Program
Day 1 - April 14, 2023
Panel 1 - Public Opinion and Social Cohesion/Opinion publique et lien social
Chair : Jan Goldstein, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor Emerita of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College, University of Chicago
9:30am : Transformations of the social bond on the revolutionary stage : equality, judgment, affect
Susan Maslan, Associate Professor of French, University of California, Berkeley
Les discours aliénistes face à l'opinion publique à la fin du XVIIIe, entre promesses de réorganisation de la société, révolutionnaires pathologiques et assurances contre de « Nouvelles Bastilles »
Agathe Meridjen, Doctorante en Sociologie, Université Paris Nanterre
Panel 2 - Trickery and Deception : Twisted Opinion/Tromperie et déception : l'opinion travestie
Chair : Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary University of London ; Visiting Professor of History, University of Chicago
10:30am : Wrongful Praising : flattery and strategies of survival in Napoleonic Italy
Doina Harsanyi, Professor of History, World Languages, and Cultures, Central Michigan University
Mystification et Victimisation : Diderot le « Trickster » des Lumières
Robert Morrissey, Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago
11:30am : Lunch
Panel 3 - Opinion on Trial : Legislation and Legalization/L'opinion en procès : législation et légalisation
Chair : Paul Cheney, Professor of European History, Fundamentals, and the College, University of Chicago
1:30 : The Autobiographer as Jurist : Rousseau's Confessions, the Practice of Judicial Proof, and the Court of Public Opinion
Ryan Brown, PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies, University of Chicago
Les jurisconsultes du Ministère des affaires étrangères et l'opinion publique (1789-1830)
Raphaël Cahen, Senior Researcher, JLU Giessen ; Guest Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Panel 4 - Representing and Measuring Public Opinion : Revolutionary Fever and its Excesses/Représenter et mesurer l'opinion publique : la fièvre révolutionnaire et ses excès
Chair : William H. Sewell Jr., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History
2:30 : Le thermomètre de l'opinion publique : mesure de la fièvre sociale au tournant du 19ème siècle en France
Maximilien Novak, Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
'The King's Head or Bust' : aesthetic and political representations of popular mob beheadings
Andrei Pop, Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College, University of Chicago
3:30pm : Coffee Break
4:00pm : Keynote address - Public Opinion : Reason or Will ?
Keith Baker, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian
5:00pm : End
7:00pm : Dinner
Day 2 - April 15, 2023
Panel 5 - Public Opinion and Publicity : From Impostures to Posters/Opinion publique et publicité : de l'imposture aux posters
Chair : Robert Morrissey, Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago
1:00pm : Charlatanism and imposture : the philosophes and the challenge of publicity
Antoine Lilti, Chaire “Histoire des Lumière, XVIIIe siècle – XXIe siècle, Collège de France
Walls speak : Advertisement and public opinion through 18th Century Parisian posters
Laurent Cuvelier, Maître de conférences en histoire moderne, Université de Tours
Panel 6 - New Perspectives : the development of questions around race and disability/Nouvelles perspectives : la question de la mise en valeur de la question raciale et des invalides
Chair : Yann Robert, Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
2 :00pm : Public Opinion and Empire : a Black Epistemological Approach
Christy L. Pichichero, Associate Professor of History and French with affiliations in African and African American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and War and the Military in Society Programs, George Mason University
Prendre les invalides pour témoins : l'instrumentalisation du sort des militaires en Espagne dans le procès du système politique napoléonien
Thomas Ramonda, Doctorant en histoire, Aix-Marseille Université
3:00pm : Coffee break
Final Roundtable - Public Opinion Today
3:30pm : Moderator : Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History; University of Chicago: Visiting Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London
Participants : TBD (Open Invitation)
4:30pm : End
6:00pm : Concert
Pianist : Pierre Delignies Caldéron
(Location : Fulton Recital Hall - University of Chicago Campus - 5845 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637)
7:30pm : End
International Colloquium at the University of Chicago