Dr. Romain Fathi is a French historian whose longstanding research interests are concerned with Australian national identity, the First World War and the history of public health. While researching Australian history, Romain is also passionate about the history of his own country, France, where he was born and raised.
He obtained a jointly awarded PhD with Sciences Po (Paris, France) and The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). Romain studied and taught in several universities including Sciences Po, Yale, the University of Queensland. He now holds a position of Senior Lecturer in History at Flinders University.
For more information on Romain’s research and publications, please see: https://romainfathi.com/my-story
Claire Rioult is a French PhD candidate with Monash University and the University of Warwick (UK) whose doctoral research
explores French and British commercial diplomacies in Spain during the Age of Revolutions, with a special interest in how consuls and
diplomats operated in a time of crisis and political upheaval. Claire graduated with a master’s degree from Sciences Po (Paris, France)
and is agrégée d’histoire. Her master’s thesis explored maritime quarantine structures and practices against the plague in the late
eighteenth century in the French Channel seaports.
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John West-Sooby is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Adelaide. He has worked for many years on Nicolas Baudin’s voyage of discovery to Australia and has authored or co-produced numerous books and articles on the subject, including Encountering Terra Australis. The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders (with Jean Fornasiero and Peter Monteath), French Designs on Colonial New South Wales (with Jean Fornasiero), and The Art of Science: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyagers (1800–1803) (with Jean Fornasiero and Lindl Lawton).
He has also published widely on nineteenth-century French literature and on crime fiction (French and Australian). He currently has two books in preparation: the first is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the science and the scientists of the Baudin expedition; the second is a volume of essays on French contributions to our cultural life, entitled What have the French ever done for us?
For this series of history conferences, we had to pleasure to host John West-Sooby, Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Adelaide. He told us fascinating tales and stories about many women we contributed to the French history.
Women reigned, they wrote, they campaigned, they created, they fought and they sometimes shouted. And yet they are mostly absent from the history manuals or consigned to the margins.
This cycle of two lectures brought some of these women back to life by looking at a selective but representative sample of figures whose influence has been lost in the shadows or largely overlooked. The talks reconsidered some of the more well-known figures whose role has often been misrepresented, over-simplified or trivialised in the popular imagination.
Ben McCann is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ripping Open the Set: French Film Design, 1930-1939, Le Jour se lève, Julien Duvivier, and L’Auberge espagnole: European Youth on Film. He is currently writing a book on the links between French and Japanese cinema.
He is interested in all areas of French Cinema; particularly in 1930s French 'Poetic Realist' cinema, set design and film decor, film adaptation, and the films of Marcel Carné, Julien Duvivier, and Jean Dujardin.
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