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Raynal’s 'Histoire des deux Indes': Colonial Writing, Cultural Exchange and Social Networks in the Age of the Enlightenment

Thursday, 1 July 2010 to Saturday, 3 July 2010
Location: Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge

Thur 1 July
9.00 - 9.30	Registration & Coffee (Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College)
9.30 - 10.00	Welcome and Introduction
10.00 - 11.15	Session 1: Structures of knowledge in the Enlightenment Chair: Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge, UK) Daniel Gordon (University of Massachusetts, USA) Knowledge as a Social Network: From Diderot's Encyclopedia to Wikipedia Gianluigi Goggi (Università di Pisa, Italy) La seconde édition de l’Histoire des deux Indes et les deux réimpressions de 1774
11.15 - 11.45	Tea & Coffee (Foyer)
11.45 - 13.00	Session 2: Raynal, roots and routes Chair: Cecil Courtney (University of Cambridge, UK) Gilles Bancarel (Société d’Etude Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Béziers, France) Écriture et information : aux sources du réseau Kenta Ohji (Kyoto University, Japan) Raynal auto-complilateur: l’Histoire des deux Indes et le projet d’une histoire politique de l’Europe moderne
13.00 - 14.00	Sandwich Lunch (Foyer)
14.00 - 15.30	Session 3: Methods of writing history Chair: Karen O'Brien (University of Warwick, UK) Muriel Brot (CNRS, Paris, France) Le role des réseaux dans la composition de l''Histoire des deux Indes. L''exemple de la marine française dans l''édition de 1780. Ida Pugliese (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) From antagonism to a common fate: abbé Raynal and William Robertson Iris Montero Sobrevilla (University of Cambridge, UK) 'Le Printemps est leur unique saison’: how Raynal got to write about hummingbirds
15.30 - 16.00	Tea & Coffee (Foyer)
16.00 - 18.00	Session 4: Political networks and contexts Chair: Emma Spary (The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, UK) Ann Thomson (Université de Paris VIII, France) Religion, commerce and intrigue: abbé Demanet and his networks Antonella Alimento (Università di Pisa, Italy) Entre “rivalité d’émulation”’ et liberté commerciale: la présence de l’école de Gournay dans l’Histoire philosophique des deux Indes Ursula Haskins Gonthier (University of Birmingham, UK) Bougainville before Tahiti: negotiating savagery in colonial Canada
18.00	Exhibition of rare books (Newnham College Library)
19.00	Pre-dinner drinks (Newnham college gardens if fine/Senior Combination Room if wet)
19.30	Conference dinner; open to all (Newnham College Hall)

Fri 2 July
9.00 - 10.15	Session 5: Anthropology Chair: Istvan Hont (University of Cambridge, UK) Sylvana Tomaselli (University of Cambridge, UK) Stadial history and Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes Daniel Droixhe (University of Liege, Belgium) Quelle anthropologie dans les 'Deux Indes'? Arts premiers et ornementation corporelle
10.15 - 10.45	Tea & Coffee (Foyer)
10.45 - 12.45	Session 6: Colonial and anti-colonial perspectives Chair: Anthony Strugnell (University of Hull, UK) Susanne Greilich (Universität Regensburg, Germany) Et moi suis-je sur des roses? - L'Histoire des deux Indes entre l'historiographie espagnole, leyenda negra et discours anti-colonialiste Christian Donath (University of California, San Diego, USA) The mechanics of frictionless empire: colonization without coercion in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes Michel Brix (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Namur, Belgium) Diderot et la malediction de l’homme blanc Marco Platania (Goethe University, Germany) Le texte et son public: ruptures et continuité du discours colonial français entre XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (la quatrième édition de l’Histoire des deux Indes)
12.45 - 14.00	Buffet Lunch (Newnham College Hall)
14.00 - 15.30	Session 7: Commerce, sociability and slavery Chair: William St-Clair (University of London, Institute of English Studies, UK) Stéphane Pujol (Université de Paris X-Nanterre, France) Formes et figures de l'échange dans l'Histoire des deux Indes Peter Jimack (University of Glasgow, UK) Coconuts, spice and sugar: indolence, energy and social interaction in the HDI Anoush Terjanian (East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA) ‘Commerces’ and ‘esclavages’ in the Histoire
15.30 - 16.00	Tea & Coffee (Foyer)
16.00 - 17.30	Session 8: Receptions Chair: Gianluigi Goggi (Università di Pisa, Italy) Muriel Collart & Daniel Droixhe (University of Liege, Belgium) Échos des 'Deux Indes'. Presse, poésie, recueils d’anecdotes, encyclopédies Fredrik Thomasson (European University Institute, Stockholm, Sweden) Raynal and Sweden. Colonial aspirations and censorship in political turmoil Reinier Salverda (University College, London/Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden (NL)) Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes and Dutch colonialism: information, publication, critical debate and colonial reform in the Age of the Enlightenment
18.30	Reception (Heffer's bookshop, Trinity Street)
20.15	Dinner for invited guests only (Carluccio's restaurant, 1 Fisher Street)

Sat 3 July
9.00 - 10.30	Session 9: Transatlantic crossings Chair: John Leigh (University of Cambridge, UK) Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) Controverses transatlantiques: contenus, enjeux et impact international de la “Letter to the Abbé Raynal” (1782) de Thomas Paine Ginger Nally (NUI, Maynooth, Ireland) French translations of the U.S. State Constitutions and their transator, Louis-Alexandre, duc de la Rouchefoucault d’Enville Jennifer Tsien (University of Virginia, USA) Louisiana as a figment of the imagination: Raynal’s reflections on the Louisiana colony
10.30 - 10.45	Tea & Coffee (Foyer)
10.45 - 12.15	Session 10: Readings Chair: Andy Martin (University of Cambridge, UK) Georges Dulac (CNRS, Montpellier, France) Un protestant languedocien admirateur de Raynal: L’Histoire des deux Indes dans le fonds Louis Médard de Lunel (1768-1841) Philippe Barthelet (Paris) Raynal sous le feu de ses adversaires: l’exemple de Joseph de Maistre Tami Sarfatti (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Raynal's common reader: Bonaparte and his plans for an enlightened colony in Egypt
12.15	Round Table closing discussion Chair: Jenny Mander and Cecil Courtney (University of Cambridge, UK) Andrew Brown (Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, France) Daniel Gordon (University of Massachusetts, USA) Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) Anthony Strugnell (University of Hull, UK) Ann Thomson (Université de Paris VIII, France)
13.15 - 14.15	Sandwich Lunch (Foyer)
14.30	Private exhibition of Raynal editions (Cambridge University Library, Morison Room)
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