Communication au colloque "The Commune and Its Others: An Outsider's History of 1871"

Je présenterai demain une communication sur "L'imaginaire de la Commune dans Les Cinq Cent Millions de la Begum" au colloque "The Commune and Its Others: An Outsider's History of 1871", qui se tient à l'Université de Durham (UK) les 3 et 4 juin. En voici le programme complet :

The Commune and Its Others: An Outsider's History of 1871

DAY 1 – June 3rd 2021: Derman Christopherson Room, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University

9.55 Welcome

10.00-10.30 Keynote 1: Julia Nicholls (KCL), “Thinking Revolution after the Paris Commune”

Dr Julia Nicholls is Lecturer in French and European Studies at King’s College London. She specialises in French intellectual history, and is particularly interested in ideas of socialism, revolution, and subjection. Her first monograph, Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019 and is now available in paperback.

10.45 Coffee

11.00 Panel 1: The Commune Beyond the Metropolis

Daniel Banks (PhD, European University Institute), “Mediterranean radicalism, seaborne revolutionaries, and their role in the année terrible of 1870-1871″

Daniel Banks is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, where he works on the circulation of revolutionaries in the western Mediterranean in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and the effects this had on political events occurring around the sea’s shores. More generally, he is interested in how a focus on mobility can help to rewrite national political narratives.

Malcolm Crook (Professor, Keele University), “The Paris Commune viewed from Versailles”

Malcolm Crook is emeritus Professor of French History at Keele University, where he spent the entirety of his career. Originally a specialist in the Revolution, he moved on to explore the history of elections and voting in France, a subject on which he has just published How the French Learned to Vote: A History of Electoral Practice in France, with Oxford University Press.

Céline Bellan (PhD, Université de Bourgogne), “Un maire dans la tourmente, Jean-Baptiste Dumay and the proclamation of the Commune at Le Creusot”

Céline Bellan is a doctoral student at the Université de Bourgogne, where she is preparing a thesis on paternalism in Le Creusot under the supervision of Xavier Vigna and Stéphane Gacon. She is also curator of the exhibition “La Commune, Le Creusot, 1871” at the Ecomusée Le Creusot-Montceau.

12.00 Lunch

12.45 Panel 2: Royalism, Religion and Counter-Revolution

Laura O’Brien (Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University), “Incarceration and Martyrdom: The Case of Archbishop Georges Darboy”

Laura O’Brien is senior lecturer in modern European history at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She was previously a Marie Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Trinity College Dublin, and a lecturer at the University of Sunderland. A specialist in the cultural history of nineteenth-century France, Laura is currently working on a book about Napoleonic performance in modern French theatre and cinema.

Jemima Short (Lecturer, Newcastle University), “‘Ils ont donné leur vie pour le salut de la France’: the assassination of Jesuit priests at the Rue Haxo”

Jemima Short is Lecturer in French at Newcastle University. She completed her PhD there in 2020, funded by the Northern Bridge consortium (AHRC). Her PhD research looked at the work of Catholic nuns as nurses and carers in nineteenth-century France, and she is currently researching the deaths of two Catholic leaders in Paris in 1871.

Tom Stammers (Associate Professor, Durham University), “‘A Princely Republic? The Orleans dynasty and the fallout of the Paris Commune”

Tom Stammers is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. His first book, The Purchase of the Past, was published by Cambridge in 2020 and explores the politics of collecting in post-revolutionary Paris. He is the co-investigator on the major AHRC project ‘Jewish Country Houses: Objects, Networks, People’, and also continues to work on a global history of the Orleans family in exile.

13.45 Panel 3: Visual Culture Against the Commune

Sebastian Tym (PhD, University of Exeter), “Gustave Doré’s Souvenirs of 1871: Paris and Thebes”

Sebastian Tym is an art historian and doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter, where he also contributes to the history of art undergraduate programme. His background is in French imperial history and visual culture, and his current research concerns the life and work of the artist Gustave Doré.

Anthony Chapman-Joy (PhD, University of Royal Holloway), “Avant et après l’incendie: print culture and the international memorialisation of destruction”

Anthony Chapman-Joy is an AHRC-funded doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Library, working on caricature, revolution, and transnationalism.

Jana Hunter (DPhil, University of Oxford), “‘Proud and provocative’: Rodin’s gesture to the Paris Commune”

Jana Hunter is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford and her thesis maps the Czech modernist consciousness in the exchanges between travel writers and artists in the nineteenth century. Prior to Oxford, she completed an MPhil dissertation on the temporal and spatial experiences of August Rodin’s exhibition in Prague at the turn of the twentieth century.

14.45 Coffee

15.15 Keynote 2: Laure Godineau (Paris 13), “Extérieurs de la Commune de Paris, extérieurs dans la Commune de Paris”

Laure Godineau, maîtresse de conférences en Histoire contemporaine à l’Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris 13), est spécialiste du XIXe siècle et travaille depuis de nombreuses années sur la Commune de 1871. Elle a fait une thèse sur le retour d’exil des communards (Retour d’exil. Les anciens communards au début de la Troisième République, Université Panthéon Sorbonne-Paris 1, 2000). Parmi ses publications : La Commune de Paris, par ceux qui l’ont vécue (Parigramme, 2010), qui privilégie la dimension humaine et sensible du Paris de 1871 en faisant une grande part aux témoignages, et La Commune de 1871 expliquée en images, Paris, Seuil, 2021. Elle a co-organisé avec Marc César le Colloque international « Regards sur la Commune de 1871 en France : nouvelles approches et perspectives » (Narbonne, 2011) et a co-dirigé avec lui La Commune de 1871 : une relecture (Créaphis, 2019, rééd. 2020), qui propose de relire la Commune par une approche spatiale et temporelle élargie permettant de décentrer le regard et par un croisement des échelles.

16.00 Panel 4: Lessons from the Commune on the Left

Julian Wright (Professor, Northumbria University), “Two ex-Communards commiserate: Georges Renard meets André Léo at the Revue socialiste, 1896″

Julian Wright is Acting as Deputy Head of Faculty in Arts Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. He is a historian of modern Europe who has worked extensively on French intellectual, political and cultural history. He is particularly fascinated by the idea and experience of time in the present. Julian’s new project on the experience of ordinary people who were living ‘outside of time’ in the era of the Second World War demands a focus on the practices of the everyday, and how people tried to reconstruct ordinary temporal rhythms in difficult conditions, from those living under siege to prisoners in camps or people living in secrecy in occupied Europe.

Laura Forster (Assistant Professor, Durham University), “English Positivists and the Paris Commune”

Laura Forster is a lecturer in nineteenth-century British history at Durham University. Laura works on the development of socialist ideas, broadly understood, in Britain and Europe in the long nineteenth century. She is currently finishing a book titled, The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871, on the political exiles of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the longer intellectual and cultural afterlives of the Commune in Britain. More broadly Laura is interested in histories of transnational radicalism, informal cultures of political and intellectual exchange, the social history of ideas, political exile, and queer spaces past and present.

Jann Matlock (Associate Professor, UCL), “After the Terrible Year: Testimony in the Summer of 1871”

Jann Matlock is Associate Professor in the School of European Languages, Cultures, and Society at UCL where she teaches French cultural history, visual culture, and 19th-century French and comparative literature. She has held research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the AHRC. She is the author of Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France, the coeditor of Media Spectacles as well as the editor with the late Dominique Kalifa of a special issue of Sociétés et Représentations. She is completing a book entitled Looking at Risk: The Invisible Women and Their Secrets Unveiled. Her paper for this conference is drawn from a project, on the months following May 1871, entitled Another Terrible Year.

17.00 End of Day 1 papers

17.15 Drinks reception (for on-site attendees)

DAY 2 – June 4th 2021: Jubilee Room, Bowes Museum

10.00 Keynote 3: Quentin Deluermoz (Paris 1), “The other Communes: a global perspective (1871-1880)”

Quentin Deluermoz is Professor of History at the University of Paris, and a specialist of orders and disorders in nineteenth-century France, Europe, and empire. His publications include Commune(s), 1870-1871. Une traversée des mondes au XIXe siècle (Paris: Seuil, 2020); with P. Singaravelou, Pour une histoire des possibles. Approches contrefactuelles et futurs non advenus (Paris: Seuil, 2016; English translation forthcoming); Le Crépuscule des révolutions, 1848-1871 (Paris: Seuil, 2014). He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary review Sensibilités, Histoire, Sciences sociale et critique, founded in 2015.

10.45 Panel 5: Testimonies and Transformations

Juliette Parnell (Professor, University of Nebraska), “Tablettes d’une femme pendant la Commune: le récit d’une ouvrière, poëte en 1872”

Juliette is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Juliette wrote her dissertation on Louise Michel’s prose work. Her research centers on 19th French feminism and teaching Foreign Languages online.

Jean-Michel Gouvard (Professor, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne), “L’imaginaire de la Commune dans Les Cinq Cent Millions de la Begum“

Jean-Michel Gouvard is Professor of French at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne in France, and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages Research. His current research fields are centered on French Literature, from the Second Empire to the post-WWII decades, and more specifically on Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Verne, and Samuel Beckett, with a focus on the interactions between literary writing, history, society and culture. His last book deals with Jules Verne’s cultural imagination, and is entitled ‘Le Nautilus en bouteille: Une lecture de Jules Verne à la lumière de Walter Benjamin’ [The Nautilus in a bottle. Reading Jules Verne in light of Walter Benjamin] (Pontcerq, 2019).

Owen Holland (Teaching Fellow, UCL), “‘Lovescape crucified’: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s red letter and ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland'”

Owen Holland is associate lecturer in the English department at University College London. His first book, William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration, was published with Palgrave in 2017. He recently edited a selection of Morris’s political writings for Verso. His second book, Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871, is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press in spring 2022.

11.45 Lunch

12.30 Panel 6: Inside the Bowes Museum

Lindsay Macnaughton (PhD, University of Durham/Lecturer, Buckingham University), “Letters from 1871: A Snapshot of the Boweses’ Network”

Linday Macnaughton is a Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Buckingham. She is defending her PhD thesis ‘Staging and Collecting French History: John and Joséphine Bowes, c.1845-1885’ at the end of the month, having completed an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between Durham University and The Bowes Museum.

Judith Phillips (Archivist, The Bowes Museum), “What 1871 meant to the founders of the Bowes Museum”

After 30 years as an archivist in local government settings, Judith came to The Bowes Museum in 2009 to arrange and catalogue the archives held in the museum. Last year she was awarded a PhD by Teesside University for research on Josephine Bowes.

13.15 Exploring the Bowes Collections

14.15 Keynote 4: J. Michelle Coghlan (Manchester), “Louise Michel Goes to America”

J. Michelle Coghlan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Manchester. Her first book, Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century, was awarded the 2017 Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize in American Studies, and she recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Poe Studies, The Journal of American Studies, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, and The Henry James Review.

15.00 Coffee

15.15 Panel 7: Transnational Legacies

Cecilia Feilla (Associate Professor, Marymount Manhattan College), “Chinese Perspectives on the Paris Commune: Biographies of Louise Michel in Late Qing China”

Cecilia Feilla (pronounced Fay-luh) is Associate Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. Her publications include The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution (2013), a critical edition of the 1799 novel La Tribu indienne, ou Edouard et Stellina by Lucien Bonaparte (2006), and numerous articles on French drama and revolution. She is currently at work on a book-length manuscript on Madame Roland in China: The Making of a Modern Revolutionary Woman.

Corentin Marion (PhD, Paris and Bielefeld), “Between model and threat. The Commune of Paris as a political motif in imperial Germany, 1871-1898”

Corentin Marion is a PhD student at the University of Paris and the University of Bielefeld (Germany). His PhD research focuses on the concept of nation in France and Germany between 1848 and 1871. His research interests are the history of modern France and Germany, the history of Franco-German relationships, especially the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of Paris, as well as French and German modern historiography. He has published on topics such as the Franco-German debates around borders and nation in the nineteenth century, and on the intellectuals in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.

Andy Willimott (Senior Lecturer, QMUL), “The martyrs of the Commune resurrected under the red banner of the Soviets!”

Andy Willimott is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Modern Russian History and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. His books include the multi-award-winning Living the Revolution: Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932 (Oxford University Press) and the co-edited Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (Routledge). His research has been funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Leverhulme Trust. He was also recipient of a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2017-18).

Peter Hill (Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Northumbria University), “The Paris Commune in the Arabic Press”

Peter Hill is a historian of the modern Middle East and a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in History at Northumbria University. His first book, Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

16.30 Closing Comments and End of Day 2

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