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 June 2023 (AH/T006382/1).
Our final seminar session, 'Non-UN end to the war? Humanitarian aid in the age of the United Nations', chaired by Margot Tudor (University of Exeter), examined the role of medical and humanitarian organisations in the conflicts that tore Middle East and Asia apart in the aftermath of the Second World War. With four fascinating papers …
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This session chaired by Bertrand Taithe, focused on the transnational logics operating in various resistance movements from the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War. While memories often celebrate the national dimension of the fight against the Nazi occupation during World War Two, these three fascinating papers showed important continuities and links between the …
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Chaired by Rebecca Gill (University of Huddersfield), this session examined the links between military and civilian cultures rehabilitation during the ‘long’ Second World War. Since the nineteenth century, humanitarians have encouraged the production of handicrafts by wounded soldiers and displaced people for the purposes of fundraising, overcoming mental strains, ‘re-masculinising’ war victims or fostering ‘national’ …
We held our second seminar on ‘Race, Military Psychiatry and Mental Health’ on 11 January. Chaired by Guillaume Lachenal (Sciences Po), the aim of this seminar was to discuss how specific racial, gendered and environmental tropes fed into psychiatric discourses and practices in the era of the ‘long’ Second World War. The seminar was attended …
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On 7 December, 26 of us participated in the first session of our seminar series exploring new approaches to medical care, humanitarianism, and violence during the ‘Long’ Second World War (1931-1953). This first session focused on the origins of the Second World War as seen by partisans of humanitarianism. Thanks to our chair, Jean-François Fayet …
Last November, following on our previous workshop on the history of violence against healthcare, we put together a panel focused on the history of attacks on healthcare for the International Humanitarian Studies Association’s annual conference in Sciences Po Paris (program of the conference here: ihsa-conference-schedule; more info about the conference here: https://conference.ihsa.info/ ). Xavier Crombé …
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Raphaële Balu a présenté le projet et la manière dont son étude de cas s’y inscrit dans le cadre de la journée « Jeunes chercheurs », tenue au Mémorial de Caen le 14 octobre 2021. Le programme de cet événement ainsi que les résumés des présentations sont disponibles sur le carnet de recherche « Autour de la …
Last month, Frances Hougthon, Laure Humbert and Raphaële Balu presented papers at the conference ‘Enemy Encounters’ hosted by the IWM Institute for the Public Understanding of War and Conflict and Cardiff University. This fascinating and thought-provoking online conference organized by Prof. Holly Furneaux and Matilda Greig explored enmity and allegiances at war between 1800 and …
Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance 