Professor of History Melissa Byrnes was part of a roundtable on “The State of the Field: European Urban History” at the Urban History Association Conference in Los Angeles. Her opening remarks focused on cities as imperial (and postcolonial) spaces, renewed emphasis on community agency, and the rich intersection of local and transnational histories.

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes presented a paper titled “French Anti-Salazarism in the 1960s: Allying against Imperial Violence” at the Global Consortium for French Historical Studies in Paris, organized on the theme of “Resistance.”

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes contributed to a published roundtable review of Jack Snyder’s book Human Rights for Pragmatists  for H-Diplo and the Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum. It can be read here.

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes co-led a workshop on “Building a Small Liberal Arts College History Department,” as well as a mentoring session for early career scholars interested in working at a small liberal arts college, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA). She is about to begin a term as co-chair of the AHA working group on small liberal arts colleges. She also currently serves on the AHA’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award committee.

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes convened a salon session, “Engaging the Public through French History,” at the Western Society for French History’s fiftieth-anniversary annual conference in San Francisco. She also chaired and commented on a session about “Managing Gender and Families in Mid-Twentieth-Century France.”