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Forum for Modern Language Studies
Research Colloquium
French Occupations: 1914-1944-2014
hosted by
Forum for Modern Language Studies and the Centre for
French History and Culture, University of St Andrews
Friday 5 December 2014
Rm 216, Buchanan Building, University of St Andrews
10.00
Nick Martin (University of Birmingham)
‘The German Occupation of Belgium and Northern France in the British Popular Imagination, 1914-1918’
10.45 Tea/Coffee
11.00
Gavin Bowd (University of St Andrews)
‘The Cultural Life of Occupied France, 1914-1918’
11.45
Franziska Heimburger (EHESS, Paris)
‘“Ces conquérants pacifiques et leurs hôtes”: Friendly Occupation of Northern France by the British forces during the First World War’
12.30 Lunch
13.30
Linda Ralph (University of Kent)
‘Escape Routes from France in World War 2: a case of déjà vu?’
14.15
Niall MacGalloway (University of St Andrews)
‘The Italian Occupation of Metropolitan France, 1940-1943’
15.00
Karine Varley (University of Strathclyde)
‘“Like a Family Quarrel”: The Italian Occupation of Corsica during the Second World War’
15.45 Tea/Coffee
16.00
‘Writing Vichy France’. Novelist Allan Massie in conversation with critic Stuart Kelly.
All welcome! For further information, please contact Gavin Bowd:
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