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2021: Megan Lloyd, King’s College London, ‘Discuss the relationship of women to politics in Algeria as represented by these texts’. 2020: Alexandra Wootton, University of Leeds, ‘“Le Vietnam a constitué, pour toute une génération, la rampe d’accès à l’action militante”. Comment la guerre du Vietnam a-t-elle provoqué une radicalisation des étudiants en France?’. 2019: Araceli Irurzu, King’s College London, ‘Only violence can cure the scars of colonial violence’. 2018: Jordan McCullough, Queen's University Belfast, ‘The messianic metaphor and the redemption narrative in three twentieth-century Antillian texts’. 2017: Eilidh Ross, '"Et toute cette humanité de cauchemar vient se heurter et s’écraser contre la herse que nous avons laissé tomber dès le 28 janvier sur les seuils de notre frontière. Et derrière cette herse, il y a des fusils et des mitrailleuses, qui sont les attributs de notre force et les moyens légitimes de notre sauvegarde [...] Mais, devant les mitrailleuses, entre elles et l’imploration de ces faces de peur et de détresse, il y a le visage calme, doux et grave de la France, de la France de saint Vincent-de-Paul et des Droits de l’homme, qui est la même depuis toujours, à travers les âges comme à travers le monde." Discuss the validity of this statement, made by Albert Sarraut in March 1939, with reference to the Spanish exodus.' 2016: Liam Innis, University of Newcastle, "Discuss how Flora Tristan blazed a trail among utopian socialists in her treatment of 'the woman question'" 2015: Julia Dobson, University of Warwick, 'Analyse and evaluate the success of the GIP's resistance to techniques of coercive governance both at home and abroad' and Danielle Hayter, University of Portsmouth, 'How and why has the contribution of African soldiers to the French war effort during the Second World War been remembered in France and Senegal since the mid-1990s?' 2014: Han Jie Chow, University of Bangor, 'Langue et identité culturelle à la Martinique' 2013: H. Silver, University of Birmingham. 2011: Charley Jarrett, University of Sussex, for ‘L'exception electorale française’.Terms and Conditions
Essays must explore one or more themes relevant to the Association’s remit (French history, politics, culture, society, literature, thought, film since 1789, as well as the relations between France and other countries, including those in the French-speaking world). The work may be written in either French or English and should not normally exceed five thousand words.
Essays or dissertations must be submitted by a member of academic staff (who should normally be a member of the Association) and accompanied with a current email address provided by the student. Submissions should be made electronically by 15 July of the year in question using the Application Form available on the ASMCF website. Submissions cannot be submitted by students.
A three-person sub-committee of the Executive will be invited to serve by the Secretary to consider the submissions and determine the award of the prize. Prize-winners shall be notified directly and their names announced on the website and at the Association’s AGM.