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The French Empire: comparisons, exchanges and collaborations
27 June 2016
The workshop brought together PhD candidates working on France and its empire from a comparative and connective perspective especially with Britain and its empire. These included students from France (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Britain (Cambridge, Oxford, London) and the United States (Harvard). A major theme was the dynamics of emulation and collaboration between the French and British empires since the eighteenth century, from exchanges of ideas to institutional cooperation in the form of condominia in the late nineteenth century. Other themes included slavery in the French Empire, exchanges between France and India, and French colonial law.
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France and its empire in the global economy, 1815-1939
10 June 2015
A one-day workshop organised by David Todd, Renaud Morieux, Emma Rothschild and Pierre Singaravélou took place on 10 June 2015 at Trinity Hall, as part of the programme on Cordial Exchanges: Britain and France in the World since 1700. The workshop explored the new global economic history of France and its empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in a comparative and connective perspective with the economic history of Britain and its empire. The participants examined new quantitative, political and cultural approaches to France's formal empire, the financial aspects of France's global power and the impact of global economic expansion on the modern French state and society. Such perspectives facilitated a reappraisal of the French dimension of nineteenth-century globalization and brought to light the ways in which it complemented as well as competed with the better known British – or Anglo-American – dimension.


Exchanges of legal ideas and practices: Britain, France and their empires since 1700
Monday 8 July 2013
Cripps Seminar Room, Magdalene College, Cambridge
The workshop, organised by Renaud Morieux, Emma Rothschild, Pierre Singaravélou and David Todd and held in Cambridge, considered law as a field of practical as well as intellectual exchanges across national borders. Themes discussed included:

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The Internationalization of the History of France and the French Empire
14 June 2010
This workshop, held in King's College, Cambridge, examined the implications of recent trends in global, imperial and transnational history for the history of early modern France and her empire. Participants included Renaud Morieux, Frédéric Régent, François-Joseph Ruggiu, David Todd, Richard Drayton, Emma Rothschild and Robert Tombs.

 

Réinterpréter l’Ancien Régime
1 July 2009
A meeting organised by David Todd and Pierre Singaravelou took place at the Collège de France on 1 July 2009. Participants included Christophe Charle, Jacques Revel, Daniel Roche, Emma Rothschild and Gareth Stedman Jones. For further information, visit the meeting web site.

 

Instruments of Empire: Science, Information, and French Colonization in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
9 June 2008
This workshop discussed the various means that were used to foster French colonial/imperial expansion and to maintain colonial possessions in the 17th and 18th centuries. It investigated “instruments of empire” in the broadest sense; this could include instruments such as forms of bureaucracy, government information networks, the sciences associated with navigation, cartographic practices, trade policies, or even human beings. Click here for the programme and the list of participants.

 

L’internationalisation de l’histoire de France / The Internationalization of the history of France, 1750-2000
3 June 2008
A workshop, co-organised by the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po and the Centre for History and Economics, was held in Paris at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques on 3 June 2008. The workshop examined the implications of recent trends in global, imperial and transnational history on the history of France. It highlighted the international dimension of three aspects of modern French history: the end of the Old Regime in the late 18th century; the ideological origins of the Second French Colonial Empire in the 19th century; and intellectual exchanges within the French postcolonial world since 1950. Participants included Robert Aldrich (Sydney), Christophe Charle (Paris I), Marcel Dorigny (Paris VIII), Emma Rothschild (Harvard) and Robert Tombs (Cambridge). Click here for the programme and the list of participants.

 

French Empires
1 August 2007
An informal meeting was held to discuss the development of the French Empires project. Click for the programme and the list of participants.