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Knowledge Production, Technology, and Cultural Change:
Colloquium on the Digital Encyclopédie


April 23-24, 2009

Thursday, April 23 (Nolte Center 235)

10:00: Welcoming remarks, Daniel Brewer (University of Minnesota)

10:15 – 11:15: “‘Taming the Monster’: The ARTFL Encyclopédie”
Robert Morrissey, Glenn Roe, Elizabeth Selbst (ARTFL, University of Chicago)

11:30 – 12:15: “The Epistemology of Enthusiasm,” Wilda Anderson (Johns Hopkins University)

12:30 – 2:00: Lunch

2:00 – 3:00: “The Digital Encyclopédie and Research Directions in Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Roundtable Discussion: Wilda Anderson, Daniel Brewer, Juliette Cherbuliez, Dan Edelstein, Robert Morrissey, J. B. Shank

3:15 - 4:45: “L’Encyclopédie méthodique: des Lumières au Néoclassicisme,” Martine Groult (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), and (Title to be announced), Pierre Caye (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Friday, April 24 (Nolte Center 235)

9:00 – 10:30: “An Encyclopédie for the Encyclopédie,” Joseph St. Meyer (Stanford University), “Le Citoyen et l’Encyclopédie,” Clovis Gladstone (University of Chicago), and “Une humanité réconciliée: le bonheur en vertu de l’Encyclopédie,” Julia Chambard-Bergeron (University of Chicago)

11:00 – 11:45 : Research Project Presentations #1: Space
Mike Faeth, Rachel Gibson, Lia Mitchell, Corbin Treacy (University of Minnesota)

12:00 – 1:30: Lunch

2:00 – 3:30: Research Project Presentations #2: Sentiment, Nature, Values
Melanie Bowman, Lauren Fichtel, Anna Rosensweig, François Vozel (University of Minnesota)

3:45 – 4:30: Research Project Presentations #3: Time and History
Tracy Evans, Steve Gray, Courtney Matthews, Dan Paltzer (University of Minnesota)

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Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS)

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Early Modern History, Wilson Library