“Une ‘nouvelle histoire culturelle’? La Politique de la différence chez les historiens améri­cains,” Genèses: sciences sociales et his­toire (Paris), September 1995, 116-25.

“Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” in John Gillis, ed., Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton, 1994), 239-57. Paperbound, 1996.

“Economic Positivism as Rhetoric,” International Review of Social History, XXXVII, no. 2 (1992), 243-250

“Assimilation ou respect des différences? La colonisation du Vietnam, 1920-1930,” Genèses: sciences sociales et his­toire, 4 (May, 1991), 23-43

“The Discourse of Tradition in French Culture: The Rightist Social Science and Political Practice of Louis Marin, 1890-1945,” Historical Reflections/Réflections Historiques, Winter 1991, 45-75

“Donner à voir l’empire colonial. L’Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris en 1931, Gradhiva: Revue d’his­toire et de l’archives de l’anthropologie publieé par le Musée de l’Homme. (Paris) 7 (Winter 1989-90), 18-28

“Le Conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième Reépublique,” Gradhiva: Revue d’histoire et del’arch­ives de l’anthropologie publieé par le Musée de l’Hom­me, (Paris) 4 (May 1988), 3-17

“Protection Against Labor Troubles: The Campaign of the Association de l’Industrie Française for Economic Stability and Social Peace during the Great Depression, 1880-96,” International Review of Social History, (Ams­terdam), XXXI (1986), Part 2, 147-65

“La Grande Dépression: Aux origines d’un nouveau conservatisme français, 1880‑1896,” Francia, (Paris), 13 (1987), 435-45

“The Uses of America in John Locke’s Second Treatise, ” The Journal of the History of Ideas, XLVII (Oct.-Dec., 1986), 567-81

“Changing Consciousness, Values, and Culture in Advanced Industrial Societies,” report of the Fifth Annual Conference of Europeanists, 1985 International Labor and Working Class History, 1987

“The United States Suggests Land Reform, Cross Currents, 3 (Spring, 1983), 52‑60

“`Agrarians’ versus `Industrializers,’” International Review of Social History, 12 (1967), 31‑65

REVIEWS

American Historical Review

Journal of Modern History

International Labor and Working Class History

Current History

Cross Currents

Studies on the Left

Gradhiva (Paris)

French Politics and Society

Political Quarterly (London)

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PAPERS (Invited and Conference Papers Since 1980)

I give 2 or 3 per year. Here are some samples.

“Etrangères, Indigènes et Les Crocodiles: Odd neighbors at the Palais de la Porte Dorée,” keynote address at the annual meeting of the Society for French Postcolonial Studies, London, 29 November 2008.

“The New Musée du Quai Branly Revisited,” Charles Bonnier Annual Memorial Lecture in French Studies at the University of Liverpool, March 2009

“Larzac entre Petites Patries et Plus Grande France, La Construction Dialectique de l’Etat Impérial, “ Paper at the conference Petites Patries, Plus Grande France, Nation of the laboratoire Framespa-Diasporas (Université de Toulouse II) et Centre Claude Mousnier (Paris), Toulouse France May 20 2008.

“Post-68 Alternative Globalization,” Paper delivered to the Colgate University Conference on Global 1968, April 18 2008

“The Musée du Quai Branly: A postcolonial museum? The Politics of the Art of Postcoloniality,” lecture given at the invitation of the Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA, 6 March 2008

“Art of Darkness: The Opening of the Musée du Quai Branly,” lecture given at the New York University Institute of French Studies, October 2006

–Given also at the Stony Brook Humanities Institute, December 2006

“What Happened to the ‘Natives’ after Postcolonialism? France’s New Postcolonial Museum,” paper given for session on “Regarding Postcolonialism,” College Art Association, Boston February 2006

“Wrapping Indigènes, Maghrébins, and Migrants in France’s New Museums of Identity,” paper given at the Conference Artes, Memoria Y Politica at the University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, August 2005

A series of three lectures on Transnational History under the auspices of the Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, November 2005

“Representing (French) Heritages in the New Museums of France’s Global Age,” Paper given at the conference: France on the World Stage held at the Centre for European Studies (Univ. of the West of England [Bristol] and Univ. of Bath) July 2005

Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor University of Iowa, Feb. 2005 (Three public lectures)

Why Did They Trash that McDonald’s in France? Wellesley College, Nov. 2004

André Malraux: “What You Did in Africa, Can You Come Back to France and Do It?

Emile Biasini: “Sure, It’s Just a Matter of Adapting” paper given at the first annual New York Area Africanists’ conference held at NYU, 20 Feb. 2004

“Not the Right Stuff: Some French Colonial Administrators,” NYU Institute of French Studies Feb. 2004

“Politique et folklore en France,” Conference Du Folklore à l’ethnologie sponsored by the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires, Paris, Mar. 2003

“Pierre Bourdieu et la Crise postcoloniale. des Sciences sociales en France.” Colloque International des Sciences sociales et réflexivité Hommage à Pierre Bourdieu Paris, Jan. 2003

“Cultural Studies et autres maladies infantiles de l’histoire culturelle,” lecture at SciencesPo, Paris May 2002

“Metropolitan Culture and Empire.” Keynote address given to British Society for the Study of French History, 16^th annual conference, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 4-6 April 2002

“Les Zoos humaines et les zoos des bêtes sauvages dans les Expositions coloniales” lecture 13 November 2001 at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.

“Colonial Administrators come Home to Run France,” Conference on French culture in the post WW II decades, University of British Columbia October 2001.

“André Malraux séduise Washington et New York,” Conference on the Centenary of the Birth of Malraux, Paris and l’Université de Versailles-St.-Quentin, November 2001

“André Malraux, The Cold War, and the Power of Art.” Conference on Malraux, Harvard University, December 2001

“Mona Lisa Does D.C.,” talk at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, March 2001

Lecture Series of four lectures on Culture and Intellectuals at the University of Buenos Aires and Di Tella University, Argentina, 2001.

“Andé Malraux: ‘What you did in Africa, can you come back and do it in France?

Emile Biasini: ‘Sure, it’s just a matter of adapting.’” Talk on new work, in series The Nation and Beyond of Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2001.

Same talk as above, to French Cultural Studies seminar series, University of Pennsylvania, April 2001.

“Sur l’ethnographie française dans les années de Vichy,” talk in seminar of Gérard Noiriel 29 May 2000 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

“Les Images de l’histoire: le cas de l’Exposition coloniale de 1931, talk in seminar of Christophe Prochasson, 22 May 2000 at EHESS.

“Politique et Sciences Sociales,” talk at the Journée of the Department of Social Sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 23 June 2000, held at the Potager du Roi, Chateau de Versailles.

“Where did the French Get the Idea that They Were the Trustees of Western Civilization, 1515-1968,”Alumnus lecture, 24 September 1998, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

“Reading the French Empire, Making the French Empire,” and “André Malraux, Minister of Culture, 1959-1969: The Last Stand of Print Culture.” both at The Third Institute of French Cultural Studies, on the theme of Print Culture in France, July 1997 at Dart­mouth College.

“La Giaconde à Washington,” paper delivered at the International Conference on French-American Culture Exchanges, organized by the Association pour la Recherche sur la Paix et la Guerre, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennnes, 20 May 1997

“Malraux’s Mission,” New York University, Maison Française, January, 1997

“Images of Empire,” SUNY Purchase, Annual Humanities Patrons’ Lecture, February 1996.

“André Malraux as Minister of Culture,” Twentieth Century Seminar, Columbia Univer­sity, February 1996.

“To Save French Civilization,” University of Virginia, October 1995

“Imagining the French Colonial Empire: The Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931,” Sixth Annual Trenton State History Conference; Invited Lecture. 4 April 1995

“French Culture in Danger! André Malraux, Minister of Culture, 1959-1969, to the Rescue,” Beik Lecture for 1994-95, Swarthmore College, 3 November 1994.

“Jean Renoir and Cinema Engagé,” Conference on Political Cinema at the CUNY Graduate Center, Film Studies Program, 3 November 1994.

“France and its Others: Immigrants and (Ex)Colonials,” Lecture series on History and French Identity, Harvard University, 16 December 1994.

“How to Preserve a National Cultural Heritage and Kill Off Cultural Creativity: André Malraux at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. 1959-69,” University of Michigan Humanities Institute, 4 February, 1994.

“Imagining the French Colonial Empire: The Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931,” University of Michigan (History Dept.) 3 March, 1994

“The Simulacrum of Native Cultures in the French Colonial Empire: Jean Baudrillard visits the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931,” Columbia University, 10 March, 1993

“How Many Frances? Greater France at the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931,” New York University Institute of French Studies, 25 February, 1993

“The Uses of Cultural Pluralism in Political Domina­tion: the French in Vietnam, 1917-1931,” Society of Mellon Fellows, Columbia University, March, 1992

“The French Colonial Administration and Vietnamese Intel­lectuals in the 1930s,” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 4 October, 1991

“Imperialist Education: Vietnam under the French, 1917-1931,” CCNY, 7 November, 1991

“Frenchmen into Peasants: Rerooting Radicalized Vietnam­ese Students after They’ve Seen Red Paris, 1917-1940,” Rutgers University Center for Historical Analy­sis, 9 April, 1991

“The Politics of Culture: The Case of Georges-Henri Rivière and the Museum of French Culture,” New York Area French History Seminar, 8 April, 1991

“The Civil War over French Culture: The Popular Front, the Surrealists, Vichy,” Society for French Histori­cal Studies, Vancouver, 21 March, 1991

“Le Projet culturel de Vichy de Christian Faure: une critique,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 12 December, 1991

“The Politics of Pluralism in Comparative Perspective,” Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Ethnographical Institute, Budapest, September, 1990

“`Enough and as Good:’ American Land in Locke’s Political Philosophy,” Conference on the Third Centenary of the Publication of the Two Treatises of Government sponsored by the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke, the British Society for the History of Philoso­phy, the Sub­faculty of Philosophy, and Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford, 5 September, 1990

“National Identity and Modern Memory: the Case of France,” Conference of the Rutgers Center for His­torical Analysis, March, 1990

“On the Intersection of Art and History,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Colum­bus, Ohio, March, 1990. Comments on papers

“The Debate over French National Identity in French social science and politics, 1920-1940,” New York Univer­si­ty, November, 1989

“Whose Heritage? The Politics of French Folklore from the P­o­p­u­lar Front to Vichy,” Western Society of French History Annual Meeting, New Or­leans, October, 1989

“The Simulation of the Colonial Empire at the Paris International Colonial Exposition, 1931,” French Colonial Historical Society, Fort-de-France, Marti­ni­que, May, 1989

“Old France: Conservative French Anthropology in the Interwar Years,” Second Annual History of Life Sciences Lecture Series of the Wangensteen Histori­cal Library, Univer­sity of Minne­sota, May 1988

“The State in the Service of Social Science: The Eth­nographic Politics of Louis Marin, 1920-1944,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Stud­ies, Columbia, South Carolina, March, 1988

“Images of French Colonialism: the Colonial Exposition of 1931,” Western European Studies Center and Depart­ment of History, University of Minnesota, May 1988

“The Ralliement Reconsidered: Religion and Social Coali­tions in the Third French Republic,” American Histori­cal Associa­tion Annual Meeting, Washing­ton, D.C., Decem­ber, 1987

“Louis Marin and the Le Playist Tradition of Les Sciences Humaines,” History of Science Society Annual Meet­ing, Raleigh, NC, October, 1987

“Lessons Learned at the Colonial Exposition of 1931: the Efforts of the Colonial Students to Disrupt the Show,” French Colonial Historical Society, South Bend, Ind., May, 1987

“Labor Peace and Tariffs,” Western Society for French History, Baltimore, 1986

“The Exhaustion of Social History?” Rochester Univer­sity, 1986

“Strategies for Labor Peace in the Early Third Republic,” Fifth International Conference of Europeanists,­ Washington, D.C., 1985

“John Locke on America,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium­ Series, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1985

“The Social History of Third Republic Tariffs,” Con­fer­ence of the Society for French Historical Studies, Uni­ver­sity of Indiana, 1984

“Protection against Labor Troubles: Establishing Social Peace in the Third Republic,” Stanford Univer­sity, 1983

“The Debate about the Uniqueness of German History Looked at Comparatively: Across the Rhine,” Seventh Annual Con­ference, German Studies Associa­tion, Madison, Wiscon­sin, 1983

“The Second Founding of the Third Republic,” American Historical Association Meeting, Los Angeles, 1981

“Labor History without Business History: One Hand Clap­ping?” Columbia University Seminar in the History of the Working class, 1981

FORTHCOMING (Books)

Book on transformation of eight museums in Paris to reposition the national heritage discoures (maybe I’ll have a draft in late 2009)

“To Preserve a Certain Idea of the Cultural Heritage.”

(Short book on the founding and workings of the Mission du Patrimoine Ethnologique of the French Ministry of Cul­ture, 1979-82)

“John Locke on America”

(Book-length study of the role of “America” in John Locke’s social and political thought)