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Missionaries as Agents of Empires in the Early Modern Period
Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux (XVIe-XIXe siècle)
Published on Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Abstract
The purpose of this workshop is to foster new perspectives on the relationship between the missions and empires. By examining the missionaries’ practices at the local level, it is possible to underline both the complexity of their roles in the developing empires and the wide diversity of imperial realities, against commonly held abstract, monolithic representations. Far from being solely concerned with issues of conversion and pastoral work, the missionaries played a key role in tying various commercial, political and diplomatic links between and beyond empires. In the process and through their writings, they also interrogated and contributed to shape the notion of empire, confronted as they were with all sorts of political situations across the world. The case presented by the missionaries hence helps us move away from Eurocentric and teleological conceptions of early modern overseas empires in favour of a more open-ended and multifaceted outlook.
Announcement
Workshop on microsoft TEAMS, 15-16 Octobre 2020
To obtain the link to connect to the conference, please contact helene.vu-thanh@univ-ubs.fr
Program
Thursday 15 October 2020
- 9h15-9h25 : Welcome by Mathias Tranchant (université de Bretagne-Sud), vice-president in charge of research
- 9h25-9h35 : Welcome by Sylviane Llinares (université de Bretagne-Sud), head of TEMOS
- 9h35-10h00 : Hélène Vu Thanh (université de Bretagne-Sud/IUF) : Introduction
Session 1 : Connecting empires across the local and the global
- 10h00-10h40 : Delphine Tempère (université de Lyon/CLEA) : De la Péninsule aux Philippines. Les jésuites connecteurs de mondes au XVIIe siècle
- 10h40-11h20 : Felicita Tramontana (university of Warwick) : Global interactions, imperial expansion and Catholic missions (1500-1700)
- 11h20-12h00 : Emmanuel Jourda (EHESS/CECMC) : Les missionnaires face à l’écosystème chinois dans l’empire informel britannique: cas de la péninsule malaise au XIXe siècle
12h00-13h30 : Lunch break
Session 2 : Building a spiritual empire?
- 13h30-14h10 : Loann Berens (Normandie université) : Les Dominicains et la « conquête spirituelle » du Pérou : évangélisation, médiation politique et expansion impériale (années 1530-1550)
- 14h10-14h50 : Birgit Tremml (Linnaeus university) : Dominican ethnography of Taiwan: missionary zeal or empirical missions?
- 14h50-15h00 : Break
- 15h00-15h40 : Margherita Trento (CNRS/CEIAS) : Imperial connections and dissimulation in South India (17th-18th c.)
- 15h40-16h20 : Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (université Paris 8/IUF) : Les pasteurs anglicans de la Society for the Propagation of the Gospel : le cas de la Caroline du Sud (1701-1750)
Friday 16 october 2020
Session 3 : Championing and challenging the imperial paradigm
- 9h-9h40 : Jean-Noël Sanchez (université de Strasbourg/CHER) : Ocaso en el Ponente. Francisco Combes, SJ, ou la défense crépusculaire d’un empire déclinant
- 9h40-10h20 : Adina Ruiu (Université de Montréal/EHESS) : Le Dépôt de la Marine, "âme" de l'histoire. Saint-Domingue et la Nouvelle-France sous la plume du jésuite Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix.
10h20-10h40 : break
- 10h40-11h20 : Elisabeth Heijmans (université de Leyde) : « C’est là que nous tirons les bras pour la culture de nos colonies » : La perspective d’un missionnaire sur le fort français de Ouidah (1776-1778)
- 11h20-12h00 : Marie de Rugy (IEP Strasbourg) : A quel empire se vouer ? Paul Bigandet, missionnaire français en Birmanie au xixe siècle
12h00-13h30 : Lunch break
Session 4 : Circulating ideas of empire
- 13h30-14h10 : Águeda García-Garrido (Normandie université/IEHM) : Entre mission et légation. Des augustins espagnols loin des Philippines au XVIIe siècle : une histoire à rebours ?
- 14h10-14h40 : Susanne Lachenicht (université de Bayreuth) : Réseaux et activités de missionnaires jésuites à travers les histoires naturelles des Caraïbes (XVIIe etXVIIIe siècles)
- 14h40-15h20 : Jean-François Klein (université du Havre) : Le mythe de l’Eldorado missionnaire du Yunnan au xixe siècle
15h20-16h00 : final discussion and conclusions
Subjects
- History (Main category)
Places
- Colloque en ligne (Microsoft TEAMS)
Lorient, France (56)
Date(s)
- Thursday, October 15, 2020
- Friday, October 16, 2020
Attached files
Keywords
- missions, empires, époque moderne et contemporaine, histoire globale, histoire connectée
Contact(s)
- Helene Vu Thanh
courriel : helene [dot] vu-thanh [at] univ-ubs [dot] fr
Information source
- Helene Vu Thanh
courriel : helene [dot] vu-thanh [at] univ-ubs [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Connecting Empires », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, September 23, 2020, https://doi.org/10.58079/15be