5:30 - 6:30pm
Symposium

False light: rumor and reputation in the sciences of the Enlightenment

Simon Schaffer
Who owns Enlightenment science?
5:30 - 6:30pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Simon Schaffer

    Cambridge

    Events

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am
    Antoine Lilti, Silvia Sebastiani & Stéphane Van Damme

    Introduction
    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am
    Jessica Riskin

    The dilemmas of the self-taught primate, or the politics of science in the age of transformism…
    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am
    Maxime Guttin

    Knowing the brain, determining race: the authority of medical knowledge
    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:00am
    Stefanie Gänger

    "The Wisest Man Nevertheless Knows Not the Nature of A Fever." Epistemic Geographies and Enlightened…
    Symposium
    11:15am - 12:00pm
    Antoine Lilti

    Discussion
    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm
    Jens Amborg

    The journey of three Tibetan sheep: science and breeding in the French empire of the Enlighten…
    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm
    Émilie-Anne Pepy

    Between improving and appropriating nature: forestry, another "friendly science"?
    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm
    Antoine Lilti

    Discussion
    Symposium
    3:45 - 4:15pm
    Gregory Quenet

    Connect or unfold? The archives of autochthony in the Indian Ocean
    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm
    Jan Synowiecki

    Is the Ecological Indian an Enlightenment Fable?…
    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:15pm
    Antoine Lilti

    Discussion
    Symposium
    5:30 - 6:30pm
    Simon Schaffer

    False light: rumor and reputation in the sciences of the Enlightenment
    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am
    Mélanie Traversier

    European curiosities and knowledge tested by Oceanian sound objects (late XVIIIth- …
    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am
    Juan Pimentel

    Hidden treasures. Some Mexican ruins and a Peruvian Tableau (c. 1800)
    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:00am
    Sujit Sivasundaram

    Enlightened ideas in the Indian Ocean Arena: Thinking with the Small
    Symposium
    11:15am - 12:00pm
    Antoine Lilti

    Discussion
    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm
    Francesca Antonelli

    From collective work to the myth of the solitary genius: the "chemical revolution"
    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm
    Pierre-Yves Lacour

    Describing know-how, publishing science: verdigris in the Montpellier of the Enlightenment…
    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm
    Jean-Luc Chappey

    Between science and entertainment: public sessions at the Collège de France (1780-1803)
    Symposium
    3:45 - 4:30pm
    Antoine Lilti

    Discussion
    Symposium
    4:30 - 6:00pm
    Shiru Lim, Lavinia Maddaluno, Neil Safier & Nathalie Vuillemin

    Round table and final discussion

    See also

    Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century
    Who owns Enlightenment science?