Conférenciers

Stéphane Gerson is Professor of French, French Studies, and History at NYU, and a cultural historian of modern France

Michelle Bubenicek est rectrice déléguée pour l’enseignement supérieur, la recherche et l’innovation de la région académique Hauts-de-France.    

Trade Shocks, Rural Protests and Political Attitudes: the Textile Industry in Revolutionary Normandy The 1786 Eden Treaty marked a turning point in Franco-English trade, establishi

L’architecture privée et l’art de la transgression : (re)former le réseau urbain parisien autour de 1780 Dès la fin des années 1770, et en l’absence de planification urba

Regulating the Environmental Hazards of the Parisian periphery: The Stone Quarries of the Parisian Banlieue at the end of the Ancien Régime Starting in the eighteenth century, urb

Miranda Spieler est professeure à l’Université Américaine de Paris. Elle est historienne de l’empire colonial français des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Nineteenth-century Historians Interpreting Agnes Sorel: Reflections on Gender Biases Even recent scholars focusing on medieval or early modern French women remain indebted to the 1

Besides Amazon and Julie: Reinterpreting the Definition of Citoyenne in the French Revolution While scholars of the French Revolution have analysed famous militant women, gender hi

Revisiting the Élégantes of the Directory: Resisting and Revising Nineteenth-Century Narratives Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the elegant women of the Dir

Une relecture de la première institutionnalisation de la discipline historique Cette intervention propose une relecture de la première institutionnalisation de la discipline hist

Was the “Army of Shadows” an army? The views of the Allies and Resistance fighters L’Armée des Ombres était-elle une armée ? La Résistance armée est par définition un c

Un Français libre face au géant américain Nommé en décembre 1941 Chef de la Mission militaire de la France libre à Washington par le général de Gaulle, Pierre de Chevigné

Les helpers : l’Europe occupée au secours des soldats et aviateurs alliés Helping Allied soldiers and airmen in occupied Europe was widespread. Between 1944 and 1947, the Alli

Our wives and our daughters are ruled by our enemies’: Jules Michelet’s scholarly afterlife Nineteenth-century assumptions about the piety of women persistently shape histories

Rewriting a Pioneer’s Legacy : Charles Tellier and the French Frozen-Food Industry, 1960s-1970s This paper examines how French frozen-food professionals mobilized the legacy of

“The flag of war will fly over our pots”: Gender and Resistance in the Nouvelle Cuisine Kitchen   At first glance, the 1970s and 1980s appear to be a zenith of French cu

Le couscous, plat de résistance? Plat de résistance complet, le couscous forme un “plat total” englobant un ensemble culturel. L’indépendance de l’Algérie conforte son

Two Hundred Years of Resisting the Present in the Paris Catacombs I will discuss how the Catacombs have functioned as a space of reprieve in which visitors to the underground could

Il faut vivre avec son époque’: Marcel Aymé’s Depictions of Wartime Paris As a longtime resident of Montmartre, author Marcel Aymé had a front-row seat from which to observe

Parisian Greenspace Resistance (But not really) In the decades following the Second World War, Paris’s municipal parks, gardens, and squares enjoyed a reputation as spaces of res

Temporary sites of resistance: the barricade and commemorating revolution in the modern city For those of us who work on Paris in the nineteenth century, perhaps the most obvious s

The Gastronomic Capital of the World We will discuss portions of his chapter, The Gastronomic Capital of the World; focusing especially on the twentieth century, when resistance to

La plus grande richesse est la santé : l’impérialisme médical en Algérie, années 1920-1930 Based upon my ongoing doctoral research into colonial medicine in French Algeria i

Resisting the Wartime Order: Policing Sex Work in Lyon, 1914-1918 Based on material from several archives, this paper explores the confrontation between sex workers and police in o

From Vichy to Algiers and Back Again: The Algerian Extreme Right, the Organisation armée secrete, and Resistance to Decolonization There was a voluminous extreme Right in Algeria

The Humanity of Resistance: French Assistance to Downed Allied Aircrews In 1944, an interallied commission was charged with recognizing the bravery of some 20,000 French civilians

La Bourse insoumise: Financial Policy, Policing, and Market Resistance to State Control in Bonapartist France Drawing on arguments of my book manuscript, this paper explores how th

Quesnay, Turgot, Diderot, and the Transition to Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France Historians associate Quesnay, Turgot and the physiocrats with the deregulation of the grain

Slaveholder Indemnities as Economic Development: France, 1848-1852 France abolished slavery in 1848. Enslavers were indemnified – as they had been in 1825, when France extracted

Colonial Abundance and the Resistance of Nature In the early eighteenth century, unprecedented affluence was bringing societies across Europe and East Asia up against ecological li

Resisting the sheep?: Andean populations confronted with the introduction of European wool animals in the 16th century The conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was accompan

Des Whiteboys aux Defenders, de l’économie morale à la révolution des communs ? Résistances populaires à la colonisation en Irlande, 1760-1820 Dans le sillage de l’history

De résistance en révolution : les “faubourgs verts” de Grenoble aux origines de la Journée des Tuiles du 7 juin 1788 ? La « centralité paradoxale » des Alpes française

Louis Mandrin and the Birth of a New Mode of Resistance: Egalitarian Vigilantism After his execution in 1755, Louis Mandrin became a legend, a popular underdog who had resisted and

“Cette main ouverte de la danseuse”: Marie-Madeleine Guimard’s economic agency, or largesse as resistance   This paper examines the economic agency of the eighteenth-cen

Letters and Social Activism: Voltaire, the Calas Affair, and Mobilizing Public Opinion This paper examines how the media environment of Enlightenment France was conducive for epist

Unfreedom: Theme and Variations in Eighteenth-Century France In metropolitan France, enslaved people and free people of color alike navigated a treacherous and shifting legal lands

Non-European Litigants, Prize Law, and the Admiralty Court in Eighteenth-Century France This paper uses the archives of French maritime prize courts to trace the movement and activ

Remapping Paris in Haiti/Saint-Domingue Pushing against longstanding curatorial norms and disciplinary practices among art scholars, this paper reveals the importance of slave plan

Applying and Resisting French Race Law: 1777-1848 This paper examines ground-level consequences of racial laws enacted in France between 1777 and 1848. Policing people categorized

Sonic persistence: Knowledge making beyond resistance in the Caribbean This paper interrogates the link between sonic persistence and resistance. If, as Edwin Hill suggests, drawin

La Rumeur’s Resistance to the Penalization of French Rap This paper examines how the rap group La Rumeur sonically resisted their legal battle with then-Interior minister Nic

“Vous n’êtes pas venus en paix / Votre histoire est agressive” : Postcolonial and memorial resistance in the work of Kery James During the ‘memory wars’ in 1990s and 200

Jean-Paul Marat: Resistance as a Way of Life Marat saw oppression to be resisted always and everywhere, but he was particularly aware of the variety threatened or inflicted by repr

Charlotte Corday’s « project » as resistance against political impotence Charlotte Corday’s “project” to murder Marat grew out of her intolerance of political cowa

Robespierre rethinks resistance in the July crisis, 1793 The constitution passed on 24 June 1793 inscribed ‘resistance to oppression’ as one of the rights of man. The phrase re

Resistance is Futile: Addiction and Class in France’s Opium Dens 1880-1914 This paper explores the class dynamics of opium addiction at the turn of the twentieth century. As the

Water Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Paris This paper uses water to explore the theme of resistance from two angles. First, it considers the business of public baths starting wit

Rhetoric and Resistance: Debates over Inoculation and Vaccination since the 18th Century Immunization practices have been the subject of heated debate since coming to the attention

Complexités de et résistances à l’autorité des chirurgiens militaires de l’armée française pendant les guerres napoléoniennes Cette communication présente les condition

Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954 French police officers obsessed over the dangers that they believed lurked in the narrow, den

« Je n’ai jamais aimé la robe » note, dans son livre de raison, Thomas Riboud, officier moyen de justice au présidial de Bourg-en-Bresse durant la décennie 1780. L’aveu, r

La famille Pascal et la fragmentation religieuse: écritures et résistances Pour désigner les documents produits par les membres de la parenté de Blaise Pascal, la critique pasc

« Usage qui tendoit à donner atteinte au Mariage »: Marriage, Family and the épreuve du congrès in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century causes célèbres Historians have long

Witchcraft is a Theory of Bad Agency (1790-1940) The ‘new’ social history embraced the ‘master trope’ of agency, the idea that human actors made choices that had historical

Error of Nature/Scourge of God: The Trial of Hélène Jégado as a Scientific Witch Hunt for the Modern Age The 1851 trial of accused serial killer Hélène Jégado rested on the a

Sisterhood, Solidarity, and Resistance during the Algerian War for Independence: The Boupacha Affair of 1960-62 On February 11, 1960, French military police arrested FLN militant D