Dr Juliette Desportes Presents Research on Rural Protest and Highland Resistance in Paris
Our Dr Juliette Desportes was in Paris last week to deliver two talks at Paris Sorbonne Université (Paris IV), discussing her research and current, Leverhulme Trust funded project, Landscapes of Protest.
Last week our Dr Juliette Desportes was in Paris where she gave two talks at Sorbonne Université. Juliette first spoke with Masters and PhD students at the Centre Roland Mousnier (on Tuesday 10 March at the seminar 'Lumières et révolutions du long dix-huitième siècle' about archival research and the methodological approaches to the study of rural protest.
On Thursday 12, Juliette then gave a talk at the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire entitled 'On the path of the Highland small tenant', where she shed light on the various roads taken to oppose or thwart estate 'improvement' in the mid eighteenth century.
Basing the talk on research conducted during her PhD, Juliette also used this opportunity to introduce her new research project, Landscapes of Protest, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and investigating resort to protest across the region between 1750 and 1820 alongside Iain Robertson and Carl Griffin. You can follow the project through their website and regular blogs, Landscapes of Protest.