PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 12TH JANUARY
Introduction and welcoming remarks by the convenors
Genealogical culture and social practices
Mathieu Marraud (CNRS, CRH) avec Nicolas Lyon-Caen (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
Creative and historical writing: staging the family destiny
Henry French (Exeter): Sighing for Past Greatness: Gibbon’s Digression and the Visualisation of the Courtenay Lineage, c. 1400-1800
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 eighteenth-century Germany
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.
FRIDAY 13TH JANUARY
Hereditary virtues vs personal merits
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
