Something that struck me when listening to Christy Pichichero speak at the #GCFHSResist conference the other week was how musical her delivery was. Now I learn, thanks to wonderful @rpanchasi.bsky.social's interview with her, that she trained as an opera singer. Is there a prize for this insight? 🙃
A great experience to attend the #GCFHSResist! Amazing to have presented my paper on 16th century Sens with
@sianhibbert.bsky.social, Sukhwan Kang, and Allan Tulchin on our 'Religious Tension, Resistance, and Opposition in EM France' panel. Truly thankful to meet/catch-up with other academics!
Thanks @wadehistory.bsky.social ! it was such a great panel to have been a part of! Thanks to everyone for listening and providing feedback! #GCFHSResist
How lucky am I to share with wonderful colleagues AND to go home with flowers? I'm very thankful to have participated in the #GCFHSResist Colloquium, to have heard so many wonderful papers and gotten great feedback from colleagues! I'm now ready to get back home to my pup and get some rest.
View of London from King’s College London
Spent the last two weeks travelling between London & Paris for the
Occupation Studies Research Network and the #GCFHSResist Conferences.
Lots of stuff & sleep to catch up on, but l am incredibly grateful to have heard from and connected with so many kind and dedicated scholars doing excellent work!!
Colour photo of a stone monument with a close up on the head and paws of an exhausted-looking lion
And so the #GCFHSResist comes to an end. So wonderful to hear lots of amazing work and to meet lovely fellow French historians. Thank you to everyone involved. After such an intense few days I’m feeling a bit like this lion at the Porte St Denis. Looking forward to some rest.
I've had a brilliant time at #GCFHSResist - rich, engaging papers and lots of brilliant colleagues. It was all pulled off with a riotous panache as well! Chapeau to the organisers and to Luc and Solveig for being brilliant hosts! Now for a few days off
GCFHS panel journal roundtable
GCFHS panel listing
Today was the last day of #GCFHSresist. This morning I went to a great journals roundtable, followed by a panel which explored visual culture & mobility. Really enjoyed hearing about Soldier photographers in Algeria & references to Joan of Arc
great discussions at #GCFHSResist about resistance and activism. I saw several doing interesting things about building solidarity and publics, the best of which were also alive to the possibility that past actors (like present!) do *not* always advertise their resistance in the historical record
#GCFHSResist It was such a pleasure to meet/catch up with so many wonderful scholars in French history! Although French history/history/academia faces so many challenges, there is an abundance of kindness and generosity within the community that will help us face those challenges together.
The Paris Resistance conference has concluded but the learning, the friendships, the exchanges continue. So many to thank like @brionyneilson.bsky.social @leonhughes.bsky.social Charlotte Legg, @benst.bsky.social, many others for so much. #GCFHSResist
Edward J Kolla, Éric Wenzel, & Jill Walshaw (L-R)
Pour conclure: “Pleading Guilty: Jurisprudence & Agency in the Criminal Courts of 18th & 19th-Century France & Quebec” #GCFHSResist
SESSION 19.2.3 (11h30-13h) Salle 100-1 Resisting Captivity: Prisons as Spaces of Resistance Judith DeGroat Advocacy as Resistance: Pauline Roland's Activism in Prison, 1851-1852 Gonzalo Sanchez Writing Resistance into Art: Artists as Prisoners in Paris, 1793-1894 Michael Mulryan L'Evasion de prison comme acte de résistance sous l'Ancien Regime: Les Curieux Cas du Chevalier de Pontgibaud, Jean-Henri de Latude et Casanova Leon Hughes Living the Terror Behind Closed Doors: Prisoner Resistances in Paris, 1793-1794 > Mette Harder (CP)
FINAL!!! panel of #GCFHSResist is on resisting captivity
Fab poster spotted en route to #GCFHSResist fest last night. Of the event? Much festing, less so feasting - many bubbles. Karaoke ensued.
Tom Joashi, Nora Baker, & Elisa J. Jones (L-R)
“Buildings, Emotions, & Monsters in Early Modern French Religous Conflicts” to start the final morning of the #GCFHSResist conference
SESSION 19.1.8 (9h30-11h) > PC4 Mediatizing Resistance in 18th-Century France: Caler Mandrin, La Guimard Yann Robert Masano Yamashita Chloe Summers Edmondson > Flora Champy (CP) The Enlightenment in France is often characterized as a project of reform, a period of resisting injustice and ignorance in its multitude of forms and of advocating for a better so-ciety. But what did modes of resistance look like in eighteen-th-century France, and are there resonances with our own cultures of resistance today that combat social injustice? This panel explores diverse strategies of resistance deployed by eighteenth-century individuals against the status quo, and the ways in which media served as a crucial instrument in shaping the narratives of resistance to socioeconomic power and religious intolerance. The panel will focus on three key figures of the eighteenth century - Calas, Mandrin, and Marie-Madeleine Guimard - who brought issues of justice and fairness to the forefront of public debate.
YES! #GCFHSResist is still doing this morning presumably running on all the champagne (!) and canapés from the gala last night and i am once again finding myself becoming an 18th centuryist
And then (after a dash back to the room to do some Paper Trails editorial work) it was off to the gala! They'd taken over a bar and there was a DJ, karaoke and... ahem... quite a lot of champagne #GCFHSResist
GCFHS panel listing
The last #GCFHSResist panel yesterday was a creative engagement with archives of resistance to recover silenced voices and transmit memory
GCFHS panel listing for Gerson
Then back to #GCFHSResist for a couple of great plenaries. First up was Stéphane Gerson's reflective piece on his grandmother's storytelling which was theoretically rich as well as a brilliant story!
GCFHS panel listing
Yesterday at #GCFHSResist, I started the day with a panel on media. I really enjoyed hearing about the role of radio and ritual in sustaining wartime memories. Likewise, really interesting stuff on Russian emigres in Paris in 1917 (and the new newspaper is they launched every 5 minutes!)
The sun is up on the last day of #GCFHSResist and some of the best is kept til last. Looking fwd to this session on prisons w/ @jdegroat.bsky.social, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Gonzalo Sanchez, and Michael Mulryan.
Plus all of today's sessions are free – Centre de colloques, Aubervilliers.
Ah cheers @smidbob.bsky.social that is unduly kind but also gave me the confiance for #GCFHSResist karaoke tonight! Vive Joplin... Who always gave flowers to the roots
Golden statue of Christine de Pisan
accidentally seeing some history on my way to république for #GCFHSResist
And another glittering #GCFHSResist session earlier today with @willpooley.bsky.social on witchcraft and the fraught concept of agency, Theresa Levitt on the prosecution of alleged mass poisoner Hélène Jégado, and Mona Siegel on the trial of Djamila Boupacha and spaces of solidarity and sisterhood.
And cannot wait to get my hands on Danielle Beaujon's new book "Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918–1954" #GCFHSResist
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Brilliant #GCFHSResist panel earlier today with papers from Lou Khalfaoui, Julian Bourg, @katyphipps.bsky.social and Danielle Beaujon – Algerian diaspora resistance, fascist roots of French policing, problematising agency and sex work in Fr Morocco, and policing N Africans in Marseilles and Algiers.
#GCFHSResist I'm especially grateful to Giora Sternberg for having enabled me by asking "so... *why* do Languedocian cloth exports to the Levant take off at the turn of the eighteenth century?" This is a question that will always, without fail, trigger a Pavlovian dog-like reaction from me
#GCFHSResist Greatly enjoying hearing from @sianhibbert.bsky.social and @acollins16c.bsky.social as part of a session on "Religious Tension, Resistance, & Opposition in Early Modern France"! Sian is currently sharing some wonderful conflicts between priests and parishioners in C17th Languedoc
Just a fantastic panel, with mind opening stuff about religion, subjectivity, memory, conflict in the French Revolution.
#GCFHSResist 🗃️
