12-13 juin 2023 : Republicanism in action in the British empire and the Commonwealth : theories, practices and exchanges (1763-2023)


 

Organizing committee
* Jon Chandler (University College London)
* Bernard Cros (Université Paris-8 Saint-Denis)
* Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq (Université Paris Nanterre)
* Tim Gibbs (Université Paris Nanterre)
* Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS University of London)
 
 
Workshop 1 : Republicanism in the Age of Revolutions (1763-1838)

When :
12 & 13 June 2023
 
Where :
Campus Condorcet
Centre de Colloques, Auditorium 150
Cours des Humanités
93322 AUBERVILLIERS
www.campus-condorcet.fr
 
 

Monday June 12
 

11.00 Welcome

11.45 Lunch on campus
 
13.00-15.00 Panel 1
Chair : Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Paris 8)
13.00-13.30 Rebecca PALMER (University College London) - “Liberty and Property Vindicated : A conceptual analysis of republicanism during the Stamp Act Crisis, 1765-66”
13.30-14.00 Agnès DELAHAYE (Université de Lyon-2) - “Settler histories of the American Revolution and the formation of the American Republic”
14.00-14.30 Jon CHANDLER (University College London) - “The Continental Metaphor and the Limits of Republicanism in Revolutionary North America”
 
14:30-15.00 Discussion

15.00-15.15 Coffee break
 
15.15-16.15 Keynote 1
Chair : Carine Lounissi (Université de Rouen)
Marie-Jeanne ROSSIGNOL (Université Paris Cité) - “To the Roots of Republicanism in the United States : White and Black Antislavery Activists 1754-1794”

16.15-16.45 Discussion
 
19:30 Conference dinner
 
 

Tuesday June 13
 

9.00 Tea and coffee

9.30-11.00 Panel 2
Chair : Fabrice TRICOU (Université Paris Nanterre) 
9.30-10.00 Tom PYE (University College London) - “Who needs Republics ? Adam Smith and the decline of Feudalism in Europe”
10.00-10.30 Manel SALEM (Sorbonne Université) - "The Last War between France and Great Britain : The Seven Years’ War’s Impact on the British Empire and the Newly Established Republic" 

10.30-11.00 Discussion 

11.00-11.15 Tea and coffee break 

11.15-12.45 Panel 3
Chair : Cornelius CROWLEY (Université Paris Nanterre)
11.15-11.45 Matthew HOYE (Universiteit Leiden) - “The Democratic Republican critique of migration. 18th-19th c. US practices”
11.45-12.15 Sylvie KLEINMAN (Trinity College, Dublin) – “Theobald Wolfe (1763-98), the founding father of Irish republicanism ?”

12.15-12.45 Discussion
 
12.45-14.15 Lunch
 
14.15-15.45 Keynote 2
Chair : Manjeet RAMGOTRA (SOAS University of London)
Clément THIBAUD (EHESS) : "Le républicanisme à l’âge des révolutions : une perspective latino-américaine".

15.15-15-45 Discussion
 
15.45-16.00 Tea and coffee break
 
16.00–17h30 Panel 4

Chair : Bernard CROS (Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis)
16.00-16.30 David JOHNSON (Open University) - “Historical and Literary Reiterations of Dutch Settler Republicanism in South Africa’s Cape Colony”
16.30-17.00 Stéphanie WANGA (London School of Economics) - “Federalist Dreams and Global Projects : On Non-Domination in East Africa”

17.00-17.30 Discussion

17.30-18.00 Concluding remarks
 
Partnering institutions
· Campus Condorcet
https://www.campus-condorcet.fr/
 
· Université Paris 8, laboratoire TransCrit
https://transcrit.univ-paris8.fr/
 
· Université Paris Nanterre, laboratoire CREA
https://crea.parisnanterre.fr/
 
· University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
 
· School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
https://www.soas.ac.uk/
 
· CRECIB (Centre de Recherches en Civilisation britannique)
https://crecib.org/