The Empires of the Atlantic World in Revolution. International Workshop

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The Empires of the Atlantic World in Revolution. International Workshop

Organizer
Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Venue
Amphitheatre of the EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 75006, France
Location
Paris
Country
France
From - Until
28.06.2010 - 30.06.2010
Website
http://www.mascipo.fr/
By
Gonny, Claire-Marie

In 2010, many Hispanic American nations will celebrate the bicentenary of their creation. Although these commemorations lay upon nationalistic ideologies, they offer an extraordinary opportunity to delve deeper into the independence of the States born out of the downfall of the Spanish monarchy and, from a wider perspective, into the period during which the empires of the Atlantic World (British, French, Portuguese and Spanish) gave way to republics or constitutional empires (as in the case of Mexico and, specially, Brazil). During the last decade, new scholarship has made evident the need to overcome certain basic principles commonly accepted, to better explain the important historical moment that took place between the enlightened reformism and the great liberal reforms.

This workshop aims to question the analytical pertinence of using national boundaries as a valid scale of analysis (this being outdated and teleological), and also to emphasize the need to make use of a transnational perspective to bring further light into our understanding of such an important moment. In this sense, the Atlantic context seems to be the most appropriate scale to analyze the 'abstract connections' (of either ideas, references or models) and the 'concrete circulations' (of both individuals and goods) which gave shape to a particular African-Euro-American space, since the appearance of the enlightened ideas until the revolutionary changes and the establishment of independent States. This analytical approach also intends to question the pertinence of the imperial scale, which, besides being strongly euro-centric, it underestimates the relations weaved between different spaces of sovereignty, and neglects a region of interchanges as complex as the Caribbean.

In order to underline the homogeneity of the period covered by the subjects chosen for the workshop, we have established a chronology which begins with the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War (1756-1796), and extends through the second half of the 19th century with the abolitions of slavery, the independence conflicts in Cuba (1868-1898), the War of Secession in the United States (1861-1865), and the French expedition in Mexico (1862-1867). These boundaries allow to explore from a different perspective a period characterized by political and social upheavals, common to the four great imperial domains and newborn American nations; the enlightened ideas and revolutions, emancipations and abolitionism, constitutionalism and republicanism, international wars and liberalism, also civil and military movements, profound changes in the rhythm of transatlantic or transamerican trade, etc. It also permits not only to pass through the barriers artificially built up between modern history and contemporary history, but also to underplay the rupture between colonial and post-colonial societies.

Those remarks drives attention to yet another important historical problem: The presence of persons belonging to subordinate groups, playing relevant roles in the political processes they took part in. Although individuals that comply with the latter’s description can be found both in the north and the south of American continent, their participation has been traditionally underestimated by many historiographies. Our main objectives are to bring further light into the understanding of a moment which is not explainable only in terms of the construction of the Nation-States or by the impact of liberalism, and also into the epistemological reflection regarding the Atlantic as analytical framework.

Programm

MONDAY, JUNE 28

9h00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
Jean-Pierre Etienvre (Directeur de la Casa de Velázquez), Annick Lempérière (Université Paris I- Directrice du MASCIPO), François Weil (Président de l’EHESS)

9h15 PRESENTATION
Federica Morelli (Università degli studi di Torino-MASCIPO), Clément Thibaud (Université de Nantes-CRHIA/MASCIPO), Alejandro E. Gómez (Université Paris III-EHESS/MASCIPO), Gabriel Entin (EHESS-Universidad de Buenos Aires)

9H30 KEYNOTE TALK
Tulio Halperín Donghi (University of California, Berkeley)

10h45 PANEL I: CONNEXIONS IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
Chair: Geneviève Verdo (Université Paris I-MASCIPO)
-Monica Henry (Université Paris Est-Créteil), « Les Etats-Unis et les révolutions dans l’empire espagnol, 1810-1826 »
-Matthew Brown (University of Bristol), « In the name of a principle: British supporters of Greater Colombia »
Comments: Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS)

14h00 PANEL II: INTELLECTUAL AND JURIDICAL CIRCULATIONS IN THE HISPANIC ATLANTIC
Chair: Gilles Havard (CNRS-MASCIPO)
-María Dolores González-Ripoll (CSIC, Spain), « Pragmatismo y moderación entre la ilustración y el liberalismo: ideología y redes de intercambio en el mundo atlántico »
-Erika Pani (Colegio de México), « Gentilhomme et révolutionnaire; citoyen et ‘étranger suspect’. Orazio de Attellis, marquis de Santangelo, et les républiques américaines »
Comments: Carlos Garriga (Universidad del País Vasco)

15h45 PANEL III: HISPANIC AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS FROM A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Chair: Nikita Harwich (Université Paris X-Nanterre, ESNA-MASCIPO)
-João Paulo Pimenta (Universidade de São Paulo), « Las independencias cruzadas de Brasil e Hispanoamérica: el problema de las sincronías y las diacronías »
-Elías Palti (Universidad de Buenos Aires), « La democracia como problema. La experiencia atlántica vista desde el laboratorio latinoamericano »
-James E. Sanders (Utah State University), « Revolution and the Creation of an Atlantic Counter-Modernity: Popular and Elite Contestations of Republicanism and Progress in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Latin America »
Comments: Javier Fernández Sebastián (Universidad del País Vasco)

TUESDAY, JUNE 29

9h00 PANEL IV: HISPANIC AMERICAN REPUBLICANS IN THE CARIBBEAN
Chair: Frédérique Langue (CNRS-EHESS-MASCIPO)
-Johanna von Grafestein (Instituto Mora, Mexico), « Revolucionarios americanos en el circumcaribe hispano, 1810-1827 »
-Vanessa Mongey (University of Pennsylvannia), « ‘Aider et protéger l’indépendance de tout l’Univers’: les réseaux révolutionnaires dans le Golfe du Mexique »
Comments: María Teresa Calderón (Universidad Externado de Colombia-CEHIS)

10h45 PANEL V: COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL CRISSCROSSINGS
Chair: Pilar González Bernaldo (Université Paris VII-MASCIPO)
-Julie Kim (Fordham University), « Circum-Atlantic Cuisines in the Age of Revolutions »
-Eric Schnakenbourg (Université de Nantes), « Dans les interstices des empires: les neutres du Nord et le commerce des Antilles dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (1756-1783) »
Manuel Covo (EHESS), « Une colonie marchande et boutiquière et la ligue de la liberté ».
Comments: Jean Hébrard (University of Michigan, EHESS)

14h00 PANEL VI: AFRODESCENDANT MOVEMENTS IN THE ATLANTIC SPACE
Chair: Véronique Hébrard (Université Paris I-MASCIPO)
-Antonio de Almeida Mendes (Université de Nantes), « Africains entre trois mondes-continents (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) »
-Jorge Victoria Ojeda (Instituto de Cultura de Yucatán, Mexico), « La circulación de los negros auxiliares de La Hispaniola en el Mundo Atlántico »
-Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds), « Emigración forzada y esclavitud ilegal en las Antillas durante la época de las revoluciones, 1817-1844 »
Comments: Josep Maria Delgado (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

16h15 PANEL VII: REVOLUTIONS ‘FROM BELOW’
Chair: Stéphane Michonneau (Casa de Velázquez)
-Marixa Lasso (Case Western University), « Los grupos populares y la independencia: ¿un nuevo paradigma historiográfico? »
-Cecilia Méndez (University of California, Santa Bárbara - Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima), « El Estado en marcha o la Nación vista desde el campo de batalla: razones para recordar una guerra olvidada, Perú: 1820-1824 »
Comments: Anath Ariel de Vidas (CNRS-EHESS-MASCIPO)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30

9h00 PANEL VIII: GENRE AND REVOLUTION
Chair: Armelle Enders (Université Paris IV -MASCIPO)
-Dominique Rogers (Université des Antilles-Guyane), « Les femmes dans la révolution haïtienne: état des lieux et perspectives »
-Sarah Chambers (University of Minnesota), « Was the Personal Political in Spanish American Independence?: Holding Women Responsible (or not) for their Wartime Actions »
Comments: Cécile Vidal (EHESS-MASCIPO)

10h45 PANEL IX: AMERINDIAN AND SLAVE RESISTANCES
Chair: Capucine Boidin (Université Paris III-IHEAL)
-Rossana Barragán (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz), « ‘Indios esclavos’: encuentros, desencuentros y encrucijadas en torno a la mita minera y los servicios personales, 1790-1812 »
-Nigel Worden (Cape Town University, Le Cap), « Forgotten revolutionaries: slave cultural resistance at the Cape, 1760-1808 »
-Rafael de Bivar Marquese (Universidade de São Paulo), « Revolta escrava e política da escravidão: Brasil e Cuba, 1791-1825 »
Comments: Jean-Paul Zúñiga (EHESS)

14h00 ROUND TABLE
Jeremy Adelman (University of Princeton), Annick Lempérière (Université Paris I-Directrice MASCIPO), Pierre Serna (Université Paris I), Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS).

Organisation committee:
Federica Morelli (Università degli studi di Torino-MASCIPO)
Clément Thibaud (Université de Nantes-CRHIA/MASCIPO)
Alejandro E. Gómez (Université Paris III-EHESS/MASCIPO)
Gabriel Entin (EHESS-Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Scientific committee:
Alejandro E. Gómez (Université Paris III-EHESS/ MASCIPO)
Annick Lempérière (Université Paris I-MASCIPO)
Federica Morelli (Università degli studi di Torino-MASCIPO)
Clément Thibaud (Université de Nantes-CRHIA/MASCIPO)
Cécile Vidal (EHESS-MASCIPO)
Geneviève Verdo (Université Paris I-MASCIPO)

Sponsored by:
MASCIPO-UMR 8168 (Mondes américains, sociétés, circulations, pouvoirs, ESNA-Paris X, CENA-EHESS, CRALMI-Paris I, CERMA-EHESS).
Casa de Velázquez (Madrid)
Universidad Externado de Colombia (CEHIS-Externado)
École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH-Paris)
Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Mission Régionale pour les Pays Andins (Lima)
Ambassade de la République argentine en France
Institut français d’Afrique du sud (IFAS)
Centre d’Etudes mexicaines et centraméricaines (CEMCA)
Université de Nantes (Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique)
Casa Argentina, Cité Universitaire de Paris
Colegio de España, Cité Universitaire de Paris
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MASCIPO/CERMA
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Bureau 909
54 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris
Tél : 01 49 54 25 06
Fax : 01 49 54 25 36
Email: colloquemascipo2010@gmail.com

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