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Le 6-8 d&#233;cembre 2010 / December 6-8, 2010Institut des Sciences de la Communication (CNRS), Paris, FranceCe colloque a pour objectif d&#8217;explorer l&#8217;histoire des traditions orthodoxes et h&#233;t&#233;rodoxes de la force de l&#8217;imagination dans la p&#233;riode couvrant les XVIe-XVIIIe si&#232;cles. Contre l&#8217;id&#233;e traditionnelle d&#8217;une imagination limit&#233;e et passive, certains auteurs avan&#231;aient l&#8217;argument d&#8217;une puissance active ou cr&#233;atrice de l&#8217;imagination. Le paradigme aristot&#233;licien se trouvait notamment combattu par des philosophes soutenant que l&#8217;imagination ne recomposait pas simplement des images, mais pouvait aussi les cr&#233;er. Des math&#233;maticiens conjecturaient de m&#234;me que l&#8217;imagination n&#8217;&#233;tait pas tautologique, mais qu&#8217;elle avait la capacit&#233; de cr&#233;er de nouvelles connaissances. D&#8217;apr&#232;s certains m&#233;decins, l&#8217;imagination avait aussi une force psychosomatique, causant des maladies telles que la m&#233;lancolie ou la lycanthropie, et quelques-uns d&#8217;entre eux croyaient que cette force cr&#233;ait jusqu&#8217;aux stigmates des saints. Selon une opinion commun&#233;ment re&#231;ue &#224; l&#8217;&#233;poque, l&#8217;imagination de la m&#232;re d&#233;terminait la figure de l&#8217;enfant &#224; na&#238;tre, mais quelques auteurs postulaient en outre que l&#8217;imagination pouvait agir &#233;galement sur des objets ext&#233;rieurs au corps. Les id&#233;es tr&#232;s riches et tr&#232;s complexes li&#233;es &#224; la th&#232;se d&#8217;une imagination forte furent amplement discut&#233;es et contest&#233;es dans la premi&#232;re modernit&#233;, leur circulation entre la philosophie, la litt&#233;rature, les arts, la math&#233;matique, la m&#233;decine, les sciences, les traditions populaires, la divination, la sorcellerie, la d&#233;monologie ainsi que la religion, fut nourrie d&#8217;intenses d&#233;bats. Pour mieux comprendre les diff&#233;rentes traditions de l&#8217;imagination aux XVIe-XVIIIe si&#232;cles, il convenait de r&#233;unir des chercheurs venant des diff&#233;rentes disciplines concern&#233;es et d&#8217;&#233;tablir sur cette question pluridimensionnelle un &#233;change interdisciplinaire. Tel est le but poursuivi par ce colloque.Propositions doivent inclure un RESUME (250 mots maximum) et un CV.Veuillez envoyer vos propositions &#224; l&#8217;adresse suivante : powersofimagination@gmail.com Date limite de r&#233;ception des propositions: 27 septembre 2010This conference will explore the history of both orthodox and heterodox traditions concerning the power of the imagination during the 16th-18th centuries. Against the traditional idea of a limited and passive imagination, certain authors proposed a powerful, active and creative imagination. Contrary to the Aristotelian paradigm, for instance, philosophers argued that the imagination not only rearranged images but could create them as well. Mathematicians likewise believed that the imagination was not just tautological, but able to generate new knowledge. According to some physicians, the imagination also had a psychosomatic force, causing illnesses such as melancholy or lycanthropy, and some even believed that this power created the stigmata of saints. At the time, it was broadly accepted that the imagination of a pregnant woman imprinted and changed the foetus in her womb, but some authors speculated further that the imagination could also act on external bodies. The ideas about a powerful imagination were very complex and rich but also highly contested in the early modern period, and these notions circulated widely between disciplines of philosophy, literature, the arts, mathematics, medicine, the sciences, and popular traditions, divination, witchcraft, demonology as well as religion. In order better to understand the different traditions of the imagination in the 16-18th centuries, it is necessary to bring together scholars from different areas to establish an interdisciplinary exchange, which is the explicit aim of the present conference.Proposals should include an abstract (250 words maximum) and a CV.Send to: powersofimagination@gmail.com Deadline for proposals: September 27, 2010Conference languages : French &#38; EnglishL&#8217;&#233;quipe interdisciplinaire du PEPS, Imaginations : Histoire, &#201;pist&#233;mologie, Communication Institut des Sciences de la Communication (CNRS/ISCC) &#8211; http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/Porteur du projet : Dr. Koen VERMEIR, Laboratoire SPHERE, Universit&#233; Paris 7, 5 rue Thomas Mann, Case 7093, 75205 Paris CEDEX 13