The 2016 SSFH Annual Conference

The Society for the Study of French History held its 30th annual conference at the University of Chichester, from 3rd-5th July 2016.

Theme:
High and Low Culture: Elite and Popular Constructions

Invited speakers included:

Professor Margaret Atack (Leeds); Professor James B. Collins (Georgetown University, Washington); Professor Máire Cross (Newcastle); Professor Robert Gildea (University of Oxford); Professor Richard Golsan (Texas A&M); Professor Denis Melier (Poitiers); Benoît Peeters (independent scholar and biographer of Hergé, Paul Valéry, and Jacques Derrida); and Professor Sylvie Lindeperg (Sorbonne, Paris 1)

The conference programme is available here and the poster is available here.

Conference Poster 2016

Past Annual Conferences:

32nd Annual Conference at University of Warwick.
Theme: Political Economy and Cultures of Inequality
[conference programme and details]

31st Annual Conference at University of Strathclyde.
Theme: France, Europe, and the World
[conference programme and details]

30th Annual Conference at the University of Chichester
Theme: High and Low Culture: Elite and Popular Constructions
[conference programme and details]

29th Annual Conference at University of St Andrews.
Theme: Turning Points in French History
[conference programme and details]

28th Annual Conference at St John’s College, Durham, from 10-12 July 2014.
Theme: Theme: History and the Senses
[conference programme and details]

27th Annual Conference at Cardiff University, Sunday 30 June to Tuesday 2 July 2013.
Theme: Solidarities, Entanglements and Conflict in French History.
[conference programme]

26th Annual Conference at King’s Manor, University of York, 1-3 July 2012.
Theme: France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History
[conference programme]
[watch video of plenary speakers]

25th Annual Conference at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 14-15 July 2011.
Theme: Celebrating France
[conference overview] [draft programme].

24th Annual Conference at Newcastle University on 27-29 June 2010.
[Programme] [Abstract]

23rd Annual Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 June 2009
[Programme] [Conference Website]

22nd Annual Conference at the University of Aberystwyth, 3-4 July 2008
[Programme] [Abstract]

21st Annual Conference at the University of St Andrews, 1-3 July 2007
[Programme] [Conference Website]

20th Annual Conference at the University of Sussex, 3-4 July 2006
[Programme] [Abstract]

19th Annual Conference at the University of Southampton, 4-5 July 2005
[Programme] [Abstract]

18th Annual Conference at the University of Warwick, 1-2 April 2004
[Programme] [Abstract]

17th Annual Conference at the University of Nottingham, 10-11 April 2003
[Programme] [Abstract]

16th Annual Conference
2002 Programme

15th Annual Conference
2001 Programme

14th Annual Conference
2000 Programme



1st Annual Conference at the University of Liverpool, April 1987.
Theme: ‘The Growth of the French State’.