JE / Expériences du contact dans les territoires autochtones d’Amérique du Nord (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)

Expériences du contact dans les territoires autochtones d’Amérique du Nord (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)
Experiencing Contact in Native North America, 17th-19th centuries
22 mai 2026
Sorbonne Université
Maison de la recherche – salle d323/room d323
28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris

Comité d’organisation : Robert Coatsworth (Sorbonne Université), Gabrielle Guillerm (Sorbonne Université), Donia Menghini (Université Paris 8), Maïann Stachnik (Sorbonne Université)
Avec le soutien du laboratoire HDEA, de l’école doctorale pratiques et théories du sens et du laboratoire IDHE.S

8h30-9h: Café accueil / Welcome coffee

9h-9h15: Introduction
Robert Coatsworth (Sorbonne Université), Donia Menghini (Université Paris 8), Maïann Stachnik (Sorbonne Université)

9h15-11h05: Panel 1 : Circulations, adaptations et continuités des pratiques culturelles autochtones / The Circulation, Adaptation and Continuity of Indigenous Cultural Practices
Panel chair: Nathalie Caron (Sorbonne Université)
Marian Leech (University of Pennsylvania): Fur Carpets, Axe Pendants, and Shell Beads: Retracing Narratives of “First Contact” Across Dutch and Delaware Traditions
Cameron B. Strang (University of Nevada): Indigenous Explorers and the Long Intellectual History of Survival
Augustin Habran (Université d’Orléans): “Contact zones” in the Great Plains: The emergence of Indian Territory and reconsideration of Indigenous agency in the West
Benjamin Balloy (CNRS – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès): “Frapper au poteau” (Striking the Post): Considerations on a Form of Ritual Interaction

11h05-11h20: pause café / coffee break

11h20-12h30: Panel 2 : Race et esclavage : expériences et constructions transculturelles / Experiencing and Producing Race and Enslavement across Cultures
Panel chair: Gabrielle Guillerm (Sorbonne Université)
Linford Fisher (Brown University): Experiencing Enslavement in Colonial America: Indigenous Perspectives on the Threat of Slavery in Warfare and During Slave Trades
Taryn M. Dixon (Northwestern University): Controlling Space and Race in Indian Territory: the Construction of White and Black Illegality through Racial Exclusion Laws in Post-Removal Choctaw Nation

12h30-14h00: déjeuner / lunch break

14h00-15h50: Panel 3: Diplomatie et pratiques militaires en territoires autochtones / Diplomacy and Military Practices in Indigenous Territories
Panel chair: Donia Menghini (Université Paris 8)
Guillaume Teasdale (University of Windsor) : Before Pontiac: The Huron Plot of 1747 and the Crisis of French Detroit
Agnès Trouillet (Université Paris Nanterre): Gansho-Wanne, “The Roaring River”: The Schuylkill as a Crucible for Resistance and Change in 17th-Century Delaware Valley
Maxence Terrollion (Université du Québec): Forts frontaliers et frontières sans forts : l’affirmation des souverainetés autochtones du nord de la vallée de l’Ohio dans les luttes d’empire (1726-1760) Mathieu Taloté (Nantes Université): Man is a prey to man. Hostages and first contact strategies in the Canadian Arctic (1576-1578)

15h50-16h20: pause café / coffee break

16h20-17h50: Raconter le contact : témoignages, récits et savoirs autochtones / (Re)telling the History of Contact : Indigenous Testimonies, Narratives and Knowledge
Panel chair: Will Slauter (Sorbonne Université)

Mairin Odle (University of Alabama): ‘Covering him with the same bear-skin’: Narratives of a Transatlantic Seminole Childhood, 1838-1843
Eduardo Angel Cruz (KU Leuven): Sanctity as Ethnography: Indigenous Witnesses and Negotiated Experiences of the Holy in 17th Century New Spain
Laurie Arnold (Gonzaga University): Dialogues of Contact: Native American Plays as Archival Sources

17h50-18h: Conclusion: Robert Coatsworth (Sorbonne Université), Donia Menghini (Université Paris 8), Maïann Stachnik (Sorbonne Université)

18h: Pot de clôture / Goodbye drinks

Carine Lounissi

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