Monday, 15 April
9.00–9.30
Introduction
9.30–10.15
Richard Drayton (King’s College London): De-centering the centre: the port cities of France and the wider European stakeholders in French expansion
10.15–11.00
Pernille Røge (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania): From Islands to Empire: the French Colonial Administration at Gorée and Saint-Louis, 1763-1789
11.00–11.30
Coffee break
11.30–12.15 Gregory Mole (University of Memphis, Tennessee): The European frontier: colonial India and the French „Company-state“ in India
12.15–13.00 Cécile Vidal (EHESS): Aux origines de l’esclavage racial dans l’Empire français du XVIIIe siècle : Saint-Domingue, second centre impérial après la métropole
13.00–14.00
Lunch
14.00–14.45
Christopher Hodson (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah): „The currency of this post“: markets, material culture, and empire at Fort Toulouse, Lousiana, 1717-1745
14.45–15.30
Damien Tricoire (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): The politics of French-Malagasy encounters: rivalries between imperial actors and integration of French people in Malagasy polities
15.30–16.00
Coffee break
16.00–16.45
Catherine Ballériaux (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): „You both have made us drunk with all your noise of praying“: the negotiation of political and religious identities on the Canadian frontier
16.45–17.30
Fanny Malègue (EHESS, Paris, Frankreich): Saisir l’Empire au prisme des recensements : Antilles, 1763-1804
19.00
Dinner at IHA
Tuesday, 16 April
9.00–9.45
Lenny Hodges (King’s College, London, UK): The crying Nawab: Franco-Indian ceremony and the birth of indirect rule
9.45–10.30
Julie Marquet (Université Paris-Diderot): La faveur du prince. État colonial et autorité rituelle dans les établissements français de l’Inde (1816-1857)
10.30–11.00
Coffee break
11.00–11.45
François Regourd (Université Paris X-Nanterre): Faut-il brûler la Machine coloniale ?
11.45–12.30
Stéphane Van Damme (European University Institute, Florenz, Italien): Astrological monuments, scientific ruins and sceptical metrology in eighteenth-century French India
12.30–13.30
Lunch
13.30–14.15
Christopher Parsons (Northeastern University, Boston): The Biogeography of Empire in seventeenth-century French North America
14.15–15.00
Dorit Brixius (DHI Paris): Eighteenth-century Isle de France and the creation of a creole flora
15.00–15.30
Coffee break
15.30–16.15
Final discussion and wrap up