isecs executive committee meeting 2013

ISECS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 2013
Programme ISECS meeting 2013
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International Conference
Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) / Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(DBSEC) / International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS)
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Campus Woudestein
August 26-29, 2013
Programme
TIME TABLE
Monday August 26, 2013
18h00
Reception
Town Hall, Rotterdam
19h00
Banquet
Tuesday August 27, 2013
9h00-17h00
Meeting ISECS Executive committee
Erasmus University Rotterdam
19h00
Dinner
Wednesday August 28, 2013
9h00-17h00
International Conference
Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century
Erasmus University Rotterdam
17h30
Cocktail
Thursday August 29, 2013
10h00-12h00
Excursion Rotterdam
12h00
Lunch
14h00-18h00
Excursion Delft, The Hague
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International Conference
Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century
Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Campus Woudestein
Wednesday August 28, 2013
Theme of the Conference
Evolutions and revolutions are common to all times. For this conference, we are interested in
three questions.
1. How were the concepts of evolution and revolution perceived during the eighteenth century
itself?
2. How do the concepts of evolution and revolution relate to the changing conception of time in
the eighteenth century?
3. Which evolutions and revolutions are of specific importance when focusing on the history of
the eighteenth century?
While the eighteenth century was revolutionary break with the past in many respects,
contemporary political theory preferred gradual changes, consonant with natural circumstances,
to radical breakthroughs. The question of whether to opt for gradual or radical changes in society
was hotly debated in countless pamphlets and other publications. A developing belief in progress
bolstered the idea that social change was achievable. In many aspects, changes occurred in an
accelerated rate, which gave impetus to new modes of thought. Scholars of the Enlightenment
have only recently commented on several revolutionary changes in biology, chemistry, political
economy, and music. The revolutionary discoveries in chemistry and biology, and the rising
interest in anthropology and history also inspired the development of new scholarly disciplines
and vocabularies.
This conference aims to bring together these questions of change in eighteenth century politics,
economy, science, and culture.
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Programme
International Conference
Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century
Wednesday August 28, 2013
09:00-09:30
Registration
09:30-10:00
Introductory remarks by Wiep van Bunge (EUR, DBSEC) and Marc-André
Bernier (ISECS)
10:00-10:45
Keynote lecture by Bertrand Binoche (Sorbonne Paris)
10:45-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
Session 1: Historiography of the Enlightenment
Session 2: Politics, change and revolution
12:30-13:30
Lunch break
13:30-15:00
Session 3: Slavery, empire and civilization
Session 4: Evolution/Revolution in Enlightenment science and philosophy
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
15:30-17:00: Session 5: Evolution/Revolution in and through Literature
17:00-17:15
Closing Conference by Inger Leemans (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, DBSEC)
17:15-18:00: Presentation by Bertrand Binoche. A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography
(Brill, Leiden 2013) Edited by Sophie Bourgault, University of Ottawa and Robert
Sparling, Université de Montréal
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Sessions
International Conference
Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century
Session 1: Historiography of the Enlightenment
Alberto Postigliola
Circularité et rupture dans la notion de révolution chez Rousseau
Jan Rotmans
Enlightenment historiography and the classical-republican tradition in the eighteenth-century
Dutch Republic: the limited historical imagination of Cornelis Zillesen
Prof. Raïa Zaïmova
La Revolution francaise dans une lecture bulgare
Session 2: Politics, change and revolution
Soulef Bergounioux
La Révolution française et l’émergence d’un nouveau savoir: des cours d’organisation sociale à
la science morale et politique.
Eriona Tartari
Rousseau, l’inventeur de la politique moderne.
Penelope J. Corfield
Britain’s Political, Cultural & Industrial Revolutions: As Seen by Eighteenth-Century Observers
Session 3: Slavery, empire and civilization
Brycchan Carey
Personal Revolution: National Evolution. How acts of resistance by enslaved people changed
British attitudes towards slavery
Hanco Jürgens
Anti Colonialism as an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon
Mihaela Irimia
Civilize him into Man: Evolving from the Savage Child into the Social Adult
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Session 4: Evolution/Revolution in Enlightenment science and philosophy
Ann-Mari Jönsson
Linnaeus’s Scientific Revolution
Sébastien Charles
Mutation conceptuelle et révolution dans la pensée: le cas du scepticisme des Lumières
Maria Valderez de Colletes Negreiros
L’Esprit Philosophique dans le Dix-Huitième Siècle
Session 5: Evolution/Revolution in and through Literature
Rosamaria Loretelli
The Language of Evolution: From Episodes to Narrative Cohesion
Conrad Brunstrom
Unequal Alliances: Prior, Boileau, and the poetry of diplomacy
Marc André Bernier
Lire les révolutions de la littérature du temps présent à la lumière des Anciens
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Registration Form
Programme for ISECS Executive committee and ISECS delegates
August 26-29, 2013
Members of the Executive committee and ISECS delegates can register for the Reception with the
Mayor of Rotterdam (August 26, 2013), dinner hosted by the Dutch-Belgian Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (August 26 or 27, 2013), the ISECS meeting (August 27, 2013), the
Conference (August 28, 2013) and Excursion programme (August 29, 2013). Registration for
these items before June 1, 2013.
Please supply your registration by e-mail: [email protected]:
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Reception of Mayor Rotterdam August 26, 2013
Dinner hosted by the DBSECS August 26 or 27, 2013
ISECS meeting August 27, 2013
Conference August 28, 2013
Excursion August 29, 2013
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Registration Form
International Conference Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century
August 28, 2013
Open for all interested in the theme of the Conference. Registration of participants is needed
before August 1, 2013.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam, one of the largest seaports in the world, and the hometown of Erasmus and Bayle is
the ideal place for a historic conference. The Erasmus Bridge, the monumental bridge that
connects downtown with the so-called Southbank, which is also the former pier of the
transatlantic shipping company Holland America Line. Its striking headquarters (1919, now
Hotel New York), and the Cruise Terminal (1946-1949) have, in the last ten years, been flanked
by modern buildings (by MECANOO, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Renzo Piano) that are
now characteristic of the Rotterdam skyline. The history of the port of Rotterdam is told in the
Maritime Museum. Rotterdam also has a number of important museums. Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen Museum, with its internationally renowned collection of ancient and modern art,
housing masterpieces such as the Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Rembrandt’s
portrait of his son Titus; the Dutch Architecture Institute (NAI); and the 17th-century
neoclassical city palace (the oldest building that has survived the 1940 bombing), where the
Historical Museum of Rotterdam is located; and finally the World Museum with a large
collection of art and artifacts, prints, maps and atlases of the non-western world. Delfshaven,
located within the suburbs of Rotterdam, has its own historic townscape: is was here where the
salt works and the Delfshaven distilleries were located. It is also the place where the shipyards of
the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company were situated in the eighteenth
century. One of the most important monuments is the ‘Pilgrim Fathers Church’, founded in 1761
to commemorate the Pilgrims who departed from Delfshaven to America in 1620.
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
The ISECS 2013 meeting (August 27, 2013 for Executive committee and delegates) and
Conference (August 28, 2013, open to those interested in the theme) are hosted by the Erasmus
University Rotterdam (EUR). The venue for the meetings is the new and recently renovated
facilities of the University at Campus Woudestein, building C, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3062
PA Rotterdam.
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Travelling to and around Rotterdam
Rotterdam is easily accessible by train from Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges or
Paris (train journeys take one, two or three hours). The Rotterdam The Hague Airport has daily
flights to many European destinations. Amsterdam (Schiphol) airport, 30 minutes by train from
Rotterdam, has daily flights to many destinations in the world.
Erasmus University Rotterdam is within easy reach by bicycle, public transport (metro, tram and
busses) and by car. What ever path you choose, you are always (directly) well connected with
our university. For good health and a good environment, we recommend everyone to travel by
bike or public transport.
Accommodation
Participants of the ISECS meeting and Conference can choose accommodation in hotels near the
Congress buildings. The Novotel Rotterdam Brainpark, K.P. van der Mandelelaan 150,
Kralingen-Crooswijk, 3062 MB Rotterdam, is closest to the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Campus Woudestein location where the Meeting and Conference are held.
Your travel agency can do booking or you can make your booking directly via Hotel booking
sites:
www.Booking.com, www.Hotels.com, http://www.bedandbreakfast.nl, http://www.venere.com.
Language
The Conference languages are English and French, no translation service is available. For the
ISECS meeting (August 27, 2013) the Canadian delegation supplies simultaneous translation.
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The Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (DBSEC)
The Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Werkgroep 18e Eeuw) was founded
in1968 to promote the growth, development and coordination of studies and research relating to
the long eighteenth century. Special attention is devoted to the eighteenth century in the
Netherlands, Belgium, and the overseas territories. Today, the Society comprises around 300
members and 100 institutional members. Most members are working in academic positions in
universities and research institutes in the Netherlands Belgium and other countries. National and
international meetings are held on a yearly basis. The society publishes a scholarly peerreviewed periodical entitled De Achttiende Eeuw (‘The Eighteenth Century’). The Dutch-Belgian
Society is a constitutional member of International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(ISECS). www.18e-eeuw.nl.
In August 2015 the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will host the
Fourteenth International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies of ISECS in Rotterdam (The
Netherlands): Opening Markets: Trade and Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment.
www.openingmarkets.eu or www.openingmarkets.nl.
ISECS
The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, founded with the initiative of
Theodore Besterman, promotes the growth, development and coordination of studies and
research relating to the eighteenth century in all aspects of its cultural heritage (historical,
philosophical, ideological, religious, linguistic, literary, scientific, artistic, juridical) in all
countries, without exception; the Society is non-profit and non-political.
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