Wednesday 3 June 2026 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 15:00 - 15:30 Session 2: State and politics of the living world Speaker(s) Antoine Lilti Professor at the Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 3 Jun 2026 9:00 - 9:30am Antoine Lilti, Silvia Sebastiani & Stéphane Van Damme Introduction Symposium 3 Jun 2026 9:30 - 10:00am Jessica Riskin The dilemmas of the self-taught primate, or the politics of science in the age of transformism… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 10:00 - 10:30am Maxime Guttin Knowing the brain, determining race: the authority of medical knowledge Symposium 3 Jun 2026 10:30 - 11:00am Stefanie Gänger "The Wisest Man Nevertheless Knows Not the Nature of A Fever." Epistemic Geographies and Enlightened… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 3 Jun 2026 2:00 - 2:30pm Jens Amborg The journey of three Tibetan sheep: science and breeding in the French empire of the Enlighten… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 2:30 - 3:00pm Émilie-Anne Pepy Between improving and appropriating nature: forestry, another "friendly science"? Symposium 3 Jun 2026 3:00 - 3:30pm Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 3 Jun 2026 3:45 - 4:15pm Gregory Quenet Connect or unfold? The archives of autochthony in the Indian Ocean Symposium 3 Jun 2026 4:15 - 4:45pm Jan Synowiecki Is the Ecological Indian an Enlightenment Fable?… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 4:45 - 5:15pm Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 3 Jun 2026 5:30 - 6:30pm Simon Schaffer False light: rumor and reputation in the sciences of the Enlightenment Symposium 4 Jun 2026 9:30 - 10:00am Mélanie Traversier European curiosities and knowledge tested by Oceanian sound objects (late XVIIIth- … Symposium 4 Jun 2026 10:00 - 10:30am Juan Pimentel Hidden treasures. Some Mexican ruins and a Peruvian Tableau (c. 1800) Symposium 4 Jun 2026 10:30 - 11:00am Sujit Sivasundaram Enlightened ideas in the Indian Ocean Arena: Thinking with the Small Symposium 4 Jun 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 4 Jun 2026 2:00 - 2:30pm Francesca Antonelli From collective work to the myth of the solitary genius: the "chemical revolution" Symposium 4 Jun 2026 2:30 - 3:00pm Pierre-Yves Lacour Describing know-how, publishing science: verdigris in the Montpellier of the Enlightenment… Symposium 4 Jun 2026 3:00 - 3:30pm Jean-Luc Chappey Between science and entertainment: public sessions at the Collège de France (1780-1803) Symposium 4 Jun 2026 3:45 - 4:30pm Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 4 Jun 2026 4:30 - 6:00pm Shiru Lim, Lavinia Maddaluno, Neil Safier & Nathalie Vuillemin Round table and final discussion Next See also Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century Who owns Enlightenment science?