CALL FOR PAPERS

Society for the Study of French History
Annual Conference, University of Southampton, UK, 4-5 July 2005

Conference organisers:

Jackie Clarke (jrc4soton.ac.uk)
Alison Matthews-David (alisonmdsoton.ac.uk)
Joan Tumblety (jt7soton.ac.uk)

We welcome 30-minute papers for our parallel sessions on any theme
covering medieval, early modern or later modern French history.
Suggestions for panels of three papers are also invited. Prospective
speakers should send titles and abstracts electronically to any of the
organisers named above or by mail to Dr Joan Tumblety, History, School
of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United
Kingdom. We particularly invite contributions from overseas scholars and
postgraduate students. Papers may be given in French or English.
Deadline for submissions 1 October 2004.

Especially welcome are papers that address this year's theme of Spaces
and Places.

A number of recent works have used the exploration of specific spaces
and places as a means of revisiting established themes in French
history­, such as provincial and metropolitan society, the rural-urban
divide, consumption, religion and secularisation, feminism or social
politics. Such approaches have often pushed at the boundaries between
social, political, cultural and economic history. It is hoped, then,
that this theme will allow dialogue across chronological periods and
across sub-disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.

Topics might include:

Places and spaces of:
Leisure
Work
Worship
Power
Ritual/memorialisation
Institutions
Rural and urban spaces
Public and/or private space
Sacred and/or profane spaces
Imaginary spaces/places
Transnational spaces
Colonial/postcolonial spaces

Thus papers might focus on:

the salon, the café, the restaurant, the cinema, the theatre, the
library, the factory, the workshop, the guild, the department store, the
assembly line, the port, the shrine, the pilgrimage, the church, the
synagogue, the mosque, the cloister or monastery, the school, the
hospital, the asylum, the family, the home, the street, the
demonstration, the court, the embassy, the assemblée, the battlefield,
zones of occupation, the city, localities, funerals, festivals,
monuments, stadia, etc.

Jackie Clarke (jrc4soton.ac.uk)
Alison Matthews-David (alisonmdsoton.ac.uk)
Joan Tumblety (jt7soton.ac.uk)