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Modern French History

Organising Committee: Professor Julian Jackson (QMUL), Professor Jeremy Jennings (QMUL), Professor Colin Jones (QMUL), Professor Pamela Pilbeam (RHUL)

Convenors: Colin Jones (QMUL: enquiries to c.d.h.jones@qmul.ac.uk), Debra Kelly (Westminster: enquiries to KellyDJK1@aol.com )

Venue: Pollard Room, IHR

Time: Monday, 5.30pm
Spring Term 2010
18 January Sarah Easterby-Smith (Warwick)
Cultivating Commerce: connoisseurship and the plant trade in late 18th-century London and Paris
1 February Avner Ben-Amos (Tel-Aviv)
Festival and Utopia in Modern France: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Guy Debord
15 February Ultan Gillen (Queen Mary)
Burke's Reflections and French Counter-Revolution
1 March Ruth Harris (Oxford)
The Dreyfus Affair revisited

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Summer Term 2010
26 April Joan Tumblety (Southampton)
Physical culture, manly ideals and social hygiene in inter-war France
Joint session with History of Sport Seminar
10 May Chris Pearson (Sussex)
Militarized Environments in Cold War France
24 May
We intend to organise a seminar session in which post-graduates working on modern France will be invited to present their research
Date to be confirmed

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