Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Class & French Colonialism, FCHS, New Orleans, 30 May-2 Jun 2012

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Class & French Colonialism, FCHS, New Orleans, 30 May-2
Jun 2012

> H-ASIA
> September 8, 2011
>
> Call for panelists Class and French Colonialism, French Colonial
> Historical Society, New Orleans, May 30-June 2, 2012
> DEADLINE OCTOBER 15 2011
> (x-post H-French-Colonial)
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> Ed. note: Paul Sager is not a member of H-ASIA, but there may be
> some members with interests that would match his suggestion for a FCHS
> conference panel, either also regarding Indochina or other French
> territories. Please contact him directly. Thanks. FFC
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> From: Paul Sager <paul.sager@nyu.edu>
>
>
> Dear scholars,
>
> Class is a little-studied aspect of colonial history. The racial and
> gender aspects of empire have rightly attracted much interest, but with
> few exceptions class is more often mentioned in passing. It is usually
> tacked on as an incidental or tertiary phenomenon, giving the impression
> that it was a relatively unimportant aspect of colonial social relations.
> To begin to open up the subject, I would like to form a panel focusing on
> questions of social class in French colonial contexts for the next French
> Colonial History Society meeting, to be held in New Orleans in May-June,
> 2012. My own paper will argue that in addition to race and gender,
> class--understood both as primarily discursive imaginings of social class
> as well as more non-discursive stratified socio-economic
> relationships--significantly helped to shape the history of the colonial
> state in French Indochina.
>
> Are any other scholars working on class in French colonial contexts? If
> so, it would be great to get together on a panel.
>
>
> Please contact me off-list at paul.sager@nyu.edu.
>
> The deadline for submissions to this conference is October 15.
>
>
> Paul Sager
> Ph.D. candidate
> New York University
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