History Speaker Series - Olivier Wieviorka - Today

[Donna Lang]

History Speaker Series

 

Tuesday, November 2, 2010
4:00 – 5:30
Hagey Hall -373



The 18th June 1940: A Gaullist Memory?

Born in 1960, Olivier Wieviorka studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure de 
Saint-Cloud. Agrégé, at Paris I Sorbonne (Phd) and Institut d’Etudes 
Politiques de Paris (habilitation à diriger les recherches).

He is presently full professor of contemporary history at Ecole Normale 
Supérieure de Cachan with research interests in World War II. His major 
publications include /Une Certaine idée de la Résistance: Défense de la 
France (1940-1949)/, Le Seuil, 1995, /Les Orphelins de la République. 
Itinéraire des députés et sénateurs français (1940-1945/) Le Seuil, 2001 
(translated by Harvard University Press, Orphans of the Republic, 2009) 
and , /Nous entrerons dans la carrière. De la Résistance à l’exercice du 
pouvoir/, Le Seuil, 1994.

His talk will explore the contentious memory of France under German 
occupation in World War II.




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