The United Kingdom and the French world during the Fourth Republic
Hybrid conference (Zoom & Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens)
Friday 30 September (Logis du Roy)
9.40. Welcome and introduction, Mélanie Torrent (UPJV) & Andrew Williams (St Andrews)
10.00-11.30Keynote lecture
Chair : Mélanie Torrent, UPJV
Martin Evans, University of Sussex/ Whiteness, consumerism, colonialism: Britain, France and the Re-Mapping of Global Boundaries 1945 – 60
11.30-11.45 Break
11.45--13.00
Session 1. What and where is overseas ? Europe, empire and the nation revisited
Chair : Richard Davis, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
- Virginie Roiron, Sciences Po Strasbourg / From imperial to European rivals : Greater France and British conceptions of territorial integration
- Alice Byrne, Aix-Marseille University / Cultural diplomacy under the Fourth Republic, between Europe and Empire
13.00-13.45. Lunch
13.45-15.00.
Session 2. Archiving Franco-British relations and the Fourth Republic
Chair : Quentin Gasteuil, Institut des sciences sociales du politique, ENS Paris-Saclay
- Elise Bourgeois, Archives départementales de la Somme / Se souvenir et construire une politique mémorielle. Les relations entre la France et le Royaume-Uni pendant la IVe République vues à travers les sources aux Archives de la Somme
- Axelle Espel, Archives municipales et communautaires d’Amiens / Les relations franco-britanniques au prisme des jumelages de l’après-guerre
15.20-16.50.
Session 3. The Fourth Republic in the long term : traces, heritage and memory
Chair : Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews
- Round table with: Laurent Césari, Université d’Artois ; Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth ; Guia Migani, Université de Tours ; Mathilde von Bülow, University of St Andrews.
Saturday 1 October (La Citadelle, E002)
9.15-10.45.
Session 3.Rethinking governance and expertise
Chair : Katja Sedel, University of Westminster
- Thomas Irace, Université de Picardie Jules Verne / French and British colonial economics compared, c. 1944-1960
- Véronique Dimier, Université libre de Bruxelles / The politics of comparisons: from colonial to development policies
10.45-11.00. Break
11.00-12.30.
Session 4.Franco-British cooperation in resisting and managing colonial decline
Chair : Lauriane Simony, Cergy Paris University
- Luc Brunet, the Open University / French Responses to the Imposition of Apartheid in South Africa, 1948-1961
- Lori Maguire, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne / Britain and France in Hanoi, 1954-1958: Cooperation and Rivalry
12.30-13.00. Conclusions & perspectives/ Mélanie Torrent (UPJV) & Andrew Williams (University of St Andrews)
13.00. Lunch
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This conference follows from the seminar series of 2021 (https://tinyurl.com/2p8s2ztk)
Contact: Mélanie Torrent: melanie.torrent@u-picardie.fr
Andrew Williams: ajw30@st-andrews.ac.uk
With the support of the Institut Universitaire de France, the Région Hauts-de-France, Amiens Métropole, CORPUS/UPJV and the University of St Andrews
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