17:30 to 18:30
Symposium

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

Simon Schaffer
Who owns Enlightenment science?
17:30 to 18:30
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Simon Schaffer

    Cambridge

    Events

    Introduction
    Antoine Lilti, Silvia Sebastiani & Stéphane Van Damme

    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:30

    The dilemmas of the self-taught primate, or the politics of science in the age of transformism…
    Jessica Riskin

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00

    Knowing the brain, determining race: the authority of medical knowledge
    Maxime Guttin

    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30

    "The Wisest Man Nevertheless Knows Not the Nature of A Fever." Epistemic Geographies and Enlightened…
    Stefanie Gänger

    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00

    Discussion
    Antoine Lilti

    Symposium
    11:15 to 12:00
    Not recorded

    The journey of three Tibetan sheep: science and breeding in the French empire of the Enlighten…
    Jens Amborg

    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30

    Between improving and appropriating nature: forestry, another "friendly science"?
    Émilie-Anne Pepy

    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00

    Discussion
    Antoine Lilti

    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Not recorded

    Connect or unfold? The archives of autochthony in the Indian Ocean
    Gregory Quenet

    Symposium
    15:45 to 16:15

    Is the Ecological Indian an Enlightenment Fable?…
    Jan Synowiecki

    Symposium
    16:15 to 16:45

    Discussion
    Antoine Lilti

    Symposium
    16:45 to 17:15
    Not recorded

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

    Symposium
    17:30 to 18:30

    European curiosities and knowledge tested by Oceanian sound objects (late XVIIIth- …
    Mélanie Traversier

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00

    Hidden treasures. Some Mexican ruins and a Peruvian Tableau (c. 1800)
    Juan Pimentel

    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30

    Enlightened ideas in the Indian Ocean Arena: Thinking with the Small
    Sujit Sivasundaram

    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00

    Discussion
    Antoine Lilti

    Symposium
    11:15 to 12:00
    Not recorded

    From collective work to the myth of the solitary genius: the "chemical revolution"
    Francesca Antonelli

    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30

    Describing know-how, publishing science: verdigris in the Montpellier of the Enlightenment…
    Pierre-Yves Lacour

    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00

    Between science and entertainment: public sessions at the Collège de France (1780-1803)
    Jean-Luc Chappey

    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30

    Discussion
    Antoine Lilti

    Symposium
    15:45 to 16:30
    Not recorded

    Round table and final discussion
    Shiru Lim, Lavinia Maddaluno, Neil Safier & Nathalie Vuillemin

    Symposium
    16:30 to 18:00

    See also

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