Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance
Welcome to the website for the project 'Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance, 1940-1945'. Based at the University of Manchester, the project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and runs from January 2021 to January 2023 (AH/T006382/1).
Our fifth session focused on medical care and humanitarianism in Latin America, an under-studied aspect of the history of humanitarian Aid during the ‘long’ Second World War. As our chair Prof Paulo Drinot (UCL) pointed out at the beginning, there are some obvious reasons for this lack of scholarship: only Brazil and Mexico had a …
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Our fourth session focused on American power, resistance to and ‘renegotiation’ of this power. As Andrew Buchanan recently argues in ‘Globalizing the Second World War’ (article available here), the single most significant outcome of the ‘long’ Second World War (1931-1953) was the ‘the volcanic eruption of the American nation state and the consolidation of its …
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Recent histories have been increasingly interested in the ways in which humanitarian practices, discourses, norms and emotions have been shaped by gendered constructions and hierarchies. The aim of our third session was to take stock of some of these recent historiographical contributions and discuss, through for stimulating papers, how key concepts, such as ‘care’, ‘intimacy’ …
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In May 2021, we commemorated the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Resolution 2286 by the UN Security Council on the Protection of civilians in armed conflict. It is thus a particularly apposite time to reflect on how historians have approached the issues of violence, health and care in wartime and how historical approaches might …
Raphaële Balu and Laure Humbert are working with Géraud Letang (Service Historique de la Défense, Paris) on their papers for the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History. The aim of this collaborative panel is to place some of the early findings of our research project within the historiography of the …
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Understandings of the impacts of attacks on healthcare have changed significantly within the last ten years. Amid an ongoing cycle of commemorative events for the adoption of the Resolution 2286 by the UN Security Council on the Protection of civilians in armed conflict, academic and public interest in the impact of attacks on healthcare is …
Laure Humbert travaille actuellement sur une communication qu’elle présentera au prochain colloque organisé par la Fondation de la France libre. L’appel à communication est disponible ici. Fig. 1. Amicale des anciens de la Première Division française libre Annuaire de la Première division française libre et ses unités dans la guerre 1939-1945 (Paris : Imprimerie N. Fortin et ses fils, …
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Laure Humbert introduces her research on the ‘public face’ of the international Hadfield Spears and discusses it with Charlotte Faucher, BA postdoctoral fellow (University of Manchester) and specialist of the history of Franco-British cultural policies in the twentieth century. Charlotte Faucher has recently organized a conference on ‘New approaches to the history of soft-power’ and is …
4 June 2021, HCRI, University of Manchester. We are pleased to invite submissions for an online conference exploring the history of violence against health and care, broadly conceived, in wartime. Understandings of the impacts of attacks on healthcare have changed significantly within the last ten years. This is partly the results of the launch of …
Laure Humbert introduces her research and discusses this question with Jill Geber, Project Archivist at the Friends House Library, London As I embark on this new AHRC-funded project with Bertrand Taithe and Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, my aim is to rethink the history of the French external Resistance from the perspectives of its missionary dispensaries and hospitals …
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