In Honour of Colin Jones
Colin Jones. Eighteenth-Century France:
Art, Revolution, Science, and Medicine
Recordings of event below
Colin Jones is well known to French history for his distinguished research on multiple aspects of the social and cultural history of the long and revolutionary eighteenth century. In addition, he has long been a generous mentor to early and mid-career colleagues. Across these two short online events, a group of Colin’s mentees celebrate what his work and his mentorship have meant and mean to us personally and professionally on his retirement from Queen Mary, University of London. Some of us encountered Colin Jones during his time in posts at the universities of Newcastle, Exeter, Warwick, QMUL, Chicago, Richmond, Stanford, Paris and Renmin, others at Phd vivas, during conferences, seminars, and in the canteen at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Originally planned as a series of in person panels the Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink and shorten the format of our celebration for the time being, but these two sessions no doubt mark only the beginning of the International French History community’s recognition of Colin’s rich ongoing contributions. Fittingly, given Colin’s inclusive approach to the field, the online format brings his mentees and colleagues from Texas to Melbourne, via Minnesota, Florida, Paris, Geneva, Exeter, and London, together. From nuns to plague tracts, hospitals to entrepreneurial charlatans, and smiles to Robespierre and Thermidor, Colin Jones’ work and mentorship continues to shape research into ancien-regime and revolutionary France.
Programme
July 15 - Art and Revolution
2 pm - 5 pm (UK time)
Each talk is 10 mins.
- Una McIlvenna (University of Melbourne): Execution Ballads in the French Revolution
- Amy Freund (Southern Methodist): Mme de Pompadour's Pigeons and Other Speaking Likeness of Dumb Beasts
- Hannah Williams (Queen Mary): Mapping Paris
- Discussion (20 mins)
- Break (10 mins)
Please see Part 1 recording here: In Honour of Colin Jones - 15 July Part 1 of 3
- Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley (Exeter): The Duchesse d'Elbeuf's Terror: women and the nobility on trial at the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal
- Simon Macdonald (Queen Mary): London Review'd in Paris: The Argus Newspaper between France and Britain during the Peace of Amiens 1802-3
- Richard Taws (UCL): Portrait of a Regicide: Sergent-Marceau’s Sentimental Revolution
- Discussion (20 mins)
- Break (10 mins)
Please see Part 2 recording here: In Honour of Colin Jones Part 2 of 3
- Tom Stammers (Durham): A Dangerous Passion for Documents: The Autograph Cult and the French Revolution (pre-recorded) Please see recording here
- Charly Coleman (Columbia): Consumer Revolution Revivified: The Catholic Ethic and the Invention of New Needs during the Terror
- Charles Walton (Warwick): Bring back the bathwater! Marxist residues on Colin's 'bourgeois baby'
- Discussion (20 mins)
- Wrap up (20 mins)
Please see Part 3 recording here: In Honour of Colin Jones part 3 of 3
July 16 - Science and Medicine
2 pm - 5 pm (UK time)
Each talk is 10 mins.
- François Zanetti and Sophie Vasset (Paris): Retour aux sources: Montpellier, Balaruc, Charity and Bienfaisance
- (20 mins together)
- Philip Rieder (Geneva): Why did 18th-century practitioners neglect poor hospital patients? Walking the wards in the wake of Colin Jones
- Discussion (20 mins)
- Break (10 mins)
Please see part 1 recording here: In Honour of Colin Jones - July 16 2021 - Part 1 of 2
- Stéphane Van Damme (EUI): Thinking Sciences and Knowledge in a Metropolitan Context with Colin Jones
- JB Shank (Minnesota): Colin Jones, Trickster Traveler of the New Millennial History
- Discussion (15 mins)
- Break (10 mins)
Please see part 2 recording here: In Honour of Colin Jones - 16 July 2021 - part 2 of 2
- Lisa Smith (Essex): Reflections on Nuns and Remedies
- Cathy McClive (Florida State): Gender and the Medical World of Early Modern France
- Discussion (15 mins)
- Wrap up (20 mins)
- Ends at approx 4:40 pm (UK)
Please see wrap up recording here: Wrap up
We're delighted to announce the relase of Colin's most recent book,
We're delighted to announce the release of Colin's most recent book,