OLIVIER WIEVIORKA

“AUTHORS ON TOUR” PROGRAM - NON-FICTION LIST — 2012
OLIVIER WIEVIORKA
dates
October 25– November 11
WIEVIORKA is a professor of
contemporary history at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure of Cachan and a senior fellow of
the Institut Universitaire de France
specialized in Second World War History
and France under occupation.
OLIVIER
Born in 1960, he has studied at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure of Saint-Cloud. Agrégé
in history, he graduated from Paris I
Sorbonne (PhD) and the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris (habilitation à diriger les
recherches).
He is the author of nine books, among them:
Une Certaine idée de la Résistance (19401949) (Le Seuil, 1995/2010), Les Orphelins
de la République. Itinéraire des députés et
sénateurs français (1940-1945) (Le Seuil,
2001, translation Harvard University Press),
Nous entrerons dans la carrière. De la Résistance à l’exercice du pouvoir (Le Seuil, 1994), Histoire du
Débarquement en Normandie (Le Seuil, 2007 translation Harvard UP, 2008).
His latest book La Mémoire désunie: Le souvenir politique français des années sombres, de la Libération à nos
jours, (Le Seuil, 2010) has just been released by Stanford University Press under the title Divided Memory:
French Recollection of World War II from the Liberation to the Present.
Wieviorka is editor-in-chief of Vingtième siècle. Revue d’histoire and is on the editorial board of L’Histoire and
other European reviews.
selected bibliography
Books in English
 Divided Memory: French Recollections of
World War II from the Liberation to the
Present, Stanford University Press, 2012.
 Orphans of the Republic: The Nation's
Legislators in Vichy France, Harvard
University Press, 2009.
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Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation
of Paris, Harvard University Press, 2008.
Surviving Hitler and Mussolini. Daily life in
occupied Europe, (dir. W/ R. Gildea and A.
Waring), Berg publishers, 2006.
Books in French
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Anne-Sophie Hermil, Tel: 212 439 1467 |[email protected]
“AUTHORS ON TOUR” PROGRAM - NON-FICTION LIST — 2012
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La Mémoire désunie : Le souvenir politique
des années sombres, de la Libération à nos
jours, Seuil, 2010
Histoire du Débarquement en Normandie.
Des origines à la libération de Paris. 19411945, Le Seuil, 2007
Les Orphelins de la République. Destinées
des députés et sénateurs français. 19401945, Seuil, 2001
Vichy 1940-1944 (W/ JP. Azéma), Perrin,
1997
Une certaine idée de la Résistance : Défense
de la France , Seuil, L'Univers historique,
1995
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Nous entrerons dans la carrière. De la
Résistance à l'exercice du pouvoir, Seuil,
1994
La France du XXème siècle, documents
d'histoire (W/ C. Prochasson), Seuil, 1994
Méthode pour le commentaire et la
dissertation historiques (w/ V. Milliot),
Nathan, 1994
Les Libérations de la France (W/-JP.
Azéma), La Martinière, 1993
lectures offered
in French/English
- Presentation of his book "Divided Memory"
- D Day reconsidered
- The French resistance
- The Legacy of resistance in French political life
about the book
Divided Memory
French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present,
Stanford University Press, 2012.
(Translated by George Holoch)
France's experience of World War II was not primarily one of armed conflict, but
rather of occupation, collaboration, resistance, and persecution. Since the end of
the war, France has struggled with how to understand and remember that
experience. In Divided Memory, Olivier Wieviorka recounts the role that the
memory of the Occupation and the Resistance has played in shaping the sense of
the past held by various segments of French society. He explores the way in which
memory can focus political and social conflict. Each administration since the war
has taken a different approach to responding to these memories and has
attempted to steer public opinion through them. Charles de Gaulle tried to
overwrite Vichy's collaboration by promoting the story of a French military
victory over Germany. Others focused on memorializing victims or attempted to
forget this painful time altogether. Wieviorka shows that, disparate as they are,
none of these approaches have worked, and France remains divided by its
memories of resistance and collaboration.
If you would like to invite this author, please fill out the application form and email it to:
Anne-Sophie Hermil, Tel: 212 439 1467 |[email protected]