Experts in: 18th century
ARSENAULT, Mathieu
Professeur adjoint
DALTON, Susan
Professeure agrégée
- Sexual and gender identity
- Identity
- Cultural heritage
- Social history
- 18th century
- France
- Italy
- 19th century
My most recent monograph looks at Venetian salonnières (like Giustina Renier Michiel and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi) and the men who attended their salons (like Ugo Foscolo, Ippolito Pindemonte and Melchiorre Cesarotti), in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In particular, I have found that these salonnières drew on the roles they played in literary salons to offer themselves as cultural intermediaries in their publications, by simplifying the erudite writings of men of letters in their circle and making them accessible to a wider readership.
My current research concerns the impact of the expansion of commercial print in the nineteenth century on the posterity of Italian eighteenth-century "women worthies."
DESLANDRES, Dominique
Professeure titulaire
- 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.
DESSUREAULT, Christian
Professeur honoraire
- Economics
- Families
- Social history
- Rural areas
- Globalization
- New France
- 18th century
- 19th century
- Canada (Québec)
I devoted the early years of my career to studying the seigniorial regime in Canada, the rural economy, farming families' material lives, social structures, and the family and family networks in rural Quebec in the 18th and 19th centuries. In recent years, in co-operation with other scholars, I have been pursuing research into local institutions, including parish fabriques, sedentary militias and school syndics, so as to better understand the ways in which elites were recruited and renewed in the pre-capitalist Quebec countryside.
DEWAR, Helen
Professeure agrégée
DICKINSON, John A.
Professeur honoraire
HAMZAH, Dyala
Professeure agrégée
- Ottoman Empire
- Public space
- Social movements
- Nationalism
- Public Opinion
- Pan-Arabism
- Pan-Islamism
- Religion
- Arab renaissance
- Arab world
- Colonialism
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Modern Times
- Middle East
My research interests concern the processes of reform and centralization in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire throughout the 19th century (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, North Africa), from a cultural and social perspective. The central role of the press and associations in the emergence of a public space during the Arab Renaissance and the issues of education and citizenship in the colonial and post-colonial periods are central to my research.
At the same time, my work bears on the symmetrical processes of professionalization and the popularization of Islamic expertise in the 20th century. More specifically, I am interested in the institutional and curricular development of mosque-universities such as al-Azhar, Zaytuna and Qarawiyyin, from the 18th century until their nationalization in the 1960s, and also in the legacies and uses of Islamic historiography, philosophy and law in the contemporary period, particularly in nationalism and Islamism.
My current research aims to contribute to the cultural history of Arab nationalism and to define its key institutions: volunteer associations and secret societies; scouting movements; school textbooks.
HUBERT, Ollivier
Professeur titulaire, Directeur
- Culture
- Identity
- Religion
- Education
- Empire and imperialism
- Violence
- Sexual and gender identity
- 18th century
- 19th century
- Canada
- Quebec
I am interested in the people who lived in the St. Lawrence Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly under the British Regime. I want to determine the rules by which they lived, the images that shaped the way they perceived the world, and the power structures they created or suffered under. This curiosity has made me a historian of pre-industrial Quebec society. I began by studying how religious precepts legitimized certain conceptions of order. In the past few years, using documents left by other institutions, tribunals and educational institutions, I have tried to understand how social identities were formed, negotiated and mobilized.
KEEL, Othmar
Professeur honoraire
MILTON, Cynthia E.
Chercheuse, Professeure associée
- Art
- Colonization and decolonization
- Memory
- Cultural heritage
- Poverty
- Violence
- Latin America
- Peace and Security
- Truth commissions
- 18th century
- 20th century
- Peru
Analyzing, both traditional and new methods of resolving conflicts by "saying the truth", she studies the Peruvian regions strongly affected by the Shining Path. Her present research centers on the works of Art produced following a period of violence. She presently holds an Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2011-2014) for experienced researchers. She is the Director of the Chair in Contemporary Mexican Studies (CEMC) and the Research Network on Latin America (RÉAL).
WIERDA, Meagan
Professeure adjointe