WP2 – “Histories, Interactions and Transfers of European Models of Sociability in the Long Eighteenth-century”

Mid-term meeting – BnF, 13 March 2020Valérie Capdeville (UP13) & Alain Kerhervé (UBO)

Overview

1. WP objectives2. Events & success achieved3. Forthcoming projects4. Deliverables (D2)5. Link with secondments

Q & A session

1. WP2 objectives

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Objectives of WP2, as defined in Grant Agreement 823862(Annex 1, p. 11)

to set up fertile interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations to produce new readings into European sociability in the long 18th century to generate new research on published material to publish the output in various forms to reach a large academic, student and non-academic

audience…

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2. Events and success achieved

• (1) GIS Cycle of talks at MCJ: Cultural Transfers in European, Colonial and Global Contexts (1650-1850): the Circulation of Models of Sociability (Spring + autumn 2019)

• (2) Training Day on Digital Humanities at UBO (22 May 2019)• (3) International Conference at UBO: Sociable Spaces in the Long Eighteenth Century (1650-1850)

from Present-day Perspectives. (23-24 May 2019)• (4) DIGITENS Panel at ISECS conference, Edinburgh (International Society for Eighteenth-Century

Studies) (14-19 July 2019)• (5) Gallica presentations at TNA & WAR by Isabelle Breuil on “Epistolary Friendships in

Eighteenth-century Europe” (October 2019)• (6) Workshop at BNF on “Epistolary Friendships in Eighteenth-century Europe” + Rencontre de

Gallica by Isabelle Le Pape (20 November 2019) • (7) PhD and graduate student one-day conference at SU: “Cabals, Plots, and Conspiracies: the

Sociability of Intrigue in the Long Eighteenth-Century” (10 January 2020)

Efficient communication Successful attendance Fruitful exchanges between scholars, museum

experts, students and a diversified audience Podcasts accessible on both GIS and DIGITENS

websites Publication in progress (‘Transversales series’ vol. 7,

Le Manuscrit/Hachette, Paris) edited by A. Cossic & V. Capdeville

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(1) GIS CYCLE OF TALKS AT MCJ: Cultural Transfers in European, Colonial and Global Contexts (1650-1850): the Circulation of Models of Sociability (Spring + autumn 2019)

(2) TRAINING DAY ON DIGITAL HUMANITIES AT UBO (22 May 2019)

Presentation of BnF research tools (Gallica, BnF catalogue, Archives & Manuscripts catalogues, BnF API offer, data.bnf.fr), by Isabelle Breuil (BnF)

Presentation of Transkribus, by Guenter Muehlberger Transkribus applied to manuscripts from The National Archives, by

Guenter Muehlberger & Mark Bell (TNA) Named Entities Recognition – Selection of tools, by Jean-Philippe

Moreux (BnF) Network analysis and data visualisation (dataviz) presentation of

Gephi and Palladio, by Mark Bell (TNA) Talk: “The Library and the Relic : A French perspective on Digital

Humanities”, by Xavier-Laurent Salvador (UP13) Feedback on the “Godwin Project” experience : Digitisation of

William Godwin’s diaries, by Mark Philp (WAR)

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(3) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE at UBO (23-24 May 2019)

Sociable Spaces in the Long Eighteenth Century (1650-1850) from Present-day Perspectives: Europe and its Imperial Worlds

Organisers: A. Cossic, K. Page-Jones (UBO), B. Cowan (MCG), V. Capdeville (UP13)

Keynotes: Miles Ogborn (QMUL) ; Monique Eleb (ENSA Paris Malaquais) 56 speakers and more than 13 nationalities DIGITENS members: 16 Concluding round table Publications : 2 volumes in preparation, one as a DIGITENS deliverableEditors: A. Cossic, K. Page-Jones, V. CapdevilleEssays submitted (January 2020) = about 30.

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(4) DIGITENS AT ISECS in Edinburgh (International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) (14-19 July 2019)

Panel 450. DIGIT.EN.S: “Unruly Sociability? Gender and Constructions of Identity” Chair: Emrys Jones (King’s College London)

-Kimberley Page-Jones (UBO): Mary Wollstonecraft and S.T. Coleridge: Fin de Siècle Travel Writing and the Construction of the European Other’

-Katherine Aske (Northumbria University): Making Friends with Fairies: Social Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Fairytales

-Susanne Schmid (Freie Universität Berlin): Nagging and Cantankerous: Ill-Humoured Women

-Mascha Hansen (University of Greifswald): ‘A zig-zag path of communication’: Sociable Conversation and the Unruly Self in Burney’s Life Writing

Boydell & Brewer panel : launching their new series ‘Studies in the Eighteenth Century’

Presentation of the volume co-edited by DIGITENS members Valérie Capdeville (UP13) and Alain Kerhervé (UBO), British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth-century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection, June 2019.

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(6) WORKSHOP AT BNF on “Epistolary Friendships in Eighteenth-century Europe” (20 November 2019)

Attended by 13 DIGITENS members

Followed by a Rencontre de Gallica with a presentation by Isabelle Le Pape (BnF)

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(5) GALLICA PRESENTATIONS AT TNA & WAR by Isabelle Breuil (BnF)on “Epistolary Friendships in Eighteenth-century Europe” (October 2019)

(7) STUDENT ONE-DAY CONFERENCE AT SU (10 January 2020)

Organised by two PhD students from the DIGITENS consortium: Pierre Labrune and Clara Manco (SU)

6 papers presented by PhD or MA students from Warwick, UBO, Sorbonne Université, University of Cambridge and University Paris 8

Examination of various plots and conspiracies and how social interactions in this context created specific types and models of sociability.

Originality of the topic: chosen perspective of the plots and conspiracies as a fruitful way of discussing and highlighting the importance of religious and political aspects and the role played by antagonism in the development of intrigue sociabilities.

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3. Forthcoming projects

• (1) Graduate students workshops at UBO & MCJ/BnF on BnF caricatures (April/May 2020)

• (2) Two public lectures at MCJ & BnF on British caricatures on revolutionary France (May 2020)

• (3) Workshop at TNA on “Friendship and Intimacy in Eighteenth-century Epistolary Exchanges”(2 April 2020)

• (4) International conference at MCG, Montreal: Emotions and the City: Urban Sociability in the European World, c. 1650- c. 1850 (Montreal, 18-19 June 2020)

• (5) Talk at UG on “Sociability and Romanticism” (Sept./Oct. 2020)

• (6) GIS Cycle of talks at MCJ: Sociabilité & Libertinage (Autumn 2020-Spring 2021)

• (7) Study-Day at BnF on “Epistolary Friendships” (November 2020)

(1) GRADUATE STUDENTS WORKSHOPS at UBO & MCJ/BnF on BnF caricatures (March/April 2020) organised by Mark Philp (WAR) and Corinne Le Bitouzé (BnF)

(2) TWO PUBLIC LECTURES at MCJ & BnF on British caricatures on revolutionary France in Paris (May 2020) by Mark Philp (WAR) and Sheila O'Connell (British Museum Print Room)

Provisional programme of the Paris workshop:

-Morning session at the Bnf Richelieu – with brief introduction on caricature : for students to look through some of the volumes in the Bnf collections of English prints.

-Afternoon workshop at MCJ using digital images and print outs: for students to look at some of the challenges of cataloguing and identifying what is being done in the prints.

-Final lecture on some aspects of British caricature: for a public audience.

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(3) WORKSHOP AT TNA on “Friendship and Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Exchanges” (2 April 2020)

Programme of the day:

Short informal presentations of various collections (TNA, BL, BnF, MCJ) related to friendship expressions, friendship values and family intimacy, by 10 DIGITENS members from BnF, TNA, MCJ, UBO, UP13, UG.

Group discussion on publication project: format, use of collections, CFP for the November (2020) one-day conference.

Reflexion on approach to the topic:- Comparing expressions of friendship in letters and epistolary manuals across national boundaries- Evolution of letter-writing practices and letter-locking through time / evolution ofthe idea of friendship.- Love, intimacy and friendship: crossing the line in 18th-century correspondences

and paintings

Letter-locking workshop : a practical session, looking at original documents from TNA collections

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(4) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT MCG, Montreal (18-19 June 2020)

Emotions and the City: Urban Sociability in the European World, c. 1650- c. 1850

To consider the connections between urban and emotional experiences in Europe during the long eighteenth century. To explore these connections through the lens of the history of sociability seeking to understand the ways in which ideals and practices of sociability helped to shape the emotional aspects of urban life.

Keynotes: P. David Marshall (Deakin University); Rob Boddice (Freie Universität Berlin)

DIGITENS members invited: T. Adamcsewski (KWU); V. Capdeville (UP13); J. Lipski (KWU); A. Tadié (SU)

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Organisers: Pascal Bastien (UQAM, GRHS) and Brian Cowan (McGill)

(5) TALK AT UG (Sept./Oct. 2020) on “Sociability and Romanticism”

Christoph Bode (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

(6) GIS CYCLE OF TALKS AT MCJ: « Sociabilité & Libertinage »

3 talks (Autumn 2020) in link with MCJ exhibition:L'empire des sens, de François Boucher à Jean-Baptiste Greuze

3 talks (Spring 2021)

(7) STUDY-DAY AT BNF on “Epistolary Friendships” (November 2020) ID IS Ph

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4. Deliverables

D2.2. Submitted publication of a collective volume on Cultural Transfersed. by Annick Cossic and Valérie Capdeville (Transversales 7)

D2.3. Submitted publication of a book entitled Sociability and Power: Forming Emotions and Publics in Early Modernity by Brian Cowan

D2.4. Submitted publication of a collective volume on ‘Epistolary Friendships’ed. by Alain Kerhervé & Mascha Hansen

D2.5. Submitted publication of a collective volume on ‘European Sociability in the long Eighteenth-century’ (papers from Sociable Spaces in the Long Eighteenth-Century conference)

5. Link with secondments

Workshop at TNA on “Friendship and Intimacy in Epistolary Exchanges” (2 April 2020): presentations by seconded members

Workshop at BNF on “Epistolary Friendships in Eighteenth-century Europe” (20 November 2019) : Jean-Philippe Moreux’s presentation of his collaborative work with Mark Bell at TNA.

Collaborative workshops on BnF caricatures organised by MarkPhilp (WAR) and Corinne Le Bitouzé (BnF) (Spring 2020)