American University and The George Washington University will be co-hosting the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. from Thursday, April 20 through Sunday, April 23, 2017. Lisa Leff (AU) and Katrin Schultheiss (GWU), co-Presidents of the Society for 2017, will organize the conference.
The program features a number of special events. At the Friday luncheon, Robert Zaretsky (University of Houston) will join Jonathan Judaken (Rhodes College) for a plenary conversation on French historical studies and the public sphere. On Friday afternoon, curators at the National Gallery of Art, located walking distance from the conference hotel, will offer three separate private tours for groups of fifteen: one of the Bazille exhibition; one of the NGA’s collection of nineteenth-century French paintings; and one of the NGA’s collection of eighteenth-century French paintings. The banquet will take place at the hotel; our plenary speaker will be Sophia Rosenfeld (Yale University).
The Program Committee welcomes panel proposals on all subjects of the history of France, the French Empire, and other Francophone countries, as well as France within a global or transnational framework. We strongly encourage you to organize complete panels, though individual submissions are also permitted and in those cases, we will do our best to arrange them into coherent panels, space permitting.
The traditional format for panels is three 15-20 minute papers, with a chair and a commentator. We also encourage submissions for panels in other formats, such as roundtables, flipped panels, lightning sessions, pedagogy panels, workshops, and panels dealing with the digital humanities. If you are proposing a non-traditional format, please explain how the session time of 1.75 hours will be used. A description of some of these alternate format possibilities is available on the conference website.
All sessions will be held at the conference hotel, the Washington Court (525 New Jersey Avenue N.W.) which is located right next to Union Station (Washington’s train station; also a Metro station). The Washington Court is walking distance from the Capitol, the Library of Congress and the National Mall. The SFHS has secured a special conference room rate of $179 per night.
Proposals in English or French must be submitted electronically (through the conference website: http://www.sfhsconference.org) by October 1, 2016. For questions, please contact the conference organizers at sfhs2017@gmail.com.
Source: H-France