Conference Catherine Desbarats “Where is New France?” (12/02/2014)

This conference was held on February 12, 2014 at the Universite Paris Diderot, as part of Allan Potofsky’s seminar “La France en Amerique, XVIIe-XVIIIe siecles”. In his opening remarks, Allan Potofsky introduced speaker Catherine Desbarats from McGill University (Montreal) Catherine Desbarats then started off with what she called an “almost silly sounding question”: “Where is New France?” Where is New France? Decolonizing History Catherine Desbarats started by pointing out that the present te...