Daniel Foliard and Hannah Williams to Deliver Keynote Addresses at Paris Symposium

Members of the SGNCS will gather in Paris 17-19 June 2026 for an international symposium exploring "Solidarities and Shifting Alliances." The event is being held at the University of London Institute in Paris and takes up such questions as: How did the changing political alliances of the period constitute or provoke new solidarities? How did people come together and support each other within or across increasingly marked borders of nation, empire, race, class and gender? How was solidarity expressed, and to what extent did it disrupt and shape the global order?

The keynote addresses will be delivered by Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité, and Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London. Foliard's recent book The Violence of Colonial Photography was shortlisted for the British Academy’s Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Williams is co-director of Colonial Networks “a digital decolonial art history project” exploring connections between Haiti (formerly French colony of Saint-Domingue) and the Paris art world c. 1780-90s.