Lectures & Seminars

• Lectures: Monday 12-1 pm in S 0.13 (Social Sciences Building)
• Seminar: Monday 2-3 pm in S 0.11 (Social Sciences Building)

 

	Week	Lecture/Seminar Topic
Autumn Term	1	The Old Regime
	2	Enlightenment I: Epistemological Shifts
	3	Enlightenment II: The Campaign for Reform
	4	French Revolution I: From Freedom to Terror  (w4&w5)
	5	French Revolution II: Big State Solutions and Empire (see above)
	6	~ Reading Week ~
	7	Restoration and Persistent Revolution, 1815-1848
	8	Modernizing Paris
	9	1870-1871: Conflict, Commune and Crisis
	10	Birth of a Modern Consumer Society (Paul Smith, guest lecture on Art in late 19th c)
Spring Term	11	Divided France: The Dreyfus Affair
	12	Gender and Sexuality at the Fin-de-siècle
	13	The French at War, 1914-1918
	14	Interwar years and the Strange Defeat of 1940
	15	The Vichy Regime, Collaboration & Resistance
	16	~ Reading Week ~
	17	Fourth Republic
	18	Modernization and Its Discontents
	19	Decolonisation Pains
	20	May '68 and After
Summer Term	21	World Cup '98 and Veils: Pluralising the Republic
	22	Revision