France and its Global Histories: State of the Field
France and its Global Histories: State of the Field ~ Programme
A two-day workshop generously supported by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and the School of History, University of St Andrews
Wednesday 27 August 2014
9-9.30 Introduction: Stephen Tyre (St Andrews) and Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrews)
9.30-11 Migration, Hierarchy, Difference
Chair: Stephen Tyre (St Andrews)
Simon Jackson (Birmingham), ‘Global Recruits for Imperial Warfare: the Legion of the Orient and the French Mandate in Syria, 1915-1924’
Michael Kozakowski (Chicago / European University Institute), ‘Re-thinking France through the Mediterranean: Moving Beyond Bilateral and (Post)-Colonial Paradigms of Migration’
Andrew WM Smith (University College London), ‘A Global Stage for the Ballets Africains: Imagining Nations in the Late Colonial State’
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1pm Local, National, Global, Universal
Chair: Akhila Yechury (St Andrews)
Jim Livesey (Dundee), ‘Global History and the Provinces’
Tyler Stovall (Berkeley), ‘Universal Nation: A Transnational History of Modern France’
Manuel Covo (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense), ‘The Global Historiography of the French-Haitian Revolution’
1-2.30pm Lunch
2.30-3.45 Ideas, Movement, Reception
Chair: Jordan Girardin (St Andrews)
Friedemann Pestel (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg), ‘“Un gentilhomme est à un routier ce qu’un blanc est à un noir”. Postcolonial Ambivalences of Race and Class in the Historiographies of Independent Haiti and Restoration France (1814-1830)’
Carolyn J. Eichner (Wisconsin-Milwaukee), ‘France, Gender, and the Global Redefinition of Empire’
3.45-4.15 Tea
4.15-5.45 States, Scales, Knowledge
Chair: Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrews)
Junko Thérèse Takeda (Maxwell School, Syracuse), ‘A Local Perspective on the Global: Marseille’s Silk Industry and the Compagnie de la Méditerranée’
Aro Velmet (New York University), ‘Global or Colonial Science? Plague and Pastorians in French Africa and South-East Asia, 1890-1920’
José Beltrán (European University Institute), ‘“Par les ordres du Roy”: Travelling Naturalists and the State Patronage of Sciences in Louis XIV’s France’
Thursday 28 August 2014
10-11.30 Networks, Collaborations, Continuities
Chair: Simon Jackson (Birmingham)
Emile Chabal (Edinburgh), ‘Postcolonialism in France: a Debate about the Nation?’
Anne-Isabelle Richard (Leiden), ‘The Limits of Solidarity: Europeanism, Anti-Colonialism and Socialism at the Congress of the Peoples in Puteaux, 1948’
Joanna Warson (Portsmouth), ‘France in Anglophone Africa: A Global Approach to the Study of France and its African Empire during Decolonisation’
11.30-12 Coffee
12-1.30 Roundtable: Tyler Stovall, Jim Livesey, Carolyn Eichner, Emile Chabal