Western
Society for French History
31st Annual Conference
France and the Pacific Rim
(Stained glass ceiling of former City of Paris department store, Union Square, San Francisco)
Western
Society for French History
31st Annual Conference
France and the Pacific Rim
(Stained glass ceiling of former City of Paris department store, Union Square, San Francisco)
October
30-November 1, 2003
Newport Beach Marriott Hotel
Newport Beach, California
Officers and Councilors
Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles, President
Council Members
Susan Ashley, Colorado College
Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Daryl M. Hafter, Eastern Michigan University
Stephen Harp, University of Akron
Carol E. Harrison, Kent State University
Jeff Horn, MIT
Eric Jennings, University of Toronto
Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame
Diane C. Margolf, Colorado State University
Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina
Bette Oliver, University of Texas
Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota
Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College
April Shelford, American University
Thomas C. Sosnowski, Kent State University – Stark
Timothy Tackett, University of California – Irvine
Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University
Anita Walker, University of Connecticut
Torbjorn Wandel, Truman State University
James A. Winders, Appalachian State University
Honorary Council Members
Brison Gooch, Texas A&M, ret.
Orest Ranum (ret.), Johns Hopkins University
WESTERN
SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
THIRTY-FIRST
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
Wednesday, October 29 |
Registration, Gallery, 5:00 PM- 7:00 PM
Governing Council Meeting, Newport North, 6:30 PM
Thursday, October 30
|
Continental Breakfast, Sailing Suites Patio, Terrace Level, 7:30-8:30 AM
Registration, Gallery, 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Book Exhibit, Gallery, 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
| Session
One |
1A: Singleness as a Social and Analytic Category in Modern French History
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: S. Joan Moon (California State University, Sacramento)
Terry W. Strieter (Murray State University) Avoiding a Sword of Damocles: The Unmarried Gendarmes of the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)
Andrea Mansker (Loyola Marymount University) Madame or Mademoiselle? Singleness as a Category of Analysis in the First Wave French Feminist Movement
Comment: Mary Lynn Stewart (Simon Fraser University)
1B: Religious & Regional Questions in Early Modern
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Douglas Baxter (Ohio University)
Kristin Wirts (Auburn University) A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Animal Analogy and Metaphor in Huguenot Writings during the Era of Religious Conflict
Hilary Bernstein (University of California, Santa Barbara) National
Scholars and Local Networks: Urban Histories in Early Modern
Brian Strayer (Andrews University) The Problem of the False Brother: The Case of Sieur de Tillière and the Huguenot Refugees in Holland, 1685-1688
Comment: Mark Konnert (University of Calgary)
1C: Catholic Intellectuals Overseas
Schooner, Terrace Level
Chair: Marjorie Beale (University of California, Irvine)
Charles Courtois (Université de Montréal) Transferts et modèles intellectuels français au Québec (1934-1941): Esprit et la Relève et Gringoire et la Nation
Troy Feay (University of Notre Dame) The
Marriage of the Sword and the Gospel: Ernest Psichari's Novels of
Paul Schue (Northland College) Spanish Modern: Conceptions of Modernity in Georges Bernanos' Spanish Civil War Writings
Comment: Sean Kennedy (University of New Brunswick)
1D: Peasants and Politicians: The French Revolution Seen from Below
and Above
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair: Barry Rothaus (University of North Colorado)
Robert Blackman (Hampden-Sydney College) What’s in a Name? Possible Names for a Legislative Body and the Birth of National Sovereignty during the French Revolution, 15-16 June 1789
Bette Oliver (University of Texas, Austin) Paying the Price for Moderation: the Rolands and their Circle
Patricia Turner with Emily Cramer & Jessica Verschay (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) Recovering 'the Social': Peasant Grievances and l'Etat Social prior to the French Revolution
Comment: James Friguglietti (Montana State University, Billings)
1E: Bodies
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair:Catherine Kudlick (University of California, Davis)
Anne Quartararo (
Susan Ashley (Colorado College) "Railway Brain": The Body's Revenge against Progress
Comment: Donna Ryan (Gallaudet University)
1F: The French South Pacific: Colonization and Decolonization
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Charles Wheeler (University of California, Irvine)
Sarah Bartlett (University of Florida)
Frédéric Angeviel (Université de Nouvelle Calédonie) An Original Case of Decolonization in New Caledonia 1988-2018
Comment: Alice Bullard (Georgia Institute of Technology)
1G: Education in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century
California Salon 1
Chair: Barry Bergen (Gallaudet University)
Cynthia J. Koepp (Wells College) Children Seen and Heard: Experiential Learning in the Abbé Pluche's Spectacle de la nature
Karen Taylor (Sidwell Friends School) Education and Female Virtue and the Notion of Citizenship in the Eighteenth Century
Courtney Spikes (University of California, Los Angeles) L'Enseignement
mutuel: The Lancastrian Education Movement in Early Nineteenth-Century
Comment: Linda Clark Newman (Millersville University)
|
Session
Two |
2A: Early Modern Women
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: Carol Pixton (Polytechnic School)
Michelle Marshman (Green River College) Kinship and Clientage in Women's Orders of Seventeenth-Century Bordeaux
Christine Petto (Southern Connecticut State University) The
Widow-Mapmakers of Early Modern
Daniella Kostroun (Stonehill College) Putting Pascal to Practical Use: Jansenist Women at the Peace of Clement IX
Comment: Sharon Kettering (Montgomery College)
2B: Popular Political Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Robert Schneider (Catholic University of
Jeff Horn (Manhattan College) Understanding Crowd Action: Machine-Breaking
in
Cynthia Bouton (Texas A & M) Imagining Reality: Telling and Retelling the Buzançais Riot of 1847
Comment: Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky)
2C: Race, Gender and Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Louisiana
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair: Jordan Kellman (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)
Heidi Keller-Lapp (University of California, San Diego) The Dynamics of Enclosure in a Colonial Context: Eighteenth- Century French Ursulines in New Orleans
Vaughan Baker (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) Obstacles and Opportunity in French Louisiana: The Example of Charlotte Broutin
Sarah Curtis (San Francisco State University) Louisiana in Myth and Reality: Philippine Duchesne on the Missouri Frontier, 1818 – 1852
Comment: Virginia Meacham Gould (Tulane University)
2D: Expanding the Responsibilities of the State in Interwar
Schooner, Terrace Level
Chair: Paul Mazgaj (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Patricia E. Prestwich (University of Alberta) "Victims of War"?: Mentally-Traumatized Soldiers and the State, 1918-1939
Michael Lanthier (Simon Fraser University) War Widows and the Expansion of the French Welfare State
Nancy Sloan Goldberg (Middle Tennesee State University) Problematizing Accounts of Women's Role in World War I
Comment: Leonard Smith (Oberlin College)
2E: The Politics of Motherhood, Feminism and Family in International
Context
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: Cheryl Koos (California State University, Los Angeles)
Carolyn Eichner (University of South Florida) Lucifer Blanqui Vercingetorix and Spartacus Blanqui Revolution: Radical Naming as a Challenge to Patriarchy and the State
Lori Weintrob (Wagner College) Saving Children through Social Solidarity:
Origins of
Sara L. Kimble (University of Northern Iowa) For Family,
Comment: Marilyn Boxer (San Francisco State University)
2F: French Queens: Myth, History and Image
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Nina Gelbart (Occidental College)
Elizabeth Hudson (Independent Scholar) Representations of Blanche
of
Jennifer Germann (Huntington Library) Picturing Queenship in Early
Modern
Comment: Lawrence Bryant (California State University, Chico)
2G: Constructing the Other
Newport South
Chair: Alyssa Sepinwall (California State University, San Marcos)
Denis D. Grele (Wellesley College) Travail et justice au Royaume d'Antangil (1616)
Curtis Robert Young (University of California Los Angeles) Constructions of the Other in Enlightenment Discourse
Gregory K. Sutton (East Central University) Anthropology and the French in the Middle Decades of the Nineteenth Century
Comment: Torbjorn Wandel (Truman State University)
2H: Victimhood and Martyrdom in the Era of Revolutions
California Salon 1
Chair: Alan Williams (Wake Forest University)
Greg Brown (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Beaumarchais and the Bastille: Politics, Social Change and Personal Narrative in 1789
Bettina Frederking (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau) Two ”Martyrs” of the Restoration? The Duke of Berry and his Murderer, Louvel
Christopher Guyver (University of Oxford) The Martyr of the Barricades: the Death of Mgr Affre, archbishop of Paris in June 1848
Comment: Steven D.Kale (Washington State University)
2I: Roundtable: From Economie Politique
to Commerce: Reconceptualizing the Intellectual History of Eighteenth-Century
Economic Thought
California Salon 2
Moderator: Liana Vardi (State University of New York, Buffalo)
Paul Cheney (University of Chicago)
James Livesey (Trinity College, Dublin)
Emmanuel Saadia (University of Chicago)
Anoush Terjanian (Johns HopkinsUniversity)
Kent Wright (Arizona State University)
|
Thursday,
October 30 Luncheon
and Plenary Session 1 |
Claude Langlois
Directeur, Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions
"La femme et la religion au XIXe siècle"
Introduced by Elinor Accampo (University of Southern California)
|
Session Three |
3A: Colonial Politics
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: Daniel Schroeter (University of California, Irvine)
Emmanuelle Saada (New York University) What's in a Name? The Colonial State between Colonization and Immigration
Adrian Carton (University of Sydney, Australia) Boundaries of Whiteness: Race, Citizenship and Métissage in French Bengal, 1790-1825
Comment: Patricia Lorcin (Texas Tech University, Lubbock)
3B: Navigating Feeling across the Centuries: The Landscape of Emotion
from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair & Comment: Daniel Lord Smail (Fordham University)
Tracy M. Adams (University of Auckland) From Violation to Volonté: Navigating Love in the Chevalier de la Charrette
Jill R. Fehleison (George Mason University) The Tongues of Angels or a Clanging Cymbal? The Role of Emotion in Catholic Protestant Public Disputation in the Diocese of Geneva
Christine Adams (St Mary's College Maryland) "To Dry the Tears of All these Unfortunate Mothers": Mother Love and the Emotional Appeal of the Society for Maternal Charity
3C: Métissage in Contemporary France: Creativity and Sociability in Art and
Society
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair & Comment: Erica J. Peters (University of Maryland, University College) & Samba Diop (Harvard University)
W. Scott Haine (University of Maryland, University College) Shift and Renaissance in Parisian Café Sociability: Immigrant Improvisations since 1950
James A. Winders (Appalachian State University) Paris africain: Music and Migration in le Monde Francophone, 1981 to the Present
Yaël Simpson Fletcher (University of the South) Métis Imaginings: Hybridity and Identity in Post-Colonial Marseille
3D: Variations on Faith: Responses to Theosophy, Wagner and Fortune
Telling in Modern France
Schooner, Terrace Level
Chair: Thomas Kselman (University of Notre Dame)
John W. Monroe (Iowa State University) From Mahatma to Messiah: The Failure of Theosophy in Fin-de-siècle France
Kelly Maynard (University of California, Los Angeles) "Au contact de l'infini": Hearing Wagner in the Early Third Republic
David Allen Harvey (New College of Florida) Fortune-Tellers in the French Courts: Anti-Divination Prosecutions in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Comment: Raymond Jonas (University of Washington)
3E: Travels and Travails: the French in South Asia in the Seventeenth
Century
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: Linda Frey (University of Montana)
Anita M. Walker & Edmund H. Dickerman (University of Connecticut) Blaming the Messenger: Colbert's Courier de l'Orient, the abbé Carré, 1666-1674
Glenn Ames (University of Toledo) The Pitfalls of the True Faith: Charles Dellon and the Goa Inquisition, circa 1670-1674
Ronald Love (State University of West Georgia) A French Physician at the Court of Gondar: Poncet’s Ethiopia in the 1690s
Comment: Diane Margolf (Colorado State University)
3F: Disputed Legacies: Defining the Nation in France in the Aftermath
of the Great War
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Comment & Chair: John Kim Munholland (University of Minnesota)
André Lambelet (University of Oregon) Fighting over Phantoms: Struggles to Define the Place of the Army in Post-World War I France
Barbara Fox (Marquette University) Between the Dead Past and the Redemptive Future: State Adoption of French "Orphans" after the First World War
Richard Fogarty (Bridgewater College) Racial and Military Hierarchies: Officiers Indigènes in the French Army during and after the Great War
3G: Roundtable: French Feminism and the Universal/Difference Dilemma
California Salons 1 and 2
Moderator: Helen Chenut (University of California, Irvine)
Elinor Accampo (University of Southern California)
Christine Bard (Université d'Angers)
Robert Nye (Oregon State University)
Karen Offen (Stanford University)
|
Plenary
Session 2 |
The Work of Daniel Roche
Chair: Timothy Tackett (University of California, Irvine)
Robert Darnton (Princeton University)
David Garrioch (Monash University)
Carla Hesse (University of California, Berkeley)
Lynn Hunt (University of California, Los Angeles)
Comment: Daniel Roche (Collège de France)
|
Reception |
Friday, October 31
|
Continental Breakfast, Sailing Suites Patio, Terrace Level, 7:30-8:30 AM
Registration, Gallery, 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Book Exhibit, Gallery, 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
|
Session
Four |
4A: Women and Wealth: Managing, Inheriting, Collecting
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: Carolyn Lougee (Stanford University)
Jonathan Spangler (Oxford University) Widows among the Guises
Janine Lanza (Wayne State University) Sharing the Wealth: Inheritance in Law and Practice in Early Modern Paris
Clare Crowston (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Inheriting Debt: Rose Bertin and Women's Transmission of Credit and Debt across the Revolutionary Divide
Comment: Suzanne Desan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
4B: Military and Revolutionary Tribunals in the Provinces in the 1790s
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Barry Shapiro (Allegheny College)
Howard Brown (State University of New York, Binghampton) Refining Terror During the Directory
Donald Sutherland (University of Maryland, College Park) The Provincial Revolutionary Tribunals of the Terror, an Exploration and a Discovery
Comment: Carla Hesse (University of California, Berkeley)
4C: Memory
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair: Robert Weiner (Lafayette College)
Elizabeth Karlsgodt (University of Colorado, Denver) Selective Memory and Amnesia: Jewish Art Collections in France 1940 to the Present
Francis Murphy (Boston College) The Rescue of Persecuted Jews Along the French Swiss Border, 1942-1944
Hee Ko (University of California, Berkeley) Trespass of Memory: The French Indochina War as World War II
Comment: Sarah Farmer (University of California, Irvine)
4D: Popular Science and Medicine in Early Modern France
Schooner, Terrace Level
Chair: Raymond Birn (University of Oregon)
Kathleen Wellman (Southern Methodist University) Proverbial Wisdom and Scientific Scrutiny at Renaudot's Bureau d'Adresse
Anita Guerrini (University of California, Santa Barbara) Une petite émeute: Anatomy at the Jardin du Roi in the Early Eighteenth Century
Nina Gelbart (Occidental College) Vaucanson's Duck, Backyard Cadavers and the Parisian Scientific Audience
Comment: Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles)
4E: Citizenship in Nineteeth-Century France
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: M. Patricia Dougherty (Dominican University of California)
Ellen Astrid Koehler (University of California, Davis) Modeling the Civic Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century France: Ecumenical Sociability and the Société de la Morale chrétienne
Claire Salinas (Stanford University) 'Trouble and Scandal': Colonisation and the Paradoxes of Republican Citizenship in Algeria, 1848-1849
Comment: Carol Harrison (University of South Carolina)
4F: Colors of the Old Regime
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Gary Kates (Pomona College)
Donna Bohanan (Auburn University) Color-Coordinated Interiors in Noble Houses of Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné
Kathryn Norberg (University of California, Los Angeles) The Prostitutes' Colors: Clothing and Furnishing the Early Modern Whore
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) Color and Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Writing Paper
Comment: Daryl Hafter (Eastern Michigan University)
4G: Reconsidering Women, Gender and Citizenship in France, 1870-1939
California Salon 1
Chair: Rebecca McCoy (Lebanon Valley College)
Eliza Ferguson (College of William and Mary) Women, Citizenship, and Power in Fin-de-Siècle France
Cherilyn Lacy (Hartwick College) The Moral Economy of Citizenship: Women and Mutualism in the Early Third Republic
Elisa Camiscioli (State University of New York, Binghampton) Black Migrants, White Slavery: Métissage in the Metropole and Abroad
Comment: Jean Pedersen (University of Rochester)
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Session
Five |
5A: Political History of the 5th Republic
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Donald G. Jones (University of Central Arkansas)
Bertram Gordon (Mills College) When Will We Find Out about May 1968: The Historiography of 1968 compared to that of 1789
Wayne Northcutt (Niagara University) José Bové vs McDonald's: The Making of a National Hero in the French Anti-Globalization Movement
Comment: John Merriman (Yale University)
5B: Masters and Pupils in France
Trimaran, Terrace
Chair: Lawrence Bryant (California State University, Chico)
April Shelford (American University) Friendship and Formation in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Education: A Case Study
Françoise Waquet (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) Maîtres et disciples: une relation de paroles. L'exemple de l'Ecole normale de l'an III
Daniela Barberis (University of Chicago) Sociology and Moral Education in Third Republic France: Making Children into 'New Men" of the Future
Comment: Orest Ranum (Johns Hopkins University)
5C: Comparative Study of French and British Culture, 1830-1940
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: Douglas Haynes (University of California, Irvine)
Edward Berenson (New York University) Popular Culture and Imperial Rivalry in Britain and France, 1880-1900
William Weber (California State University, Long Beach) The Fragmentation of Classical, Contemporary and Popular Music in Paris & London, 1830-1910
Sophie Maisonneuve (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) The Birth of the Discophile in Interwar France & England
Comment: Debora Silverman (University of California, Los Angeles)
5D: The Authority of History
Schooner, Terrace Level
Chair: Rene Marion (Ball State University)
Michael Schaffer (Independent Scholar) Narrative Entanglements and Descriptive Ruptures: Textuality as Social Practice in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Michel de Waele (Université de Laval) Mémoire d'un passé divisé: Le cas des guerres de religion
Leslie Tuttle (University of Kansas) Factum or Fiction: The Epistemology of a Convent Scandal in the Seventeenth Century
Chair: Katie Crawford (Vanderbilt University)
5E: Technologies of History: Making the Pasts and Futures of France
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair & Comment: Matt Matsuda (Rutgers University)
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon) Etymology and its Others
Jennifer S. Milligan (Harvard University) Imagining the Archive in Nineteenth-Century France
Roxanne Panchasi (Simon Fraser University) If the Revolution Had Been Televised: Anachronism and Historical Responsibility in Peter Watkins' "La Commune (Paris, 1871)"
5F: Representations of "the Other" in French Advertising
and Colonial Urban Planning
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: Ron Schechter (College of William and Mary)
Morag Martin (State University of New York, Brockport) Domesticated Harems: Images of the Orient in Cosmetic Advertisements, 1750-1815
Patricia Morton (University of California, Riverside) The Congrès international de l'urbanisme aux colonies et les pays tropicaux of 1931
Hazel Hahn (Seattle University) Visions of Grandeur and Segregation: Vichy Urban Planning in Hanoi
Comment: Robin Walz (University of Alaska Southeast)
5G: Early Modern and Modern Military History
California Salon 1
Chair: Paul Sonnino (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Ron Martin (Santa Ana College) 1693: The Year of Battles
Roy Prete (Royal Military College of Canada) Objections to Loos
Comment: Tryntje Helfferich (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Jamel Ostwald (George Mason University)
5H: Disorder and Disease in France's Pacific Colonies
California Salon 2
Chair: Panivong Norindr (University of Southern California)
James P. Daughton (Stanford University) Reforming Paradise: Sex, Alcohol and the Politics of Depopulation in French Polynesia, 1880-1904
Erica J. Peters (University of Maryland, University College) Potable Poisons: Paranoias about Alcohol and Race in Colonial Cochinchina
Eric Jennings (University of Toronto) Seeking Cooler Climes: Medical Rationales for the French Colonial Hill Station of Dalat, Indochina
Comment: Tyler Stovall (University of California, Berkeley)
5I: Warrior Women, Militant Mothers and the Revolution: Political Constructions
of the French Heroine
Newport South
Chair: Joy Hall (Colorado College)
Laura Emerson Talamante (University of California, Los Angeles) Les citoyennes marseillaises: Representations of Militancy and Motherhood during the French Revolution
Margaret Darrow (Dartmouth College) Revolutionary War Heroines at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Models of Feminine Citizenship
Comment: Jo Burr Margadant (Santa Clara University)
|
Luncheon
and Plenary Session 3: Atrium |
Christine Bard
(Université d'Angers )
"Les Femmes et le pacificisme, 1914-1940"
Introduced by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles
| Session
Six |
California, Salon 2
Chair: David Schafer (California State University, Long Beach)
Hilary Mason (Rutgers University) Reconstruction, Regeneration and Reconciliation: Springtime for Saisons d'Alsace
Christopher Fischer (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) National Commemoration, Local Celebration: Holidays, Monuments and Regionalism in Alsace, 1918-1930
Sam Goodfellow (Westminister College) Nation & Region in Fascist Thought: The Case of Alsace
Jim Miller (University of Chicago) Watching Fireworks at the Steelmill:
Regional Planning and the Making of Modern France in the Moselle, 1947 – 1956
Comment: Laird Boswell (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
6B: Gender, Race and the Interwar French Right
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Sarah Fishman (University of Houston)
Cheryl A. Koos (California State University, Los Angeles) Think French… Think Family: The Ecole des Parents, Childrearing and the Right-Wing Press, 1929-1940
David Slaven (California University of Pennsylvania) Péril Jaune Meets Menace Rouge: Visions of Race War in France, 1926-1936
Sean Kennedy (University of New Brunswick) The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français in Algeria, 1930-1939
Comment: William Irvine (York University)
6C: Moeurs during the French Revolution
California, Salon 1
Chair: Suzanne Desan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Andrew Jainchill (University of California, Berkeley) The Directorial Discourse of Moeurs
Martin Nadeau (Masschusetts Institute of Technology) Classical Republicanism after the Terror
Comment: David Troyansky (Texas Tech University, Lubbock)
6D: Procreation, Masculinity, and Sexual Politics in the Third Republic
Schooner, Terrace Level
Chair: Elinor Accampo (University of Southern California)
Katharine Norris (American University) The Scientist in the Home: Fatherhood and Scientific Research in Fin-de-Siècle France
Richard Sonn (University of Arkansas) Autonomous Bodies: Anarchist Sexual Politics in the Inter-War Era
Michelle K. Rhoades (Wabash College) To Save Future Generations: Masculine Honor and Reproductive Duties, 1914-1918
Comment: Rachel Fuchs (Arizona State University)
6E: Religious Questions in France
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: Eric Arnold, Jr. (University of Denver)
Thomas Sosnowski (Kent State University) Sacerdotal Irregularities and Irreverence: A Chorus of Complaints during the Fronde
Jason Kuznicki (Johns Hopkins University) The Opiate of the Masses? The Drug Trade and the 1761 Expulsion of the Jesuits
Lynn Sharp (Whitman College) Echos from the Beyond: Purgatory and Catholic Communication with the Dead
Comment: Maarten Ultee (University of Alabama) & Thomas Kselman (University of Notre Dame )
6F: Fashion
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Nicole Pellegrin (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique)
Paula Radisich (Whittier College) The Fashionable Subject in Chardin's Genre Pictures
Kathleen Nicholson (University of Oregon) Clothes Make the (Wo)Man
E. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Fashion, Feminism and the Virgin's Underwear
Sandra L. Rosenbaum (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Tacking into the Wind and Other Information about Eighteenth-Century Dress
Nancy J. Troy (University of Southern California) Femme fatale or false fashion: The Caricature of Couture Culture
Comment: Mary Sheriff (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
6G: Roundtable: Teaching Beyond the Hexagon
Newport South
Alyssa Sepinwall (California State University, San Marcos) “Transcending "the Nation" or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love World History
Paul Edison (University of Texas, El Paso) French History on the Border
Nancy Fitch (California State University, Fullerton) France and World History
Todd Shepard (University of Oklahoma) Think French, Teach Globally: Using French Imperialism to Teach Histories Beyond the Hexagon
6H: Bad Sex
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair: Donna Bohanan (Auburn University)
Edna Yahil (University of California, Los Angeles) Rape and the Fourteenth-Century Parliament of Paris
Katherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University) Performance Anxiety: Masculinity and Male Chastity in Renaissance France
Christopher Gardner (University of Omaha) Adulterers in the Law, in the Academy and in the Streets: Cases from Thirteenth-Century Toulouse
Comment: Sharon Farmer (University of California, Santa Barbara) & James Given (University of California, Irvine)
6I: Race Relations and Racial Formations in Colonial Indochina
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: Eric Jennings (University of Toronto)
Jen Foley (Cornell University) The Body is a Temple: Ethnicity, Empire and Colonial Expositions at the Gare Saint-Charles, Marseilles
Christina Firpo (University of California, Los Angeles) Understanding Race: Racial Identity and Civil Rights in Colonial Vietnam
Comment: Michael Vann (University of California, Santa Cruz)
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Plenary
Session 4 |
Jean-François Jarrige
Directeur, Musée Guimet
Age et visage de l'Asie: The French Discovery
of Asia during
the Period of the Industrial Revolution
Introduced by Helen Chenut, University of California, Irvine
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Reception |
Saturday,
November 1 |
Continental Breakfast, Sailing Suites Patio, Terrace Level, 7:30-8:30 AM
Registration, Gallery, 8:00-11:00 AM
Book Exhibit, Gallery, 8:00 AM-NOON
| Session
Seven |
7A: Catholic Women and Expressions of Piety from the Middle
Ages to Modernity
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair: Daniella Kostroun (Stonehill College)
Cynthia J. Cupples (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Plus que l'exemple des saintes vertus": Catholic Women and the Communication of Relics in Seventeenth-Century France
Joelle Neulander (The Citadel) Catholic Women Writers and Expressions of Piety on 1930s French Radio
Comment: Michael Slavin (University of Pennsylvania)
7B: Consumption in Uncommon Contexts: Culture and the Foundations of
Modern France
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair & Comment: Sheryl Kroen (University of Florida)
Lauren Clay (Texas A & M) Investing in the Arts: The Business of Theater in Provincial Cities, 1760-1789
Victoria Thompson (Arizona State University) Consuming the Revolutionary City: Images of Paris after 1789
Jennifer Popiel (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay) Educating Consumers and Consuming Education: Schooling after Guizot's Law of 1833
7C: Andrew Lossky Memorial Panel: Political Testaments and Military
Legacies
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair: Charles Steen (University of New Mexico)
Paul Sonnino (University of California, Santa Barbara) The Dating of Richelieu's Testament Politique
Tryntje Helfferich (University of California, Santa Barbara) A Levy in Liege for Mazarin's Army
Comment: Elizabeth Marvick (Independent Scholar) & Jamel Ostwald (George Mason University)
7D: Political Economy of the Fifth Republic
Catamaran Terrace Level
Chair: Stephen Harp (University of Akron)
François Le Roy (Northern Kentucky University) "O" for
Sara Pritchard (University of Pennsylvania) La politique agricole: Postwar Agricultural Reform and Territorial Development in the Rhone valley
Comment: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (University of California, Los Angeles)
7E: Dangerous Women (1871-1914)
California, Salon 2
Chair: Helen Chenut (University of California, Irvine)
Pamela Stewart (University of Arizona) "The Women of Paris Covered the Cannon with their Bodies": Mapping Women's Participation in the 1871 Paris Commune Uprising
Jaimee Guring (Arizona State University) Dirty & Dangerous: French Laundresses in the Discourse of Order & Disorder, 1850-1914
Venita Datta (Wellesly College) Opium, Gambling and the Demi-Mondaine: The Ullmo Spy Case of 1907
Comment: Karen Offen (Stanford University)
7F: Orientalisms
California Salon 1
Chair: Carrie Noland (University of California, Irvine)
John Westbrook (Bucknell University) Disorienting Orientalism: Orientalism and the Redefinition of the French Avant Garde
Michael Berkvam (Indiana University) Feminizing History: A Post-Colonial Reading of Assia Djebar's L’amour, la Fantasia and Anne Hebert's Le Premier Jordain
Karina Eileraas (University of California, Los Angeles) Disorienting Looks, Ecarts d'Identité: Photography, Ownership, and Resistance
Comment: Winifred Woodhull (University of California, San Diego)
7G: Material Conditions and the Needs of Daily Life, 1940-1968
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: Hines Hall (Auburn University)
Shannon L. Fogg (University of Iowa) Denunciations, Community Outsiders, and Shortages in Vichy France
Rebecca Pulju (University of Iowa) Changing Homes, Changing Lives: Material Conditions, Women’s Demands, and Consumer Society in Post-World War II France
Benn Williams (University of Illinois at Chicago) Hungry for Justice? Judging Denouncers in the Lyon Region, 1944-1953
Comment: Bertram Gordon (Mills College)
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Session Eight
Saturday, November 1 10:30 - 12:15 PM |
8A: Constructing Narratives of Religious Difference in the Early Modern
World
Yawl, Terrace Level
Chair & Comment: Katherine Stern Brennan (Loyola College, Maryland)
Keith Luria (North Carolina State University) Missionaries and the Construction of Cultural Difference: Seventeenth-Century French Capuchins in Poitou and Morocco
Dominique Deslandres (Université de Montréal) Des anges et des démons: Le surnaturel à la rescousse de la mission au dix-septième siècle
Amanda Eurich (Western Washington University) The Politics of Otherness: Controversy and Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Béarn
8B: A New Look at French Attitudes toward Diversity
Trimaran, Terrace Level
Chair & Comment: Scott Gunther (Wellesley College)
William Poulin Deltour (Mount Holyoke College) Europe and its Minorities: Eroding French Universalism?
Sylvie Waskiewicz (New York University) The New Word Order: How "Diversity" replaced "Exception" in the Film-Trade Wars
Julie Fette (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Student Diversity and Meritocracy at Sciences-Po
8C: Post-Revolutionary Political Culture, 1815-1871
California, Salon 2
Chair: Cynthia Truant (University of California, San Diego)
Jeremy D. Popkin (University of Kentucky) Worlds Turned Upside Down: Bourgeois Experience in the Nineteenth-Century Revolutions
Allyson J. Delnore (University of Virginia) The Impossible Punishment: Dealing with Political Prisoners after the French Revolution
Jennifer Sessions (University of Pennsylvania) Taking Potshots at Potted Despots: Charles X and the Dey of Algiers in the Satirical Literature of the Revolution of 1830
Comment: Victoria Thompson (Arizona State University)
8D: Assimilation and Redemption: New Perspectives on the French Colonial
Project
Schooner, Terrace
Chair: Dora Weiner (University of California, Los Angeles)
Matt Matsuda (Rutgers University) Passions and Purposes: Acting Faith and Meaning in New Caledonia
Catherine Kudlick (University of California, Davis) Nos Ancêtres les Voyants: Making Blind People French in the Twentieth Century
Alice Bullard (Georgia Tech University) Assimilation and Fragmentation: Psychiatry Made a Postcolonial Turn in Dakar, Senegal
Comment: Daniel Segal (Pitzer College)
8E: Modernizing Young Women
California, Salon 1
Chair: Kathleen Alaimo (Saint Xavier University)
Whitney Walton (Purdue University) A Patriotic and Humanitarian Mission: Young French Women in the United States, 1905-1930
Mary Lynn Stewart (Simon Fraser University) (Ad)Dressing Modern French Women
Richard I. Jobs (Pacific University) Les Travailleuse familiales: Young Women as the Agents of Domestic Modernization in Postwar France
Comment: Sarah Fishman (University of Houston)
8F: Provence: Institutions and Regionalism
Sloop, Terrace Level
Chair: William Ray (Reed College)
Rafe Blaufarb (Auburn University) Historicizing Noble Tax Exemption: Provence, 1530s-1789
Eric Johnson ( University of California, Los Angeles) Greasy Poles and Angry Geese: The Politics of Urban Saints' Cults in Avignon at the End of the Old Regime
Julius W. Friend (George Washington University) The Idea of Occitania from Felibriges to the Present
Comment: Robert Schneider (Catholic University)
8G: Roundtable: French Economic History Today
Brigantine, Terrace Level
Chair: Philip T. Hoffman (California Institute of Technology)
Tom Brennan (United States Naval Academy)
Tim Le Goff (York University)
Gilles Postel-Vinay (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (University of California, Los Angeles)
8H: Gardens: Versailles & the Bois de Boulogne
Catamaran, Terrace Level
Chair: Treva Tucker (University of Southern California)
Stephen Bold (Boston College) Versailles: une histoire d'eau
Richard S. Hopkins (Arizona State University) From place to espace: Napoleon III's transformation of the Bois de Boulogne
Comment: John Rule (Ohio State University) & Patricia O'Brien (University of California, Riverside)
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Business Lunch & Plenary Session 5 |
Annick Foucrier
Université de Paris XIII, Villetaneuse
The French in California:
Les Lieux de Mémoire
Introduced by Vanessa Schwartz (Unversity of Sourthern California)
Guest Speakers
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Robert Darnton| |
Annick Foucrier
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David Garrioch | |
Carla Hesse
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Lynn Hunt | |
Jean-François Jarrige
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Claude Langlois | |
Daniel Roche
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Local Arrangements
Timothy Tackett, Chair
Helen Chenut, Co-Chair
Amelia Lyons, Co-Chair
Patricia Goldsworthy
Laura Sextro
Everardo Stanton
Megan Stewart
Acknowledgements
The society thanks the following institutions for their generous support:
Florence Gould Foundation
French Consulate
University of California, Irvine departments of History, French and Italian, Asian Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Humanities Center.
We also appreciate the assistance of Rosie Humphreys, Julie Villarino, Marc Kanda, Jennifer Stanton, Frank Vella.
Photos courtesy of Annick Foucrier
Program Committee
Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los
Angeles, Chair
Elinor Accampo, University of Southerm California
Gayle Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton
Helen Chenut, University of California, Irvine
Sarah Farmer, University of California, Irvine
Nancy Fitch, California State University, Fullerton
Cheryl Koos, California State University, Los Angeles
Amelia Lyons, University of California, Irvine
David Schafer, California State University, Long Beach
Daniel Schroeter, University of California, Irvine
Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California
Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
William Weber, California State University, Long Beach
Charles Wheeler, University of California, Irvine
last updated 10/21/03
Bryan Skib (bskib@umich.edu)