HomeSciences et savoirs dans le monde atlantique francophone (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
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Published on Monday, April 16, 2007
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Montréal, Québec (Canada), 26-28 April 2007 / 26-28 avril 2007
Organized by Nicholas Dew (McGill University) and François Regourd (Université Paris X Nanterre). Co-sponsored by the French Atlantic History Group and the research group Mondes américains: Sociétés, Circulations, Pouvoirs, XVe-XXIe siècles (UMR 8168), CNRS.
Programme
Thursday, April 26th / jeudi 26 avril
Cocktail d’accueil
6:00pm - 8:00pm (18h-20h)
Salle Verrière, Hotel XIX Siècle, 262 St-Jacques O.
Friday, April 27th / vendredi 27 avril
Salle Polyvalente, Musée Pointe à Callières, 350 Place Royale, Vieux Montréal
09:00-09:30: Café, viennoiseries
09:30-10:00: Introduction: Nicholas Dew & François Regourd
10:00-12:30: Session I: Cartographies atlantiques
chair: Philippe Despoix (Université de Montréal)
- Neil Safier (University of Pennsylvania)
Empires à la Carte: French mapping and the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
- Jean-François Palomino (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec)
Les cartographes de cabinet et la Nouvelle-France: sources et méthode de travail
(pause-café 11:00-11:30)
- Nicholas Dew (McGill University)
Travel and scientific authority around the French Atlantic
(session I general discussion 12:00-12:30)
12:30 to 14:30: Déjeuner / Lunch (participants to make own arrangements)
14:30-17:00: Session II: Correspondants et voyageurs
chair: Dominique Deslandres (Université de Montréal)
- Thomas Wien (Université de Montréal)
Jean-François Gaultier’s grosse fatigue: making and transmitting natural knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Canada
- Xavier Carteret (EHESS, Paris)
La contribution de Michel Adanson (1727-1806) à la connaissance de l’Afrique occidentale
(pause-café 15:30-16:00)
- James E. McClellan, III (Stevens Institute of Technology)
André Michaux’s mission to America (1785-1796)
(session II general discussion 16:30-17:00)
Saturday, April 28th
Salle Polyvalente, Musée Pointe à Callières, 350 Place Royale, Vieux Montréal
9:00-09:15: Café, viennoiseries
9:15-12:00: Session III: Contacts
chair: Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill University)
- Joan-Pau Rubiés (London School of Economics)
From the cannibal to the good savage in the ethnography of the Americas (1500-1700)
- John Bishop (McGill University)
Comment dit-on Tchistchimanisi8 en français? The Translation of Montagnais ecological knowledge in Antoine Silvy’s Dictionnaire montagnais-français (ca. 1678-1684).
(pause-café 10:15-10:30)
- François Regourd (Université Paris X - Nanterre)
Itinéraires de savoirs: les savoirs indigènes et leur intégration à la sphère scientifique française
- April Shelford (American University)
The slave in the garden: slave presences in natural history writings on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean
(session III general discussion 11:30-12:00)
12:00 to 13:30: Déjeuner / Lunch (participants to make own arrangements)
13:30-15:00: Session IV: Théories et expertise
chair: Catherine Desbarats (McGill University)
- Karol K. Weaver (Susquehanna University)
Maternity and parenting in the torrid zone: childbearing and childrearing in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue
- Jordan Kellman (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Nature, commodities and expert testimony in the French Colonial Atlantic: the case of cochineal
(session IV general discussion 14:30-15:00)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00: Table-Ronde / Roundtable and concluding discussion
Marie-Noëlle Bourguet (Université de Paris-VII)
James Delbourgo (McGill University)
Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California)
Catherine Desbarats (McGill University)
7pm / 19:00:
Conference Dinner at Restaurant “Version - Laurent Godbout”
295 rue St-Paul Est, Vieux-Montréal
Contact: Tim Pearson (atlantique.history@mcgill.ca )Subjects
- Science studies (Main category)
- Society > Science studies > History of science
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
Places
- Montreal, Canada
Date(s)
- Thursday, April 26, 2007
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Keywords
- Histoire des sciences. Histoire des savoirs. Histoire coloniale. France. Histoire culturelle. Cartographie, Médecine, savoirs indigènes, astronomie, botanique.
Contact(s)
- Tim Pearson
courriel : atlantique [dot] history [at] mcgill [dot] ca
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Information source
- François Regourd
courriel : FRegourd [at] aol [dot] com
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« Sciences et savoirs dans le monde atlantique francophone (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Monday, April 16, 2007, https://calenda.org/192982