Exploring the Early Modern Underground

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow
(Universität Erfurt/Forschungszentrum Gotha)
IN COOPERATION WITH
Prof. Dr. Gianni Paganini
(Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)
Dr. Ariel Hessayon
(Goldsmiths, University of London)
Dr. Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
(University of Cambridge, U.K.)
LOCATION:
Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt
Schloss Friedenstein, Pagenhaus
99867 Gotha
Seminar Room
CONTACT:
Kristina Petri
Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt
99855 Gotha
Tel.: 0049 (0)361/737-1712
E-Mail: [email protected]
SUPPORTED BY:
International Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des
18. Jahrhunderts (DGEJ)
University of Erfurt, International Office
Bild: © Wikimedia Commons, Saint Mary in Hafnerberg (Lower Austria), Dome fresco of the
Assumption of Mary (1743) by J. I. Mildorfer, detail of a heretic with his books
www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungszentrum-gotha
Universität Erfurt
Forschungszentrum Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein, Pagenhaus
99867 Gotha
ISECS Early Career Seminar
Exploring the Early Modern Underground:
Freethinkers, Heretics, Spies –
La Face Cachée des Lumières: Libres
Penseurs, Hérétiques, Espions
26th – 30th August 2013 | Forschungszentrum Gotha
MONDAY, 26TH AUGUST 2013
Arrival of Participants
4:30 pm
Individual / Assisted Work in the
Research Library (Conference Room)
2:00 pm
Welcome
6:00 pm
End
2:30 pm Martin Mulsow: Introduction
3:30 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 pm Tour of the Research Library Gotha
5:00 pm
Guided Tour through Gotha
TUESDAY, 27TH AUGUST 2013
9:00 am Key lecture
Gianni Paganini: Moïse Clandestin. Deux Modèles de l’Histoire Juive dans les Manuscrits Clandestins
10:00 am
Iman Abou El Seoud: Le Gazetier
Cuirassé. Séduction et Subversion
dans les Écrits Pamphlétaires
Prérévolutionnaires
11:00 am
Dzianis Kandakou: Surveiller et Policier. Contrôle des Russes et des Polonais à Paris sous Louis XV et Louis XVI
NoonLunch
1:00 pm
Azzurra Mauro: Les Pratiques
Clandestines de l’Abbé Galiani.
Prudence ou Divertissement?
2:00 pm
Sophie Bisset: Moral Permission and Religious Heterodoxy in Jean Barbeyrac’s Morale des Peres
3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:30 pm
Guided Tour through the Museum Collection of Schloss Friedenstein
WEDNESDAY, 28TH AUGUST 2013
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm
Tatiana Dragaikina: The Subculture of
Russian Freemasons in the 18th
Century and its Place in Russian
Culture
9:00 am Key lecture
Ariel Hessayon: Early Modern English Radicalism and its Connections with Mysticism and Esotericism
2:00 pm Lionel Laborie: Inside the Under
ground. Mapping a Millenarian
Network in Early Enlightenment
Europe
10:00 am Francis Kay: L’Intrigue des Cafés. Clan-
destinités Parisiennes et Fictions Inter-
lopes (1682–1852)
3:00 pm
Coffee Break
11:00 am Richard Spavin: L’ Esotérisme de L’Esprit des Lois. De la Théorie des Climats à la Clandestinité Politique
3:30 pm
Individual / Assisted Work in the
Research Library (Conference Room)
7:00 pm
Dinner
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Rim Yacoubi: Les Espaces Clandestins de la Déviance Féminine à Aix-en-
Provence au 18ième Siècle
2:00 pm Trip to Weimar
THURSDAY, 29TH AUGUST 2013
9:00 am Key lecture
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg:
The Unknown Superiors as the
Panopticon of the Secret Societies
in 18th-Century Europe
10:00 am
Marina Bollinger: How the Soul of
Woman was Lost. Sex, Satire, and the History of Rationalism
11:00 am Giulia Delogu: Poetry and Circulation of Ideas. Lumières, Freemasonry,
Revolution
FRIDAY, 30TH AUGUST 2013
9:00 am
Marie-Claude Felton: Between
Secrecy and Publicity. Self-Publishing
and the Literary Underground of the
Old Regime
10:00 am
Declan Kavanagh: Mollies, Sodomites,
and Libertines. Homosocial Pleasure in the 1760s
11:00 am
Björn Spiekermann: The Folly of
Atheism and the Redemption of
Reason. An Apologetic Argument of German Enlightenment (ca. 1680–1780)
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm
Charles Wolfe: Vital Materialism
and the Radical Enlightenment
2:00 pm
Final Discussion and Evaluation
3:00 pm
End of the Seminar and Departure