Societe d'histoire coloniale francaise
Call for Papers
2004 FCHS Conference, Washington, DC
The 30th Anniversary meeting of the FCHS will be held Wednesday, May
5 through Saturday, May 8 2004 in Washington, D.C., and will be
cosponsored by the Georgetown University History Department. Most sessions
will be held on the Georgetown campus, which has excellent conference
facilities. The conference hotel will be the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at
Key Bridge, just across the Potomac River from Georgetown. Room rates
are $119, plus 9.75% sales tax, as opposed to a much higher rate in
the District of Columbia. The hotel is located near a Metro stop and
shuttle busses will transport us to and from Georgetown. The closing
banquet of specially selected French colonial specialties will be held
at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Mass. Ave., possibly with a french colonial
era cabaret musician for entertainment. Additional details, including
a formal call for papers, will be announced here in the Newsletter and
on www.frenchcolonial.org
as they become available.
The program co-chairs have decided to split the task of organizing the conference program. Sylvie Depatie (depatie.sylvie@uqam.ca) will be in charge of papers dealing with the pre-1831 empire. Mike Vann (mikevann@cruzio.com) will deal with papers and panels relating to the post 1831 empire. He is especially interested in papers and/or panels that investigate the role of race in the Empire, the tension between France's republican ideals and the authoritarian nature of the empire, and the culture of the colonial world. Also of interest are works that deal with anti-colonialism and those that explore ways of integrating colonial history into the fabric of French national history.
http://www.frenchcolonial.org/currentconference.html