Meet Dr. Whalen

Conferences

“Geography and Gastronomic Tourism in Modern Burgundy” for the French Cultural Studies Seminar at the National Humanities Center in Chapel Hill, NC. 9/18/11

“Staging Terroir for Tourists” for the First European Food and Wine Tourism Conference in Pisa, Italy. 4/13-15/11

“Felicitous Disaster: The Phylloxera Epidemic and the French Wine Industry” for the Hagley Fellows Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE. 4/9/2011

“Whither the N/nation in Twentieth-Century French History” for the Society for French Historical Studies at the Citadel in Charleston, SC. 2/11/2011

“The Influence of Rural Tourism on French Geography” for the “Penser le développement du tourisme au XXe siècle” at the University of Rennes, Saint-Brieuc, France. 6/3-4/2010

“‘Le retour de la Mère-Folle’: Une culturel politique et festive” for the Commission d'Ethnologie et de Linguistique of the Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon, France. 5/26/2010

“Représentations et mise en scène du terroir viticole bourguignon… au Hameau du Vin” for Les vins de Bourgogne: une histoire des marchés, CHVV, Beaune, France. 4/18/2009

“Theoretical and Practical Geographies: Roger Dion and Gaston Roupnel on the Territories of Wine” for the Institut de Géographie, Paris, France. 1/28/2009

“The Cultural Politics of Carnival in Popular Front Dijon” for the International Society for Cultural History, Ghent University, Belgium. 8/27-31/08

“Mapping Tourism in Burgundy’s Wine Country” for the Vineyard Data Quantification Society, Colioure, France. 5/29-31/08

“Cyclotourism along Burgundy’s Routes des Vins for The International Association of Environment, Space and Place, Towson University, MD. 4/24-26/08

“Building an Honors First-Year Experience” for the Southern Regional Honors Council Conference, Birmingham, Alabama. 3/27-9/08

“Religious Counsel and Political Responsibility in the Parliament of 1628” Southern Historical Association, Myrtle Beach, SC 3/3/07


“From cuisine d'auberge to regional gastronomy in Twentieth-century Burgundy” for the Gastronomie et rayonnement touristique conference, Lyon, France. 12/5-7/06


“French Modernization, Economic Regionalism, and Gastronomical Festivals” for the Quantitative Gastronomy Society, Bordeaux, France. 5/26/06


“‘Insofar as the ruby wine seduces them’: Filling and Emptying Cellars in Interwar Burgundy” for the Vineyard Data Quantification Society, Bordeaux, France. 5/27/06



“Dijon’s Mère-Folle Carnival as Social Text and Theory” for the Society for French Historical Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL. 4/ 20-23/06


“Republican Regional Consumer Culture at the 1937 Paris Exposition” for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Atlanta, GA. 3/25-29/2006

‘The success of our cellars grows daily’: Selling Terroir in Interwar France” for the Second Interdisciplinary and International Wine Conference, Beaune, FR. 11/4/2005


The Culture of Wine Round Table Discussion” for the Second Interdisciplinary and International Wine Conference, Beaune, FR. 11/4/2005


“Staging Burgundian Terroir at the 1937 Paris International Exposition” for the Second Interdisciplinary and International Wine Conference, Beaune, FR. 11/5/2005


The Polemics of Folk Regionalism in Inter-war France,” for the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Stanford University, CA. 6/17-20/2005


Historical Imagination and Free Women of Color” for the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. 3/5/05


The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consumer Utopia” at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. 11/12/04



Wine, Gastronomy, and Tourism in Interwar Burgundy” for the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, France. 6/17-20/2004


Child Slavery in Contemporary France” for the International Conference on Child Slavery and Forced Labor, Avignon, France. 05/19-21/04


Rustic Modernism and Folk Identity” for the Cultural Memory in France Conference, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Tallahassee, FL. 10/30/03-11/1/03

Femmes de couleurs libres et l’imaginaire historique” for the French Colonial Society at Toulouse, France. 5/15-18/03


Paysans et civilisation française sous l’occupation allemande” for “Du Folklore à l’ethnologie… de 1936 à 1945,” Centre national d’Ethnologie Française, Paris, France. 3/20/03


Faux Feminism, Rural Idylls and National Identity in Inter-War France,” for the Northeast Modern Languages Convention, Boston, MA. 3/7/03

 

Slavery and the Politics of Suffering in Contemporary France” at the American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, IL. 1/5/03


Provincial Influences on the Annales Tradition” for the Social Sciences Historical Association Conference, St. Louis, MO. 10/26/02


The Development the Burgundian Appellation d’origine controlée” for The Culture of Wine Conference, Brock University, Ontario. 5/24/02


Free Women of Color in French Colonial North America” for the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, University of Toronto, Canada. 4/12/02


Le Régionalisme bourguignon de Gaston Roupnel” for Le temps des sciences humaines: Gaston Roupnel et les Années Trente in Dijon, France. 12/13/01


Vichy and the Cultural Project of Burgundian Regionalism” for the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. 3/9/01


Provincial Scholarship in Early Twentieth-Century France” for the Department of History Speaker Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. 12/2/99


The Identity of Burgundian Peasants and the Marketing of Regional Wines” for the Western Society for French History, Monterey, CA. 11/4/99


Hippolyte Taine's Racial Construction of French Jacobins” for the
Symposium on Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850, Charleston, SC. 2/27/99


L’épistemologie de l'Histoire de la Campagne Française.” Seminar presentation for the Institut de Géographie, Paris, France, 11/10/98.

“The Influence of Rural Tourism on French Geography”
for the “Penser le développement du tourisme au XXe siècle” at the University of Rennes, Saint-Brieuc, France. 6/3-4/2010

“Le Carnaval de Dijon (1635 et 1935)” for the Commission d'Ethnologie et de Linguistique of the Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon, France. 5/26/2010

“Représentations et mise en scène du terroir viticole bourguignon… au Hameau du Vin” for Les vins de Bourgogne: une histoire des marchés, CHVV, Beaune, France. 4/18/2009

“Theoretical and Practical Geographies: Roger Dion and Gaston Roupnel on the Territories of Wine” for the Institut de Géographie, Paris, France. 1/28/2009

“The Cultural Politics of Carnival in Popular Front Dijon” for the International Society for Cultural History, Ghent University, Belgium. 8/27-31/08

“Mapping Tourism in Burgundy’s Wine Country” for the Vineyard Data Quantification Society, Colioure, France. 5/29-31/08

“Cyclotourism along Burgundy’s Routes des Vins” for The International Association of Environment, Space and Place, Towson University, MD. 4/24-26/08

"Building an Honors First-Year Experience” for the Southern Regional Honors Council Conference, Birmingham, Alabama. 3/27-9/08