Rural and Urban Resistance to Trade Shocks, Building Regulation and Environmental Reform in France (1776-1789)
Our panel explores rural and urban resistance to reform experiments in late ancien régime France. Following Turgot’s brief “reform ministry” in 1776 and continuing through t
Capitalism’s Boundaries: Ecological, Social, and Political Resistance to Growth Paradigms in 18th- and 19th-Century France
This panel explores the contested boundaries of capitalist development in 18th- and 19th-century France. Traversing the metropole and the colonies, the papers examine how thinkers,
Résister aux changements économiques et écologiques dans les mondes atlantiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
L’essor d’un système-monde colonial atlantique, liée à un premier capitalisme marchand, a eu lieu sous la forme d’empires (espagnol, anglais et français). Ces
Mediatizing Resistance in Eighteenth-Century France: Calas, Mandrin, La Guimard
The Enlightenment in France is often characterized as a project of reform, a period of resisting injustice and ignorance in its multitude of forms and of advocating for a better so
The Enlightenment, racial slavery, and people of color in eighteenth-century France: Miranda Spieler’s Slaves in Paris (2025) in light of new scholarship
This panel seeks to provide a textured history of slaves and free people of color in eighteenth-century France while exploring French domestic society through an imperial lens. Fro
Musical Resistance to Mechanisms of Repression Across (Post)colonial Contexts
This panel explores how music can resist state mechanisms of repression and attempts to delimit colonial memory. The panel creates a transhistorical and transnational dialogue, mov