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• June 5-7, 2012: Cécile Vidal will organize, with Emily Clark and Ibrahima Thioub, an international conference at the Université Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, Senegal, on "Saint-Louis of Senegal and New Orleans: A comparative and croisée history of two port cities across the Atlantic, 17th-20th centuries." A follow-up conference will take place at Tulane University in New Orleans in the spring of 2013.
• April 2012: Cécile Vidal will be a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, where she will give four conferences:
  - The City Without Walls: The Material and Symbolic Construction of French New Orleans as a Distinct Geographical and Social Space
  - The Barracks and the Hospital: Social Control and Cross-Racial Encounters between Soldiers and Slaves in French New Orleans
  - The Language of Race: The Dynamics between the State, Church, and Civil Society in the Process of Racialization
  - The 1769 Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to the Spanish Crown of the French 'Company of the Free Mulattoes and Negroes of This Colony of Louisiana': Dual Genealogy of a Social Event.
• February 17-18, 2012: Sarah Faraud will give a paper entitled "Por efectos del clima diferente: officials facing colonial ills in Spanish Louisiana" at the conference on Legends of Empire: Negotiating the Imperial Moral Compass organized by the Atlantic World Workshop at New York University.
• February 11, 2012: Nicolas Barreyre will give a paper on "The Panic of 1873" at the annual conference of German historians of the U.S., held this year in Trier on the topic of Crises and Crisis Management in U.S. History.
• January 26, 2012: Nicolas Barreyre will give a paper on "Bloody Shirt and Lost Cause: Or How to Wage the Civil War without Weapons," at the general seminar of the CRHIA research center at the University of La Rochelle, organized by Tangi Villerbu.
• January 5-8, 2012: Tangi Villerbu will attend the annual American Historical Association Conference in Chicago, and give a paper on "Vincennes, 1804–23: 'Marguilliers,' French Missionaries, and the New Nation."
• December 7, 2011: Manuel Covo will give a talk at the conference coorganized by EHESS and the National Library of France (BnF) on "Topicality of Revolutions."
  
• November 16-20, 2011: Romain Huret and Nicolas Barreyre will both give papers at the SSHA conference in Boston, respectively on "Incompetent gaugers, depised excisemen? Excise taxes, bureaucratic reforms and local resistance during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era" and "'The sacredness of the public debt and the equal sacredness of the National pensions': Public finances and patriotic visions of social justice after the Civil War."
• November 16-20, 2011: Sara Le Menestrel will give a paper on "From commemorating to healing: Coping with the scars of a Katrina" at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal.
• November 3-5, 2011: Nicolas Martin-Breteau will give a paper entitled "'We Build Up a Strong, Virile Youth': Sport, Education, and Racial Pride in the Long Civil Rights Movement in Washington, D.C., 1890s-1920s" at the Annual Conference on D.C. Historical Studies.
• October 28, 2011: Nicolas Barreyre, Cécile Vidal and François Weil will attend a meeting presenting the European project on American history in Europe during the biennal Conference of the AISNA in Trento, Italy. François Weil will also give one of the keynote talks on « A genealogy of genealogy: Reconsidering the search for a personal past in American culture ».
• September 26, 2011: Romain Huret and Nicolas Barreyre will both give papers at a symposium on the History of the French and American States organized at the American University in Paris.
• September 21-24, 2011: Tangi Villerbu will give a paper on "Waiting for the Indians: Father Augustin Ravoux, 1838-1862" at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, held this year in Mankato, Minnesota.
• September 20, 2011: Cécile Vidal will organize a workshop on the comparative history of colonial societies in the Americas to prepare for an anthology and a concept dictionary to think the formation of colonial societies and new cultures in 16-19th century Americas.
• June 30-July 2, 2011: Nicolas Barreyre and Cécile Vidal co-organize with Stephen Tuck, an international conference on “You, the People: National Location and the Writing of American History – The Example of Europe”, at Oxford University. Cécile Vidal will present with Trevor Burnard a paper on "A New Paradigm: Atlantic History".
• June 26-29, 2011: Cécile Vidal will give a paper on "Rooted Settlers and Transient Sailors: New Orleans Society and its Floating Maritime Population (1718-1769)" at a conference on Maritime Communities of the Early Modern Atlantic, at the Château de la Bretesche.
• June 23, 2011: Manuel Covo will give a paper on "Merchant networks in a transimperial/transnational context: The example of U.S. trade in Saint-Domingue" at a conference organized at the University of Nantes on Atlantic Cities and Ports as Places of Liberty and Reconfiguration (15th-18th c.).
• June 15, 2011: Cécile Vidal will present a paper on "Chronological markers of the new Atlantic history, or the necessity to go beyond the revolutionary break and include the 19th century" at a symposium on Constructing and Deconstructing Chronologies: The Atlantic Worlds and the Iberic Peninsula in the Age of Independences, at the Colegio de España in Paris.
  
• June 15, 2011: Alexandre Rios-Bordes will present his doctoral research at the RESSAC seminar of the Center for the Studies of International Relations with a paper entitled "Dark Precursors: The Emergence of the Secret State in the U.S. (1910-41)".
• June 11, 2011: Emmanuelle Perez is one of the five doctoral students selected to participate in the Western History Thesis Workshop organized at the Huntington Library by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
• June 8-10, 2011: Manuel Covo and Alexandre Dubé will both give papers at the international conference on "Merchant accounting and profits in Europe and the Americas, 1750-1800" organized in Paris, June 8-10, as part of the "marprof" ANR-funded research project.
• May 19-20, 2011: Nicolas Martin-Breteau will give a paper entitled "Following 'the road to true democracy through sport': the body, dignity and integration in the long Civil Rights Movement, 1890-1970" at the University of Bordeaux 2 conference on Sporting ethnicity: Signs and resources of the social question and the politics of difference.
• April 2011: Nicolas Barreyre has been awarded a Joyce Tracy Fellowship by the American Antiquarian Society to do research in their collection in Worcester, Mass.
• April 2011: Emmanuelle Perez has been awarded a Arthur J Quinn Memorial fellowship (History of California) by the Bancroft Library to do research in their collection in Berkeley, California.
• April 28, 2011: Emmanuelle Perez will give a paper on "Re-Assessing  Self-Government  in  California" at the Whitsett Graduate Seminar held at California State University-Northridge.
  
• April 19-24, 2011: Peter Marquis will give a paper on "Brooklyn and 'its' Dodgers. Baseball and the Making of Urban Identities (1883-1957)" at the annual conference of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in San Antonio (Texas).
  
• April 14, 2011: Cécile Vidal will give a paper at the John Carter Brown Library on "Caribbean New Orleans: The Genesis of a Colonial and Slave Urban Society at the Edge of the French Atlantic Empire."
• April 14, 2011: Elsa Devienne will give a paper at the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) in Phoenix (AZ) on "Southern California Yacht Harbors and the Making of Coastal Engineering Knowledge (1930s-1950s)," with the support of a ASEH travel grant.
• April 4, 2011: Peter Marquis will give a talk on "the staging of sport emotion in baseball" at the seminar on "Sport, Cultures and Societies of the IEP-Paris.
  
  
• March 2011: Emmanuelle Perez has been awarded a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship by the Huntington Library for a month of research there.
  
• March 31, 2011: Elsa Devienne will attend the annual conference of the Urban History Group at Cambridge University with a paper entitled "Beaches in the City. The Quest for the Ideal Urban Beach in Post-war Los Angeles," with the support of a grant from the Urban History Group.
• March 23, 2011: Alexandre Rios-Bordes will give a paper on "From Seditious to 'State Enemy'? Hypotheses and Perspectives on the Historiography on the Interior Enemy in the United States" at a symposium organized by the MASCIPO on Histories and Historiographies of Subversion in the Americas.
  
• March 21-25, 2011: Nicolas Martin-Breteau will attend Heidelberg University's Spring Academy on American History, Culture & Politics and give a paper on "Bodies of Character: Sport, Strength, and Dignity in the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1890s-1960s."
• March 19, 2011: Paul Schor will attend the OAH annual conference in Houston, where he will receive the Willi Paul Adams Award for best American history book written in a foreign language, for his Compter et classer. Histoire des recensements américains (counting and classifying: History of American Censuses).
• March 17, 2011: Cécile Vidal will give a paper on "The Language or Race and Ethnicity: The Dynamics between the State, Church, and Civil Society in the Process of Racialization in French New Orleans (1718-1769)" at Brown University's History Department.
• March 3-5, 2011: Marieke Polfliet will give a paper on "The influence of the 1848 Revolution on the politicization of French migrants in New York and New Orleans: A transatlantic crossing of political culture" at the Tallahassee, Florida Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850.
• February 28, 2011: Cécile Vidal will give a paper on "The French Origin of the ‘Corporate Body of Free People of Color’ in New Orleans during Spanish Domination (1718-1769)" at Stanford University's History Department.
• February 5, 2011: Cécile Vidal will comment on Emma Rothschild's paper on "Late Atlantic History" at a conference on "The Time Boundaries of Atlantic History: Pre-Columbian, Post Colonial" organized by the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825, Harvard University.