Keynote Speakers

Sébastien Charles (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières - CA)

Antonio De Francesco (Università degli Studi di Milano - IT) : the English and Italian texts of the Academic Lecture are available here (Italian version) and here (English version)

Sutapa Dutta (Gargi College, University of Delhi - IN)

Chantal Grell (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - FR)

Wen Jin (East China Normal University, Shanghai - CN)

Merit Laine (Uppsala University, Sweden - SE)

Halima Ouanada (Université de Tunis El Manar - TN)

Pierre Saint-Amand (Yale University - US)

Carlos Spoerhase (Università di Bielefeld - DE)

Hiroshi Watanabe (University of Tokyo - JP)



Round tableDaniel Roche (1935-2023), historien de l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle 

Convenor : Brigitte Marin

Antoine Lilti, L’énigme des Lumières

Maria Pia Donato, Les académies: l'Europe des Lumières par les pratiques

Marcello Verga, Pour une histoire de l'Europe

Brigitte Marin, Cultures urbaines, sociétés en mouvement


Round tableMeanings & Messages: ISECS and the growth of 'Eighteenth-century studies'

Convenor : Penelope J. Corfield

Gregory S. Brown, Intellectual and Institutional Origins of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1930 - 1970 : A Transnational History

Daniel Fulda, How activist should enlightenment studies be? Historical examples from three centuries

Al Coppola, Enlightenolatry and the Promotion of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the United States