Programme colloque « The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet » 30 et 31 mai 2012
Organisé conjointement par l’Université Paris Diderot et l’Université Paris 8-Vincennes
Avec le soutien de Redehja, la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, les équipes LARCA (Paris Diderot) et Transferts critiques et dynamiques des savoirs (Paris 8-Vincennes), l’Institut des Amériques (Paris)
Organisation : Marie-Jeanne Rossignol et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Anne-Claire Faucquez et Louisiane Ferlier
Lieu : Institut des Amériques, rue du Chevaleret, Salle Tocqueville
Thursday May 30, 2013
9h30-11h Panel 1“The French Origins of Anthony Benezet” Moderator Bernard Cottret, émérite Université Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines
Bernard Douzil, doctorant, Paris I
« La filiation vaunageole d’Anthony Benezet »
Didier Boisson, Université d’Angers
« Être protestant en Vermandois et en Thiérache au XVIIIe siècle »
Jeanne-Henriette Louis, émérite Université d’Orléans
"William Penn, Philadelphie, Antoine Bénézet, et Congénies"
11h15-12h15 Plenary lecture Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, University Paris 8-Vincennes
“"Was Anthony Benezet a Huguenot? Putting Benezet back into the Refuge"
12h15-14h00 Lunch
14h-16h Panel 2 “American Quakers and Benezet” Moderator Geoff Plank, University of East Anglia
Anne-Claire Faucquez, Université Paris 8-Vincennes
« Neau, Benezet and the Establishment of African Schools»
Richard Allen, University of Wales
“Nantucket Quakers and Wales and Revolutionary Wars”
Sue Kozel, Kean University, NJ
“Following in the Footsteps of Anthony Benezet: One NJ Quaker’s Pursuit of Abolition and a “Natural Right to Liberty” for African-Americans, 1772-1793”
Jerry Frost, Swarthmore College
« Anthony Benezet: The Emergence of a Weighty Friend »
16h-16h15 Break
16h15-17h45 Panel 3 « Spiritual and Literary Dimensions of Benezet’s works » Moderator Hubert Bost, EPHE
David Crosby
"Anti-Slavery as Spritiual Renewal: How Benezet's Peace Witness Drove his Campaign against Slavery,"
Geoff Plank, University of East Anglia, Norwich
“John Woolman, Anthony Benezet and True Gospel Nothingness”
Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, London
« Anthony Benezet’s Sentimental Rhetoric”
Reception Institut des Amériques
Friday, May 31, 2013
9h30-10h30 Plenary lecture, Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University
“Let this Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet –Founding Father of Atlantic Abolitionism”
10h45-12h45 Panel 4 Benezet and the World of Books, Moderator Robert Mankin, University Paris Diderot
John Anderies, Haverford College (PA, USA)
“The Literary Universe of Anthony Benezet”
Louisiane Ferlier, Université Paris Diderot
“The circulation of Quaker books against slavery : a transatlantic passage » »
Randy Sparks, Tulane University
“This Precious Book”:Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet’s Account of Guinea”
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot
“The Translations of Benezet’s works in French”
12h45-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h00 Plenary lecture Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
“From Benezet to Black Founders: New Directions in Atlantic Abolition”.
15h00-16h45 Panel 5 Benezet and Transatlantic Reform Moderator Randy Sparks, Tulane University
Jonathan D. Sassi, College of Staten Island CUNY
“Anthony Benezet and Emancipation in New Jersey, 1772-1775: A Colonial Political Campaign in its Trans-Atlantic Context”
Ellen Ross, Swarthmore College, PA
“War, Peace and Social Reform in the Work of Anthony Benezet”
John Kershner, University of Birmingham, England
'To meditate awhile on this subject:' John Woolman's (1720-1772) Reading of Anthony Benezet's (1713-1784) A Caution and Warning to Great Britain
16h45-18h Panel 6 The Abolitionist Legacy of Anthony Benezet Moderator Allan Potofsky, University Paris Diderot
Nine Reid-Maroney, Huron University College at Western London, Ontario
“Benezet’s Ghost: Revisiting the Antislavery Culture of Benjamin Rush’s Philadelphia”
Lucia Bergamasco, Université d’Orléans
“After Benezet: St George Tucker’s Proposals and Questionnaire”
18h-19h Book club
Brycchan Carey and Geoff Plank will present their new books on Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and other Quakers, and answer questions
Brycchan Carey, From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761, Yale University Press, 2012
Geoff Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
19h30
Dinner for the participants