2.00 pm: Welcome by Luc Borot, Directeur de la Maison Française d'Oxford and Steffen Prauser, Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies, University of Birmingham

Un refus absurde? La Résistance en 1940/41

Chair: Robert Gildea, University of Oxford

Olivier Wieviorka, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

What expectations for which Resistance? 1940-1942.

Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, Paris

When legality means conspiracy: paradoxical resistance in Vichy, 1940-1941.

Coffeebreak

Philippe Buton, Université de Reims

The French Communist Party 1940/41 - between Collaboration and Resistance. 

Julian Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London

Writing resistance history: the case of Daniel Cordier.

Saturday, 8May 2010, Maison Française d'Oxford

9.30am: Different shades of grey. Occupation and Collaboration

Chair:Olivier Wieviorka, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan

Stefan Martens, Directeur adjoint, German Historical Institut Paris and Steffen Prauser, Centre for Second World War Studies, University of Birmingham

‘Judentum, Kollaboration und Gaullisten' - the Nazi-German perspectives and expectations 1940/41

Martyn Cornick, Centre for Second World War Studies, University of Birmingham

Mobilising for war again. The Nouvelle Revue française 1938-1940.

Anne Simonin, IRICE (CNRS,Université de Paris I et de Paris IV)

Collaboration in 1940: shades and meanings of a concept".

Panel discussion

Chair: Robert Gildea, University of Oxford

Summing-up: Luc Borot, Directeur de la Maison française d'Oxford

1.30pm: Lunch