Programme

Wednesday, September 18

9:30am: Welcome/Coffee
9:45am: Opening remarks (David Todd, Sciences Po Paris)
10:00am: Introduction (Elsa Génard, USPN ; Renaud Morieux, University of Cambridge ; Claire Zalc, CNRS/EHSS)

10:30 am - 12:30 am.    Panel I. Rethinking the Notions of 'Belonging', 'Membership,' 'Affiliation.'

Discussant : Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po Paris)

Simona Cerutti (EHESS): The Attribution of Citizenship Rights in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Principles of Membership
Jean-Paul Zuñiga (EHESS): Subjects of a Distant Monarch: Colour, Extraction and Quality in Hispanic America in the Early Modern Period
Quentin Deluermoz (Université Paris Cité): Temporalities, Revolution and Social Logics of Belonging: The example of the Paris Commune

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm.Lunch

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm.    Panel II. Places and Belonging

Discussant: Charlotte Vorms (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)  

Anne Irfan (UCL): Connecting Time and Space: The Palestinian Refugee Camps
Daniel Widener (UCSD): Corner Stories: Place and Time in South Central Los Angeles
Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago): Vernacular Urbanity and the Genesis of Informality in Post-Abolition Brazil: Recife, 1890-1940

Dinner at a local restaurant (time and place TBD)

Thursday, September 19

9:30 am: Welcome/Coffee

10:00 am - 12:00 pm.    Panel III. To Say or Not To Say: Revealing or Concealing Individual and Collective Allegiances.

Discussant: Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po Paris)

Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS) & Anton Perdoncin (CNRS): Hiding One's Faith, Escaping Identification: A Longitudinal and Relational Approach to Silences in Historical Material
Elsa Génard (USPN) & Corentin Durand (CNRS): Prisoners' Letters to the Warden. Prison Community, Sense of Belonging, and Writing Practices (France, 20th-21st centuries)
Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge): Stateless People and the Politics of Belonging in Twentieth-Century France

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm.    Panel IV. Social Belonging, Between Work, Households, and Generations

Discussant : Lola Zappi (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Claire Lemercier (CNRS): Apprentice, Pupil, Lad, Maid, etc.: Learning a Trade, Learning One's Place in Social Structure in Nineteenth-Century France
Stéphanie Soubrier (Université de Genève): "I remained a stranger, as if I were someone else": Working as a Boy in Colonial Households (French West Africa, 19th and 20th Centuries)
Roseanna Webster (University of Cambridge): Belonging to a Mother, to the 1960s, and to an Olive Community in Andalusia

3:00 pm: Coffee Break

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm.    Closing discussion