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The Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture
Added 23rd December 2011
New Wine In Old Bottles, Adapting and Abusing Tradition in French Visual Culture, 1880-1910
18th January 2012, 6pm. The Chancellor's Hall, University of London
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Added 27th October 2011
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The Society For the Study of French History - 25th Annual Conference
Added 21st June 2011
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Added 24th May 2011
Women in French Politics
This special issue brings together a range of papers that illustrate the breadth and complementarity of research being conducted on women in French politics. The papers traverse political and cultural barriers, and look at gender from the earliest foundations of a political career through to elections to the highest office in the land.
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Empire and Culture Now
The aim of this special issue is to explore some of the paradoxes concerning empire and its critique. At its centre is the question of the articulation of empire and culture in francophone cultures in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, an articulation that this introduction frames in terms of the models proposed by Edward Said on the one hand and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on the other.
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Mai 68 Then and Now
Added 20th January 2011
Click to download posterThe Sarkozy Presidency
Added 20th January 2010
There is a special issue of Modern and Contemporary France 17/4 (2009) on the Sarkozy Presidency. This is the first collection of articles to offer a mid-term ‘bilan’ of the presidency and it will be of interest for both research and teaching purposes. Guest edited by Philippe Marlière and Joseph Szarka, it contains articles on ideology, political strategy, economics, media and European policy.
British Academy Review Follow-up Response
Added 2nd March 2009
Thank you to ASMCF members for your responses, from which I have constructed a response to the British Academy regarding endangered and emerging subject areas. If you find that you disagree or have further comments to add, please write to me at the address below or use the ASMCF Club for further discussion/debate.