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The Society for French Historical Studies confers the David H. Pinkney Prize for the best book in French history published by a citizen of the United States or Canada or by an author with a full-time appointment at a college or university in one of those countries. For this year's competition, only books published in 2018 will be considered; submissions in advance of publication are ineligible, as are edited works. The application deadline is December 15, 2019. The winner, who receives $1,500, will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Publishers should send a copy of each book to every member of the committee, whose addresses will appear on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize is awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies with the financial support of its Institut Français d'Amérique fund. It recognizes the best book published by a North American press in the history of French-American relations or the comparative history of France and North, Central, or South America. Books focusing on any historical period or type of history qualify for consideration. Critical editions of significant source materials, as well as books translated into English, are eligible. The winner, who receives $1,000, will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. For this year's competition, books must be published in 2018, and the application deadline is December 15, 2019. Publishers should send a copy of each book to every member of the committee, whose addresses will appear on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies awards the William Koren Jr. Prize for the most outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar in an American, European, or Canadian journal. For this year's competition, the committee will seek out and consider articles published in 2019. The winner, who will receive $1000, will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Please direct inquiries to the chair of the committee, whose address will appear on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offer an annual award of $2,000 for research on any aspect of the history of France to be conducted outside North America. This award is intended to help an outstanding scholar from the United States or Canada prepare work for publication. For this year's competition, only scholars who have been granted their PhDs since January 2015 are eligible. The award must be spent within one year of its bestowal. To apply, please submit the following as email attachments to the chair of the committee: (1) a proposal (not more than two double-spaced pages) outlining the nature and scope of the project, as well as the archives and libraries to be consulted; (2) a current curriculum vitae. The applicant should also arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation supporting the proposal to be sent electronically to the committee chair. The application deadline is February 15, 2020, and the winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Inquiries may also be directed to the chair of the committee, whose address will be available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies offers the Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Awards to support two outstanding in-progress dissertation projects on any period of French history by students enrolled in a doctoral program at a university in the United States or Canada. These awards of $5,000 each are possible thanks to the generous donations of the family, friends, and colleagues of the Farrars. For one of the awards, the committee will give strong preference to studies that relate the history of France to another European country or part of the world. To apply, please submit the following as email attachments to the chair of the committee: (1) a proposal (not more than two double-spaced pages) outlining the nature and scope of the project, as well as the archives and libraries to be consulted; (2) a current curriculum vitae. The applicant should also arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation supporting the proposal to be sent electronically to the committee chair. The application deadline is February 15, 2020, and the winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Inquiries may also be directed to the chair of the committee, whose address will be available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies confers the Natalie Zemon Davis Award for the best paper presented at its annual meeting by a graduate student enrolled in a doctoral program in the United States or Canada. Next year's competition will consider presentations at the SFHS meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, July 7–10, 2020. To apply, send the paper (no longer than fourteen pages double-spaced, including all appropriate citations and bibliographical material) as an email attachment to the chair of the committee by the application deadline, August 20, 2020.The winner will be announced at the following annual meeting. Inquiries may also be directed to the chair of the committee, whose address will be available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies, supported by its Institut Français d'Amérique fund, offers two research fellowships (up to $1,500 per award) for maintenance during research in France for a period of at least one month. Eligible applicants include students currently working on their doctoral dissertations and PhDs who have received their terminal degree within three years of the application deadline. These awards may not be used for travel to or from France. The proposed fields for research may include all areas of French historical and cultural studies. The two awards will be named in alternating years the Gilbert Chinard Fellowship or the Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship for the first award, and the Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship or the Catherine Maley Fellowship for the second award. The Chinard/Rorison Fellowship will support research in all areas of French historical and cultural studies. The Morot-Sir/Maley Fellowship will give preference to young scholars working in a broadly defined field of cultural history, art history, or literary studies. To apply, please submit the following as email attachments to the chair of the committee: (1) a one- to two-page proposal outlining the nature and scope of the project and the archives and libraries to be consulted; (2) a current curriculum vitae. The applicant should also arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation supporting the proposal to be sent electronically to the committee chair. Inquiries may also be directed to the chair of the committee, whose address will be available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes. The winners will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. The application deadline is February 15, 2020.The Society for French Historical Studies announced the winners of its prizes, awards, and fellowships for 2018 at its annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.The David H. Pinkney Prize was awarded to Mack Holt for The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Venus Bivar received an honorable mention for Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize was awarded to Eric Jennings for Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018). Francesca Lidia Viano received an honorable mention for Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).Kathleen Pierce won the William Koren Jr. Prize for “Scarified Skin and Simian Symptoms: Experimental Medicine and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17, no. 2 (2018).The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offered the Research Travel Award to Ian W. Merkel (University of Turin) for his project “Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Rethinking of the French Social Sciences.”The Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Memorial Awards were offered to Charles Bégué Fawell (University of Chicago) for his project “In-Between Empires: Transit and Sovereignty along the Maritime Highways of the French Empire, c. 1870–1920” and to Jakob Burnham (Georgetown University) for his project “Producing Pondichéry: The Social Origins of France's First Indian Colony, 1690–1730.”Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière (Harvard University) received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award for the best paper presented at the 2018 SFHS meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His paper was “To Turn an Eye Blind: Testimony and Human Property in the Illegal French Slave Trade.”The Institut Français d'Amérique Fund's Gilbert Chinard Research Fellowship was awarded to Jason Hong (Yale University) for “A Different Worldview: Francophone Literature, Monde, and the Resistance to the Universal.” Darcy Benson (Ohio State University) received the Institut Français d'Amérique Fund's Edouard Morot-Sir Research Fellowship for “Fighting in the Shadows: Communist Immigrant Communities and Resistance in France, 1930–1944.”All prizes, awards, and fellowships depend on the financial support of members and other friends of the SFHS. If you would like to donate to any of these prize funds, please visit the donation page on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/donations1.(Tribe “Oui Oui” was the local name for the French in nineteenth-century New Zealand.) In July 2020 to a theme of “France and beyond,” the first-ever joint meeting of the George Rudé Seminar and the Society for French Historical Studies Conference will be held in Auckland on the two campuses of the University of Auckland and Massey University, Albany. This joint meeting marks a departure from the norms of both societies while preserving and promoting the atmosphere and the intimacy of intellectual exchange nurtured and valued by both. It brings closer together chercheurs and scholars of French history and welcomes those members of the global fraternity of French historians to ally themselves to their colleagues in Auckland. Leading scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe will be keynote guests, and many American and international colleagues have already signaled their intention to attend.The organizers invite the submission of panels, roundtables, and individual papers (papers should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length) on any aspect of French history, medieval to contemporary. Areas of traditional French historical research will be featured alongside popular themes: citizenship in the medieval and early modern European world; the revolutionary period and its environmental impact on the Atlantic world; and changing approaches to French or Franco-British history in the New Zealander–Australasian and Pacific region in Oceania.Please submit proposals of 300 words per speaker and a biographical profile of 100 words. Panels will of course be welcome if the panelists are all committed to coming to New Zealand, but, due to the distance involved, it is expected that submissions will be mainly individual papers (which the organizers will assemble into panels by subject or theme). Comment will be by the audience, and we welcome volunteers who are willing and able to chair sessions. The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2019.Participants from North America must be members in good standing of the Society for French Historical Studies. Other scholars are warmly invited to join the society, although there is no obligation to do so.For other questions, and for information on travel and accommodation (that will continue to appear across 2019), please consult the conference site (www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/events/france-and-beyond/france-and-beyond_home.cfm) or contact one of the following: Tracy Adams, Copresident (t.adams@auckland.ac.nz); Kirsty Carpenter, Copresident (k.carpenter@massey.ac.nz); Joe Zizek, Treasurer (j.zizek@auckland.ac.nz).(Au dix-neuvième siècle, les indigènes de Nouvelle-Zélande appelaient les Français « les Ngāti Wīwī » [Tribu des « oui-oui »].) Nous avons le plaisir d'annoncer qu'en juillet 2020 se réuniront pour la première fois en Nouvelle-Zélande les membres du séminaire Georges Rudé et la Society for French Historical Studies. Ce colloque amènera à Auckland les chercheurs qui travaillent sur les grands problèmes de toutes les périodes de l'histoire de France. L'histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine seront au programme pendant ces trois jours de travail et d'étude. Nous accueillerons les historiens chevronnés, les professeurs et les doctorants et discuterons le rôle de l'histoire de la France et de la langue française dans le monde d'aujourd'hui au-delà des terres colonisées par la France.On trouve les traces des Français et de la culture française dans tous les coins de la terre et la Nouvelle-Zélande n'est pas en reste. On trouve aussi l'impact des évènements historiques qui se sont déroulés en France ou en Europe dans les bibliothèques et journaux du monde entier. Partout où se prenaient des décisions politiquement importantes, on entend le « oui oui » des Français. Auckland 2020 sera l'occasion de célébrer non seulement la réunion collégiale de ces deux grandes sociétés mais le début d'un chemin commun de recherche dépassant les cadres traditionnels de l'histoire et s'adressant aux Ngāti Wīwī du monde entier.Ce colloque invite des propositions de communications de vingt minutes, en français ou en anglais, sur tout aspect de l'histoire française et francophone, du Moyen Age à nos jours, pour le programme général. Nous acceptons des propositions de communications individuelles, ainsi que de tables rondes. Des projets de communications de 300 mots par communicant, accompagnés d'un profil biographique de 100 mots, comprenant le nom, l'institution et l'intitulé de poste, sont à envoyer à un des organisateurs (soit Kirsty Carpenter, Tracy Adams ou Joe Zizek) avant le 1er octobre 2019. Du fait que le colloque se tiendra en Nouvelle-Zélande nous invitons ceux qui souhaitent y assister à soumettre un projet de communication individuelle. Dans l'éventualité où des groupes peuvent assurer leur participation à Auckland, les panels préalablement constitués seront bien sûr pris en considération.Nous prions les participants d'Amérique du Nord de vérifier que leurs droits d'inscription auprès de la Society for French Historical Studies sont en règle. Les autres participants sont vivement invités à adhérer à la SFHS mais ne doivent pas s'y sentir obligés.Pour toute autre question générale, et des informations touristiques, veuillez consulter le site « France and Beyond » (www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/events/france-and-beyond/france-and-beyond_home.cfm) ou contacter les membres du comité d'organisation : Tracy Adams, Co-présidente (t.adams@auckland.ac.nz) ; Kirsty Carpenter, Co-présidente (K.Carpenter@massey.ac.nz) ; Joe Zizek, Trésorier (j.zizek@auckland.ac.nz).