Programme du Congrès RéDEHJA (Nantes 18-20 juin 2025)
Espaces de pouvoir et de contestation dans la jeune Amérique, 1607-1865
Spaces of Power and Contestation in Early America, 1607-1865
Premier congrès biannuel du RéDEHJA / First Biannual RéDEHJA Conference
Nantes Université
18 – 20 juin 2025
Nantes Université,
UFR Histoire, Histoire de l’art et Archéologie
Campus du Tertre – Bâtiment Censive
Chemin de la Censive du Tertre – BP 81227
44312 Nantes CEDEX 3
https://histoire.univ-nantes.fr/ufr-hhaa-plans-dacces-au-campus-tertre-plan-batiments
Contact : redehja2025@gmail.com
Conference Programme
Mercredi 18 juin 2025 / Wednesday, June 18th 2025
9h – Accueil café / Welcome coffee
9h20 – Ouverture du Congrès / Conference Opening
9h30 – 11h : Atelier 1 / Panel 1 “Imperial Change and Colonial Belonging: Subjecthood, Citizenship, and Revolutionary Others”
Chair : Carine Lounissi (Université de Rouen-Normandie)
– Robert Englebert (University of Saskatchewan) : Before the Quebec Act: Imperial Governance and Francophone Autonomy at the Edge of Empire
– Kristofer Ray (College of the Holy Cross, MA) : “The Whole Continent is in Confusion”: Native Trans-Appalachia and the American Revolution, 1763-1800
– Andrew Wegmann (Texas Tech University) : A New Revolutionary Belonging: Creoles, Subjects and Citizens in Revolutionary New Orleans, 1769-1815
11h – 11h30 : pause café / coffee break
11h30-12h30 : Atelier 2 / Panel 2 “The Maritime Peninsula in the Atlantic World: Reconsidering Terrestrial and Oceanic Spaces of Power?”
Chair : Agnès Trouillet (Université Paris Nanterre)
– Thomas Peace (Huron University College, Ontario) : Theorizing spaces of Power: Perceptions, Conceptions, and Lived Experiences in the 18th-century Maritime Peninsula, Bay of Fundy and Gulf of St. Lawrence
– Zachary A. Tingley (University of New Brunswick, Saint John): Maritime Spaces as Spaces of Power: Historical Entanglements in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 19th Century
12h30-14h : Déjeuner / Lunch
14h – 16h : Atelier 3 / Panel 3 “Frontier Societies, Federal Incursions and “In-between” Spaces of Power: Navigating the Interstices of the US Imperial Venture in the West (1830-1865)”
Chair : Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès/ IUF)
– Augustin Habran (Université d’Orléans) : “Trailblazers of the Plains”: Post-Removal Indian Territory and the Making of a “Vertical” Frontier Economy.
– Manon Boullen (Université Paris Cité) : Federal Land Legislation and the Structuring of Frontier Societies: the 1820 Land Act and the Federal Incursion into Western Territory
– Patrice Dallaire (Universités Laval et Paris Cité) : Make Believe as a Strategy in the Texas Revolution: Santa Anna’s Surreal Trip to Washington in 1836-1837
– Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Cité) : Alexis de Tocqueville and the Rise of the State on the Frontier
16h-16h30 : pause café / Coffee break
16h30– 18h : Conférence plénière / Keynote speech
Ronald Angelo Johnson (Baylor University), “More than Trench Diggers: Franco-American Diplomacy & the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue during the American Revolution”
Chair : Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (Université Paris 8)
18h30 : Cocktail
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Jeudi 19 juin 2025 / Thursday, June 19th 2025
9h – Accueil café / Welcome coffee
9h30-11h : Atelier 4 / Panel 4 “Colonial Rule and Resistance in the 18th-Century Atlantic World”
Chair: Aurélie Godet (Nantes Université)
– Nicholas Crawford (Sam Houston University) : Fugitive Foodways: Maroon Subsistence Strategies and the Expansion of Plantation Slavery in Dominica (c. 1764-1786)
– Donia Menghini (Université Paris 8) : Maintenir l’ordre colonial en Nouvelle-France: ordre et désordres à travers la figure du soldat (1715-1760)
– Tiéphaine Thomason (University of Cambridge) : Speaking Multilingual Punishment and Sedition in the Streets of 18th-century Martinique (c. 1709 to 1767)
11h-11h30 : pause café / coffee break
11h30 – 12h30 : Table ronde autour du travail de Trevor Burnard / Roundtable discussion on the work of the late Trevor Burnard
Chair : Agnès Delahaye (Université Lyon 2)
Discutants / speakers: Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Université de Poitiers) ; Eric Schnakenbourg (Nantes Université) ; Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Cité)
12h30-14h : déjeuner / lunch
14h – 16h : Atelier 5 / Panel 5 “Challenging Power and Claiming Freedom in the Atlantic World”
Chair: Eric Schnakenbourg (Nantes Université)
– Thomas Blake Earle (Texas A&M University) : Contesting the North Atlantic: Fisheries and Power in the Era of the American Revolution
– Mairin Odle (University of Alabama) : Between Ship and Shore: Spaces of Freedom in Benjamin Benson’s Narrative
– William Kelly : (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) : A Question of Right: A Trans-Imperial History of Seizing Freedom and Claiming Indemnity around the War of 1812
– Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois / IEA de Nantes) : Mastery and Resistance: Marking Skin in Early America
16h – 16h30 : pause café / coffee break
16h30 – 18h : Atelier 6 / Panel 6 “Households, Power, and Conflict in the Early Colonial World”
Chair: Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Université de Poitiers)
– Caylin Carbonell (Bowdoin College) : Igniting the Colonial Home: Contests over Space in a 17th– century Boston Household
– Michaela Kleber (Northwestern University/EHESS) : Households in French Colonial Illinois as Intimate Sites of Power and Contestation
– Benjamin Balloy (CNRS/Framespa) : A Rationale for Conflicts? Mourners and Indigenous Mourning Practices in the Middle Mississippi Valley in the 1750s
19h30 : Banquet / conference dinner
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Vendredi 20 juin 2025 / Friday, June 20th 2025
9h30 – Accueil café / Welcome coffee
10h – 11h30 : Atelier 7 / Panel 7 “‘Contested Places’ : How Indigenous People Used and Subverted Colonial Practices to Assert their Sovereignty”
Chair: Augustin Habran (Université d’Orléans)
– Agnès Trouillet (Université Paris Nanterre): Retracing Lenape Sovereignty on Colonial Maps of the Delaware River
– Gilles Havard (CNRS) : Dragging Canoe, ou les Cherokee et la guerre à la fin du 18e siècle
– Casey Price (University of Tennessee) : It’s a Woman’s World: Mapping Cherokee Strategies to Combat Settler Colonialism in the Post-Seven Years’ War Southeast
11h30 – 11h45 : pause café / coffee break
11h45-12h45 : Atelier 8 / Panel 8 “Contested Spaces and Imperial Negotiations in the Colonial Borderlands”
Chair : Virginie Adane (Nantes Université)
– Thomas Croisez (European University Institute) : The Mission as a Crucible of Domination, Contestation, Dissent and Instrumentalisation: French and Catholic Missionaries on the Imperial Borderlands of Louisiana and Texas in the 18th century
– Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès / IUF): “The further improvement of the land seems in some degree to have been prevented by the Indians”: California’s Central Valley in the 1830s and 1840s as a contested space of Mexican sovereignty
12h45-14h : déjeuner de clôture / closing lunch
15h-16h30 : Visite guidée de Nantes sur le thème de l’esclavage, proposée par Bernard Michon (Nantes Université) / Guided tour of Nantes on the theme of slavery, by Bernard Michon (Nantes Université)
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Comité d’organisation / organizing committee: Virginie Adane, Nantes Université ; Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Université Paris 8 ; Agnès Delahaye, Université Lumière Lyon 2 ; Augustin Habran, Université d’Orléans ; Carine Lounissi, Université de Rouen-Normandie.
Comité scientifique / Scientific committee : Anne-Claire Faucquez, Université Paris 8 ; Linda Garbaye, Université de Caen Normandie ; Pierre Gervais, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle ; Élodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Université de Poitiers ; Allan Potofsky, Université Paris Cité ; Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Cité ; Eric Schnakenbourg, Nantes Université ; Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Université Paris 8.
Avec le soutien de / Sponsors: RéDEHJA, Institut des Amériques, Université Paris 8, TransCrit, CRHIA, ERIAC, REMELICE
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Carine Lounissi (5 mai 2025). Programme du Congrès RéDEHJA (Nantes 18-20 juin 2025). R E D E H J A. Consulté le 7 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13v07

