Category: Research Events
Sources and Methodologies Seminar Series
An ADEFFI-ASMCF Seminar Series: Sources and Methodologies in French Studies How do we choose our sources and what do we ask from them? What theories do we choose, and how do we draw on them? Talks on challenges, limitations and approaches to a diverse range of sources. Broadly dealing with Frenc...
ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2023
The 2023 Postgraduate Study Day Conflict and Opposition will be held online on 11 March 2023. Full details and the call for papers, both in English and in French may be found on the dedicated Study Day page. Register for the Study Day here: Study Day Registration...
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2023
The 2023 Annual Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture was the 13th in this series, organised by the Society for the Study of French History and the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France. It was held at the the Institut français, South Kensington, London on Monday 16th January, 1800...
ADEFFI-ASMCF Teaching and Learning Series
We are pleased to share with you the ADEFFI-ASMCF Teaching and Learning Series. It will be hosted online by Pallavi Joshi (Warwick, ASMCF) and Jordan McCullough (QUB, ADEFFI) every Wednesday and Friday from 15 June 2022 to 1 July 2022 from 12pm - 1.30pm (BST). This training has been jointly organis...
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2022
The Society for the Study of French History and The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France were pleased to present: The Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, Monday 17th January 2022. The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacres 450 years on Professor Penny Roberts (University of W...
ASMCF-SSFH Annual Postgraduate Study Day
The organising committee are very pleased to share with you the Call for Papers for the 2022 ASMCF-SSFH Annual Postgraduate Study Day Images: Past & Present which will be hosted online on 23 April 2022 by Pallavi Joshi (University of Warwick, ASMCF), Sophie Dubillot (Open University, ASMCF), D...
ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2022
ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2022 Call for papers - Images: Past & Present A virtual study day to be held on 23 April 2022 Keynote: To Be Confirmed What happens when the images come into the world? With or without its consent, civil society has been constantly imaged, recorded, docume...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2022
Call for Papers ASMCF Annual Conference 2022 Presence, absence, hybridity: future directions in French and Francophone Studies 8-9 September 2022 (Online) The 2022 ASMCF annual conference will seek to explore the concepts of presence, absence, and hybridity as well as future dire...
Working with Archives PG Study Day
In June 2021, for the very first time, ASMCF and the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) held a collaborative study day for postgraduates. Including reflections from an archival curator and an academic on their archival work, as well as five postgraduate panels and two flash presentations, the event ...
ASMCF workshop on Outreach in French studies
On April 28th, the ASMCF ran an online workshop to discuss the principles, strategies, and challenges of designing and delivering outreach activities in French Studies. We were delighted to welcome Dr Daniel Finch-Race who talked about his ‘Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environment...
(im)mobilisations: ASMCF-SSFH PG study day
Our annual joint ASMCF-SSFH PG Study Day for 2021 will take place online on Saturday 6 March 2021. If you would like to join the day, please register through this form Programme 9.30 a.m. - Welcome 9.45 a.m. - Political (Im)mobilisation (chair: Dan Baker) ...
(im)mobilisations: Joint ASMCF-SSFH PG study day
Our annual joint ASMCF-SSFH PG Study Day for 2021 will take place online on Saturday 6 March 2021. If you would like to join the day, please register through this form The theme is '(im)mobilisations' and the programme can be downloaded via this link. The study day is organised by our PG Re...
Recording of Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2021
The 2021 edition of the Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised annually in conjunction with the Society for the Study of French History, took place online via Zoom. Professor Michael Broers (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) spoke on 'Napoleon as a European - A Certain Vision of France and Europe'. T...
(im)mobilisations: ASMCF-SSFH PG Study Day
The call for papers for our annual Postgraduate Study Day with the Society for the Study of French History is now available on the theme of (im)mobilisations. The study day will take place on the 6 March 2021, as a virtual event....
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2021
Online booking now open for the 2021 Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture organised with our friends at the Society for the Study of French History...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2021 Call for Papers
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, University of Chester, September 2nd-September 4th 2021. Islands and archipelagos Îles et archipels The annual ASMCF conference will seek to explore the concept of Islands and archipelagos as a way of understandin...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2021 Call for Papers
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, University of Chester, September 2nd-September 4th 2021. Islands and archipelagos Îles et archipels The annual ASMCF conference will seek to explore the concept of Islands and archipelagos as a way of understandin...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2020 Online hosted by Leeds
Annual Conference: Exile, Home and Belonging. Online conference 10-11 September 2020. We are delighted that the annual conference of the ASMCF will go ahead online in September. The event was due to be held at the University of Leeds and we thank colleagues at Leeds for their hard work in putt...
Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée
On 13 March 2020 the University of Leicester hosted an International Symposium on « Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée » organised in collaboration with Wallonia-Brussels International. This one-day symposium was organised with generous support from the ASMCF, the Society...
Conference 2020 – Exile, home and belonging
Association of Modern & Contemporary France Annual conference, 10-12th September 2020, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Exile, Home and Belonging Confirmed keynote speakers: Johanna Siméant (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Max Silverman (University of Leeds) Bill Marshall (Un...
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2020
The Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture for 2020, organised in conjunction with the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), will take place on Monday 13 January 2020. Professor Debra Kelly (Westminster, UK) will deliver the lecture entitled 'Dining Out with the Free French in Wartime London' at...
Call for Papers: ASMCF–SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2020
Call for papers 7 March 2020 – The Graduate School, Queen’s University, Belfast Keynote: Dr Hannah Grayson, University of Stirling « Chaque parole a des retentissements. Chaque silence aussi. » Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Présentation des Temps modernes’, in Situation II (1948) ...
CFP ASMCF Annual Conference 2020: Exile, Home and Belonging
Association of Modern & Contemporary France Annual conference, 10-12th September 2020, University of Leeds, United Kingdom We invite proposals for papers and panels on the following theme: Exile, Home and Belonging Confirmed keynote speakers: Johanna Siméant (Paris 1 Panthéon ...
ASMCF Funded Conference Report: The Freak and its Discontents
On October 29th and 30th, 2019, the Trinity Long Room Hub hosted a two-day interdisciplinary conference called ‘The Freak and its Discontents’, organized by a postgraduate committee. This conference engaged in a cross-disciplinary exploration of what society finds shocking in order to illuminate...
ASMCF Funded Conference Report : Theatre on the Move in Times of Conflict, 1750-1850
This two-day conference took place on 18th and 19th September at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was co-organised by Annelies Andries (University of Oxford) and Clare Siviter (University of Bristol). It brought together scholars from the fields of theatre history, musicology, languages, history, polit...
Theatre on the Move in Times of Conflict, 1750-1850
This two-day conference took place on 18th and 19th September at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was co-organised by Annelies Andries (University of Oxford) and Clare Siviter (University of Bristol). It brought together scholars from the fields of theatre history, musicology, languages, history, polit...
ASMCF-funded project report: Theatre on the Move in Times of Conflict, 1750-1850
This two-day conference took place on 18th and 19th September at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was co-organised by Annelies Andries (University of Oxford) and Clare Siviter (University of Bristol). It brought together scholars from the fields of theatre history, musicology, languages, history, polit...
The ASMCF Annual Conference Celebrates the Association’s 40th anniversary
The ASMCF will celebrate its fortieth anniversary at the Annual Conference, which is taking place from 4-6th September 2019 at the University of London Paris on the theme of the transnational city. Full details for the event and the programme can be found here....
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 of the French Embassy, took place on 15 June 2019....
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 various stages of their career, from MPhil to profess...
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 History' on 15th June 2019. This year's Franco-British t...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2019
Gathering in Paris to mark its 40th anniversary, the ASMCF annual conference on The Transnational City was co-organised and co-hosted by the University of London Institute and Paris and the American University of Paris. This conference considered the ways in which changing and accelerating patt...
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2019
The Society for the Study of French History and The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Institut Français, Royaume-Uni present the Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, Monday 14th January 2019. Too hot to handle? Flora Tristan (1803-1844), campaigner for gender equality P...
ASMCF Annual Conference
Lancaster University, Thursday 13–Friday 14 September 2018: New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds The programme for the 2018 annual conference alongside further information can be found here: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/languages-and-cultures/research/asmcf-annual-conferen...
‘Identity in Conflict’ – ASMCF/SSFH PG Study Day
The first panel of postgraduate papers of the 2018 Postgraduate Study Day comprised three papers examining approaches to identity by literary figures across three centuries. Presented in chronological order, the first paper was given by Jessica Kasje (Yale) who re-examined George Sand’s relationsh...
Researching in the BiFi – The Peter Morris Memorial Travel Prize
My thesis examines a group of contemporary French films which I locate as the continuation or evolution of the well-studied New French Extremity trend of the 1990s and 2000s. The New French Extremity has been criticised as an arbitrary grouping, but the body of work written on it proves that it was,...
ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2018: Conflict – Programme and Registration
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asmcf-ssfh-postgraduate-study-day-2018-conflict-tickets-42167848169 3rd March 2018, IMLR, Senate House, London 9.30-10.00: Registration 10.00: Welcome Prof. Chris Tinker, ASMCF President 10.15: Professional Development Session I:...
CfP: ASMCF Annual Conference, New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds
Lancaster University, Thursday 13 - Friday 14 September 2018 We invite proposals for papers that critically examine the innovation and experimentation that characterise new and emerging forms of expression in the French and Francophone worlds. The relationship between reading and writing is const...
Eighth Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture in French History
The Society for the Study of French History and The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and Institut Français, Royaume-Uni Present: The Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, Monday 8th January 2018. How the French and British Learned to Vote Professor Malcolm Crook (K...
CONFLICT. CfP for the ASMCF-SSFH PG Study Day 2018
3 March 2018 The Institute of Modern Languages Research University of London, Keynote: Emile Chabal (Edinburgh) Deadline for abstracts: January 12 2018 Contemporary society is riven by conflict, be it in the public, political or intellectual arena. Even a cursory glance at current new...
A Date With History
On the 9th June, the French Embassy and the Institut français du Royaume-Uni launched an exciting new collaboration with York Festival of Ideas - “A Date with History”. Bringing together leading historians from France and the UK, A Date with History, this first edition addressed histori...
What is Europe?
Matthew Brown and Howard Chae On 9th June, leading historians from France and the UK were invited by the French Embassy and the Institut français du Royaume-Uni to York to participate in an exciting and novel collaborative enterprise. Entitled ‘A Date with History’, this discussion panel ser...
Europe: A History of Migrations
Megan Crane and Alastair Brunton The fourth and final session of the day began with a reminder by Robert Winder, author of Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain, and David Bates, author of William the Conqueror, about the long durée of the history of migration in Europe. The l...
Perspectives on Franco-British Relations
Nigel Ritchie and Katherine Barrowman Renaud Morieux (Cambridge) discussed the notion of ‘foreigners’ in eighteenth century Britain and France. There were times when states could sharpen their distinctions, such as through the creation of the Alien office in Britain in the 1790s, but for the...
Did You Say Europe? Opening Talks
Adam Rolewicz The opening talks for A Date with History were an excellent introduction to an insightful conference. The two lectures delivered by Professors Roger Chartier and Chris Clark were a powerful examination of two case studies in European history, and how they shaped the Europe of toda...
‘Modern Mobility & Identity’ – ASMCF/SSFH PG Study Day
Session 2 of the last parallel session of the day addressed the question of identity in various ways. First with Bryony Leighton (Oxford), who explored the development of prosthetic design throughout the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries with her paper named 'You're made of metal: Where does ...
‘Recording/Remembering Mobility’ -ASMCF/SSFH PG Study Day
The panel 'Recording/remembering mobility' had a further common theme of inclusion versus exclusion across different types of mobility. Antonia Wimbush's paper, 'Postcolonial mobility: Empowerment of exile' focused on Véronique Tadjo, an Ivoirian writer and lecturer born in Paris, a Fulbright sch...
‘Mobility Politics’ – ASMCF/SSFH PG Study Day
I thoroughly enjoyed chairing the panel on ‘mobility politics’, which examined the diverse political, cultural, and religious dimensions of mobility in a range of historical and geographical contexts. The papers all spoke to each other well, with similar themes emerging: political inclusion, cit...
‘Mobility and Mental health’ – ASMCF/SSFH PG Study Day
At the ASMCF-SSFH PG Study Day, the panel entitled ‘Mobility and Mental health’ approached the topic of the study day through three rich papers that considered movement in relation to various aspects and concepts of mental illness. The first paper was given by Catherine Annabel (Sheffield) who e...
Mobilising Research beyond the Academy
The second of three professional development sessions at the ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2017 consisted of two papers reflecting on the theme of impact and engagement through research on French literature, history, and culture. We heard from Kate Astbury, Associate Professor and Reader at Warw...
Liam Innis on Flora Tristan – Brian Darling Memorial Prize
Many congratulations to Liam Innis who won the Brian Darling Memorial Prize, a prize awarded for an undergraduate essay or dissertation of distinction, which may treat any theme relevant to the Association's concerns (for more information see http://www.asmcf.org/funding/). Here is his prize-winn...
Thinking Work / Penser le travail: The London Postgraduate French Conference
At the annual London Postgraduate French conference ‘Thinking Work / Penser le travail’, held on Friday 4th November 2016 at the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London, the organizers (Ben Dalton – KCL; Kate Foster – KCL; Adina Stroia – KCL) invited postgraduate...
ASMCF-SSFH PG Study Day 2017: Mobility/Immobility Programme
9.30 - Registration and Coffee 10.15 - Welcome 10.30 - Professional Development Session: Funding roundtable Dr David Hopkin (Oxford) Dr Ewa Szypula (KCL/Nottingham) Dr Katherine Shingler (Nottingham) Dr Laura O'Brien (Northumbria) 11.15 - Coffee 11.30 - Professional Development Ses...
PG Showcase: James Illingworth on George Sand
The Mythopoetics of Bodily Representation in George Sand My research, funded by the AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, considers the representation of the body in nineteenth-century fiction, focusing on the works of George Sand (1804-76). The 1800s witnessed major developments in...
Research in the Charente: The Peter Morris Memorial Travel Award 2016
Many congratulations to Adam Spencer (Hull) who was awarded this year's Peter Morris Memorial Travel Award! Thanks to Adam for the following blog post and picture. You can read his whole report and find out more about this prize scheme here. 'The purpose of my dissertation follows on from the w...
Call For Papers 2017 ASMCF Annual Conference: Work and Play
Bangor University, 7–9th September Keynote Speakers Helen Abbott (University of Birmingham) Claude Boli (Responsable scientifique du Musée National du Sport, Nice) Sarah Waters (University of Leeds) From the Tennis Court Oath to Nuit Debout, work and play have been instrumental in o...