School of History & Politics | Fifteenth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation: “French Identities”

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Fifteenth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation: “French Identities” - Program
Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Acknowledgments
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).
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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”
Thursday, July 13, 2006
8:30 am - 9:00 am Conference Registration Napier Foyer
9:00 am - 9:15 am Official Welcome and Opening Napier 102 Professor Fred McDougall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Adelaide
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”
10:00 am - 10:30 am Morning Tea
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”
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
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”
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
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	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
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
Friday, July 14, 2006
8:30 am - 10:30 am Parallel Sessions
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	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
10:15 am - 10:45 am Morning Tea
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Parallel Sessions
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	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
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Parallel Sessions
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	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
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Afternoon Tea
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Parallel Sessions
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	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
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”
Conference Dinner - 7pm National Wine Center
Saturday, July 15, 2006
9:00 am - 10:30 am Parallel Sessions
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	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
10:30 am - 12:00 am Morning Tea
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Parallel Sessions
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	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
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch George Rudé Society Annual General Meeting
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	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
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea
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
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
Acknowledgements
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
Vesna Drapac André Lambelet History Discipline School of History and Politics University of Adelaide	Jean Fornasiero John West-Sooby French Studies Discipline School of Humanities University of Adelaide
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.

Fifteenth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation: “French Identities” - Program

Fifteenth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation:
“French Identities” - Program