08:45-09:00 Coffee

09:00-09:30 Art Goldhammer | Introductory Remarks

09:30-11:15 Panel 1 | Revolutions

Stephen Sawyer and William Novak | Four Theses on the American and and French Revolutions

Richard Bell | The Unnatural Alliance: Anti-French Sentiment in the American Revolutionary War

François Furstenberg | French Intervention in the American Revolution: A Realist Interpretation

Gilles Montègre | Beaumarchais et Vergennes avant La Fayette : les origines secrètes de l’alliance franco-américaine à l’âge des révolutions

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:15 Panel 2 | Political Economy

Nicolas Barreyre | The French Alternative: France as a Financial Model for the Industrializing United States (Civil War to World War I)

Herrick Chapman and Lizabeth Cohen | Sister Republics Confronting Deindustrialization: France and the United States in the Late Twentieth Century

Sophie Meunier and Laurent Warlouzet | Invested in the Alliance: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Franco-American Relations

Teddy Paikin | Capitalism in America: Tocqueville, Chevalier, Say

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:45 Plenary Lecture: David Bell | Distorting Mirrors: France and the US in Each Other's Eyes

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:45 Panel 3 | History: Trade and International Relations

Iris de Rode | Beyond the Battlefield: The Multifaceted Franco-American Relationship During the American Revolution

Adam Lebovitz | Neptune's Trident: Free Trade, International Law and Submarine Warfare in the Age of Revolutions

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal | Monsieur Francklin, Accidental Judge: Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in the Franco-American Alliance (ca. 1780)

Manuel Covo | A Triangular Relationship in the Age of Revolutions: Haiti, France, and the United States

17:45 Reception at AUP

09:00-09:30 Coffee

09:30-11:00 Panel 4 | Theory

Flora Champy | Rousseau and Tocqueville: Is Liberalism Incompatible with Sovereignty?

Arthur Ghins | American French Liberalism

Gili Kliger | Claude Lévi-Strauss and the American Origins of French Structuralism

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45 Panel 5 | History: 20th century

Jim Kloppenberg | The Center-Left in France and the US

Patrick Weil | Georges Clemenceau, a political bridge between the American and the French republics (1865-1929)

Ludivine Broch | Materiality and Intimacy in France-American Friendship: The French Gratitude Train to Americans in 1949

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Plenary Lecture: Françoise Mélonio | Tocqueville, l’Amérique « au point de vue français »

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Panel 6 | History: 19th century

Sarah Maza | 'Aristocracy of the Skin':  Beaumont, Tocqueville, and American Racism

Olivier Zunz | Was Tocqueville at Gettysburg?

Yohanna Alimi-Levy | Filiation, Inheritance, and the Memory of Revolutions: The American Perception of the French Revolutions of 1830 and 1848