Dominique Deslandres
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'histoire
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Biography
I am a Full Professor in the Université de Montréal Department of History, where I helped found the Centre d'Études des Religions (CERUM) in 2000. My research focuses on the comparative history of socio-religious mentalities in Europe and America in the modern era. In fact it is an extensive project, underpinning my teaching at all levels and my research. It runs like a thread, aimed at better understanding the individual and collective construction of identities, starting in my 1st-year course (HST1041), where students are confronted with the emergence of nation-states and the foundations of modern European identities. On the basis of this understanding, in my 2nd-year course (HST2282) they learn about the relationships of borrowing, attraction and repulsion between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. They are invited to think about what it meant to be European or Ottoman during the Ancien Régime period, keeping in mind the highlights of Mediterranean history. In my HST3206 course I invite them to better understand mentalities of other times, by entering the world of the 17th-century missionaries who, at the dawn of French absolutism, sought to convert the Other, in a world permeated with religious figures, from politics to economics and, of course, daily life. The same kind of questioning guides my HST6630 seminar on comparative socio-religious mentalities, where for many years now we have been analyzing identity construction through the comparative history of spiritual autobiographies.
Affiliations
- Membre – CRILCQ — Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises
Education Programs
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Teaching and Education Sciences Humanities
Courses
- HST2246 Pouvoirs, justice et justiciables d’Ancien Régime
- HST6630 Histoire socioreligieuse comparée
Areas of Expertise
- Otherness
- European discoveries and exploration
- Epistolary exchanges
- Education
- Comparative history
- Socio-religious history
- Identity
- Sexual and gender identity
- Mysticism
- Religious orders
- Religions, identities and politics
- Americas
- Europe
- France
- Early Modern Times
- Indigenous people
- Authority and power
- Slavery
- State
- Empire and imperialism
- Colonies
- Social history
- Political history
- Justice
- Quebec
- 16th century
- 17th century
- 18th century
My research concerns the comparative history of identity construction in 16th-18th century Europe and the Americas, with a number of complementary aspects: the vision of the Other and the question of self (episteme and mentalities; objectives and methods of persuasion); the role of the two sexes in the individual and collective construction of identity; historical evidence and the memory of self. With regard to this first theme, I published Croire et faire croire. Les missions françaises au 17e siècle(Paris, Fayard, 2003), showing the far-reaching connections between the perception of otherness and the representations of modern identity in the context of the first globalization, i.e. missionary imperialism, at a time when France was undergoing true domestic colonization. A second theme developed from this research, and allowed me to embark on two parallel publications: the first, Les autobiographies spirituelles et l'émergence du sujet moderne, is aimed at understanding how men and women in France and its colonies learned to see themselves as acting subjects. The second publication, the third of my research themes, is entitled Memoire de soi, mémoire des autres, and compares the annals of various religious congregations in France and New France to determine the traces that small communities wished to leave for posterity, sometimes at the cost of a certain distortion of the historical record. On the basis of this work, I was invited to edit a scientific history of the Sulpicians of Canada in which the chapters I wrote concern the duty of memory, identity markers, and relations between others and the Sulpicians, who were key figures in Montreal history (D. Deslandres, John A. Dickinson and Ollivier Hubert, eds. Les Sulpiciens de Montréal. Une histoire de pouvoir et de discrétion (Montreal, Fides, 2007). Along the same lines, I co-edited, with Raymond Brodeur and Thérèse Nadeau-Lacour, Lecture inédite de la modernité aux origines de la Nouvelle France. Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation et les autres fondateurs religieux (Quebec City, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2010) to mark the 400th anniversary of Quebec City. I am currently writing a biography of Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation, founder of the very first school for women in America, while continuing my work on the roles of the sexes, religion and politics in the history of modern-day French expansion.
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Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
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RS - Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2025
Donner le goût de l'archive à l'ère numérique: Production et partage de données historiques et archéologiques sur les peuples de Montréal au 17e siècle Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2025
Colloque/École d'été « Les gens de Montréal 16e-18e siècles : histoire, archéologie et muséologie à l'ère des humanités numériques et des sciences participatives » Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2024
L'esclavage des enfants à Montréal aux 17e-18e siècles Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2024
Femmes et pouvoirs dans le bailliage de Montréal (16441693) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2023
Femmes et pouvoirs dans le bailliage de Montréal (1644-1693) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2022
Donner le goût de l'archive : Recherche historique, interprétation et mise en valeur des archives judiciaires de Montréal pendant le régime français Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2021
Genre et procédures d’appel au tribunal du roi, 1608-1765. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2018
FGR-UdeM-CRSH 2014-2015 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2016
LE GENRE AU TRIBUNAL. LE CAS DU GOUVERNEMENT DE MONTREAL 1644-1763 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2014 - 2015
FEMMES ET JUSTICE EN NOUVELLE-FRANCE, 1523-1763 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2013 - 2015
RELIGION, SEXES ET SOCIETE : HISTOIRE DES RAPPORTS SOCIAUX DE SEXES DANS L'ESPACE FRANCAIS (FRANCE ET COLONIES) 16E-18E SIECLE Projet de recherche au Canada / 2009 - 2011
LE CATHOLICISME FRANÇAIS EN AMÉRIQUE 1534-1790 (CHAPITRE DE SYNTHÈSE, C.H.A.R.) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2009 - 2009
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D. Deslandres, « Femmes de Nouvelle-France » Les Cahiers des Dix. Vol.75, 2022, p.311-344.
Additional Information
- 31-01-2004 Les sauveurs d'âmes
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Les Sulpiciens de Montréal. Une histoire de pouvoir et de discrétion, 1657-2007
Guy Laperrière "Deslandres, Dominique, John A. Dickinson et Ollivier Hubert, dir., Les Sulpiciens de Montréal. Une histoire de pouvoir et de discrétion, 1657-2007 (Saint-Laurent, Fides, 2007), 670 p.." Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 611 (2007): 98–102.
- Marie de l'Incarnation: entre mère et fils : le dialogue des vocations
- 07-05-2007 Les Sulpiciens de Montréal: un héritage encore vif
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