Huguenots

Call for Papers

We invite applications for 20-minute papers (or panels consisting of three 20-minute papers) on any aspect of the Huguenot experience before or after 1685.

Papers which consider the life, career and personal and intellectual networks of Elias Bouhéreau are naturally very welcome, but we also seek to encourage historical and literary proposals which address one or more of the following topics:

• Huguenot life and material culture
• Huguenot social, familial and intellectual networks
• Notions of internal and external exile
• The role of books and literary culture in creating a “portable homeland” (pace Aaron Lansky) for Huguenots refugees
• Efforts to maintain a distinct Huguenot identity; was there, in fact, a single homogeneous identity?
• Inter-generational tensions within Huguenot communities
• Gender and Huguenot exile
• War and military culture

While focusing on the Huguenot diaspora, the organisers will also consider proposals for papers on other exiles (Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Protestants) in early modern Europe in the context of books, literary culture, and intellectual history and networks.