The Seven Years' War. Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Trans-imperial Dynamics

Monday, 18 november 2024

13:15 | WELCOME / INTRODUCTION
Emma Hart (University of Pennsylvania), Marie Houllemare (University of Geneva)

14:00 | SESSION 1. LOCAL AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS OF WARFARE IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Chair: Marion Philip (University of Geneva)

• Anna Brinkman (University of Lincoln) :
  Maritime Warfare and the Expansion of British Seapower

• Emilie Dosquet (University of Strasbourg) :
  Warfare during the Seven Years’ War: tactical perspectives

• Paul Vo-Ha (Pantheon-Sorbonne University) :
  The Swiss Protestants and the creation of Military Merit during the Seven Years' War (1759-1763)

16:15 | SESSION 2. CONNECTING DIFFERENT WORLDS - GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Chair: Marie Houllemare (University of Geneva)

• Maria Alessandra Bolletino (Framingham State University) :
  Expanding Slavery and Reconfiguring Race: The Significance of the Seven Years’ War for People of African Descent in the West Indies

• Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex) :
  Monsoons, mosquitos and hurricanes; Environment and the Seven Years’ War on the Coromandel coast

• Kaushik Roy (Jadavpur University) :
  Warfare in 18th century India: The Accidental Rise of the East India Company

17:45 | KEYNOTE - ERICA CHARTERS (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
Preparing for Peace: Franco-British Accounting After the Conquest of Canada
Chair: Taline Garibian (University of Geneva)

19:00 | DRINKS

19:30 | DINNER

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

09:00 | SESSION 3. IMPERIAL COMPETITION IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Chair: Emma Hart (University of Pennsylvania)

• Sven Externbrink (Heidelberg University) :
  The First World War? The Seven Years’ War as a watershed of Early Modern International Relations

• Nancy Christie (Oxford Brookes University), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University) :
  Sovereignty by conquest or credit? Britain and France in Grenada (1763-1783)

• François-Joseph Ruggiu (Sorbonne University) :
  After the war. The Seven years' war and the creation of the French first colonial empire

11:00 | SESSION 4. TRANSIMPERIAL DYNAMICS (I)
Chair: Damiano Matasci (University of Geneva)

• Matthew Dziennik (United States Naval Academy) :
  Recruitment and Manpower in the Seven Years' War: Continuity and Change

• Bernhard Schär (University of Lausanne) : Pluralizing Europe. Towards a new history of Empires

14:00 | LUNCH

14:00 | SESSION 5. TRANSIMPERIAL DYNAMICS (II)
Chair: Andreas Würgler (University of Geneva)

• Raul Wildbolz Gallego (University of Geneva) :
  The increase of the Competition in the late 18th century in Cadiz through the analysis of the profitability

• Tiéphaine Thomason (University of Cambridge) :
  From Street Gossip to Governors: Multilingual Spoken Communication in Martinique in Peace and War

• Roberto Zaugg (University of Zurich) :
  Beyond Columbus. Trans-Imperial Perspectives on the Atlantic World and the Italian Peninsula

16:00 | CONCLUSION
Emma Hart (University of Pennsylvania), Marie Houllemare (University of Geneva)