France’s Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950

France’s Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950

Date: Saturday 27 Nov 2010 (All day)

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Research programme: Nation and Globalization

10.00am:

Welcome by Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford

10.05am:

Panel I

Chair: Jessica Wardhaugh (University of Warwick)

Henri Massis and the defence of the West
Mike Holland (Oxford)

Shooting in deep time: Renoir and the mise-en-scene of history and political possibility
Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent)

11:30am:

Panel II

Chair: Robert Gildea (Worcester College, Oxford)

Coexistence with the enemy? Jewish Youth and the Chantiers de la Jeunesse
Daniel Lee (Oxford)

Alienated Retrievals of Home: Liberation in postwar film
Karen Adler (Nottingham)

12.40am: Lunch break

1.40pm:

Panel III

Chair: Ruth Harris (New College, Oxford)

Cheminots in 1939-40: A Smooth Transition from War to Occupation
Ludivine Broch (Birkbeck)

Prisoners of the peace: German POWs and the French 1944-1948
Hanna Diamond (Bath)

3.00pm:

Panel IV

Chair : Martin Conway (Balliol College, Oxford)

German war crimes in France during the Second World War
Steffen Prauser (Birmingham)

Dealing with the myth of the Resistance
Laurent Douzou (MFO)

4.25pm: General discussion and concluding remarks by Claire Andrieu (Sciences-Po, Paris)

 

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France's Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950

Henri Massis and the defence of the West

Speaker: Mike Holland

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Cheminots in 1939-40: A Smooth Transition from War to Occupation

Speaker: Ludivine Broch

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Prisoners of the peace: German POWs and the French 1944-1948

Speaker: Hanna Diamond

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German war crimes in France during the Second World War

Speaker: Steffen Prauser

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