Salle D223, Maison de la Recherche – Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne-Université, 28, rue Serpente 75006 Paris
Programme Workshop on Historiography and History Publishing in the US
Salle D223, Maison de la Recherche – Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne-Université, 28, rue Serpente 75006 Paris
Workshop on Historiography and History Publishing in the US
Sponsored by Histoire et dynamique des espaces anglophones (HDEA/Sorbonne Université) and the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Salle D223, Maison de la Recherche – Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne-Université, 28, rue Serpente 75006 Paris, vendredi 21 octobre, 14h-18h
14h
Andrew W. Kahrl, “The Nature of Justice: Recent Trends and Future Directions in Urban and Environmental History”
Andrew W. Kahrl is a Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. He is also the co-director of The Repair Lab at UVA, an inter-disciplinary research collaborative focused on the study of racial and environmental injustice. Kahrl specializes in the history of race, real estate, and urban and coastal environments in the twentieth-century US. He is the author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South (2012) and Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline (2018). He is currently completing a book on the history of race and local taxation in the US from Reconstruction to the present.
15h15
Niels Hooper, “Publishing History (and More): Navigating Changes and Opportunities from the Perspective of a Large American University Press”
Niels Hooper is Executive Editor in History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies at the University of California Press. Driven by a strong awareness of histories of social injustice and a desire to learn from historic struggles to overcome them, Niels has cultivated a list of publications that interrogates power and questions received opinion to explore past possibilities for a more just society. Some highlights from his program include Rebecca Solnit’s atlas trilogy of Infinite City, Unfathomable City, and Nonstop Metropolis, Grace Lee Boggs’ The Next American Revolution, Peter Linebaugh’s Magna Carta Manifesto, Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin’s Black Against Empire, Laura Briggs’ Taking Children, Nikhil Pal Singh’s Race and America’s Long War, Salim Tamari’s The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, and Martin Duberman’s Has the Gay Movement Failed?
16h30
Elsa Devienne, “Turning your French Dissertation into a US/UK Book”
Elsa Devienne is Assistant Professor in US History at Northumbria University in the UK. Previously, she taught at Nanterre University and Princeton University. Her first book, La ruée vers le sable: une histoire environnementale des plages de Los Angeles au XXe siècle (published by Editions de la Sorbonne in 2020), won the 2021 Willi Paul Adams Awards given by the Organization of American Historians for the best book on American history published in a language other than English. The English version is now under contract with Oxford University Press.
Contacts: Andrew Diamond (andrew.diamond@sorbonne-universite.fr) and Sandrine Parageau (sandrine.parageau@sorbonne-universite.fr)