Three live events will be held this week at the virtual conference on “France and Beyond” organized by the Rudé Society and SFHS.
For the full programme of week 2, see here.
For the recordings of week 1, see here.
Bastille Day Keynote
“Emotions, Democracy and the Laboratory of the Revolutionary Years 1789-1796”
Sophie Wahnich, Directrice de Recherche Première Classe, Directrice de l’Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain, EHESS/CNRS Paris
Introductions by Stéphane Ré, Conseiller de coopération et d’action culturelle, Ambassade de France en NZ, and Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne
Presented Live: Link to join
14 July: Paris 22:00; London 21.00; New York 16:00
15 July: Auckland 8:00; Sydney 6:00
(H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #25)
Panel 10: “Ideas that Motivated the French Revolution”
Jeffrey Ryan Harris, Independent scholar, Runner-up Alison Patrick Scholarship, “The General Will and the Right Wing of the National Constituent Assembly, 1789-1790”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #35)
Thomas Lalevée, Australian National University, Winner of the Alison Patrick Memorial Scholarship, “Science sociale and the Idea of Progress in the French Revolution”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #36)
Michael James Mulryan, Christopher Newport University, “Louis Sébastien Mercier’s (1740-1814) Enduring Belief in the ‘Perfectibility of Man’: The Re-Naissance of l’Homme Nouveau in the Wake of the Reign of Terror”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #37)
Daniel J. Watkins, Baylor University, “‘Hate-Reading’ in Eighteenth-Century France: The Complexity of Book Ownership in the Age of Enlightenment”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #38)
David Briscoe, Trinity College Dublin, “Representing Poverty in Petitions for Assistance in Revolutionary Bordeaux, 1791-1795”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #39)
Panel discussion presented live (not recorded) with guest Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
Link to join
15 July: Paris 23:00; London 22.00; New York 17:00
16 July: Auckland 9:00; Sydney 7:00
Webinar: “Teaching French History in a Global Frame“
Presented Live: Link to join
16 July: Paris 23:00; London 22.00; New York 17:00
17 July: Auckland 9:00; Sydney 7:00
(H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #51)
Discussants:
Melissa K Byrnes, Southwestern University
Darcie Fontaine, University of South Florida,
Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
Jennifer Sessions, University of Virginia