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Conference: 1802: Cultural Exchange during the Peace of Amiens
Friday, May 17, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 18, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
This interdisciplinary conference illuminates the movement of writers, artists, scientists, and cultural goods between Paris and London during the fourteen months of peace ushered in by the Treaty of Amiens, from March 1802 through May 1803, the first break in hostilities after a decade of Revolutionary warfare. Rothenberg Hall
Registration for this 2-day conference is $25, with an optional buffet lunch each day for $20.
Conference registration is $10 for current Huntington docents, and free for current Long-Term Fellows and students with a current Student I.D. Please bring your current I.D. to event day check-in. Students, please note school affiliation after your name when registering.
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, MAY 17
9 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Remarks: Cora Gilroy-Ware (Isaac Julien Studio)
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard University)
Session 1: Writers
Moderator: Kevin Gilmartin (California Institute of Technology)
Susan S. Lanser (Brandeis University)
Helen Maria Williams, Radical Sociability, and the Uneasy Peace of Amiens
Kelly Summers (MacEwan University)
Between Amiens and Amnesty: The Parisian Wanderings of the d'Arblays, c. 1802
12 p.m. - Lunch
1 p.m. - Session 2: Artists
Moderator: Hector Reyes (University of Southern California)
Cora Gilroy-Ware (Isaac Julien Studio)
Inferior Beauty: The (British) Artists Gaze on the Streets and in the Louvre
Catherine Roach (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Great National Establishments: Amiens and the Foundation of the British Institution
3 p.m. - Break
3:15 p.m. - Session 3: Publication
Moderator: Paula Radisich (Whittier College)
Melinda McCurdy (The Huntington)
Thomas Girtin's Paris Venture
Susan L. Siegfried (University of Michigan)
Amelia Opie's Recollections of a Visit to Paris in 1802
SATURDAY, MAY 18
9:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
10 a.m. - Session 4: Intellectual Exchanges
Moderator: Alexander Statman (Dibner Long-Term Research Fellow, The Huntington)
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan)
French Scientists Cross the Channel: Peace and the Advancement of Knowledge, Industry, and Agriculture
Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau)
Alexander Hamilton, Asian Knowledge, and Anglo-French Competition
12 p.m. - Lunch
1 p.m. - Session 5: Material Culture
Moderator: Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles)
Courtney Wilder (University of Michigan)
Revolutions and Rivalries in the Printed Textile Trade before, during, and after the Peace of Amiens
Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)
The obscene and infamous trade between Britain and Europe around the Peace of Amiens
3 p.m. - Break
3:15 p.m. - Session 6: Shaping the Narrative
Moderator: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)
Simon Macdonald (Queen Mary University of London)
The Argus, or London Review'd in Paris: Mediascape between France and Britain during the Peace of Amiens
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard University)
In this country the law is on my side: Marie Tussaud, the Peace of Amiens, and the Formation of a Wax Empire
5:15 p.m. - Closing Remarks: Cora Gilroy-Ware, Dena Goodman, Paris Spies-Gans
Funding provided by The Dibner History of Science Program at The Huntington
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LocationRothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (View)
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United States
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