CERC Roundtable: 'A New Era for France?'

National and International Consequences of the 2007 French Elections

Tuesday 14 August, 1:00-2:00pm
at Room 212, Level 2,
234 Queensberry Street, The University of Melbourne

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Chair: Prof Peter McPhee

(Deputy Vice Chancelor Academic, University of Melbourne, historian, author of The French Revolution 1798-1799, and A Social History of France 1789-1914)

Speakers:
Prof Charles Sowerwine

Historian, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, author of France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society

Dr Ian Coller

Postdoctoral fellow, researcher and writer on contemporary France, recently returned from experiencing the elections first hand.

Mrs Danièle Kemp

(Executive Producer of the French Language Program SBS Radio)

Topics include:

What domestic reforms might we expect? What effects on French society?

Have the results been welcomed in France? In Paris? In the banlieues? In the countryside?

Do the results indicate a retreat of support for Le Pen and the extreme right? A change in French electoral behaviour?

What can we expect from the Sarkozy government in its international engagement?