British Parisians and London French: Living, Loving, and Lingering in the Neighbour’s City
Séminaire et table ronde organisés avec le soutien de l’Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, University of Westminster, University of Birmingham et la University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture
A seminar and public event that considers the who, when, why and how the British make their home in Paris and the French become Londoners, historically and today. For centuries, and in significant numbers in contemporary Paris and London, the British and the French have crossed the Channel for short, long and indefinite stays in their neighbouring capital cities. These Parisian British and London French citizens occupy a very particular place in the wider native and migrant compositions of the Paris and London metropolises. This afternoon seminar and early evening public event consider the diverse experiences of the British and the French who made, and continue to make, that crossing to the other’s city. It examines aspects of when, why and how they make their lives there, and what happens when they do. These British Parisian and London French lives incarnate the symbiosis between London and Paris which endures and which transcends the political weather. Speakers and participants are drawn from a range of specialists on Franco-British cultural relations, and from those currently engaged in making a life and a home in the neighbour’s city. (more…)
