Programme

Friday 6th June -European Studies Centre, seminar room

12.45pm Welcome and opening remarks

1pm -3pm Panel 1 : The Politics of Reform in French West Africa

Chair: Rebekka Habermas (Göttingen /St Antony's College, Oxford)

Liz Fink (NYU) 'Institutional Terra Non Firma: Representative democracy and the chieftaincy in French West African political life, 1946-1952'

Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth) 'France's policy of adapted education in French West Africa'

Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews) 'Modernising the African peasantry, 1945-1960'

3pm Coffee

3.30pm -5.30pm Panel 2 : Remaking the Maghreb

Chair: Tom Buchanan (Kellogg College)

Neil MacMaster (University of East Anglia) '"Seeing like a State": dispersed settlement and 'villagisation' in the Chelif, c.1848-1962'

Jim House (University of Leeds) 'Shantytowns and colonial welfare reform in Algiers and Casablanca, 1930-1962'

James McDougall (Trinity College) 'The impossible republic: The reconquest of Algeria and the decolonization of France, 1945-1962'

Saturday 7th June -Maison Française d'Oxford, conference room

9.15am -11.15am Panel 3 : Defining the National Community

Chair: Martin Conway (Balliol College)

Heloise Finch-Boyer (National Maritime Museum) 'As French as the others? Racial distinctions and welfare rights in La Réunion, 1946-1963'

Ed Naylor (St Antony's College) '"L'espoir d'une véritable promotion": The afterlife of colonial welfare services in Marseille (1950-1975)'

Claire Eldridge (University of Southampton): '"Le droit à rentrer dignement dans la communauté nationale": Welfare provision and rapatrié mobilisation, 1962-1970'

11.15am Coffee

11.30am -1.30pm Panel 4 : Metropolitan Legacies

Chair: Anne Simonin (MFO)

Françoise de Barros (Université Paris VIII) 'Décolonisation et Etat providence pendant les "trente glorieuses" : le cas des politiques urbaines'

Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh) 'Multiculturalism à la française: municipal politics and clientelism in Montpellier, c.1975-present'

Abdellali Hajjat (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre) 'Héritages coloniaux: ségrégation et mobilisations dans le quartier des Minguettes à Vénissieux (1981-1983)'

1.30pm Lunch

2.30-3.30pm Final round-table

Place: European Studies Centre, St Antony's College and Maison Française d'Oxford