Centres of Enlightenment Workshop
As part of the Global Cities of Enlightenment project, organised by Stephane Van-Damme, Karen O'Brien and John Christie, we are holding the following workshop.
At the Maison Francaise, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford www.mfo.ac.uk
Registration £20 (free to postgraduate students and to unwaged, but please pre-register for lunches)
To register: fill in the registration form
Any questions, contact K.E.O-Brien@warwick.ac.uk
Provisional Programme
Friday 20th June
11.45-1.00 Preliminaries: Stéphane Van Damme, Karen O’Brien and Rebecca Earle
Opening address: Charles Withers. `Geographies of Enlightenment'
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session 1: Is there an Enlightenment Franco-Centrisme?Antoine Lilti, `How Polycentric is the “Radical Enlightenment”?’
Céline Spector, `Is there a European Civil Society? Montesquieu’s Case’
Stéphane Van Damme, `Was the Parisian Enlightenment a Partisan Enlightenment?
3.30-3.45 Tea
3.45-6.00 Session 2: Decentering Enlightenment I - Atlantic circuits
Trevor Burnard, `The Crucible of Modernity: Kingston Jamaica and its White Inhabitants as a Centre of Enlightenment Values and Practices, 1745-80’
Sarah Knott, `The Patient’s Case in American Enlightenment’
James Delbourgo, “The Printer and the Virtuoso: Geographies of Skill and Atlantic Enlightenment”
Drinks
Saturday 21st June
9.30-10.30 Session 3: Provincialising the European Enlightenment - Borders and Frontiers
Antonella Romano `Rome, A Provincial Capital within an Enlightened World?’
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, `“Prophet in One’s Own Land”: Scientific Careers and Communication in End-of-Eighteenth-Century Transylvania’
10.30-11.30 Session 4: Decentering Enlightenment II: Indian and African Worlds
Kapil Raj, `Mapping Mankind from Calcutta in the late Eighteenth Century’
Catarina Madeira-Santos, `Enlightening Portugal, Enlightening Angola: Philosopher-Administrators and the Dynamics of Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century’
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-1.00 Session 5: Disputed Centres and Networks
John Christie, `Metropolitan Knowledge: London, Enlightenment and Dissent’
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, `The Disputed Centres and Networks of the “Républiquie universelle des francs-maçons”’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Session 6: Cultures of MobilityCarla Hesse, `Rousseau on the Move: French Itineraries, 1789-1800’
Daniel Carey, `The Mobility of Culture’
3.15-3.30 Tea
3.30 – 5.00 at the latest: Roundtable panel discussionJohn Robertson and Carla Hesse (chair John Christie)
Speakers and Chairs
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Ecole De Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales and Université de Nice
Trevor Burnard, Department of History, University of Warwick
Daniel Carey, Department of English, Galway, National University of Ireland
John Christie, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds
James Delbourgo, Department of History, McGill University
Rebecca Earle, Comparative American Studies, Warwick University
Carla Hesse, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Catarina Madeira-Santos, Centre d’études africaines, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Sarah Knott, Department of History, University of Indiana
Antoine Lilti, Department of History, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Karen O’Brien, Department of English, University of Warwick
Kapil Raj, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Antonella Romano, Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute
Céline Spector, Department of Philosophy, University of Bordeaux
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, Centre for Historical Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Stéphane Van Damme, Department of History, University of Warwick
Charles Withers, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh