Wednesday 3 June 2026 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 10:00 - 10:30 Add this event to my calendar iCalendar (.ics) Google Calendar Microsoft Outlook.com Office 365 Yahoo! Calendar Session 1: Scientific authority in question Speaker(s) Maxime Guttin ATER with the History of the Enlightenment, 18th to 21st century Chair, Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 3 Jun 2026 09:00 to 09:30 Antoine Lilti, Silvia Sebastiani & Stéphane Van Damme Introduction Symposium 3 Jun 2026 09:30 to 10:00 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 to 10:30 Maxime Guttin Knowing the brain, determining race: the authority of medical knowledge Symposium 3 Jun 2026 10:30 to 11:00 Stefanie Gänger "The Wisest Man Nevertheless Knows Not the Nature of A Fever." Epistemic Geographies and Enlightened… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 11:15 to 12:00 Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 3 Jun 2026 14:00 to 14:30 Jens Amborg The journey of three Tibetan sheep: science and breeding in the French empire of the Enlighten… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 14:30 to 15:00 Émilie-Anne Pepy Between improving and appropriating nature: forestry, another "friendly science"? Symposium 3 Jun 2026 15:00 to 15:30 Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 3 Jun 2026 15:45 to 16:15 Gregory Quenet Connect or unfold? The archives of autochthony in the Indian Ocean Symposium 3 Jun 2026 16:15 to 16:45 Jan Synowiecki Is the Ecological Indian an Enlightenment Fable?… Symposium 3 Jun 2026 16:45 to 17:15 Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 3 Jun 2026 17:30 to 18:30 Simon Schaffer False light: rumor and reputation in the sciences of the Enlightenment Symposium 4 Jun 2026 09:30 to 10:00 Mélanie Traversier European curiosities and knowledge tested by Oceanian sound objects (late XVIIIth- … Symposium 4 Jun 2026 10:00 to 10:30 Juan Pimentel Hidden treasures. Some Mexican ruins and a Peruvian Tableau (c. 1800) Symposium 4 Jun 2026 10:30 to 11:00 Sujit Sivasundaram Enlightened ideas in the Indian Ocean Arena: Thinking with the Small Symposium 4 Jun 2026 11:15 to 12:00 Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 4 Jun 2026 14:00 to 14:30 Francesca Antonelli From collective work to the myth of the solitary genius: the "chemical revolution" Symposium 4 Jun 2026 14:30 to 15:00 Pierre-Yves Lacour Describing know-how, publishing science: verdigris in the Montpellier of the Enlightenment… Symposium 4 Jun 2026 15:00 to 15:30 Jean-Luc Chappey Between science and entertainment: public sessions at the Collège de France (1780-1803) Symposium 4 Jun 2026 15:45 to 16:30 Antoine Lilti Discussion Symposium 4 Jun 2026 16:30 to 18:00 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?