10:15-12:00 : Panel 1: French politics: beyond right and left?
Christophe Prochasson, Directeur d'études à l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 'Les passions comme énigmes : François Furet, l'histoire et la politique'
Jim Shields, Professor of French Politics and Modern History, Aston University 'Left and right as identity markers in French politics'
Nick Hewlett, Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick 'The left, the right, populism and the people'
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Comment: Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-15:00 : Panel 2: The politics of postcolonialism in contemporary France
Todd Shepard, Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University 'Arab Invasion: Sexual Politics and the Memory of Empire in the late 1970s'
Daniel Gordon, Senior Lecturer in European History, Edge Hill University 'Who killed gauchisme? Revolutionaries in decline and the politics of immigration, 1976-1983'
Yann Scioldo-Zurcher, Historien, chargé de recherche au CNRS, Laboratoire MIGRINTER, Université de Poitiers 'L'indemnisation des biens coloniaux, une tradition politique de réparation ou une innovation postcoloniale?'
Patricia Lorcin, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota 'Imperial Nostalgia; Colonial Nostalgia: differences of theory, similarities of practice?'
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Comment: Claire Eldridge, Lecturer in French Studies, University of Southampton
15:00-15:30 - Coffee break
15:30-17:30 : Panel 3: After anti-totalitarianism? New directions in French intellectual history
Michael Behrent, Assistant Professor of History, Appalachian State University 'L'Association pour la liberté économique et le progrès social, or the French Path to Neoliberalism'
Camille Robcis, Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University 'Republicanism and the critique of human rights'
Cécile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory, University College, London 'Secularism and critical republicanism'
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Comment: Emile Chabal, Departmental Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Oxford
17:30-18:30 : Concluding remarks and roundtable discussion
19:00-21:30 - Dinner at Branca's restaurant in Jericho.
