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 …
IHSA Conference – History of attacks on healthcare
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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Médecine aux armées, médecine clandestine : une histoire comparée du soin dans la France libre et la Résistance intérieure (1940-1944)
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 …
Rethinking medical neutrality and enemy encounters during World War Two: perspectives for further research
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 …
Au prisme des archives spiritaines : La France libre, l’Église catholique et la Croix-Rouge en Afrique-Équatoriale française
Mes recherches actuelles portent sur le rôle du mouvement de la Croix-Rouge – composé du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, de la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (ancienne Ligue des Sociétés de Croix-Rouge) et des Sociétés nationales de Croix-Rouge – en Afrique subsaharienne durant la période coloniale. Alors que le …
Conference Summary : Rethinking the History of Violence, Health and Care in Wartime
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 …
Gender, Sources and Silences in the History of the French Resistance
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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Online Workshop – Rethinking the history of Violence, Health and Care in Wartime, c. 1860-2000s.
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 …
La maison ‘Spears’: quand l’hôpital trouble le genre
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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Gender, Humanitarianism and Soft Power
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 …
Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance 