Antoine Bénézet (Anthony Benezet) né le 31 janvier 1713 à St Quentin et mort le 3 mai 1784 à Philadelphie, quaker, philanthrope et anti-esclavagiste américain.

Colloque « The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet », 30 et 31 mai 2013

• 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

Inscriptions avant le 12 mai 2013

Programme

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 “The spiritual and Literary Dimensions of Benezet’s works”

Moderator : Hubert Bost, EPHE

• David Crosby, Independent researcher, Jackson MS: "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 at the 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