Click here to view the 2022 conference program.

Digital Pre-Conference Events on French Presse:

Sunday, March 13 at 3 PM EST

Lisa Leff, Moderator.

-     “Contested Commodities: A History of Cannabis and Tobacco in Colonial Morocco.” John Dieck, University of Minnesota.

-     “A Family in Iran: Networks of Love, Learning and Labor in the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1908-1978.” Isabelle Headrick, University of Texas at Austin.

-     “Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences.” Ian Merkel, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin.

-     “Expanding the Narrative and Meanings of Occupation and France in WWII." Cameron Zinsou, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.


Sunday, March 30 at 3 PM

Julie Hardwick, Moderator.

-     “Movable goods as gateway to the credit market. Civil and criminal aspects of pawns in 16th-18th c. France.” Nga Bellis-Phan, University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.

-     “Producing Pondichéry: towards a social-urban history of 18th c French India.” Jakob Burnham, Georgetown University.

-     “Their Shameful Parts: Authority, Sexuality, and Abuse in Bicêtre, 1660.” Alex Taft, University of Texas at Austin.