TALBOT CHARLES IMLAY Département des sciences historiques Université Laval Pavillon Charles-De-Koninck, bureau 6245 Québec, QC Canada G1K 7P4 (418) 656-2131 ext. 2771 talbot.imlay@hst.ulaval.ca ACADEMIC POSITION Université Laval: Faculty member of the Département des sciences historiques since 2000 EDUCATION Harvard University: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs), 1998-2000 Yale University: Ph.D. History, 1998 University of Toronto: M.A. History, 1989 B.A. History, Political Science and French, 1988 PUBLICATIONS Books The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914-1960. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2018). The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during the Second World War: Ford France, Vichy, and Nazi Germany, written with Martin Horn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning under Uncertainty, edited with Monica Duffy Toft (London: Routledge, 2006) Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Articles in scholarly journals The German Side of Things: Recent Scholarship InSon the German Occupation of France, French Historical Studies, vol. 39, no. 1 (February 2016), 183-215. The Practice of Socialist Internationalism during the Twentieth Century, Moving the Social - Journal of Social History and of Social Movements, vol. 55 (2016), 17-38.
Résistance ou collaboration de l industrie automobile française pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: le cas de Ford SAF, Vingtième Siècle. Revue d histoire, vol. 125 (January-March 2015), 45-60. The policy of social democracy is self-consciously internationalist : The SPD s Internationalism after 1945, Journal of Modern History, vol. 86. no. 1 (2014), 81-123. International Socialism and Decolonization during the 1950s: Competing Rights and the Post-Colonial Order, American Historical Review, vol. 18, no. 4 (2013), 1105-1132. Exploring What Might Have Been: Parallel History, International History, and Post-War Socialist Internationalism, International History Review 31 (2009), 521-557. A Success Story? The Foreign Policies of France s Fourth Republic, Contemporary European History 18 (2009), 499-519. Correspondance: Debating British Decisionmaking toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s, with Andrew Barros, International Security 34 (2009), 173-198. Preparing for Total War: Industrial and Economic Preparations for War in France between the two World Wars, War in History 15 (2008), 43-71. Democracy and War: Political Regime, Industrial Relations, and Economic Preparations for War in France and Britain up to 1940, Journal of Modern History 79 (2007), 1-47. Total War in Journal of Strategic Studies 30 (2007), 547-570. The Origins of the First World War, Historical Journal 49 (2006), 1253-1271. Mind the Gap: The Perception and Reality of Communist Sabotage of French War Production during the Phony War, 1939-40 in Past & Present, no. 189 (November 2005), 179-224. Thinking about War: French Financial Preparations and the Coming of the Two World Wars, with Martin Horn, International History Review vol. 27, no. 4 (2005), 709-753. A Reassessment of Anglo-French Strategy during the Phony War, 1939-1940 in English Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 481 (June 2004), 333-372. Paul Reynaud and France s Response to Nazi Germany, 1938-1940 in French Historical Studies, vol. 26, no. 3 (2003), 498-538. From Villain to Partner: British Labour Party Leaders, France and International Policy during the Phony War, 1939-40 in Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 38, no. 4 (2003), 579-596. ii
Anglo-French Economic Intelligence and Strategy during the 'Phony War' in Intelligence and National Security 13 (1998), 107-132. Book chapters Marceau Pivert and the Travails of an International Socialist in Stefan Berger and Sean Raymond Scalmer, eds., The Transnational Activist (London: Palgrave, 2017), 141-164. Socialist Internationalism after 1914 in Glenda Sluga, Patricia Clavin and Sunil Amrith, eds., Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 213-241. Shades of Collaboration: The French Automobile Industry under German Occupation, 1940-1944 in Hans Otto Frøland, Mats Ingulstad and Jonas Scherner, eds., Industrial Collaboration in Occupied Europe: Norway in Context (London: Palgrave, 2016), 161-186. Western Allied Ideology, 1939-1945 in Richard Bosworth and Joseph Maiolo, eds., Cambridge History of the Second World War, vol. II Politics and Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 43-67. Strategy, Command and Tactics, 1937-1941 in Thomas Zeiler, ed., A Companion to the Second World War (London, Blackwell, 2013), 415-432. Politics, Strategy and Economics: A Comparative Analysis of British and French Appeasement in Frank McDonough, ed., The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective (London: Continuum, 2011), 262-277. Strategic and Military Planning, 1919-39 in Imlay and Toft, eds., Fog of Peace and War Planning, 139-158. The Paris Connection: Britain, France and the Making of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1938-1939 in William Philpott and Martin Alexander, eds., Anglo-French Relations between the Wars, 1919-1940 (London: Macmillan, 2002), 92-120. Retreat or Resistance: Strategic Reappraisal and the Crisis of French Power in Eastern Europe, September 1938 to August 1939 in Kenneth Mouré and Martin Alexander, eds., France Since the First World War: Crisis and Renewal (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001), 105-131. Appeasement, with Paul M. Kennedy in Gordon Martel, ed., The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (London: Unwin Hyman, 2nd edn. 1999), 116-134. France and the Phony War in Robert Boyce, ed., The Decline and Fall of a Great Power: French Foreign Policy and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 (London: Routledge, 1998), 261-282. iii
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (since 2007) October 2017, Clarence Streit, Union Now and a Federation of the North Atlantic Democracies, conference on Democracy and Difference: The Delicate Art of Decency, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. July 2015, Reinserting the Germans into the History of Occupied France, plenary session, colloquium, France and the Second World War in Global Perspective, 1919-45, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. April 2014, The Internationalism of French Socialists, Society for French Historical Studies, Montréal, Canada. September 2012, Socialism and Internationalism, Deutscher Historikertag, Mainz, Germany. May 2012, Assessing Claims of Under-Production in the French Automobile Industry during the War, 1940-1944, workshop on Industry in Occupied Europe, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. July 2011, The Role of Time in Strategic Thinking», Calgary Workshop on the History of Strategy, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. March 2011, Historical and Political Science Approaches to International Relations: Prospects and Problems, participant in a round-table at the annual congress of the International Studies Association, Congrès, Montréal, Canada. November 2010, The Practice of Socialist Internationalism during the Twentieth Century, Workshop, Dimensions of Socialism, Amsterdam. May 2010, Construction and Deconstruction of a Transnational Identity: The Case of European Socialists after 1945, Inter-disciplinary conference organized by DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst), Grenzen und Grenzgänge(r), Berlin, Germany. November 2008, The SFIO, European Socialists, and Reparations after 1918, Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Québec, Canada. October 2008. Presentation at the Analogies of Appeasement Workshop, International Security Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT. July 2008, American Assets in Occupied France: The German View, Society for the Study of French History Annual Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales. October 2007, The Socialist Internationalism of the SPD after 1945, German Studies Association, San Diego, California. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 2013-2015: Editor of the journal Études internationales, an inter-disciplinary journal published quarterly by the Institut québécois des hautes études internationales at the Université Laval. 2010-2013: Member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada s history committee for the awarding of standard research grants. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES 2007-2010 and 2012-2013: Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at the Université Laval. iv
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS 2006-2009: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, research grant. Project: American Business in Occupied France, 1940-45. Principal researcher: Martin Horn, McMaster University. Amount: $40,000 CDN. 2006-2007: Humboldt Research Fellowship. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2006-2007. 2005-2008: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, research grant. Project: Socialist Internationalism: Cooperation and Conflict between the British, French and German Socialist Parties on International Issues during the Twentieth Century. Principal Researcher: Talbot Imlay. Amount: $75,000 CDN. 2004: Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Honourable Mention for the best book in non- Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association. v