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Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2024
The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and the Society for the Study of French History are delighted to present the 14th Annual Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, to be held on Monday 22nd January 2024 at the the Institut fran...
Undergraduate Essay Prizes – new deadline
Noting that many of our members were likely to have been participating in the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) at the end of the last academic year, the ASMCF postponed its two Undergraduate essay prizes during the usual summer months. When t...
Executive Committee Roles – Call for EOIs
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (deadline 1 September 2023) The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) invites expressions of interest for three roles on its Executive Committee. These are excellent opportunities to be ...
In Memoriam: Professor Rod Kedward (1937-2023)
At the ASMCF, we were all deeply saddened to learn of the death on 29 April of Professor Rod Kedward. He had been a friend and supporter of the Association since its early days and was a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Moder...
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 - 1.3...
Postgraduate Job Announcement: Conference Support Officers
The ASMCF is looking for two Conference Support Officers to work closely with our Conference Officer. The posts are open to Postgraduate students working in any area of French and Francophone Studies, and will be hourly paid over 13 months. Applicat...
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, A...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2022
The Executive Committee are very pleased to share with you the Call for Papers for the 2022 ASMCF Annual Conference Presence, Absence, Hybridity: New Directions in French and Francophone Studies which will be hosted online by the Association on 8-9...
(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...
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 Eu...
(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....
ASMCF newsletter January 2021
Our January Newsletter is now available for members, friends and colleagues of the ASMCF....
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...
ASMCF Annual conference 2020: online 10-11 September
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 tha...
Teaching La Haine Virtual Special Issue for teachers and students
We are delighted to launch the first of our virtual special issues of the journal Modern and Contemporary France on the theme of 'Teaching Kassovitz's La Haine.' The Virtual Special Issue is ideal for teachers of A-Level and their students and can...
ASMCF activities during the Covid-19 pandemic
ASMCF activities during the Covid-19 pandemic We are conscious that many of our members will have been experiencing very difficult and trying conditions over the past few days, and that the current situation is likely to continue for some time. Th...
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 'Din...
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 Tem...
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 keyno...
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 ...
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 thea...
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 ...
Extended deadline for the Schools Liaison & Outreach Funding Initiative
The ASMCF’s Schools Liaison and Outreach Funding Initiative offers up to £500 to support members of the Association who organise teacher- or pupil-focused events which fulfill the following objectives: promote the learning of French in its so...
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...
University of Stirling Schools Event
In June 2019, French at the University of Stirling ran a series of seminars, CPD workshops and plenary sessions for Higher and Advanced Higher pupils and teachers from schools across Scotland, supported by the ASMCF Schools Liaison and Outreach Fund ...
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...
Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues
The ASMCF was delighted to support the Post-16 Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues at the University of Bristol on 11 May 2019 through its Schools' Liaison and Outreach Activities. Below you can find a report of the day, written by Dr ...
Four successful applications to the Schools’ Liaison and Outreach Activities Fund
We are delighted to announce that four projects have been successful in the first round of the 2019 Schools’ Liaison and Outreach Activities Fund. Led by schools or by universities in different parts of the country, these projects demonstrate the r...
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...
ASMCF–SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2019
Call for papers 2 March 2019 – All Souls College, University of Oxford Keynote: Dr. Antonia Wimbush, University of Birmingham Entre les couleurs et les visibles prétendus, on retrouverait le tissu qui les double, les souti...
“L.O.V.E, And Other Disaffections”: Conference Report
On the 4th November 2017, Benjamin Dalton and Dr Adina Stroia hosted the London French Postgraduate Conference “L.O.V.E, and Other Disaffections” at the Senate House Library, with help from the generous funding made available by the ASMFC. The ai...
‘Identity in Conflict’: ASMCF/SSFH Postgraduate Study Day Report
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...
Outreach Funding Initiative
The ASMCF’s Schools Liaison and Outreach Funding Initiative offers up to £500 to support members of the Association who organise teacher- or pupil-focused events which fulfill the following objectives: Promote the learning of French in its...
PG Showcase: Alison Marmont, Intersectional “othering” In Contemporary France And The Novels Of Linda Lê And Marie Ndiaye
Across Europe we are witnessing an increasing prevalence in right-wing, exclusionary discourses which foster hostility towards those who are designated as foreign and, therefore, not belonging within the conglomerate’s national borders. Linda Lê a...
Call for Papers: New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds
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 constantly changing...