)
Bernard Rulof (Maastricht), The affair of the Plan de l'Olivier, or public space and popular
legitimism. Montpellier (Hérault), 1848
Kirrily Freeman (University of Waterloo, Canada), The Battle for Bronze: Conflict and
Contradiction in
Vichy cultural policy
Rosemary O'Neill (Parsons School of Design), Riviera Dreaming: The École de Nice and
Postwar France
IIIa The Place of Paris (A25) Chair: Nick Hewittt (Nottingham)
Isabel Moreton (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Controlling women on the margins: the
maison de force of the Salpêtrière in Paris
Elizabeth Woodrough (Exeter), When Paris became peripheral: the politicisation of
entertainment and spectacle at the first Versailles
Tabetha Ewing (Bard College), Diplomacy and public opinion in 18th c. Paris
Stephen Sawyer (Chicago), Parisians into Frenchmen: Confining and Defining the Capital
through the Fortifications of 1841
IIIb War and the State (A18) Chair: Karen Adler (Nottingham)
Karine Varley (Royal Holloway), National Identity, Local Memory and the 'Cult' of Belfort in
Franco-Prussian War Commemorations 1870-1914
Andrew Barros (Université du Québec à Montréal), The Problems of Collective Security:
France, the German Menace and the League of Nations, 1919-1928
Norman Ingram (Concordia University, Montréal), The Ligue des droits de l'homme, Weimar
and the German Foreign Office, 1920-1925
Talbot Imlay (Université Laval, Canada), The SFIO and France's Political Response to Nazi
Germany, 1936-1939
IIIc Evolving identities (B13) Chair: Malcolm Crook (Keele)
Owen White (University of Delaware), Dreyfus in the Desert? Republicans and the Colonial
Army, 1901-1904: The Case of the French Soudan
Julian Wright (Christ Church, Oxford), The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890-1914:
Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought
James E. Genova (Indiana State), Citizenship and Empire: Defining the Margins of Francité
after the Second World War
Paul Smith (Nottingham), 300 Senators in search of a role: The Senate and the resolution of
centre/periphery tensions