Sorbonne nouvelle / British Academy Network
The European Republic of Letters 16th-21st centuries
La république européenne des Lettres XVIe-XXIe siècles
Grand amphithéâtre, Institut du monde anglophone,
5 rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris 6e
15 -16 May 2009
Chair : Marc Porée, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle
13.45 Welcome : André Topia, Head of the English Faculty of the Sorbonne nouvelle
14.00 Simone TESTA, British Library,‘The Intellectual Network of Early Modern Europe in the Italian Academies Database (1530-1700)’
14.45 Keith BAKER, Stanford University, ‘Mapping the Republic of Letters’
15.30 Tea
16.00 Paul HAMILTON, Queen Mary, University of London
‘From «the Republic of Letters» to Romantic «Realpoetik»’
16.45 Moshik TEMKIN, Harvard University
‘Pan-European Writers and the Making of the Sacco-Vanzetti Affair’
Chair : Dena Goodman, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
9.00 Evy VARSAMOPOULOU, University of Cyprus,
‘The Sense of Community in the Notion of a «Republic of Letters»’
9. 45 Marc POREE, Sorbonne nouvelle, ‘When the Republic of Letters Goes Global: Pascale Casanova, Michel Le Bris, Camille de Toledo’
10.30 Break (coffee)
11.00 Didier GIRARD, Université de Perpignan, ‘Transcultural experiences of today’s Sodalitates litterarum: A Case Study’
12.00 Conference Lunch
Chair : Alain Morvan, Sorbonne nouvelle
14.00 Opening of the British Academy session by Elinor Shaffer, BA, and Annick Duperray, BA Network
14.15 10th British Academy Network Lecture
Marc FUMAROLI, FBA, Académie française, ‘La République des Lettres: un problème historiographique et une question d’actualité’
15.15 Break
15.30 Jean Marie GOULEMOT, Université de Tours, First respondent
15.50 Gisèle SAPIRO, CNRS, Second respondent
16.10 Louis VAN DELFT, Université Paris X , Third Respondent [t.b.c.]
16.30 General discussion (to 17.00)
