Sue PeabodyDr. Sue Peabody, of WSU-Vancouver, will present an invited lecture, “Freedom: Law and Practice in the French Empire” on Thursday, April 7 at Florida State University, in advance of the conference: The Francophone Indian Ocean, The 2nd Annual Weider History Conference, 8 April 2016, Florida State University, Longmire Hall Room 201.

Co-sponsored by the FSU Department of History’s Institute on Napoleon & the French Revolution and the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, with the generous support of the Weider Foundation.

Commentators: Richard Allen, Framingham State University; Edward Alpers, UCLA; Sue Peabody, Washington State University Vancouver

Presenters: Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University; Kit Heintzman, Harvard University; Jane Hooper, George Mason University; Nathan Marvin, Johns Hopkins University; Laurie Wood, Florida State University – organizer and host

Chair: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University