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Revisiting the Liberation: France 1944-47Provisional Programme, early Sept. 2005 Friday 16 September 2005: Morning 10.00      Welcome and coffee10.30         Dr Andrew Knapp, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, The University of Reading, ‘Introduction’11.00      Professor Olivier Wieviorka, Professor of History, École Normale Supérieure, Cachan, ‘Renouvellement ou renouveaux ? Le personnel politique à la Libération’12.00         Dr Emmanuel Cartier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, ‘The Liberation and the institutional question in France’Lunch (buffet) Friday 16 September 2005: Afternoon2.00           Dr Paul Smith, Lecturer in French Studies, University of Nottingham, ‘“Sénat ou pas Sénat?” – The “first” Council of the Republic’3.00           Dr Hilary Footitt, Honorary Research Fellow in French, University of Stirling: ‘Women in France: a Long Liberation?’4.00           Tea4.30      Professor Nicholas Atkin, Professor of History, The University of Reading ‘The Catholic Church and the Liberation of France’5.30      Professor Herrick Chapman, New York University, ‘The Liberation and the post-war social and economic settlement’ Saturday 17 September 2005: Morning9.15           Dr Andrew Knapp, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, The University of Reading: ‘Such Friendly Fire: Bombing, Liberation, Reconstruction and Memory in Le Havre’10.15         Dr Martin Shipway, Lecturer, French contemporary history and politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, ‘False dawns: the Liberation and the French Empire’11.30      coffee11.45         Dr Natalia Naoumova, Senior Lecturer, Lomonossov University, Moscow, ‘Le rôle du PCF dans la renaissance politique de la France, d’après les documents des archives et des journaux soviétiques’Lunch (buffet) Saturday 17 September 2005: Afternoon2.00           Dr Charles Cogan, Senior Associate Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, ‘Washington at the Liberation, 1944-1947’3.00           Dr Andrew Knapp, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, The University of Reading, ‘A privileged partnership? The Liberation viewed from London, 1944-1947’3.45      Professor Philippe Buton, Professor of History, University of Reims, ‘Épuration et Libération dans le mémoire des Français’5.15      Closure and tea