Genealogy and Social Status in the Enlightenment

From 12th to 13h January
Thursday: 9.00am-6.00pm
Friday : 9.00am-1.00pm
Genealogy and Social Status
in the Enlightenment
Rationalité généalogique et statut social
au temps des Lumières
THURSDAY
12TH JANUARY
Introduction and welcoming remarks by the convenors
Genealogical culture and social practices
Mathieu Marraud (CNRS, CRH) avec Nicolas LyonCaen (CNRS, IHMC) : Généalogies bourgeoises à Paris au
XVIIIe siècle : parents ou descendants ?
Benedetta Borello (Columbia - NY): Genealogy, Sociability
and Genius of Nations Young Nobles Travelling to European Salons
Julian Pooley (Leicester): Minutely attentive to every circumstance’. John Nichols and the culture of genealogy in the late
Eighteenth-Century
Iain Riddell (Leicester): Anglican Zadokism. The usage of
kin and kinship by latter Hanoverian church leadership
Christoph Bezemek, (Graz): Leviathan’s Heir. Lineage and
the Social Contract
Andreea Roxana Iancu (Bucarest) : Reconfigurations du patrimoine : pratiques juridiques, enjeux politiques et conscience généalogique (Valachie, à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle)
Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (UCLA) : Genealogies of
Despotic Sovereignty, Nobility, and Law: French Enlightenment
Debates on “Oriental” Methods of Governance.
Creative and historical writing: staging the family
destiny
Hereditary virtues vs personal merits
Henry French (Exeter): Sighing for Past Greatness: Gibbon’s
Digression and the Visualisation of the Courtenay Lineage, c. 14001800
Audrey Faulot (Paris-Ouest) : Qualités des « hommes de qualité » : l’essence et l’accident dans quelques romans - mémoires de
l’abbé Prévost (1728 - 1745)
Law, power and genealogy
Volker Bauer (Wolfenbüttel): From dynastic to administrative
directories: The changing scope of genealogicial writings in eighteenthcentury Germany
CONVENORS:
FRIDAY
13TH JANUARY
Arnaud Exbalin (Paris Ouest) : Police métisse. Raison administrative contre sang espagnol (ville de Mexico, fin XVIIIe siècle)
Valérie Piétri (Nice) : Communication : « Noblesse et généalogie : circulation et appropriations des débats sur la noblesse dans les
histoires généalogiques en France à l’époque moderne
William Doyle (Bristol): Genealogy and the French Revolution
Genealogies, natural sciences and race
Claude-Olivier Doron (Paris Diderot) : Genealogical style of
reasoning in natural history and the emergence of the concept of "race"
Tim MC Inerney (Paris 8- Saint-Denis) : Race and the
‘Noble paradigm’ in Eighteenth-century Britain
Stéphane Jettot (MFO, Paris-Sorbonne) and Jean Paul Zuniga (EHESS-CRH Paris)
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