“1720” – 300th Anniversary Calendar

Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 257 No.13 Map #208 p.355 Author: Dumont de Montigny. Title: Memoire de Lxx Dxx officier ingénieur, contenant les evenements qui se sont passes a la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu a present [manuscript] ainsi que ses remarques sur les moeurs, usages, et forces des diverses nations de l’Amerique Septentrionale et de ses productions. Physical Description: [227] leaves, bound : ill., coat of arms, maps, plates ; 27 cm. Summary: Journal of Dumont dit Montigny, French military officer and historian, written in France in 1747, which narrates events of his life between 1715 and 1747, including his experiences in Louisiana from 1719 to 1737. He fought in the attack on Pensacola, helped build forts in New Biloxi and Yazoo, explored the Arkansas River, and described in great detail the city of Natchez before the massacre of 1729. The second section of the memoir describes Louisiana, settlements, and Indian practices and customs. Photograph of Concession des Chaouachas appartenante cy devant a Mgr. le Duc de Belleisle et associez Dumont Dit Montigny Scan from 4×5 transparency film @ 1600 dpi

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Boom, Bust, and Beyond: New Perspectives on the 1719-20 Stock Euphoria

Conference, April 11 – 13, 2018, University of Tübingen, Germany

Sponsor: program of the Collaborative Research Center (923) “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress”.

The conference aims to bring together scholars working on the many aspects of the 1719-20 stock euphoria. It will provide a forum for discussing recent and ongoing research.

CFP deadline: 7 January 2018

To submit a paper, please send an abstract and your CV to Daniel Menning, daniel.menning@uni-tuebingen.de

Organizing committee: Stefano Condorelli (Bern), Renate Dürr (Tübingen), and Daniel Menning (Tübingen).

Confirmed participants: Michael Aldous (Belfast), Farid Azfar (Swarthmore), Rik Frehen (Tiburg), Malick Ghachem (MIT), Emiel Jerphanion (Tilburg), Marlene Kessler (Tübingen), Richard Kleer (Regina), Inger Leemans (Amsterdam), Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire), Arnaud Orain (Paris), Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool), Rafael Streib (Tübingen), Abigail Swingen (Texas), Francois Velde (Chicago), Hans-Joachim Voth (Zurich), Lina Weber (Amsterdam), Koji Yamamoto (Tokyo), Christine Zabel (Duisburg-Essen).

Funds will be available for covering travel and accommodation expenses.

Papers will be pre-circulated before the conference, with the objective of publishing them afterwards in an edited volume.

The Pan-European Crises of 1719-1720: New Perspectives on the Nature of Financial Behaviour

Three-hour session at the XVIII World Economic History Congress, Massachusetts, July 29 – August 3, 2018.

CFP deadline: 15 December 2017.  Click here for full details

“New Orleans, Global City (1718-2018): The Long Shadow of John Law and the Mississippi Bubble”

Thursday – Saturday, April 26 – 28, 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Inaugural conference of the 18th- & 19th-Century Studies Network, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Contact: Catherine Labio, catherine.labio@colorado.edu

PAST EVENTS

The Architecture, Experience, and Aftermath of a Financial Disaster: John Law and the Mississippi Bubble

The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, Monday, April 24, 2017

“Images de la Régence, Figures de la ‘Crise’?”  

2èmes Rencontres « RÉGENT »

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 9 am – 6 pm, Paris, France

“Après la première journée d’étude consacrée aux portraits du Régent qui s’est tenue en septembre 2015, les organisateurs souhaitent creuser la question du politique au temps de Philippe II d’Orléans en ouvrant plus largement la réflexion à l’ensemble des représentations susceptibles de caractériser la notion de « crise » en ces temps troublés. L’un des aspects évoqués sera celui de la crise économique et politique, celle induite par le système de Law ou encore celle consécutive aux modifications introduites dans la conception du pouvoir. Une autre concernera le « système des arts », tant en ce qui a rapport au pouvoir qu’à la nouvelle conception de l’individu. En cela, une mise en question de ce qu’on a pu appeler la « crise de la conscience européenne » (Paul Hazard) s’imposera.”

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Salle Vasari

Galerie Colbert, salle Giorgio Vasari
Institut national d’histoire de l’art
2, rue Vivienne ou 6 rue des Petits Champs
75002 Paris

Contact: Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (valentinetoutain@yahoo.fr)