In this episode, Émile Chabal tells Jonathan Ervine about what may be in store for French politics in 2026. Émile is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on themes to do with politics and public life in France. In this interview, he talks about the Macron presidency, the far right, and the countdown to France’s 2027 Presidential Elections.
14 Oct 2025
The BUMIDOM
In this podcast, which accompanies Issue 33, 3, a special issue entitled 'The BUMIDOM and its Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach', hosts Ben Dalton and Maria Tomlinson introduce a lively discussion in French between one of the issue's guest-editors, Antonia Wimbush (University of Melbourne), and Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown University). These experts on the BUMIDOM discuss the articles and the legacy of this French state agency, which organised emigration from French overseas departments and territories to metropolitan France chiefly in the 1960s and 70s.
9 Jun 2025
Le Manifeste conspirationniste and the politics of the pandemic response
To discuss the special section of articles on Le Manifeste conspirationniste in our May 2025 issue in light of their own work on the politics of the Covid pandemic response, lead editor Oliver Davis is joined by Toby Green, Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College London and co-author (with Thomas Fazi) of The Covid Consensus (Hurst, 2021) and Dr Muriel Blaive, a socio-political historian of postwar, communist and post-communist Central Europe and author of Pandemic Power. The Covid response and the Erosion of Democracy (Central European University Press, 2025).
30 Apr 2025
Abortion
In this episode, presenters Dr Maria Tomlinson and Dr Benjamin Dalton are joined by Dr Dominique Carlini Versini, the guest-editor of issue 33,1 (2025), a special issue on abortion in literature and visual art, as well as by discussant Dr Deirdre Duffy, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster and author of Abortion Trail Activism: The Global Infrastructures for Abortion Access (Bloomsbury, 2024).
23 Jul 2024
Michel Serres
Oliver Davis discusses the special issue on Michel Serres with guest-editor Christina Howells (Oxford) and Chris Watkin (Monash).
10 Apr 2024
PGR/ECR podcast: Ry Montgomery in conversation
In a new part of our podcast, featuring PGR students and ECR colleagues, PhD student and ASMCF PG Rep, Ry Montgomery, reflects on their work and the state of the discipline.
20 Mar 2024
New directions and directives in Memory Studies in the French-speaking world
In this podcast Professor Nina Parish, one of the guest-editors of the February 2024 special issue on Memory Studies in the French-speaking world, discusses the topic with Professor Charles Forsdick, one of the co-authors of the 'call to action' to which the special issue responds.
4 Jul 2023
Islamophobia in France
This podcast accompanies issue 31.2 of our journal (May 2023), a special issue on Islamophobia in France, and includes contributions from the guest-editors, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, along with two of the authors featured in the issue, Ibrahim Bechrouri and Fatima Khemilat.
20 Mar 2023
The Sixtieth Anniversary of the end of the Algerian War
A fifty-minute discussion, facilitated by Benjamin Dalton, of our February 2023 special issue reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Algerian War. Ben is joined by guest-editor Mimi Mortimer and other contributors to the special issue.
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