Program
Details
are subject to change. All sessions take place in the Radisson Hotel.
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 3
12:00 noon-
5:00 pm - Registration
| 1:30-3:00
pm - Panel 1, Camelia Room |
Intellectuals
Chair: William
J. Cloonan (Florida State University) |
- Michael
Wreszin (CUNY Graduate Center) - Europe American
Groups (EAG): French and American leftist intellectuals in search
of the third Camp 1946-1950
- Bradley
Stephens (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge, UK)
- Jean-Paul Sartre, John Steinbeck, and the Liabilities
of Liberty in the Post-War Period
- Vivienne
Orchard (University of Southampton, UK) - From
the Structuralist Controversy to the States of Theory: deconstruction,
radicalism and the question of context
|
3:00 pm
- 3:30 pm - Coffee
| 3:30-5:00
pm – Panel 2, Camelia Room |
Writers
and Film-Makers
Chair: Alec
G. Hargreaves (Florida State University) |
- Jonathan
Eburne (Pennsylvania State University) - Is Philadelphia
Paris?: Film Noir, Brotherly Love, and the Critique of Urban
Geography
- Lisa
Weiss (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Arab
Writers in the Post Cold War Era: Diasporic Voices from Paris,
New York, and Los Angeles
|
5:00-
5:30 pm – Coffee
5:30-6:30
pm – Keynote Speaker
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel
Chair: Michael Creswell (Florida State University)
France
and the Cold War
Speaker: Irwin
M. Wall (University of California, Riverside)
|
6:30
pm - 7:30 pm - Reception and Welcoming Remarks: Anne Rowe, Dean of Faculties,
Florida State University
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 4
8:00
am- 5:00 pm - Registration
| 8:30-10:30
am – Panel 3, Camelia Room |
Popular
Culture
Chair: Adam
Jolles (Florida State University) |
- Hunter
Martin (University of Wisconsin, Madison) - Modern
Jazz in Paris: Setting the Tone for Franco-American Relations
in the Age of Engagement (1944-1963)
- Didier
Francfort (l’Université Nancy 2) - La
Guerre Froide en chansons : chansons et politique en France
de 1945 à 1990
-
Alan Farrell (Virginia Military Insitute) - Kamarad
Kommandant Kalashnikov: French and Russians in Dimitri’s
Gulage
|
10:30-11:00
am – Coffee
11:00
am-12:00 noon – Keynote Speaker
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel
Chair: William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)
Left-Wing
Intellectual Responses to Growing American Influences During the
1950s
Speaker: John E. Flower (University
of Kent at Canterbury, UK) |
12:00 noon-1:30 pm Lunch Break
| 1:30-3:00
pm – Panel 4, Camelia Room |
Comrades
and GIs
Chair: Michael
Creswell (Florida State University) |
- Laurent
Marie (National University of Ireland-UCD)
- From Citizen Kane to Comrade Welles: the French Communist
Party, Orson Welles and the Cold War
- Frank
Anselmo (Louisiana State University) - Two Women
and One US GI (KIA): Small Town Cooperation amidst International
Recrimination, 1953
|
3:00-3:30
pm – Coffee
| 3:30-5:00
pm – Panel 5A, Azalea Room |
Foreign
Policy and Defense
Chair:
Michael Creswell (Florida State University)
|
- David
Messenger (Carroll College)
- A Real Break or Reluctant Parting: France, the United
States, and the Spanish Question, 1945-1948
- François
Le Roy (Northern Kentucky University)
- Le Défi Français: France’s Aeronautical
Challenge to the United States
|
| 3:30-5:00
pm – Panel 5B, Camellia Room |
Art
Chair:
Adam Jolles (Florida State University) |
- Roald
Nasgaard (Florida State University)
- Automatism, Surrealism and the Sensate Material of Paint
- Maureen
G. Shanahan (James Madison University)
- Fernand Léger: French Communist Party Member and
Hero of the Commodity Culture
- Jill
Carrick (Carleton University, Canada)
- Nouveau Réalisme, French Art Criticism, and Cold
War Polemics
|
5:00-5:30
pm Coffee
5:30-6:30
pm – Keynote Speaker
Camelia Room, Radisson Hotel
Chair: Alec G Hargreaves (Florida State University)
Cassandra’s
Policies:
French Prophecies of an American Empire from the Civil War to the
Cold War
Speaker: Philippe Roger (Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) |
6:30
pm Cash Bar
7:30
pm – Buffet Dinner
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 5
8:00
am- 5:00 pm - Registration
| 8:30-10:00
am – Panel 6, Camelia Room |
US-French
Jetlags
Chair:
Dominique Fisher (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
- Typhaine
Leservot (Wesleyan University) - Le couple France-US
en Haiti: perspectives franco-antillaises
- Deb
Reisinger (Duke University) - Marketing McDo
- Dominique
Fisher (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Le particularisme, un voile d’outre-atlantique?
|
10:00-10:30
am – Coffee
| 10:30
am –12:00 noon – Panel 7A, Azalea Room |
Capitalism
and Communism
Chair: Michael
Creswell (Florida State University) |
- Bernard
Ludwig (l’Université Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- « Paix et Liberté » : un anticommunisme
français, européen ou transatlantique ?
- Michael
Christofferson (Pennsylvania State University, Erie)
- ’The Concept of Totalitarianism in France: A Comparative
Perspective
- Jelena
Stojanovic (Cornell University) - Potlatch and
The Cold War economiesin
|
| 10:30
am –12:00 noon – Panel 7B, Camellia Room |
Decolonization
Chair: Alec
G Hargreaves (Florida State University) |
-
Jenny Raflik (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Les dissensions franco-américaines face
à la guerre indochinoise de la France, 1946-1954
- Mairéad
Ní Bhriain (National University of Ireland, Galway/IRCHSS
scholar)
- The Fall of French Colonialism and the Rise of American
Hegemony: The voice-role-legacy of the “intellectuel engagé”
- Mansouria
Geist (Vassar College) - Les États-Unis
et le nationalisme algérien, 1954-1962
|
12:00
noon-1:30 pm Lunch Break
| 1:30-3:00
pm – Panel 8, Camellia Room |
After
the Cold War
Chair: Mairéad
Ní Bhriain (National University of Ireland, Galway/IRCHSS
scholar)
|
- Kenneth
Johnson (Florida State University)
- French Participation in the Persian Gulf War of 1991
- Matthew
Kemp (Florida State University)
- Re-reading the Algerian War during the U.S. War on Terror
- Eric
Touya (Adelphi University) - Je t’aime-Me
neither: France/Amerique or France/Etats-Unis: the Future of
Uncertain Relations
|
3:00-3:30
pm – Coffee
| 3:30-5:00
pm – Panel 9, Camelia Room |
Facing
the “New Cold War” in the French Culture Classroom
Chair
and Organizer: Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State University) |
- Jennifer
Willging (Ohio State University)
- French/American Cultural Relations: From Jazz to Freedom
Fries
- Meaghan
Emery (University of Vermont)
- French Studies and the Question of Freedom: A Return to
the Sartre/Camus Debate
- Charles
J. Stivale (Wayne State University) - “Why
Are The French So …?” Facing French Culture in the
Undergraduate Classroom
|
5:15-6:15
pm – Keynote Speaker
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel
Chair: Adam Jolles (Florida State University)
Present
Subjective:
The Complexities of Post-War French Culture
Speaker: Serge Guilbaut (University
of British Columbia) |
6:15
pm – Cash Bar
|
General
