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Fifteenth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation:
“French Identities” - Program
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Venue Information
Sessions of the conference will take place in the Napier Building of the
University of Adelaide (North Terrace). Public lectures will be given in the State
Library of South Australia, and at the Art Gallery of South Australia, both on
North Terrace, and in Napier 102.
Napier G03 and G04 are on the ground level of the Napier Building.
The foyer outside Napier Lecture Theatre 102 will be used for registration/information
facilities and for morning and afternoon teas.
Computer and internet access is available to delegates on level
2 of the Napier Building (Room 204).
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6:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Rudé Seminar Reception
Napier 102
A vin d’honneur followed by Keynote Address
Welcome
Stéphane Grivelet, Higher Education Attaché, Embassy of France
Keynote Address
Nicolas Offenstadt, Université de Paris I—Panthéon
“Le Cri objet d’histoire”
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8:30 am - 9:00 am
Conference Registration
Napier Foyer
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9:00 am - 9:15 am
Official Welcome and Opening
Napier 102
Professor Fred McDougall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic),
University of Adelaide
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9:15 am - 10:00 am
Keynote Address
Napier 102
Robert Gildea, University of Oxford
“Eternal France: crisis and national self-perception in France, 1870-2005”
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10:00 am - 10:30 am
Morning Tea
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10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Joint ASFS/Rudé Seminar Panel in Honour of Colin Nettelbeck
Napier 102
Chair: Vesna Drapac, University of Adelaide
Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne
“Patriotism Authoritarian and Democratic:
Nationalism and Republicanism in French Political Discourse, 1895-1914”
Nicholas Hewitt, University of Nottingham
“‘Marseille qui Jazz’: Popular Culture in the Second City
Between the Wars”
Anne Freadman, University of Melbourne
“Colette’s Early Writing on the Cinema”
Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne
“Kechiche and the French Classics: On the Difficulty of Safeguarding
an Outsider’s View”
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Great War Panel
Napier 102
Chair: John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin
Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the
Australian Defence Force Academy
“The Question of Command in a Coalition War: The Case of Marshal Ferdinand
Foch”
Nicolas Offenstadt, Université de Paris I—Panthéon
“The Chemin des Dames, from event to memory”
Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University
“Verdun in French History”
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Tea
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
D. J. Culpin
“Perceptions of France: French books in the early
libraries of South Australia”
Michele Cunningham
"'French Pictures in English Chalk' -
A Love-Hate Relationship"
Robert Tombs
“Anglophobia in the making of French identity,
c. 1750-1850”
Chair: Adrian Jones
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Napier G04
Elizabeth Bonner
“Les Clouet connections: New French archival research for three Oxford
DNB articles”
Nicola Courtright
“Themes in the Iconography of Rule: Queens’ Apartments from the
Louvre to Versailles”
Sophia Pickford
“Interior and Identity in the French Renaissance Château”
Chair: Joseph Zizek
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Public Lecture
State Library of South Australia
John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin
Demobilizing the Mind: France and the Legacy of the Great War, 1919-1939
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8:30 am - 10:30 am
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
Colin Nettelbeck
“Kassovitz and Sarkozy’s racaille: Art and the Alienation of Politics
in Contemporary France”
Mark Carroll
“Articles of War: The Prague Manifesto (1948) and the Association française
des musiciens progressistes”
Vesna Drapac
“Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951): the crisis of the individual
as a precursor to the death of resistancialism”
Mark Hulliung
“Why was Sartre unable to finish the Critique
of Dialectical Reason ?”
Chair: Nicholas Hewitt
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Napier G04
Howard G. Brown
“From Trauma to Tragedy: Images of Revolutionary Violence After the
Terror”
Joseph Zizek
“Engraving Revolution: ‘History’ in Images during the French
Revolution”
Barbara Santich and John West-Sooby
“Culinary exotica in mid-eighteenth century France”
Chair: David Garrioch
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10:15 am - 10:45 am
Morning Tea
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10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
Cécile Dauphin
"La lettre au XIXe siècle : du texte à l'image"
William Dickson
"From l'école laïque to the regional novel: the creation
of identity in Modern France"
Susan Foley
"Feminine Forms: Femininity and Identity in the Letters of Leonie Leon
and Leon Gambetta"
Chair: Margaret Sankey
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Napier G04
Karin Speedy
"Identifying the Reunion Coolies of Nineteenth-Century New Caledonia:
Arrival, Settlement and Adaptation in a Sometime Hostile Land"
Ian Coller
On the Kechaoua Steps:
Revolution and Racialization in 1830
Chair: Robert Aldrich
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12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch
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1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
Martin Evans
“The Civilising Mission, Islam and Torture: The French Socialist Party
and the Algerian War”
Robert Aldrich
“Marshal Lyautey’s Funerals: The Death and Afterlife of a Colonial
Hero”
Natalya Vince
“Algerian Attitudes towards France: Human Rights and the Legacy of the
Battle of Algiers”
Chair: Bronwyn Winter
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Napier G04
Jolanta T. Pekacz
“French Identities: Memory, History and the Persistence of the Salon”
Bruno-François Moschetto
“L’idée de résistance dans l’œuvre de Montesquieu”
Sanford Gutman
“Artificial Schemes for the Creation of An Aristocracy During the French
Restoration”
Chair: Michael Wolfe
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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Afternoon Tea
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3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
Michael Wolfe
“Antiquarianism and Urban Identity in
Sixteenth-Century Nîmes”
Jonathan Smyth
“The Fête de l’Être Suprême in June 1794: an
example of the imposition of Power from the centre”
David Garrioch
“The Protestants of Paris and the Old Regime”
Chair: Sanford Gutman
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Napier G04
Jean Fornasiero
“The Compleat French Scientific Explorer:
Nicolas Baudin”
Adrian Jones
“Moreau de Brassey in Moldavia in 1711”
William Jennings
“The Historiography of Early French Voyages of Exploration: from Myths
to Realities”
Chair: Mary Jo Nye
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Public Lecture
Art Gallery of South Australia, Function Rooms 1 & 2
Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne
“Daily Life in the French Revolution”
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Conference Dinner - 7pm
National Wine Center
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9:00 am - 10:30 am
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
William Murray
“‘Surtout pas de sport’: sport and the French’”
André Lambelet
“‘Partir pour un pays inconnu’: Command, culpability, and
community in the 17th Infantry Regiment’s 1907 Mutiny”
Dominique Kalifa
“L’Archipel pénitentiaire de l´armée française
en Afrique du Nord (fin XIXe siècle)”
Chair: John Horne
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Napier G04
Peter Cryle
"Building a Sexological Concept Through Fictional Narrative: The Case
of 'Frigidity' in Late Nineteenth-Century France"
Alison Moore
“The Invention of the Unsexual: placing female frigidity within a history
of sexuality”
Elizabeth Stephens
"Venus Uncovered: Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Waxworks of the Female
Body"
Chair: Robert Nye
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10:30 am - 12:00 am
Morning Tea
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Parallel Sessions
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Napier G03
Jo McCormack
“French Identities in the Classroom: Teaching French History of the
Algerian War”
Bronwyn Winter
“Caught between les Mariannes and les Indigènes (de la République
): Muslim-background women in France and the political manipulation of identity”
John Emerson
“Representing or Re-presenting the colonial past
in French and Australian cinema”
Chair: Martin Evans
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Napier G04
Greg Burgess
“Territorial limits in the east. The German
revolutions in Alsace, 1848-1849”
Fredric S. Zuckerman
“Policing the Russian revolutionary emigration
in France, 1880-1914: the 20th century as a
century of political police”
Aidan Van de Weyer
“The development of political identites: Radical and secular associations
in small-town France”
Chair: Robert Tombs
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
George Rudé Society Annual General Meeting
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Napier G03
Pierre Brocheux
"L'intelligentsia vietnamienne en quête d'une utopie révolutionnaire"
Délphine Cordelle / Thao Tran-Minh
“Les paradoxes des identités collectives en France”
Alan Williams
Identities, Selves, and Revolution
Chair: André Lambelet
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Napier G04
Elizabeth C. Macknight
“Nuptials and Afterwards: Marriage in Parisian
High Society 1880-1914”
Lyn Stocks
“Théophile Gautier: Advocate of Art for Art’s Sake
or Champion of Realism ?”
Jonathan Marshall
“The Nude in Movement, 1862-1940: Medical approaches to the history
of art & the aesthetics of the body after Charcot”
Chair: Charles Sowerwine
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Tea
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Postgraduate Session
G03
Eleanor Davey
“La mémoire indifférente: Vichy, the Holocaust, and the
Bosnian Crisis”
Kate Seward
"Reconceptualising culture of the occupation 1940-44: a case study"
Ashley Thomas
“A French Fascist at the Nuremberg Rally"
Chair: Robert Gildea
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Public Panel: French-Australian Food and Wine Connections
Cath Kerry, CK Food, Art Gallery of SA
Fanchon Ferrandi
Tatachilla Winery
Emmanuelle Requin
Chalk Hill Winery and Boar’s Rock Group
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The conference has been organised in conjunction with the inaugural conference
of the Federation of Associations of Teachers of French in Australia (FATFA) and
with the XIVth Annual Conference of The Australian Society for French Studies
(ASFS). The members of the joint ASFS/Rudé committee are
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Vesna Drapac
André Lambelet
History Discipline
School of History and Politics
University of Adelaide
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Jean Fornasiero
John West-Sooby
French Studies Discipline
School of Humanities
University of Adelaide
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The organisers gratefully acknowledge the financial and moral support of the French
Embassy. Further financial assistance has been provided by the Faculty of Humanities
& Social Sciences and by the Discipline of History at the University of Adelaide.
These contributions have been invaluable. We are also grateful to the Alliance
Française d'Adélaïde ; they have helped developed a wider community
context for all three French conferences and have promoted broader community participation.
Thanks are due to Greta Larsen, Christine McElhinney, Julie McMahon, and Michele
Cunningham. We would also like to thank the Mercure Grosvenor Hotel in Adelaide,
Aquinas College, and the Intext Book Company for their support.
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