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Sciences et savoirs dans le monde atlantique francophone (XVIe-XVIIIe si&#232;cles)&#160; /&#160; Knowledge and science in the francophone Atlantic world (1500-1800)&#160;Montr&#233;al, Qu&#233;bec (Canada), 26-28 April 2007 / 26-28 avril 2007&#160;&#160; Organized by Nicholas Dew (McGill University) and Fran&#231;ois Regourd (Universit&#233; Paris X Nanterre). Co-sponsored by the French Atlantic History Group and the research group Mondes am&#233;ricains: Soci&#233;t&#233;s, Circulations, Pouvoirs, XVe-XXIe si&#232;cles (UMR 8168), CNRS.&#160;Programme &#160;Thursday, April 26th / jeudi 26 avril&#160;Cocktail d&#8217;accueil6:00pm - 8:00pm (18h-20h)Salle Verri&#232;re, Hotel XIX Si&#232;cle, 262 St-Jacques O. &#160;Friday, April 27th / vendredi 27 avril &#160;Salle Polyvalente, Mus&#233;e Pointe &#224; Calli&#232;res, 350 Place Royale, Vieux Montr&#233;al&#160;09:00-09:30: Caf&#233;, viennoiseries09:30-10:00: Introduction: Nicholas Dew &#38; Fran&#231;ois Regourd10:00-12:30: Session I: Cartographies atlantiques chair: Philippe Despoix (Universit&#233; de Montr&#233;al)&#160;    Neil Safier (University of Pennsylvania)Empires &#224; la Carte: French mapping and the eighteenth-century Atlantic world&#160;    Jean-Fran&#231;ois Palomino (Biblioth&#232;que et Archives Nationales du Qu&#233;bec)Les cartographes de cabinet et la Nouvelle-France: sources et m&#233;thode de travail&#8232;&#8232;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; (pause-caf&#233; 11:00-11:30)&#160;    Nicholas Dew (McGill University)Travel and scientific authority around the French Atlantic&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; (session I general discussion 12:00-12:30)&#160;12:30 to 14:30: D&#233;jeuner / Lunch (participants to make own arrangements)&#160;14:30-17:00: Session II: Correspondants et voyageurs&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; chair: Dominique Deslandres (Universit&#233; de Montr&#233;al)&#160;    Thomas Wien (Universit&#233; de Montr&#233;al)Jean-Fran&#231;ois Gaultier&#8217;s grosse fatigue: making and transmitting natural knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Canada&#160;    Xavier Carteret (EHESS, Paris)La contribution de Michel Adanson (1727-1806) &#224; la connaissance de l&#8217;Afrique occidentale&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; (pause-caf&#233; 15:30-16:00)&#160;    James E. McClellan, III (Stevens Institute of Technology)Andr&#233; Michaux&#8217;s mission to America (1785-1796)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; (session II general discussion 16:30-17:00)&#160;&#160;Saturday, April 28th&#160;Salle Polyvalente, Mus&#233;e Pointe &#224; Calli&#232;res, 350 Place Royale, Vieux Montr&#233;al&#160;9:00-09:15: Caf&#233;, viennoiseries&#160;9:15-12:00: Session III: Contacts&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; chair: Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Charbonneau (McGill University)&#160;    Joan-Pau Rubi&#233;s (London School of Economics)From the cannibal to the good savage in the ethnography of the Americas (1500-1700)&#160;    John Bishop (McGill University)Comment dit-on Tchistchimanisi8 en fran&#231;ais?&#160; The Translation of Montagnais ecological knowledge in Antoine Silvy&#8217;s Dictionnaire montagnais-fran&#231;ais (ca. 1678-1684).&#160;(pause-caf&#233; 10:15-10:30)&#160;    Fran&#231;ois Regourd (Universit&#233; Paris X - Nanterre)Itin&#233;raires de savoirs: les savoirs indig&#232;nes et leur int&#233;gration &#224; la sph&#232;re scientifique fran&#231;aise&#160;    April Shelford (American University)The slave in the garden: slave presences in natural history writings on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean&#160;(session III general discussion 11:30-12:00)&#160;12:00 to 13:30: D&#233;jeuner / Lunch (participants to make own arrangements)&#160;13:30-15:00: Session IV: Th&#233;ories et expertise &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; chair: Catherine Desbarats (McGill University)&#160;    Karol K. Weaver (Susquehanna University)Maternity and parenting in the torrid zone: childbearing and childrearing in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue&#160;    Jordan Kellman (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)Nature, commodities and expert testimony in the French Colonial Atlantic: the case of cochineal&#160;(session IV general discussion 14:30-15:00)&#160;15:00-15:30 Coffee break&#160;15:30-17:00: Table-Ronde / Roundtable and concluding discussion&#160;Marie-No&#235;lle Bourguet (Universit&#233; de Paris-VII)James Delbourgo (McGill University)Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California)Catherine Desbarats (McGill University)&#160;7pm / 19:00:Conference Dinner at Restaurant &#8220;Version - Laurent Godbout&#8221;295 rue St-Paul Est, Vieux-Montr&#233;al&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Contact: Tim Pearson (atlantique.history@mcgill.ca )