Funding Opportunities
There are opportunities for ASMCF members to obtain funding for their activities. For example, each year the Executive Committee opens four rounds of the Association's Initiative fund, supporting costs of up to £500 for research activities, and it welcomes applications for seminar series.
Recent News & Articles
Teaching Vichy and the Occupation: ASMCF-funded workshop for teachers
The Vichy regime and the German Occupation of France in the Second World War is a mainstay of A-Level curricula for French. Whether taught in the form of a set text or as a stand-alone module or topic, the Occupation is one of the few constants acros...
A Date with History, York Festival of Ideas, Report
Back in May, the ASMCF advertised the French Embassy's call for travel bursaries for 'A Date with History'. This Franco-British focused day, in partnership with the York Festival of Ideas and the Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department o...
Chronicling the War, Re-imagining French-ness: Memoirs of the French external Resistance
14 June 2019, University of Manchester. Co-organised by Dr Charlotte Faucher, Dr Laure Humbert and Dr Frances Houghton Conference report: The workshop brought together 8 speakers from France and the United Kingdom and two panel chairs at var...
Travel Bursaries for A Date with History, York Festival of Ideas, 15th June 2019
Deadline: 17th May 2019 For the third time, the York Festival of Ideas and the Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department of the French Embassy and the Institut français du Royaume-Uni are working together to produce 'A Date with Histor...
CfP: ASMCF Conference 2019: The Transnational City
ULIP and The American University of Paris (AUP) will host the annual conference of The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) on 4-6th September 2019. The invitation is now open for proposals of papers or panels which a...
