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COLLOQUE "THE ATLANTIC WORLD OF ANTHONY BENEZET", 30 ET 31 MAI 2013
Colloque «The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet »
30 et 31 mai 2013
Organisé conjointement par:
l’Université Paris Diderot et l’Université Paris 8-Vincennes
Avec le soutien de Redehja, la Société de l’Histoire
du Protestantisme Français, les équipes LARC (Paris Diderot)
et Transferts critiques et dynamiques des savoirs
(Paris 8-Vincennes), l’Institut des Amériques (Paris)
Organisation:
Marie-‐Jeanne Rossignol et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke,
Anne-‐Claire Faucquez et Louisiane Ferlier
Lieu:
Institut des Amériques, 175 rue du Chevaleret, Salle Tocqueville 75013 PARIS
Inscriptions avant le 12 mai 2013
acfaucquez@gmail.com ou benezet2013@gmail.com
ThursdayMay 30, 2013
9h30-11h
Panel 1 “The French Origins of Anthony Benezet”
Moderator:
Bernard Cottret, émérite Université Versailles St Quentin en
Yvelines
§ Bernard Douzil, doctorant, Paris I:
«La filiation vaunageole d’Anthony Benezet»
§ Didier Boisson, Université d’Angers:
«Être protestant en Vermandois et en Thiérache au
XVIIIe siècle»
§ Jeanne-Henriette Louis, émérite Université d’Orléans:
"William Penn, Philadelphie, Antoine Bénézet, et Congénies"
11h15-‐12h15
Plenary lecture
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, University Paris 8-Vincennes:
"Was Anthony Benezet a Huguenot? Putting Benezet back into the Refuge"
12h15-14h00
Lunch
14h-16h
Panel 2 “American Quakers and Benezet”
Moderator:
Geoff Plank, University of East Anglia
§ Anne-‐Claire Faucquez, Université Paris 8-Vincennes:
“Neau, Benezet and the Establishment of African Schools”.
§ Richard Allen, University of Wales:
“Nantucket Quakers and Wales and Revolutionary Wars”.
§ Sue Kozel, Kean University, NJ:
“Following in the Footsteps of Anthony Benezet:One NJ
Quaker’s Pursuit of Abolition and a “Natural Right toLiberty” for African-Americans,1772-‐1793”.
§ Jerry Frost, Swarthmore College:
“Anthony Benezet:The Emergence of a Weighty Friend”.
16h-16h15
Break
16h15-‐17h45
Panel 3 “The spiritual and Literary Dimensions of Benezet’s works”
Moderator:
Hubert Bost, EPHE
§ David Crosby, Independent researcher, Jackson MS:
"Anti-‐Slavery as Spritiual Renewal: How Benezet's Peace
Witness Drove his Campaign against Slavery".
§ Geoff Plank, University of East Anglia, Norwich:
“John Woolman, Anthony Benezet and True Gospel Nothingness”.
§ Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, London:
“Anthony Benezet’s Sentimental Rhetoric”.
Reception at the Institut des Amériques
Friday, May 31, 2013
9h30-10h30
Plenary lecture Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University:
“Let this Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet–Founding Father
of Atlantic Abolitionism”
10h45-12h45
Panel 4 “Benezet and the World of Books”
Moderator:Robert Mankin, University Paris Diderot
§ John Anderies, Haverford College (PA,USA):
“The Literary Universe of Anthony Benezet”
§ Louisiane Ferlier, Université Paris Diderot:
“The circulation of Quaker books against slavery:a
transatlantic passage”.
§ Randy Sparks, Tulane University:
“This Precious Book”:Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet’s
Account of Guinea”.
§ Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot:
“The Translations of Benezet’s works in French”.
12h45-‐14h00
Lunch
14h00-‐15h00
Plenary lecture Richard S.Newman, Rochester Institute of
Technology:
“From Benezet to Black Founders: New Directions in Atlantic
Abolition”.
15h00-‐16h45
Panel 5 “Benezet and Transatlantic Reform”
Moderator:Randy Sparks,Tulane University
§ Jonathan D.Sassi,College of Staten Island CUNY:
“Anthony Benezet and Emancipation in New Jersey,
1772-1775: A Colonial Political Campaign in its
Trans-Atlantic Context”
§ Ellen Ross, Swarthmore College, PA:
“War, Peace and Social Reform in the Work of Anthony
Benezet”
§ John Kershner, University of Birmingham, England:
'To meditate awhile on this subject:'
John Woolman's (1720-‐1772) Reading of Anthony Benezet's
(1713-1784) A Caution and Warning to Great Britain”
16h45-18h
Panel 6 “The Abolitionist Legacy of Anthony Benezet”
Moderator: Allan Potofsky, University Paris Diderot
§ Nine Reid-‐Maroney, Huron University College at Western London,Ontario:
“Benezet’s Ghost: Revisiting the Antislavery Culture of
Benjamin Rush’s Philadelphia”.
§ Lucia Bergamasco, Université d’Orléans:
“After Benezet: St George Tucker’s Proposals and
Questionnaire”.
18h-19h
Book club Brycchan Carey and Geoff Plank will present
their new books on Anthony Benezet, John Woolman,
and other Quakers and answer questions.
Brycchan Carey, From Peace to Freedom:
Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery,
1658-‐1761, Yale University Press, 2012 Geoff Plank,
John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom:
A Quaker in the British Empire, University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2012.
19h30 :
Dinner for the participants