Participants
University Bordeaux III, Michel de Montaigne
- François-Joseph Ruggiu
François-Joseph Ruggiu is Professor of early modern history at the University Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3. He has worked on the social behaviors firstly of the urban elites and secondly of the urban middling sorts in the English and French provincial towns.
For some years, he has been interested in the various discourses about the social order and their political consequences during the Enlightenment, when the society of ranks and degrees progressively receded («Ancienneté familiale et construction de l'identité nobiliaire dans la France de la fin de l'Ancien Régime », in J. Pontet, M. Figeac et M. Boisson (eds), La noblesse de la fin du XVIe au début du XXe siècle : un modèle social ? Anglet, Atlantica, 2002, tome I, p. 309-326). He now intends to work on the mutual representations of society in France and Great Britain from the end of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century. He is particularly interested in correspondences, travel accounts, works by some social observers and especially novels, which construct a certain perception of the « Other » and which he intends to study in the light of the recent renewal of studies on the constitution of individual identity and the construction of notions of « patrie » and « nation ».Select Publications :
Les élites et les villes moyennes en France et en Angleterre, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997
Avec J-P. Genet, Les Idées passent-elles la Manche ? Savoirs, représentations, pratiques, France-Angleterre, Xe-XXe siècles, Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2007
contact : francois_joseph_ruggiu@hotmail.com
University of Cambridge
- Delphine Soulard (PHD)
contact : delph_soulard@yahoo.fr
Université de Franche-Comté, Laboratoire des Sciences Historiques de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Besançon
- Edmond Dziembowski
Research fileds
:
franco-british political and cultural space
in 18th century. Patriotism and political culture in France and
Great-Britain. Information and Propaganda in France.
Publications
:
Gabriel-François
Coyer, Jacob-Nicolas Moreau.
Écrits sur le patriotisme, l'esprit public et la propagande
au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, La Rochelle, Rumeur des Ages,
1997, 83p.
Un nouveau patriotisme
français, 1750-1770. La France face à la
puissance anglaise à l'époque de la guerre de
Sept Ans, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1998, Studies on
Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 365, 566p.
Les Pitt. L'Angleterre
face à la France 1708-1806, Paris, Perrin,
2006, 579p.
Contact : Dziembowski.e@wanadoo.fr
University of Glasgow
- Alexander Broadie
Professor of Logic and rhetoric, Glasgow University. He holds a doctorate of letters from Glasgow and a doctorat honoris causa de l'université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand. Since 2002 Professor Broadie has given talks in Paris, Nantes, Lille and Clermont-Ferrand.
Research interests :
Medieval philosophy (particularly Aquinas and Scotus) and philosophy during the Age of Enlightenment.
Recent publications :
- The Scottish Enlightenment : The Historical Age of the Historical Nation, Edinburgh 2001.
- (as editor and contributor) The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment, Cambridge 2003
- Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts, Edinburgh 2005 (volume 5 in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid).
- 'Reid in context', in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, eds. T.Cuneo and R.Woudenberg, Cambridge 2004, p.31-52
- 'Sympathy and the impartial spectator' in The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith, ed. K.Haakonssen, Cambridge 2006, p.158-88
- 'Thomas Reid, Jules Laforgue et l’art de peindre des impressions' in La philosophie écossaise et la philosophie française 1750-1850, eds Elisabetta Arosio and Michel Malherbe, Paris, Vrin 2007, p.181-95
Contact : A.Broadie@history.arts.gla.ac.uk
University of Hong Kong
- Alexandra Cook, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
History of Philosophy, history of science, eighteenth-century botany, with emphasis on Linnaeus and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Scientific Responsabilities :
Council on Human Reproductive Technology, Hong Kong
Publications :
"Botanical exchanges : J-J. Rousseau and the Duchess of Portland", History of European Ideas, to be published (2007)
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau's copy of Albrecht van Haller's Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata (1768), in Archives of Natural History, 30/1, 2003, p.149-156
"Propagating Botany : The Case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau", in Bickerton & Proud, The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850, Peter Lang, 1999, p.69-94
Contact :
Dr. Alexandra Cook
Department of Philosophy, University of Kong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
cookga@hku.hk
King's College London, Department of French
- Martin Hall
Current appointment : Kings College, London Lecturer in French
Martin Hall teaches courses on the eighteenth-century and on the twentieth-century French novel. His particular research interests lie in the eighteenth-century French novel.
Publications:
'Gender and Reading in the Late Eighteenth Century: the Bibliothèque
universelle des romans ', in Eighteenth-Century
Fiction , volume 14, numbers 3-4, April-July 2002.
'Re-writing La Princesse de Clèves: the Anecdotes
de la cour et du règne d'Edouard II ', in Writers
and heroines. Essays on Women in French Literature , edited
by Shirley Jones Day (Berne: Peter Lang, 1999).
' Eighteenth-century women novelists: genre and gender ',
in A History of Women's Writing in France , ed.
Sonya Stephens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 200).
Introduction to Diderot, Jacques le fataliste
(London: Allen Lane, 1986).
'Duclos' Histoire de Madame de Luz :
Woman and
History', in Woman and Society in Eighteenth-Century France.
Essays in Honour of John Stephenson Spink , ed. Eva Jacobs
et al. (London: Athlone Press, 1979).
Current Research :
Martin Hall is completing articles on the novels of Mme Le
Prince de Beaumont and on the Bibliothèque universelle des
romans (the relationship between anthologisation and the modern concept
of litterature).
Future Project :
A study of eighteenth-century literary periodicals in France.
A study of the construction of the reader in the eighteenth-century
french novel.
Contact: martin.hall@kcl.ac.uk
Laboratoire Triangle
- Ludovic Frobert
Ludovic Frobert, responsible for research at CNRS, is currently in post at the l'ENS-LSH, Laboratoire Triangle (UMR n°5206).
Field of research: history of economic ideas, in particular France between 1815 and 1939.
Recent works:
Le
travail de François Simiand
(1873-1936) , Paris, Economica, 2000.
L'Enquête inachevée:
Introduction à l'économie politique d'Albert
Hirschman, [avec C. Ferraton], Paris, Puf, 2003.
Elie Halévy :
République et économie (1896-1914),
Lille,
Presses du Septentrion, 2003.
John Kenneth Galbraith: La
maîtrise sociale de l'économie ,
Paris, Michalon,
2004.
"Si vous êtes
si malins...".
McCloskey et la rhétorique des sciences
économiques, Lyon, ENS Editions, 2004.
Work in progress :
Publication and research on the Lyonnaise working press at the
beginning of Monarchie de Juillet http://echo-fabrique.ens-lsh.fr
Research on the works of Clément Juglar (1819-1905)
who discovered the idea of cycles in economics.
Partner in the programme "Cultural exchanges between Lyon and
England at the beginning of 1830"
Contact : Ludovic.Frobert@ens-lsh.fr
University of Leeds, School of History
- Simon Burrows, Lecturer in Modern History
Simon Burrows's research focuses on the history of French politics and culture, especially print culture and journalism, in the period c. 1750-1820.
His published work and work in progress covers :
- the history of the international French language press
- Franco-British diplomacy in the Napoleonic period
- scandalous literature and scandal-mongering in pre-revolutionary France
- propaganda warfare in the age of Napoleon.
Project Management Board, external member, 'Nations, Borders, Identities : the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience', AHRC funded project, 2005-2008
Select publications :
Books : Blackmail, Scandal and the French Revolution, Manchester University Press, 2006
Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and America, c. .1760-1820, ed. S. Burrows and H. Barker, Cambridge University Press, 2002
French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814, Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer for Royal Historical Society, 2000
- Mark Curran
Contact : Markdavidcurran@hotmail.com
Université de Lille 2, Institut d'Etudes Politiques
- Charles-Edouard Levillain, Lecturer in British civilisation
Research fields: History of war, diplomacy and political ideas in north-west Europe between 1650 and 1720. Has been working for several years on the circulation of ideas and on cultural transfers between France, Great-Britain and United Provinces ; currently working on a book on the Anglo-Franco-Dutch triangle between 1660 and 1688 which will examine (from a comparative perspective) the impact of Louis XIV's foreign politicy on british and batav cultural politicy. He is particularly interested in the figure of Guillaume III, rediscovered only a few years ago.
Selected publications :
"L'Angleterre de la Restauration au miroir de la 'vraie
liberté' (1660-1672). La rencontre entre
républicanismes hollandais et anglais à travers
les écrits de Pieter de la Court". Internet
publication : www.e-rea.org
, pp.34-45.
'Ruled Britannia ? Le
problème de l'influence française en Angleterre
dans la seconde partie du dix-septième siècle
(1660-1700)', in France-Angleterre : un
siècle d'Entente cordiale 1904-2004 , Laurent
Bonnaud dir., Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004, p.107-136.
'William's III military and political career in neo-Roman
context (1672-1702)'. The Historical Journal ,
2, 2005, p.321-350.
'Les simulacres de la liberté ? Le rôle
du Tacitisme dans les débats politiques en Angleterre
(1696-1699)'. Revue XVII-XVII , n° 60,
juin 2005, pp.143-154.
'Cromwell Redivivus ? William III as
Military Dictator: Myth and Reality'. Conference proceedings of the
International William III Conference of 2002. To be published by
Ashgate in early 2006.
"London besieged ? Roger
Morrice's perception of the City's vulnerability during the Glorious
Revolution". Conference proceedings of the Roger Morrice Conference of
2003. Published by Ashgate in Fear,
Exclusion and Revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s ,
ed. Jason McElligott, 2006.
'A famous stickler about the French popish interest". Anti-French
discourse and Country Culture in Andrew Marvell (1660-1678). in New Perspectives on Andrew
Marvell. Conference Proceedings of the International Andrew Marvell
Conference of 2005. To be published by Reims University in
2007.
contact : c-elevillain@club-internet.fr
Université de Lille 3, IRHIS- UMR 8529
- Renaud Morieux (external participant)
His Phd - "La Manche au XVIIIe siècle. La construction d'une frontière franco-anglaise" will be published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Select Publications :
'La Manche au 18e siècle. La construction d’une frontière franco-anglaise', Annales Historiques de la Révolution française, n°343, janvier-mars 2006, p. 167-174.
'Mer-terroir ou mer-territoire ? Les querelles de pêche franco-anglaises au 18e siècle', in Istituto Internationale Di Storia Economica « F. Datini » Prato, Serie II – Atti delle « Settimane di Studi » e altri Convegni 37, Ricchezza del Mare, Ricchezza dal Mare, Secc. XIII-XVIII, Prato, Le Monnier, 2006, p. 971-995.
‘An Inundation from Our Shores’. Travelling across the Channel around the Peace of Amiens', in Mark Philp (éd.), Resisting Napoleon. The British Response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815, Londres, Ashgate, 2006, p. 217-240
'Patriotisme, révoltes et révolutions dans les îles britanniques autour de la Révolution française', dans Bélissa Marc, Cottret Bernard (éd.), Cosmopolitismes, Patriotismes en Europe et aux Amériques 1773-1802, Rennes, Les Perséides, 2005, p. 43-58.
'Des règles aux pratiques juridiques : le droit des étrangers en France et en Angleterre pendant la Révolution française (1792-1802)', in Philippe Chassaigne, Jean-Philippe Genet (éd.), Droit et société en France et en Grande-Bretagne, 12e-20es. : fonctions et représentations, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003, p. 127-147
Contact: renaudmorieux@free.fr
University of Manchester, School of Arts, Histories and cultures
- Hannah Barker, Senior Lecturer in History
Print and urban culture ; the role of the press in popular political culture, and the relationship between the press and public opinion
Select Publications : The Business of Women : Female, Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760-1830, Oxford University Press, 2006
"Smoke cities" ; Northern Industrial Towns in late Georgian England, Urban History, 31, 2, 2004, p.175-90
Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820, ed. with Simon Burrows, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Contact : Hannah.barker@manchester.ac.uk
Middlesex University, School of Arts
- John Hope Mason, Professor of Intellectual History and Political Thought
Select Publications :
Books : The Value of Creativity : the
Origins and Emergence of a modern belief, Ashgate, 2003
Diderot, Political
Writings (co-edited/translated, Cambridge University
Press, 1992)
The Indispensable
Rousseau, Quartet Books, 1979
The Irresistible Diderot,
Quartet Books, 1982
Chapters and articles
:
'Materialism and history: Diderot & the Histoire
des Deux Indes ', European Review of
History 3, 1996, p.151-60.
'Originality: moral good, private vice, or
self-enchantment', Rousseau & the Sources
of the Self ,
ed. T.O'Hagan, Avebury Press, Aldershot, 1997, p.37-55
'Forced to be Free', in Rousseau
and Liberty, R. Wokler, Manchester University Press, 1995
[reprinted in Rousseau
and Law, ed. T.Brooks, Ashgate, 2005]
Forthcoming :
'At the limits of toleration: Rousseau
& atheism', Studies on Voltaire & the 18th
c.
'What's wrong with being "creative"?', Educations
and their Purposes: a philosophical dialogue
among cultures , ed. R.T.Ames (University of Hawai'i Press)
Rousseau : Three
Concepts of the Self
Conferences :
2006 - Co-organiser, conference on 'Rousseau in England', London, School for Advanced Studies
Contact: johnhopemason@britishlibrary.net
University of Newcastle, School of Historical Studies
- Rachel Hammersley, Lecturer in History
My research is concerned with the exchange of political ideas between Britain and France during the long eighteenth century. To date I have focused in particular on the uses made of English republican and commonwealth ideas in eighteenth-century France. My first book centred on the adoption and adaptation of those ideas by members of the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club during the French Revolution. In my current research project I have adopted a broader approach and am exploring the dissemination of those same ideas in pre-revolutionary France. This has involved consideration of the role played by Huguenot refugees, by Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke and his associates and by the circle surrounding John Wilkes in spreading and developing these ideas. In future I hope to broaden my research further by developing a project on the impact that visits to Britain had upon the thought of leading French philosophes and revolutionaries.
Select Publications :
Books : French Revolutionaries and English Republicans : the Cordeliers Club, 1790-1794, Royal Historical Society, Studies in History Series, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2005Chapters and articles :
"From Constitution-Builders to Radical Democrats : Neo-Harringtonians in Eighteenth-Century America and France, 1650-1850", Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 11, 2005, p.315-343
"The Commonwealth of Oceana de James Harrington : un modèle pour la France révolutionnaire", Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, 2005, 4, p.3-20
« Jean-Paul Marat's The Chains of Slavery in Britain and France, 1774-1833 », in The Historical Journal, 48, 2005, pp.641-660
Contact: Rachel.Hammersley@ncl.ac.uk
Université d'Orléans, Département d'Anglais
- Lucia Bergamasco, Professeur d'histoire et civilisation américaines
Lucia Bergamasco graduated in Modern History in 1978 with a thesis on "Family and Children in Colonial New England and Virginia", with Professor Gaetano Cozzi. She then moved to Paris where she continued her studies in social history and historical anthropology with professors Philip Ariès, Jean-Louis Flandrin and André Burguière, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She spent long periods in the United States doing research on grants (from the American Antiquarian society, the Newberry Library, the Copeland Fellowship at Amherst College), and in 1984 obtained a three years grant from the Italian Foreign Ministry to complete her doctoral dissertation. In 1987 she obtained her Doctorate in History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales with a thesis on "Condition féminine et vie spirituelle en Nouvelle Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle" under the supervision of Professor Jean-Louis Flandrin. Her research had now taken a new direction toward history of religious culture, which she practiced for several years. Always alert to transferts of culture, Lucia Bergamasco has worked on Protestant hagiography, on the persistence of basic Christian devotional practices in the Protestant English tradition, and on the circulation of François de Fénelon writings in XVIIIth-century England, while trying to bridge Catholic and Protestant historiographies which traditionally do not communicate much. Teaching American history at the university has obviously enhanced her expertise to comprehend XIXth-century American evangelical tradition as well as the evangelically-inspired reform movements (namely Abolitionism)
In time, questions of religious culture and religious practices as well as the very teaching of American history, has led professor Bergamasco to the history of political ideas on which she is working at present. Students' questions about the nature of republics and republicanism (still a national, lively ideological tradition in France) led her to reappraise the long debate between American historical schools of the Revolution, as well as to a close study of the English XVIIth and XVIIIth classical republican authors and the Englightenment's ideas of the ideal government. Today, along with questions of political ideology she is exploring questions of political economy, namely the French Physiocrats' impact on British economic thought and on American agrarianism. She remains hopeful that in the long run her former study of religious questions and her present interest in political questions will find a point of convergence and of fruitful synthesis.
Contact: gan.berg@wanadoo.fr
Université de Paris VIII, Vincennes-Saint-Denis
- Ann Thomson
Ann Thomson is Professor in the Département d'études des pays anglophone at Paris 8 University () and director of its 'Group de recherches sur l'histoire intellectuelle'. She specialises in the intellectual history of the long 18 th Century and her particular interests are heterodox and irreligious thought, the development of materialistic conceptions of humans or "l'histoire naturelle de l'homme", and European contacts with the Islamic world and Africa. The importance of international exchanges and cultural transfers in all of these fields has led her to a concern with the circulation of ideas and works, particularly between Britain and France, and the role of intellectual networks, clandestine literature, journalism and translation in these transfers.
She is on the scientific committee of La Lettre clandestine , is part of the international team preparing a critical edition of L'Histoire des Deux-Indes (to be published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford) and has just completed a book on the elaboration of a materialistic conception of humans in Britain and France from the late 17th to the mid 18th centuries.
Select publications :
Books : Barbary and Enlightenment. European Attitudes towards the Maghreb in the 18th Century (E.J.Brill, Leiden, 1987); ed. and translation: La Mettrie, Machine Man and other texts (Cambridge University Press, 1996); ed. with Pierre-François Moreau, Matérialisme et passions (ENS Editions, Lyon, 2004).
Articles and
Chapters : 'Informal Networks', Cambridge History of
Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Knud Haakonssen,
Cambridge University Press, 2005
'Epicurisme et matérialisme en Angleterre au
début du XVIIIe siècle', Dix-Huitième
Siècle, 35, 2003, p.281-296
'Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain', Between Leibniz, Newton and
Kant, Philosophy and Science in the 18th Century, ed.
Wolfgang Lefèvre, Dordrecht : Kluwer, 2001, p.149-173
Contact : ann.thomson@wanadoo.fr
- Allan Potofsky, Maître de conférences
Allan Potofsky is a Maître de conférences at the Université Paris-VIII (St-Denis). He specializes in the history of the French Atlantic in the age of eighteenth-century revolutions. Among his most recent publications:
"The Political Economy of the Debt Debate: The Ideological
Uses of Atlantic Commerce, From 1787 to 1800", William & Mary
Quarterly, June, 2006.
"Geography as Geopolitics. Napoleonic France and the West",
The Lewis and Clark
Expedition, Naomi Wulf and Nathalie Caron, eds.
(Edition du temps, 2005).
"The Construction of Paris and the Crisis of the Ancien
Régime: The People and the Police of the Parisian Building
Sites, 1750-1789", French
Historical Studies, Vol. 27, N. 1, 2004.
"Émigrés et
Réfugiés de la Révolution
française aux États-Unis",
Réfugiés/exilés
aux
États-Unis, 1776-2000, Catherine Collomp and
Mario Menendez,
eds. (Paris: CNRS, 2003).
He is also completing a book-length manuscript on the building trades and the construction of Paris, 1750-1820.
Contact : Allan.Potofsky@univ-paris8.fr
- Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Professeur de civilisation américaine
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke is a specialist in Huguenot refugees in the anglo-american world, and works mostly on British-American in the 17 th and 18 th centuries.
Select
Publications :
with Randy J. Sparks, Memory
and Identity : The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora,
Columbia, South Carolina, 2003
with Jean-Louis Breteau, Protestantismes
et Autorité, Toulouse, 2005
From New Babylon to
Eden. The Huguenots and their Migration
to Colonial South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2005
Contact : Bertrand.Vanruymbeke@univ-paris8.fr
- Emmanuelle de Champs, Maître de Conférences en civilisation britannique
Current research :
As a member of the Centre Bentham (Sophiapol, Nanterre), she's
currently translating Bentham's Introduction to the
Principles of Morals and Legislation.
Publications :
"Transformations de la morale utilitariste: un exemple de
réécriture des textes de Bentham par
Étienne Dumont", Bulletin de la
Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des
XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, n°62,
2006, p.161-176.
"La postérité des idées de
Jeremy Bentham : la notion d'influence à
l'épreuve",
Cromohs , 11 (2006): 1-17,
(http://www.cromohs.unifi.it)
Review of N. Sigot, Bentham et
l'économie, une histoire d'utilité
(Paris, Economica, 2001), Journal of Bentham Studies ,
4, 2001 (www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/jnl_2001.htm)
"Le mécanicien du bonheur", Notre
Histoire , février 2000, p. 58-63
"The Eighteenth-century Sources of Bentham's Theory of
Fictions", Journal of Bentham Studies , 2, 1999
(www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project//journal/jnl_19999.htm)
Contact: edechamps@univ-paris8.fr
- Claire Crignon-De Oliveira, Research Assistant for "cultural transfers"
Research :
Medicine and philosophy, 17th-18th centuries
C. Crignon-De Oliveira is working on medical discourse in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England as a source for the constitution of a science of man (Harvey, Boyle, Willis, Charleton) ; influence of mecanism, humorism and chimical medicine on philosophical representations of man and society : (Bacon, More and Cudworth, Locke, Mandeville...)
Publications :
Shaftesbury, Lettre sur l'enthousiasme, le livre de poche, "classiques de la philosophie", 2002
De la mélancolie à l'enthousiasme, Robert Burton & Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3e comte de Shaftesbury, "travaux de philosophie", Honoré Champion, 2006
with Mariana Saad, La mélancolie et l'unité matérielle de l'homme, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Revue suisse d'Histoire des Sciences et de la Médecine, Gesnerus, 2006
Contact : crideo@free.fr
Université de Paris VII
- Robert Mankin, Secteur Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes des Civilisations et Littératures d'Expression anglaise
Professor of British Civilization and Chairman of the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Paris 7
Robert Mankin is an intellectual historian of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular interests in the history of philosophy, historiography and the development of the figures of the philosopher, the historian, the economist and the man of letters. His work has centred around Hume, Gibbon, Montesquieu and Rousseau.
His publications in French include "E. Gibbon et les Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne : contextes d'un projet de périodique et raisons d'un échec"; Dix-Huitième Siècle , No. 36 (2004) ; "De proche en loin : Allan Ramsay peint la philosophie". Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles , No. 52, juin 2001; and 'De fil en aiguille : les sources de l' Encyclopédie vues par Adam Smith'. Forthcoming in Lez Valenciennes , No. 36, 2005.
In English he has written "Authority, Success and the Philosopher: Hume vs. Rousseau". Better in France ? The Circulation of Ideas between Britain and the Continent in the Eighteenth Century , éd. F. Ogée (Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2005) ; 'Montesquieu and the Spirit of Childhood' in "Imaginaires de l'enfance", Jacques Neefs and Jean Goulemot éds., Modern Language Notes , vol. 117 (2002) ; and 'Can Jealousy be Reduced to a Science? : Politics and Economics in Hume's Essays '. Journal of the History of Economic Thought , March 2005.
He is currently completing a scholarly edition of Gibbon's youthful Essai sur l'étude de la literature (1761).
Contact: mankin@paris7.jussieu.fr
Université Paris X Nanterre, Centre de Recherches en Etudes Anglophones
- Fabrice Bensimon, Maître de conférences
Les Britanniques face à la révolution de 1848. Paris, 2000; : "The French exiles and the British" in Sabine Freitag (ed.), Exiles from European Revolutions. Refugees in Mid-Victorian England, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2003, pp. 88-102;
"Simon Bernard (1817-1862)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005; « L'écho de la Révolution française dans la Grande-Bretagne du XIXe siècle », à paraître in Annales Historiques de la Révolution française, 2005.
Contact : bensimon@u-paris10.fr
- Marie Leca, Professeur de Littérature Française du XVIIIe siècle
Marie Leca is responsible for the team "Writing in the XVIIIe century", Centre des Sciences de la Littérature française, at Université Paris X.
She is a member of the Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) du Ministère de la Recherche and Secretary of the History of Art and Archeology of Medicval and Modern Civilisations sections.
She is also writer in chief of the review Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie (published with the assistance of the National Center of the Letters).
Contact: marie.leca@wanadoo.fr
Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Centre Roland Mousnier Histoire et Civilisation
- Jean-François Dunyach, Maître de Conférences en Histoire Moderne
Jean-François Dunyach's research interests include:
- Intellectual and cultural history of western Europe in the XVIIIth century
- Historiography and theories of the history XVII-XVIII-XIXth centuries
- European Antilumières, notably Scottish
- French, British and American political theory of the XVIIIth century
Contact: Jean-Francois.Dunyach@paris4.sorbonne.fr
Queen Mary, University of London, Department of French
- Marian Hobson
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
Awards and distinctions - 2006 : AHRC reasearch grant project : 'Religious unorthodoxy in the Royal Society in the 1730s'
Marian Hobson is a specialist on the French eighteenth century, and the author of many articles, and a book, "The Object of Art", 1982, Cambridge: CUP. Her particularly interest at the present time is in the Editor of the Encylopédie, Denis Diderot and his work in the 1740s. With Simon Harvey, she edited Diderot's 1749 "Letter on the Blind", 2000, Paris: Flammarion. It had been previously said that one of the major figures in the Letter, the blind mathematician Nichola Saunderson, 1739, was traduced by Diderot, who to sharpen his own position was said deliberately to have presented Saunderson as an atheist, when he was not. We were able to show that contrary to this, Saunderson was indeed known as unorthodox very soon after his death, and we suspect, during his lifetime.This lead us to seek to show that Diderot was aware that some of Newton's followers were very far from being traditionally religious. We are now working on the problem: how did Diderot know what he knew ?
Select
Publications :
Books : The Object of Art : the Theory
of Illusion in Eighteenth-Century France, Cambridge
UNiversity Press, 1982
Denis Diderot, Lettre
sur les aveugles, Lettre sur les sourds et muets, ed. with
Simon Harvey, Paris, Flammarion, 2000
Rousseau et le
dix-huitième siècle : Essays in Memory of R.A.
Leigh, ed. Hobson et al., Oxford, The Voltaire Fundation,
1993
Chapters and articles
:
'Diderot et Rousseau par Rameau interposé', Recherches sur Diderot et
l'Encyclopédie, 2005
'Diderot and Oblivion / Diderot in the future tense', ed. Jonathan
Mallinson, in the
Eighteenth century now : boudaries and perspectives, 2005,
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth, 2005 : 10, p.36-50, Oxford,
Voltaire Foundation
Contact: Hobson@mjeanneret.com
- Dr. Elizabeth Grist
Phd : 'The Salon and the Stage : Women and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century france', University of London, 2001
Publications :
'Peter Motteux (1663-1718) : writer, translator, entrepreneur', Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland, vol. 28, n°3, 2005
With Simon Harvey, 'The Rainbow Coffee-House and the exchange of ideas in early eighteenth-century England', in The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1789, ed. Anne Dunan-Page, Ashgate, forthcoming.
Université de Rennes II
- Pierre Lurbe
Anglophonie, Communautés, Ecritures
Contact: pierre.lurbe@wanadoo.fr
University of Sussex
- Knud Haakonssen, Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History
Knud Haakonssen was educated at the Universities of Copenhagen and Edinburgh and holds doctorates from both. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Historical Society. Before joining the University of Sussex in 2005, he was Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and had previously taught history of ideas, political science, and philosophy in Australia, New Zealand, and Denmark.
Haakonssen has worked extensively on the Enlightenment in Germany, Scotland, Scandinavia, and England with special emphasis on moral philosophy and legal and political thought. His main research project is an extensive study of the history of rights in the early modern period, tentatively entitled Rights and the History of Civil Society. He is involved in several editorial projects and is General Editor of the 'Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid' and of a large series of 'Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics.' His publications include: The Science of a Legislator. The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith (Cambridge U. P. 1981); Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge U. P. 1996); (co-ed.) A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law - 1791 and 1991 (Cambridge U.P. 1996); (ed.) Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge U.P. 1996); (ed.) The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge U. P. 2005); (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (Cambridge U.P. 2005); "German Natural Law", in Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought ', eds. Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (Cambridge U.P. forthcoming 2006).
Contact : K.Haakonssen@sussex.ac.uk
- Richard Whatmore, Head of Department of History, Reader in Intellectual History
Research interests : Anglo-French international rivalry during the second hundred years war; perceptions of the British politics and the British constitution in eighteenth century France ; the relationship between small and large states and the impact of the rise of commercial monarchy on existing republics. His publications have centred on the political and economic thought of the late eighteenth century, and particularly the period of the French Revolution. He is currently writing a book on perceptions of the Britain's constitution, public credit, and commercial society in eighteenth-century France.
Scientific
Responsabilities :
2000 - Editor (with Brian Young) History of European Ideas
2003 - Editorial Board, Storia del Pensiero Economico
Select
Publications :
‘Democrats and Republicans in Restoration France’, European
Political Theory, 3 (2004), 38-52
‘The Politics of Political Economy from Rousseau to
Constant’, in M.
Bevir and F. Trentman, eds., Markets
in Historical Contexts. Ideas and
Politics in the Modern World, Cambridge University Press,
2004, p.
46-69.
‘French perspectives on British politics,
1688-1734’, in J.-P. Genet
& F.-J. Ruggiu, eds. Les
Idées passent-elles la Manche ?, Presses de
l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2007, p.83-98
‘Etienne Dumont, the British Constitution, and the French
Revolution’, Historical
Journal, 50/1, 2007, p.1-25
Contact : r.whatmore@sussex.ac.uk
Trieste University
- Marco Platania
Research Interests : social history of culture, history of knowledge, especially historical knowledge of colonial phenomenon, historical representations of alterity, discussions about colonial past of France
Select Publications :
"Montesquieu e la virtù : rappresentazioni della Francia di Ancien Régime e dei governi repubblicani", Torino, UTET, 2007.
"Savoir historique et expansion coloniale française au XVIIIe siècle/Sapere storico e espansione coloniale francese nel XVIII secolo". Thèse de doctorat, Université de Trieste et de Paris 8, 2007.
"Morale naturelle et développement des sociétés: les Troglodytes et les Guèbres dans la réflexion de Montesquieu", dans Etica e progresso / Ethique et progrès, Atti del Convegno internazionale, Napoli, 2-4 dicembre 2004, a cura di L. Bianchi, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 2007 (to come)
«Yves Benot et le problème colonial en France, 1970-2005», Cromohs, 11 (2006), p. 1-6 < URL: http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/11_2006/platania_benot.html >
«Dynamiques des empires et dynamiques du commerce : inflexions de la pensée de Montesquieu : 1734-1802», Revue Montesquieu, 8 (2005-2006), p. 43-66.
«Formes de la liberté: images politiques de Indiens d’Amérique dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle»,Cromohs,10(2005) , p. 1-9 <URL : http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/10_2005/platania_indiens.html>
Contact : marco.platania@gmail.com
University of Wales
- Sarah Hutton
Scientific Responsabilities :
Director of International Archives in the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoires des Idées Member of the editorial boards of : • The British Journal for the History of Philosophy • Notes and Records of the Royal Society • Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy • The Journal for the History of Philosophy. Consultant to: • Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, (Queen Mary College, London) • Newton Project (Imperial College) • Feminism and Enlightenment project (1998-2001) Chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy (1996-2004). member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Philosophy, University of London (2006— ).
Recent Publications :
Benjamin Furly (1646-1714): a Quaker Merchant and his Milieu, Florence : Olschki, 2007. (Studi e testi per la storia della toleranza.) Anne Conway, a Woman Philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Newton and Newtonianism, ed. J.E. Force and Sarah Hutton, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
Editions :
Richard Ward’s Life of Henry More. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality and A Treatise of Freewill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) ; The Conway Letters: the Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More and their Friends, 1642-1684, a revised edition of a collection originally edited by Marjorie Nicolson in 1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Contact : sfh@aber.ac.uk
University of York, Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- David Wootton
Select Publications :
Books : Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society : 1649-1776, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1994
John Locke, Political Writings, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1993
Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, ed. with M.Hunter, Oxford University Press, 1992
Divine Right and Democracy : an Anthology of Political Thought in Stuart England, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986
Editions : Voltaire, 'Candide' and Related Texts, translated and introduced, Indianapolis, Hackett, 2000
St. Thomas More, Utopia (with Erasmus, Sileni Alcibiades), translated and introduced, Indianapolis, Hackett, 1999
Modern Political Thought : Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche, edited, with introductions, Indianapolis, Hackett, 1996
Machiavelli, Selected Works, edited and translated, Indianapolis, Hackett, 1994
Chapters and Articles :
'Liberty, Metaphor, and Mechanism : the Origins of Modern Constitutionalism', in Liberty and the Americal Revolution, ed. D. Womersley, Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2004
'Unhappy Voltaire : or "I shall never get over it as long as I live", History Workshop Journal, n°50, 2000, 137-55
'Helvétius : From Radical Enlightenment to Revolution', Political Theory, 28, 2000, p.467-96
Contact : Dw504@york.ac.uk
