Centres of Enlightenment in Global Context
Friday 20th June 2008
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"
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Saturday 21st June 2008
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 Mobility
Carla 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 discussion
John Robertson and Carla Hesse (chair John Christie)
Conveners: Stéphane Van Damme, Karen O’Brien, University of Warwick & John Christie, University of Leeds