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CFP: Fifth Summer Academy of Atlantic History: “Connecting and Globalizing the Atlantic” Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain 28 September – 1 October 2017

In the past few years, historians of the Atlantic World have increasingly turned their interest toward North and South Atlantic relations and connections between Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific Worlds. Atlantic History has turned global – to some extent at least.

For the fifth Summer Academy of Atlantic History we invite applications from PhD students working on the history of the Atlantic World between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. While all projects pertaining to Atlantic History will be considered, we are particularly interested in applications on North and South Atlantic relations and comparisons and on Atlantic-Pacific connections.

 

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The fifth Summer Academy will be hosted by Prof Bartolomé Yun Casalilla of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain, PI of the Project “American Globalization” (HAR2014-53797-P). Born in Lima in 1740, Pablo de Olavide is a prominent figure of what we might want to dub the Atlantic Enlightenment.

As well as providing the selected students with an opportunity to present papers and engage in discussion with tutors and their fellow students on their research, the Summer Academy will also host keynote speakers who will address broad themes appertaining to Atlantic History.

Prospective student participants should send a CV and a summary (3-4 pages altogether) of their research projects to susanne.lachenicht@uni-bayreuth.de by 30 September 2016. Successful applicants will be notified by 31 October 2016.

Organizers and steering committee:

– Prof Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University, USA)
– Prof Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne, Australia)
– Prof Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway, Ireland)
– Dr Lauric Henneton (Univ. Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France)
– Prof Susanne Lachenicht (Univ. Bayreuth, Germany)
– Dr Ben Marsh (Univ. of Kent, UK)
– Prof Philip D. Morgan (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
– Prof L.H. Roper (SUNY New Paltz, USA)
– Prof Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (UPO, Seville, Spain)

Contact Info:

Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht

Chair of Early Modern History

Unievrsitaet Bayreuth

95440 Bayreuth

Germany

CFP: Fifth European Congress on World and Global History “Ruptures, Empires, Revolutions” (Budapest, 29 August – 2 September 2017)

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Under the congress’s general theme “Ruptures, Empires, Revolutions” and on the occasion of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, we seek to discuss the global context and repercussions of the revolution in particular while debating the role of revolutions in global history in general. In recent global history scholarship, the relationship between empire and revolution has been less explored than many other topics that became “globalised” over the past two decades. Furthermore, revolutionary upheavals have mostly been interpreted as caesuras in national histories and much less as being situated in global dynamics. Considering still influential narratives that give revolutions its rank primarily within national histories of nation building and social transformation, we encourage such views to be challenged through a comparative and global perspective on empires and imperial societies as well as on their revolutionary crisis. The chosen focus also has the potential to place centre stage as well as compare and explore the interconnectedness of uneven social and political change around the world, including both colonial as well as post-colonial settings. The congress will take place from 29 August – 2 September 2017 in Budapest.

Since the congress will be organised in panels of two or two and a half hours length, the steering committee of ENIUGH will choose paper proposals with a particular focus on their capacity to allow for fruitful discussions among the panelists.

We specifically look for paper proposals that complement and fill slots in already existing panels while also expanding the intellectual range of the conference’s programme. We particularly welcome proposals addressing the following topics:

  • Pre-1500 cross-cultural developments, ruptures and changes
  • Wars, violent transformation, and radical interventions in the distribution of ownership, in their connections to new orders
  • Comparative military history and the destructive effects of international and global connectivity
  • Connected histories of the South-East Europe
  • Revolution and empire in conceptualisations and methodologies of world and global history, for both teaching and research
  • Revolutions and the reordering of spatial configurations from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century
  • Connected histories of the Eastern Mediterranean and Arab world at large
  • Gendered perspectives on the theme of the conference
  • Internal peripheries between imperial arrangements and global markets
  • Colonial agricultural policies, African farmers and the development of the cooperative movement in Ghana and Sierra Leone (1920s-1950s)

This is only a selection of topics for papers presented at the congress. We are very much welcoming topics beyond this list as well.

Proposals: In addition to providing a name, affiliation and email, the proposal should include the title of the paper and an abstract (100 words).

Submission: All proposals must be received by 15 November 2016 and submitted electronically through the congress website: http://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/call-for-panels-submission/

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RESISTANCE IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT University of Sussex, 15th and 16th September 2016

 

PROGRAMME

All sessions will take place in Jubilee Building, room 144

Thursday 15th September

2:00-2:15

Iain McDaniel & Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)               Welcome & introductory remarks

2:15-3:45          Chair: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)

Sophie Nicholls (Oxford)                   Defending ‘la patrie’: theorists of resistance in the French Catholic League

Signy Gutnick Allen (York)              Early Modern Punishment and Resistance Rights

3:45-4:15            Coffee break

4:15-5:45               Chair: Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)

Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux)                The English rational dissenters and the duty of resistance

Reidar Maliks (Oslo)                          Resistance and revolution in late eighteenth-century Germany

7:30                      Dinner (venue tbc)

 

Friday 16th September

9:15–10:45        Chair: Andrew Chitty (Sussex)

Iain McDaniel (Sussex)                      Resisting the Demos? Resistance and Popular Sovereignty in early nineteenth-century Europe

Julia Nicholls (Oxford)                      The Boundaries of Resistance: Revolutionary Thought in Post-Revolutionary France

10:45-11:15          Coffee break

11:15-12:45         Chair: Joanne Paul (Sussex)

Tim Stanton (York)                            “and perhaps their Religion too”: resistance and religion from Locke to Barth

Caroline Ashcroft (Cambridge)          Resistance and the Limits of Nonviolence in Arendt’s Political Thought

12:45-1:45          Lunch break

1:45-4:00             Chair: Iain McDaniel (Sussex)

Louiza Odysseos (Sussex)                  Human rights and/as counter-conduct: resistance between limited political action and ‘illimitable’ ethical self-formation

Denis Chevrier-Bosseau (Sussex)       Contesting the Present: Nietzsche and Resistance in the Age of Whistleblowers

Lawrence Hamilton(Wits/Cambridge)     Resistance and Radical Democracy: Freedom, Power and Institutions

4:00-4:15             break

4:15-4:45            Concluding remarks led by Andrew Chitty (Sussex) and Joanne Paul (Sussex)

6e Journée d’études Patrimoine : Fonds Dubois 1688, The Glorious Revolution: continental and transatlantic perspectives

  1688, The Glorious Revolution:

continental and transatlantic perspectives

6e Journée d’études Patrimoine : Fonds Dubois

MIMMOC ; MSHS Poitiers (Axe 3), Fonds ancien SCD Poitiers,

le 7 avril 2016

 

10h : Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Panthéon-Assas) :

The Glorious Revolution in New York : a colonial experiment ?

10h30 : Steve Sarson (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III) :

A total contradiction to every principle laid down at the time of the Revolution”: The Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution

11h : Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Université de Poitiers) :

The Glorious Revolution from the Irish point of view : political and religious challenges.

11h30-12h00 : Questions

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Le 10 mai, Luc Borot (Professeur à l’université Montpellier 3, ancien directeur de la Maison française d’Oxford) fera une intervention sur “The societies of Britain through 2 revolutions: social changes, cultural changes, political and confessional issues“, UFR Lettres et Langues, Salle C O13

Organisée par S. Finding et E. Peyrol-Kleiber

Exposition virtuelle : L’Etat de l’Irlande 1640-1830

Dans les quelque neuf cents ouvrages en anglais du Service du Livre ancien de l’Université de Poitiers, cent soixante-deux traitent de l’Irlande. Ils ont été publiés entre 1643 et 1800. Une cinquantaine de ces ouvrages ont été sélectionnés pour l’exposition « L’état de l’Irlande 1640-1830 ». Ils traitent de sujets touchant à la politique économique et à l’économie politique et abordent des sujets variés, qui vont des décisions régulant l’imposition et la taxation au moment de la guerre civile en Angleterre entre parlementaires et royalistes (1643) à un traité sur les considérations sur l’état de l’Irlande au moment de l’incorporation politique (1801). Exposition Virtuelle

Crédits: Philippe Cauvet, Pascale Drouet, Susan Finding, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, enseigants-chercheurs en études anglophones à la Faculté des Lettres et Langues et membres des groupes de recherche MIMMOC et FORELL, Anne-Sophie Durozoy, Conservateur, Fonds ancien, Service commun de documentation, Université de Poitiers, ainsi que les étudiants du Master 2 esDoc.

Day Conference : Le témoin et l’écriture de l’histoire, Montpellier 3, 29 janvier 2016

JE : Vendredi 29 Janvier : Le témoin et l’écriture de l’histoire

Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Site Saint Charles (arrêt Albert 1er, Tram bleu)

 

9h15 : accueil

9h30-12h30

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot)

« The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity de William Wells Brown (1867) »

Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (Université Paris 8)

« Un pamphlet « noir » diffusé au cœur de la « Cité blanche » : les difficiles publication et diffusion de The Reason Why, ou comment un pamphlet majeur a failli ne jamais voir le jour »

Matthieu Renault (Université Paris 8)

« Lorenzo Greene : Une histoire des révoltes sur les navires négriers »

 

11h30-12h30


Claire Parfait (Université Paris 13)

« Histoire et militantisme : William Cooper Nell »

Michaël Roy (Université Paris 13)

« “[N]ot planned for the scholars” : Benjamin Quarles et l’écriture d’une histoire africaine-américaine grand public au temps des droits civiques »

 

14h-15h30


Nicolas Gachon (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

« Mémoire palimpseste et écriture de l’histoire : le cas John Ware (Gorée, 1807-1841) »

Claudine Raynaud (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

“Bearing Witness: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave (1850)”

 

15h45-17h


Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Paris II Assas-Panthéon)

« Comment reconstruire la présence africaine dans le New York du 17e siècle? Quelques pistes méthodologiques sur la spécificité des sources à la période coloniale »

Elodie Peyrol (Université de Poitiers)

« ‘Servant’ et ‘slave’ : difficultés de la terminologie employée dans les sources coloniales »

Lawrence Aje (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

« Écrire l’histoire des libres de couleur de Charleston, Caroline du Sud : difficultés terminologiques, obstacles archivistiques et enjeux épistémologiques »

 

Contacts : lawrence.aje@univ-montp3.fr ou claudine.raynaud@univ-montp3.fr

EMMA (EA 741), CREW (EA 4399), LARCA (EA 4214), Pléiade (EA 7338)

http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/

Journée d’études LE TRAVAIL CONTRAINT DANS LES AMÉRIQUES AVANT L’ABOLITION DE L’ESCLAVAGE, Poitiers, 16 octobre 2015

LE TRAVAIL CONTRAINT DANS LES AMÉRIQUES AVANT L’ABOLITION DE L’ESCLAVAGE

Vendredi 16 octobre 2015, MSHS, Université de Poitiers

9h30 – Accueil

AUX ORIGINES DU TRAVAIL CONTRAINT 10h-12h

Eric Tuncq (Université de Toulon), « Le travail contraint dans le Brésil hollandais (1624-1654) et la puissance publique, selon le Charolais Pierre Moreau (1651). Le non-transfert du droit et l’échec d’un contre-modèle ».

Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Paris II Assas-Panthéon), « Le travail contraint dans la colonie de New York au 17e siècle : entre la législation et la pratique ».

Anna Thiemann, (Université de Münster), « ‘White Slavery’ in Seventeenth-Century Barbados ».

12H-14H – PAUSE DEJEUNER

UN TRAVAIL CONTRAINT PROTEIFORME 14h-15h

Lawrence Aje (Université de Montpellier 3), « Une étude comparative du statut juridique des travailleurs non libres en Caroline du Sud (1670- 1865) ».

Augustin Habran, (Université Paris 7 Diderot), « L’Institution Particulière à l’Ouest : le Territoire Indien, un autre « État Sudiste » ? (1830-1861) »

15h-15h30 – PAUSE 15h30-16h

Denis Lamaison, (Université de Guyane), « Ni esclaves, ni libres : histoire des premiers engagés chinois de Guyane (1820-1835) ».

16H30-17H – CONCLUSIONS

 

Cfp Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

CALL FOR PAPERS

Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

A conference co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the University Paris Diderot, the University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the Institute of the Americas (France)

Organizing committee: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (Paris 8), Pierre Gervais (Paris 3), Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (president, Paris Diderot), Rahma Jerad (Carthage), William Slauter (Paris Diderot).

Program/Scientific Committee : Emma Hart (St Andrews), Allan Potofsky (president, Paris Diderot), Daniel K. Richter (McNeil Center, UPennsylvania) Oliver Scheiding (Mainz), Irmina Wawrzyczek (Lublin), Bertrand van Ruymbeke (Paris-8).

Principal Venue : University Paris Diderot Paris 7.

Dates : December 8-10 2016

 

The European Early American Studies association proposes to focus its 2016 meeting on the interrelated themes of Space, Mobility, and Power. In recent years, many scholars have adopted an Atlantic approach to the study of early modern empires. Whereas imperial history viewed power as flowing from metropolitan center to colonial periphery, focused on political institutions, affording little agency to non-white actors, Atlantic history has broadened our understanding of the dynamic process of early modern colonization.  Although the limitations of Atlantic history continue to be debated, the approach has undeniably focused attention on the mobility of peoples, commodities, and cultures, and revealed the multiple channels through which power and people flowed both within and among continental spaces. Indeed, its efficacy is demonstrated by recent work that re-evaluates some of the core topics of the old imperial history, including state formation, imperial government, political economy, religious communication networks, sovereignty, and European territorial expansion, to name a few examples.

One consequence of this process of pouring old wine into new bottles has been an enhanced focus on the connected issues of space, mobility, and power.  If political power did not flow from center to periphery, how did it function? How did the scale and character of the American landscape affect European claims to power over it? How did provincial and colonial agents in the New World relate to imperial centers of authority when traders, trappers, soldiers, slaves and missionaries, among others, were entangled in a complex and often conflictual relationship with Imperial-Atlantic decision-makers?  Did the European colonial experience in North America prompt Atlantic political and economic integration in the period of early globalization? What were the social problems created by the forced circulation of people and goods at the local and transnational levels? How was local production in certain regions linked to new forms of international exchange? We welcome proposals that address these questions or otherwise consider the interactions of space, mobility, and power in the history of early America and its relationship to the larger Atlantic world. Possible panel topics include:

–       The flow of wealth around the Atlantic

–       Degrees of unfreedom in the Atlantic world’s labour regimes

–       Migrations into, out of, and around the Atlantic World

–       Individuals and societies on the margins or outside of formal Atlantic empires

–       Interactions between agents of empire and others

–       Space, mobility, and power within and among indigenous polities

–       Mapping and documenting space

–       Contested spaces

–       The territorial limits of empire

–       The role of religion/religious networks in mobilizing space and power

–       Textual mobility and the traffic of books, letters, and documents

–     Censorship and other means of controlling the flow of ideas and information

–       Commerce and political diplomacy between republics and reformed monarchies

–       Merchant cultures and practices across the boundaries of empires

–       Cultural and linguistic cohesions within new political regimes

 

Dates:

1 December 2015:  Application deadline.  The application is to consist of three documents: a 300-400 word abstract of the paper; a 100 word biographical statement; and a 2-page (maximum) cv.  Please entitle each document with your last name, followed by eeasa2016.  For example: condorceteeasa2016.doc.  The conference address for submissions: eeasaparis2016@gmail.com

30 January 2016.  Response by the program committee.

15 November 2016.  Submission of the conference papers which will be precirculated in limited fashion.

8-10 December 2016: Conference, “Space, mobility, power in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850”.

Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
Maître de Conférences en histoire & civilisation des Etats-Unis

http://www.depa.univ-paris8.fr/spip.php?article1515

5th Day conference Dubois collection

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The 5th day conference will be held on 11th June 2015. The programme is as follows :

Politique économique dans l’espace atlantique, XVIe-XIXe siècles /

Political Economy in the Atlantic World, 16th-19th centuries

Matin  Moderator: Allan Potofsky (Université Paris-Diderot)

9h30 Anne-Sophie Durozoy (Curator, Poitiers University Library Rare Books Collection), Presentation of the Dubois collection.

10h      Stephanie Mercier (Université de Poitiers), “ ‘[A]nd consequently to honour, obey, feare and loue vs’ : Reading the transatlantic Renaissance – Early mercantile writers Malynes, Milles, Misselden, Mun.”

10h30  Simon Middleton (Sheffield University), “The influence of texts and contexts in Benjamin Franklin’s Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency     (1729).”

11h      Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Université de Poitiers), “The Dubois archives and Unfree Labor, 17th/18th centuries.”

11h30  Discussion

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Après-midi      Moderator : Simon Middleton (Sheffield)

14h      Daisy Gibbs (University College London), “The economics of grain: France and     Britain in Turgot, Tucker and Townshend’s political thought.”

14h30  Kristin Condotta Lee (Tulane University), “Establishing Overseas: Irish Merchants, Linen and Early New Orleans (1769 to 1820).”

15h      Susan Finding (Université de Poitiers), “Auguste Dubois bibliophile: collecting pamphlets on political economy 1900-1920.”

15h30  Discussion

 

Contacts : Susan Finding, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (MIMMOC, Université de Poitiers)

 

 

Journée d’études Les Catalogues #2, jeudi 19 mars 2015, Université de Poitiers

Les catalogues #2       Jeudi 19 mars 2015 10h / 17h  *Entrée libre

POITIERS Hôtel Fumé Salle des Actes
Faculté des Sciences humaines et arts
Université de Poitiers 8 rue René-Descartes

Journée d’études coordonnée par Véronique Meyer (CRIHAM) et Dominique Moncond’huy (Forell), dans le cadre de l’axe thématique Humanités, Culture, Patrimoine de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société de Poitiers.

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Éric Palazzo, professeur en Histoire de l’art (CESCM, Université de Poitiers)
Les catalogues de manuscrits enluminés

Patrick Michel, professeur en Histoire de l’art (IRHiS, Université de Lille 3)
Le catalogue de vente : formes, fonctions et utilisation pour l’étude du marché et des collections au XVIIIe siècle

Cécile Auzolle, maître de conférences HDR en Musicologie (CRIHAM, Université de Poitiers)
Réaliser un catalogue raisonné : le cas de Daniel-Lesur (1908-2002)

Susan Finding, professeure en Études anglophones (MIMMOC, Université de Poitiers)
Bibliophiles et catalogues : collections d’ouvrages d’histoire économique XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

Isabelle Gadoin, professeure en Études anglophones (Forell, Université de Poitiers)
L’étude de la constitution des collections d’art islamique dans l’Angleterre du XIXe siècle : l’apport du catalogue de l’Exposition londonienne ‘d’art arabe et persan’ de 1885

CFP: FIFTH DAY CONFERENCE ON THE FONDS DUBOIS Political Economy in the Atlantic World, 16th-19th centuries

livres-fonds-dubois.jpgCFP: FIFTH DAY CONFERENCE ON THE FONDS DUBOIS

Political Economy in the Atlantic World, 16th-19th centuries

MSHS Poitiers, Fonds Ancien SCD Poitiers

June 11th, 2015

Organized by Susan Finding and Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (MIMMOC)

(Appel à communication en français ci-dessous).

The University of Poitiers holds in its Manuscripts & rare books collections the prestigious Dubois collection essentially composed of works on political economy. It holds an impressive number of rare pamphlets published mainly from the second half of the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th. Assembled by August Dubois, Professor of Economic & Political Doctrine at the University of Poitiers, where the University Library (Law & Litterature) is the depository to this legacy. A number of works in the collection have been digitised for the virtual library on the first socialisms. Those documents are of particular interest for historians, philosophers, political scientists, economists, ethnologists and sociologists on themes such as the economics, political means, working conditions and the circulation of ideas and persons in Europe and in the Atlantic world more widely during the three centuries covered by the works contained in the collection. A large number of works in the Collection are in English, or published in the British Isles (see the online catalogue: Fonds Dubois: ouvrages en langue anglaise, traduits de l’anglais ou publiés en Grande-Bretagne [PDF – 439 Ko] ). This collection is unique in France.

We invite proposals both on the content and the form of this collection as well as the themes it covers. The exploration possibilities are numerous and several levels of analysis are at stake.

The contents of the Dubois Collection along with that of the Fonds d’Argenson (mainly containing personal papers of Count Marc-Pierre Voyer d’Argenson (1696-1764), Secretary of War under Louis XV, and his descendants):

The debates on the consequences of the 1701 Union (Scotland-England), the history of economic thought,  Irish history 18th century – beginning of the 19th century, Franco – British relationships during the 18th century, trade and diplomatic exchanges, the colonies.

The themes:   Economic crises, the value of currency, the expansion of credit, the evolution of trade,   industry and agriculture, trading power, money, intra-European and transatlantic exchanges.

The questions of:  Publishing and the circulation of knowledge, the history of the terminology and writing of economic English, the translations of economic works, learned libraries, bibliophiles, learned bibliography…

Proposals (200 words) should be sent to Susan.finding@univ-poitiers.fr and elodie.peyrol.kleiber@univ-poitiers.fr before April 15, 2015.

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Appel à communication 5E JOURNEE D’ETUDES PATRIMOINE : FONDS DUBOIS

Politique économique dans l’espace atlantique, XVIe-XIXe siècles

MSHS Poitiers, Fonds ancien SCD Poitiers,

Jeudi 11 juin 2015

Organisée par Susan Finding et Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (MIMMOC)

Le Fonds ancien de la BU de l’Université de Poitiers est dépositaire du prestigieux Fonds Auguste Dubois essentiellement composé d’ouvrages de politique économique, riche d’une quantité impressionnante de pamphlets rares publiés entre 1560 et 1830, collectés par Dubois, Professeur d’histoire des doctrines économiques et politiques à l’Université. Une première numérisation a eu lieu dans le cadre de la Bibliothèque virtuelle Les premiers socialismes. Ces documents sont d’un intérêt particulier pour les historiens, politologues, économistes, ethnologues et sociologues quant aux conditions de vie, aux questions économiques, aux moyens politiques, et à la circulation des idées en Europe et au-delà, au cours des deux siècles couverts par la collection. Un grand nombre de ces ouvrages sont des ouvrages en anglais, ou publiés dans les îles britanniques (voir catalogue en ligne : Fonds Dubois: ouvrages en langue anglaise, traduits de l’anglais ou publiés en Grande-Bretagne [PDF – 439 Ko]. Cette collection est unique en France.

Nous invitons des propositions de contributions sur le fond et la forme de cette collection et des questions qu’elle soulève. Les pistes d’exploration sont multiples et plusieurs niveaux d’analyse entrent en jeu.

Le contenu des ouvrages de la collection du Fonds Dubois, et de la collection d’archives parallèle Fonds d’Argenson (constitué principalement des papiers de la branche cadette de la famille, issue du comte Marc-Pierre Voyer d’Argenson (1696-1764), secrétaire d’Etat à la Guerre sous Louis XV) :

les débats sur les conséquences de l’Union de 1701 (Ecosse-Angleterre), les débuts de la pensée économique, l’histoire irlandaise 18e – début du 19e siècles, les relations franco-britanniques au 18e, les échanges commerciales et diplomatiques, les colonies…

Les thématiques :

les crises économiques, la valeur de la monnaie, l’expansion du crédit, l’évolution du commerce, de l’industrie et de l’agriculture, la puissance commerciale, l’argent – nerf de la guerre, les échanges intra-européens et transatlantiques.

Les questions de :

l’édition et la circulation des savoirs, l’histoire de la terminologie et l’écriture de l’anglais économique, les traductions de et vers l’anglais des ouvrages économiques, les bibliothèques savantes, les bibliophiles collectionneurs, la bibliographie érudite….

Les propositions (200 mots) sont à envoyer à Susan.finding@univ-poitiers.fr et elodie.peyrol.kleiber@univ-poitiers.fr avant le 15 avril 2015.

Cfp. Bound labor in the Americas before the abolition of slavery, Poitiers, October 16th, 2015.

One-day conference

Bound labor in the Americas before the abolition of slavery: legal codifications, transfers and the harmonization of the practices

Poitiers University, France, Friday October 16th, 2015 ***

From the 17th century onwards, the demographic and economic growth of the North American and Caribbean colonies was intricately linked to the introduction and subsequent exploitation of bound labor. The implementation of indentured servitude addressed the need to compensate for the scarcity of labor, after the relative failure of the enslavement of Native Americans, while also assuring the peopling of the colonies. By the same token, the deportation of vagrant children, of vagabonds and convicts also provided a means for the Old Continent to rid itself of its undesirable population. The rise in European immigration that resulted from the decrease of sea transportation costs made free labor more economically attractive and gradually transformed the indentured servitude system into the Redemptioner System. During the course of the 18th century, the increasing reliance on black bonded labor led to the disappearance of white indentured servitude. Economic incentives – be they in terms of productivity or in the cost of controlling the laborers – motivated the adoption of new forms of bound labor. However, the substitution of one form of unfree labor for another did not occur in a sudden and orderly fashion: the change was characterized by a period of transition during which several types of bound labor coexisted. This one-day conference aims at historicizing the implementation and development of different forms of bound labor in North America and in the Caribbean before the abolition of slavery. By specifically focusing on the process of legal codification, it intends to underline the continuities, the transfers and the differences that existed between the legislations which applied to various forms of unfree labor, but also between practices. Bound labor took many forms (indentured servitude, apprenticeship, convict labor, slavery, etc.) and encompassed diverse personal and collective experiences, depending on the geographic location and the historical period. Besides examining the construction of a legal arsenal aimed at controlling and disciplining unfree laborers, this one-day conference will also endeavor to assess, through case studies, the disparities between rhetoric and reality, in order to highlight the indomitable propensity for individuals or social groups to emancipate themselves from normative injunctions. We welcome presentations based on a variety of topics such as: – a comparative approach between different legislations, different time periods and different geographic locations – the extent to which social and geographical origins, or religious confession, influenced unfree laborers’ social integration and treatment – the social and political difficulties posed by the coexistence of various forms of bound labor – the specialization and assignment to professional tasks according to the type of bound labor force – the gap between law and practice – the historiographic progress which the development of new technologies allows, namely in the treatment of data and the reconstruction of personal or collective trajectories

The languages of the one-day conference will be French and English.

For consideration, please submit a paper proposal of 300 words and a 1 page CV by April 15, 2015 to boundlabor2015 -at- gmail.com A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published.

Conference organizers: Lawrence Aje (Université Paul -Valéry, Montpellier 3 – EMMA) Anne-Claire Fauquez (Université Panthéon – Assas – EA 1569: Transferts critiques et dynamiques des savoirs, Université Paris VIII) Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Université de Poitiers – MIMMOC).

Journée d’étude Le travail contraint dans les Amériques avant l’abolition de l’esclavage : codifications juridiques, transferts et harmonisation des pratiques,

Université de Poitiers vendredi 16 octobre 2015

La croissance démographique et économique des colonies nord-américaines et caribéennes est intimement liée à l’exploitation et à l’introduction, dès le XVIIe siècle, de travailleurs non libres. Après le relatif échec de l’asservissement des Amérindiens, la mise en place de l’engagement répond au besoin de pallier le manque de main-d’œuvre, tout en assurant le peuplement des colonies. En outre, la politique de déportation d’enfants vagabonds dans le cadre d’apprentissages, de gens sans aveu et autres condamnés de droit commun permet de délivrer le Vieux Continent de populations jugées indésirables. L’augmentation de l’immigration européenne entraînée par la diminution des frais de traversée, provoque la baisse du coût de revient des travailleurs libres et conduit à la mutation progressive du système d’engagement vers le Redemptioner system. Au cours du XVIIIe siècle, le recours grandissant à l’esclavage noir précipite la disparition de la servitude des travailleurs blancs. L’adoption de nouvelles formes de travail non libre répond, avant tout, à des impératifs économiques, aussi bien en termes de profitabilité que de gestion de la population servile. Cependant, la substitution d’une forme de main-d’œuvre contrainte par une autre ne se produit pas de façon brutale et ordonnée : ce passage se traduit par une période de transition, étape durant laquelle coexistent plusieurs conditions juridiques non libres. Cette journée d’étude se propose d’historiciser l’instauration et le développement des formes de travail non libres dans l’espace nord-américain et caribéen avant l’abolition de l’esclavage. En portant un intérêt particulier aux processus de codification juridique qui régissent les différentes formes de servitudes contraintes, elle souhaite mettre en évidence les continuités, les emprunts et les ruptures entre les législations mais également entre les pratiques. Qu’elle soit engagée, apprentie, condamnée ou asservie, la main-d’œuvre contrainte recouvre une grande diversité d’expériences personnelles et collectives, selon les époques et les lieux. Aussi, outre l’examen de la construction d’un arsenal juridique destiné au contrôle et à la discipline des travailleurs non libres, l’une des ambitions de cette journée sera également d’évaluer, au travers d’études de cas, l’écart entre les discours et les pratiques, afin de mettre en évidence la part irréductible de tout être ou groupe social à s’affranchir des injonctions normatives. Les participants sont invités à s’interroger sur les pistes, non exhaustives, de réflexion suivantes : – Une approche comparative entre les législations, les époques et les régionsJournée d’étude Le travail contraint dans les Amériques avant l’abolition de l’esclavage : codifications juridiques, transferts et harmonisation des pratiques Université de Poitiers vendredi 16 octobre 2015 *** La croissance démographique et économique des colonies nord-américaines et caribéennes est intimement liée à l’exploitation et à l’introduction, dès le XVIIe siècle, de travailleurs non libres. Après le relatif échec de l’asservissement des Amérindiens, la mise en place de l’engagement répond au besoin de pallier le manque de main-d’œuvre, tout en assurant le peuplement des colonies. En outre, la politique de déportation d’enfants vagabonds dans le cadre d’apprentissages, de gens sans aveu et autres condamnés de droit commun permet de délivrer le Vieux Continent de populations jugées indésirables. L’augmentation de l’immigration européenne entraînée par la diminution des frais de traversée, provoque la baisse du coût de revient des travailleurs libres et conduit à la mutation progressive du système d’engagement vers le Redemptioner system. Au cours du XVIIIe siècle, le recours grandissant à l’esclavage noir précipite la disparition de la servitude des travailleurs blancs. L’adoption de nouvelles formes de travail non libre répond, avant tout, à des impératifs économiques, aussi bien en termes de profitabilité que de gestion de la population servile. Cependant, la substitution d’une forme de main-d’œuvre contrainte par une autre ne se produit pas de façon brutale et ordonnée : ce passage se traduit par une période de transition, étape durant laquelle coexistent plusieurs conditions juridiques non libres. Cette journée d’étude se propose d’historiciser l’instauration et le développement des formes de travail non libres dans l’espace nord-américain et caribéen avant l’abolition de l’esclavage. En portant un intérêt particulier aux processus de codification juridique qui régissent les différentes formes de servitudes contraintes, elle souhaite mettre en évidence les continuités, les emprunts et les ruptures entre les législations mais également entre les pratiques. Qu’elle soit engagée, apprentie, condamnée ou asservie, la main-d’œuvre contrainte recouvre une grande diversité d’expériences personnelles et collectives, selon les époques et les lieux. Aussi, outre l’examen de la construction d’un arsenal juridique destiné au contrôle et à la discipline des travailleurs non libres, l’une des ambitions de cette journée sera également d’évaluer, au travers d’études de cas, l’écart entre les discours et les pratiques, afin de mettre en évidence la part irréductible de tout être ou groupe social à s’affranchir des injonctions normatives. Les participants sont invités à s’interroger sur les pistes, non exhaustives, de réflexion suivantes : – Une approche comparative entre les législations, les époques et les régions- Le rôle joué par l’appartenance raciale, l’origine géographique ou la confession religieuse dans l’intégration sociale et dans le traitement des travailleurs non libres – Les enjeux sociaux, politiques et sécuritaires posés dans la gestion de la population non libre dans les périodes de coexistence entre plusieurs statuts de travailleurs non libres – L’assignation à des tâches professionnelles spécifiques selon le type de main-d’œuvre non libre et son importance démographique – L’écart entre la/les législation(s) et la/les pratique(s) – Le renouveau historiographique que permet le développement de nouvelles technologies, notamment en matière de traitement des données et de reconstruction des trajectoires personnelles ou collectives.

Les langues de la journée d’étude sont l’anglais et le français. Les propositions de communication, d’environ 300 mots, incluant un titre et le rattachement institutionnel, ainsi qu’une courte biographie d’une page maximum sont à envoyer à l’adresse suivante boundlabour2015 -at- gmail avant le 15 avril 2015. Les actes seront publiés.

Comité d’organisation : Lawrence Aje (Université Paul – Valéry, Montpellier 3 – EMMA) Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Panthéon – Assas – EA 1569 : Transferts critiques et dynamiques des savoirs, Université Paris VIII) Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Université de Poitiers – MIMMOC).

cfp ‘Writing Political Economy, 1750-1850’, Sussex University, School of English, 15th-16th January 2016

Writing Political Economy, 1750-1850

School of English, University of Sussex

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Writing Political Economy, 1750-1850’ will be a two-day conference to be hosted by the School of English at the University of Sussex, UK from 15th-16th January, 2016.  The event will feature plenary talks from Professor Mary Poovey (NYU) and Professor Peter de Bolla (Cambridge), and will bring together those currently working on and with political economy in literary studies and the humanities more broadly.

We are now accepting proposals for twenty-minute papers addressing political economy between 1750 and 1850.  We invite papers which address the discourse of political economy from one of the perspectives sketched out below. Also welcome are papers which consider how current concerns over financial crises and the social and cultural consequences of capitalism resonate through such work, or which consider what pressure is being put on the study of political economy by current debates surrounding neoliberalism and its alternatives.

Proposals for papers should be sent to writingpoliticaleconomy@gmail.com by Friday 24th April, 2015.  More information can be found on the conference website.

 

 

CONTEXT

In the years since the financial crisis of 2008, political economy has come centre stage in public consciousness. Its role as a foundational discourse through which modernity understands not just finance, but social structures, class, inequality, wealth, poverty and community is newly recognised, but is also now subject to a thorough re-examination. In such contexts, the historicity of political economy, as a discourse and mode of analysis, is rarely acknowledged. But political economy is a relatively recent discourse, emerging in the late eighteenth century as a defining achievement of Enlightenment philosophy, and bequeathing to modernity some of its fundamental concepts, including capital, credit, the market, the division of labour. The rise of political economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also contributed to a transformation of the disciplinary field and a reconfiguration of knowledge whose implications were felt in realms as diverse as literary culture, social philosophy, aesthetics, and beyond.

 

Our current understanding of the origins and history of political economy was transformed and deepened by the work, in the 1970s and 1980s, of intellectual historians including Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff and Donald Winch.  In this work, with which the University of Sussex has been strongly associated, the ideas and patterns of thought to be found in political economy were parsed, sifted and contextualized with rigorous detail and erudition. This scholarship led to a conception of political economy as a discourse in which historical formulations of man’s place in the social and natural worlds also articulated the tensions and anxieties that animated contemporary commercial society.

But another phase in the study of political economy can now be identified, as political economy from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries has become the focus of ground-breaking work within English studies. This phase, which began in the 1990s and is ongoing, considers political economy alongside a plethora of other social, literary and philosophical discourses, and offers a wealth of analyses which transform not only our understanding of political economy, but of philosophy, culture, narrative, literary history and the disciplines. Collectively, such work not only enriches our understanding of the discourse of political economy; it also transforms our understanding of literary history and of literary studies itself. The rich and various work in this area includes:

 

  • studies of political economy as a form of writing, narrative or discourse, which submit its rhetorical and philosophical gestures to intense textual and conceptual analysis
  • studies of the genres and textual forms of political economic writing, and of the monetary and credit forms circulating in the economy
  • comparative studies of political economic with other forms of writing, including fiction
  •  work on the archaeology of economic concepts and systems
  • analysis of discourses of value, within and beyond economics, and their place in culture
  •  historical studies of the mobilisation of aesthetic and cultural critiques against the rise of ‘the dismal science’
  •  post-Foucauldian studies of the construction of bodies and subjects in political economy
  • studies of the relations between economics and other disciplines, such as biology, politics, or the social sciences
  •  studies of the engagement with debates over political economy by particular literary authors, or in particular works.

Proposal for papers are invited from any of the above fields and perspectives.

 

ORGANIZERS

 

Dr. Richard Adelman & Dr. Catherine Packham,

School of English, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK