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The full program for this international colloquiem is available at the CIERL website:

History of Paris
Musée de la civilisation, Québec, 22-25 September 2010

Colloque international du Cercle interuniversitaire d’étude sur la République des lettres (CIERL)

Qu’il
 s’agisse
 de
 considérations
 sur
 la
 voirie
 ou
 les
 projets
 d’embellissement,
 sur
 les
 aspects
 sociaux,
 économiques
 ou
 poli-ques
 de
 la
 ville,
 sur
 l’architecture,
 la
 naissance
 du
 tourisme
 ou
 l’apparition
 du
 promeneur 
urbain,
 qu’il
 s’agisse 
des 
chroniques 
intimes 
ou
 officielles 
qui
 en 
ont
 scandé
 et 
organisé
 les 
péripétes, 
qu’il 
s’agisse 
encore 
du 
faste 
des
 entrées
 royales 
ou 
de 
la 
misère 
du 
peuple, 
des 
rumeurs 
ou 
des 
modes, 
des peintures 
ou 
des 
fictions
 qui 
l’ont 
mis 
en 
scène, 
le 
Paris 
d’Ancien 
Régime
 a
 fait
 l’objet
 depuis
 plusieurs
 décennies
 de
 nombreux
 travaux
 qui
 ont collectivement
 contribué
 tant
 à
 la
 restitution
 de
 la
 réalité
 «
historique
»
 de 
la
capitale 
qu’à 
la
mise 
au
 jour
 d’un 
imaginaire 
de 
la 
ville
 tissé 
au 
fil 
des
 représentations.
 Sociologues,
 anthropologues,
 historiens,
 spécialistes
 de
 l’urbanisme
 ou
 de
 l’architecture,
 mais
 aussi
 littéraires,
 historiens
 de
 l’art, 
ou 
encore
 spécialistes 
de 
l’histoire
 des 
mentalités 
ont 
ainsi, 
chacun
 selon
 les
 paradigmes
 de
 leur
 discipline,
 les
 champs
 de
 leur
 corpus
 et
 les
 horizons
 de
 leur
 théorie,
 proposé
 un
 contenu
 spécifique
 à
 l’Histoire
 de
 Paris,
 de
 ses 
lieux, 
de
 ses 
monuments, 
de 
ses 
habitants, 
des
 événements,
 heureux 
ou 
tragiques,
 officiels 
ou 
anonymes,
 collectifs 
ou 
individuels, 
qui
 s’y
 sont 
produits. . .

Political Gardening: Jacobites and Tories, Whigs and True Whigs, ca. 1700-1760
Wentworth Castle, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 6-8 August 2010

The conference will explore political gardening in Britain, ca. 1700–1760, in order to identify the symbolism and meanings embedded within the country estates of Tory and Jacobite landowners. The papers will discuss whether these landscapes can be distinguished from those of Whig politicians, and whether Tories and Jacobites created an iconography of dissent from the Whig governments that managed Britain on behalf of the Hanoverian Kings George I and George II. The conference will be held at Wentworth Castle in the Palladian wing of the mansion (built 1760–65), and delegates will enjoy meals within the Baroque wing (built 1709–14). Wentworth Castle is also the home of the Northern College for Residential Adult Education which will provide delegates with catering and modern student accommodation.

The Wentworth Castle estate was created by Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford (second creation) between 1708 and 1739, and further developed by his son William, the second Earl. Although a Tory minister in Queen Anne’s government, Thomas Wentworth became a Jacobite conspirator after the accession of George I in 1714 and employed the Jacobite architect, James Gibbs, to design the interior of his new mansion. It is also likely that Gibbs designed garden buildings for Wentworth Castle. Booking information is available here» (more…)

As noted at Early Modern History, Dror Wahrman gives the Royal Historical Society’s Prothero Lecture Wednesday evening:

Dror Wahrman, “The Media Revolution in Early Modern England: An Artist’s Perspective”
Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, University College London, 30 June 2010, 5:30 pm (reception, 6:30 – 8:30pm)

Painting by Edward Collier

Dror Wahrman is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of history and director of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is also professor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has written and edited numerous articles and books including The Making of the Modern Self (Yale University Press, 2004), which received the Ben Snow Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies and the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Wahrman’s main research topics centre on the advent of modernity in Europe, and on what the term ‘modernity’ might mean. His work has explored key narratives that the modern West tells about itself—the emergence of class society, the rise of the middle class, and the emergence of the modern individual or self. His current projects include a book-length exploration of the little known painter Edward Collier and a co-authored book (with Jonathan Sheehan of the University of California-Berkeley) about chance, order, and providence in the transition from the early modern period to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Enquiries to Sue Carr, Executive Secretary, s.carr@ucl.ac.uk or tel. 020 7387 7532. A PDF file of the event flyer is available here.