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The Enlightenment has been defined as an age when knowledge was in ferment. The effervescence around sciences affected many social groups thanks to the role of the Academies and through publication and public experiments or scientific lectures. Women such as Madame du Châtelet had their own laboratories where they could conduct experiments. In order to achieve greater dissemination, Latin was gradually abandoned for vernacular languages. The scope and the impact of Isaac Newton’s work even extended to ethics; for the Eighteenth Century men and women of letters, science and morals were an expected combination which culminated in a prize essay competition run by the Academy of Dijon on whether the arts and sciences had improved or corrupted the morals of mankind. New technologies were developed and sometimes exported to the peripheries of the European world, participating in the development of commerce seen as a means to achieve the progress of humanity.
Enlightenment Today 9:30-10:30
David Clemis (MRU) :
The Enlightenment and Modernity: A Problem in Historical Periodization
Julia Pasieka (MRU) :
Harry, Hobbes, and I: Individualism versus the Collective in Thomas Hobbes and Harry Potter
Coffee break 10:30-10:45
The Making of Enlightened Knowledge 10:45-11:45
Jeffrey Suderman (MRU/UofC) :
Analogical Ways of Knowing in the Enlightenment
Antoine Eche (MRU) :
Travels in translation: travel knowledge and its dissemination
Lunch & Musical Interlude
Technology and Enlightenment 1:45-2:45
Diana Patterson (MRU):
The Industrial Enlightenment and John Baskerville
Lori Williams (MRU):
Technology and knowledge
Coffee break 2:45-3:00
Travelling Knowledge 3:00-4:30
Jocelyn Rama (UofC):
Ways of Knowing Gender in the Enlightenment
Jose Gordillo (MRU/UofC):
New Technologies vs. Old Privileges: The Nordenflycht Mission to Potosi (Upper Peru at Late 18th Century)
Matthew Pryce (MRU):
Quakers: The Enlightenment’s Atlantic Connection
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