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ACTIVITIES French Historical Studies (SFHS Journal, site at Arizona State University) GOVERNANCE
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CALL FOR PAPERS 57th Annual Meeting The Society for French Historical Studies The Citadel, Charleston, SC February 10-12, 2011 CLICK HERE for REGISTRATION The 57th Annual Society for French
Historical Studies conference will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel
in Charleston, South Carolina from Thursday, February 10, through
Saturday, February 12, 2011 and will be hosted by The
Citadel. Featured speakers include Dena Goodman (University
of Michigan) and Sylvain Venayre (Université de Paris I). Featured
events include a plenary session and reception Friday evening at The
Citadel and a banquet on Saturday evening. Additional outings on
Sunday morning February 13 to Fort Sumter and Drayton Hall Plantation,
will be organized.
The program committee will make every effort to combine single papers into coherent panels, but we encourage individuals to organize complete panels composed of two or (preferably) three papers, with a chair and commentator. Roundtables and other formats will also be considered. Please do not send proposals for papers that have already been presented or that are scheduled for presentation at other conferences, or that have already been published. All conference participants must be members in good standing of SFHS at the time of the conference. All sessions will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston. The hotel is steps away from restaurants, historical sites and museums. The special hotel rate will be $145.oo per night. Please send proposals for panels or individual papers as MS-Word attachments to Joelle Neulander, President and chair of the program committee (joelle.neulander@citadel.edu) Proposals should include the following items, integrated into one file: an abstract (no more than 1 page) for each paper; a CV (no more than 1 page) for each presenter, including contact information; and the proposed chair’s and commentator’s name, affiliation, and email address. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED: 15 SEPTEMBER 2010 SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES 56th Annual Meeting, Arizona State University April 8 – 10, 2010 Arizona State University will host the 56th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on Thursday April 8 – Saturday April 10, 2010. Featured speakers and guests include Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard), Lynn Hunt (UCLA), and Pierre Serna (Université de Paris I). Featured events include a reception Friday evening at the Desert Botanical Garden, and a banquet Saturday evening followed by live music. The theme of this year’s conference is French History in Translation, understood both literally, and in its broadest, metaphorical sense. All sessions will be held at the Fiesta Resort and Conference Center in Tempe. The Resort is only 10 minutes from Sky Harbor Airport. Sky Harbor is served by all major airlines, including U.S. Airways, Southwest and Jet Blue. The Resort offers a free shuttle to downtown Tempe, where you can find a number of excellent restaurants, pleasant walking and jogging trails along Tempe town lake, Gammage Auditorium, and the ASU campus. From downtown Tempe, you can also catch the Metro Light Rail, which will take you to the Heard Museum, the Phoenix Art Museum, and Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park. The Resort is also only minutes away from the Desert Botanical Gardens, the Phoenix Zoo and Old Town Scottsdale. Worthwhile excursions farther afield include Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West and of course, the Grand Canyon. In early April, the desert is in bloom and the weather is likely to be in the 80s during the day and the 50s at night. The special rate for the conference is $129.00 per night. This rate is good for two nights before the conference begins and 3 nights after the conference ends. The special rate will expire on March 19, 2010, so please make your reservations before this date to ensure that you will receive the negotiated rate. Please use this link to make your online reservations: https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=427622&hotelID=6629 . If you prefer to call and make reservations, please use the special code 10375 and call 1-800-528-6481. An online link for registering by credit card will be available shortly. You may also print and mail the registration form by clicking here.
2009 The 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies will be held at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott, Thursday March 26 - Sunday March 29, 2009. SFHS President and Local Arrangements Chair for 2008-2009, Steven C. Hause, Senior Scholar in the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis, and SFHS Vice-President and Program Committee Chair for 2008-2009, James Smith Allen, Professor at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, host the meeting. Featured speakers will be Christine Bard of Angers at the Friday luncheon and Jolyon Howorth of Yale and Bath at the Saturday banquet. Other plenary speakers include Roger Chartier (College de France, EHESS, and the University of Pennsylvania), John Merriman (Yale University), and Karen Offen (Stanford University) who will discuss recent trends in French history. Featured events will include a Thursday evening reception sponsored by Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, two art exhibitions and receptions on the Washington University campus on Friday evening, and an historical tour of Union Station on Sunday morning. Click here for the official conference website. Participants in the program must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join from the Duke Press webpage (http://www.dukeupress.edu ) or by writing to: Journals
Fulfillment, Duke University Press, 2008 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will host the 54rd annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on 3-5 April 2008. Myriam Cottias (CNRS), director of the international research group on slavery based at the EHESS, author of numerous books and edited collections on gender, slavery and historical memory, and most recently filmmaker ("Tropiques Amers," 2007) will be our featured speaker at the Friday luncheon. The Zimmerli art museum at Rutgers, with a rich collection of French and European prints and paintings, will host the Friday evening reception, in conjunction with a major show on the works of Honoré Daumier. On our Saturday program, our very distinguished guest will be Professor Denis Crouzet (Sorbonne, Paris) the internationally known scholar of religion, violence, historiography, and apocalyptic thought. His many scholarly works and research projects include Les Guerriers de Dieu: La violence au temps des troubles de religion (1990). Un 'Haut Coeur' de Catherine de Médicis (2005) and Christophe Colomb Héraut d'une apocalypse (2006). We are honored to have the participation of both Professors Cottias and Crouzet at our annual meeting. Members
receive the quarterly journal French Historical Studies. For further inquiries,
please contact the two co-presidents of the Society for 2007-2008, Jennifer Jones
(jemjones@rci.rutgers.edu) or Matt Matsuda (matt_matsuda1@yahoo.com) 2007 The University of Houston will host the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on 15-17 March 2007. Featured speakers are Gérard Noiriel (EHESS) and Patrice Higonnet (Harvard). A plenary session with Dominique Veillon (IHTP), Valerie Steele (FIT) and Irene Guenther (Marquette) will explore fashion history. The Menil Collection, designed by Renzo Piano, will host our Friday evening reception. All sessions will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Houston. Home base for Continental Airlines, Houston is served by all major airlines, including Southwest (low fares). Houston’s downtown boasts the Wortham Theatre housing the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera, Jones Hall (home to the Houston Symphony) and the Alley Theatre (frequent stage for productions of plays by Edward Albee, who serves on the faculty at UH). In addition to downtown, the Doubletree Hotel provides easy access to the Metro Rail line, which runs to the Museum District, Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. Eating out is one of the local sports and there are truly remarkable restaurants of every imaginable variety. March is our best weather month—highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s, azaleas blooming. Sessions normally include three papers, a commentator and a chair.* The program committee strongly urges submission of complete panels, but will consider individual papers. All proposals should include a session title, paper titles, short abstracts (300 words max), a one page cv for each panelist, and, something new, a cover sheet (PDF) for the panel, enclosed with this Call for Papers. Please send proposals (email attachment is fine, but please integrate all materials into one file under the organizer’s name) to Sarah Fishman, chair of the program committee, at sfishman@uh.edu. If you
are not submitting a paper or panel but would be willing to serve as chair or
commentator, please send your name and area(s) of expertise to sfishman@uh.edu. Participants in the program must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join from the Duke Press website or by writing to: Journals
Fulfillment, Duke University Press Members receive the quarterly journal French Historical Studies. For further inquiries, please contact the two co-presidents of the Society for 2006-2007, Sarah Fishman or Rob Zaretsky (local arrangements). *program committee asks that panels strive for gender balance 2006 The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 20-23, 2006, with support from area universities. The official Conference web site, with information on submitting papers for the conference, may be found at: http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/french2006 Conference sessions on Friday April 21 and Saturday April 22 will be at the Illini Union, which anchors the university quad. The welcoming reception on Thursday evening will take place in the Krannert Art Museum. The campus is located in the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana, within 2-3 hours driving distance of Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. The Champaign airport is served by American Airlines, Northwest, and Delta, with connections through Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and Dallas. The conference hotel will be the Historic Lincoln Hotel (http://www.historiclincolnhotel.com); tel:1-800-251-1962. As always, the SFHS organizers welcome submissions in all fields of French history. We particularly urge colleagues to submit proposals for full panels, which typically consist of three presenters, a commentator and a chair. Proposals should include: * Cover
Sheet (available on the Website) with session title, participant names and email
addresses, paper titles, and audio-visual needs, Please submit your proposals by email AND by regular mail. It is particularly important that email proposals be complete and include all necessary information in the body of the text rather than in separate attachments. Paper proposals should be postmarked no later than October 15, 2005 and sent to the organizers. Also, for the
first time, SFHS will be accepting proposal submissions on-line at our web site
at: For further information, please go to the website (above) or contact the two co-presidents of the Society for 2006 via e-mail at sfhs-2006@uiuc.edu . Please note that all North American participants must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join by subscribing to the Society's journal, French Historical Studies, via the Duke University Press web page, www.dukeupress.edu/fhs, or by writing to Journals Fulfillment, Duke University Press, Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660. |