Salons

Each year the Centre organises a short series of lunchtime “Salons”. These offer staff and students at St Andrews who are working on French and Francophone topics the opportunity to meet and share their research. We follow a relaxed “brown-bag” format: everyone brings their lunch with them, and the speaker presents on an aspect of their research for about 10 minutes, then opens out for wider discussion. All are welcome!

If you are interested in presenting, please write to [email protected].

2023-2024 Programme

15 November, 1-2pm
Salon Talk, Katherine Stratton (Modern Languages)
‘Practical Horsemanship and Education in Sixteenth-Century France: Charles Perier and the Printed Horse’ (room 0.01, St Katherine’s Lodge)

2022-2023 Programme

28 September, 1-2pm
Salon Talk, Carine Chelhot Lemyre (Art History)
‘A Stereoscopic Voyage en Egypte’ (Old Class Library, 69-71 South Street)

26 October, 1-2pm
Salon Talk, Dr Kate Rudy (Art History)
‘Animating the page with the body: use-wear evidence in courtly romance manuscripts for the gestures used to read them aloud’ (Microsoft Teams)

15 February, 1-2pm
Salon Talk, Katherine Stratton (Modern Languages) [POSTPONED UNTIL AUTUMN SEMESTER 2023]
‘Practical Horsemanship and Education in Sixteenth-Century France: Charles Perier and the Printed Horse’ (Buchanan 306 and Microsoft Teams)

22 February, 1-2pm
Salon Talk, Dr Mathilde von Bulow (International Relations) [POSTPONED UNTIL AUTUMN SEMESTER 2023]
‘The Battle of Algiers and the genealogy of counterinsurgency’ (Room 0.01, Saint Katherine’s Lodge and Microsoft Teams)

Past Salons:

17 March 2022 – Guy Rowlands (Modern History)
‘Artillery and Armaments in Louis XIV’s France: a Window into the Soul of a State’

10 November 2021 – Natalie Adamson (Art History)
‘Leopold Sédar Senghor and Pierre Soulages talk rhythm in Paris, c.1956-60’

24 November 2021, 1.05-1.50pm. Salon talk – Andy Williams (International Relations)
‘Mapping the French Relationship with the Anglo-Saxons in the Twentieth Century’

13 October 2021 – Julia Prest (Modern Languages, French)
‘Writing Enslaved People into the (Hi)story of Public Theatre in Colonial Saint-Domingue’

29 September 2021 – Cameron Houston (Medieval History)
‘Folcuin of St-Bertin and the Origins of the Cartulary in West Francia/France’

24 February 2021 – Ysaline Bourgine de Meder (St Andrews/Ghent, Medieval History)
‘Being a lord in 15th c. Normandy: from chickens to gallows’

3 March 2021 – Natalee Garrett (Modern History) [Title TBC]

14 October 2020 – James Palmer (Medieval History)
‘Historians, politics, and the imagining of France’s early medieval origins in the nineteenth century’

4 February 2020: Prof Andrew Orr (KSU), ‘The Three Kemals: Conflicting French Views of Mustafa Kemal during the Turkish War of Independence’.

30 January 2019: Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker (Medieval History), ‘The Jacquerie Revolt of 1358’.

30 October 2019  Dr Marika Knowles (Art History), ‘From Realism to Role-Play to Paperwork: Themes in French Art’

1 March 2017: Conan Fischer (School of History), ‘A Vision of Europe, 1929-1932′: France, Germany and a cautionary tale for our times’

5 April 2017: Stephanie O’Rourke (School of Art History), ‘Doodling circa 1800’

19 April 2017: Vicky Turner (School of Modern Languages), [Title TBC].

10 February 2016: David Evans (School of Modern Languages), ‘Listening to Ninteenth-Century France: The Poetics of Noise and Sensory History’

9 March 2016: Akhila Yechury (School of History), ‘Choice or Coercion? The End of French Rule in India, c. 1947-62’

30 March 2016: Linda Goddard (School of Art History), ‘“To write as I paint my pictures”: Paul Gauguin as Artist-writer’

2 April 2015: Andy Williams (International Relations), ‘France, Britain, and the USA in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1940: A Reappraisal’ (Click here for further info)

9 April 2015: Sarah Easterby-Smith (History), ‘Botany and Connoisseurship in the Eighteenth Century’

16 April 2015: Graeme Kemp (History/USTC), ‘Booklists, Catalogues, and Seventeenth Century French Print Culture’

23 April 2015: Julia Prest (French), ‘Social Politics and the Theatres of Saint-Domingue’

 

Contact

Contact the Centre’s Director, Dr. Justine Firnhaber-Baker: [email protected]

Contact the Centre’s PGR Intern, Tori Champion: [email protected]

Mailing Address:
Centre for French History and Culture
School of History
University of St Andrews
ST ANDREWS
FIFE, KY16 9AL

Tel.:
+44 (0)1334 462906