{"id":1982,"date":"2021-05-18T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T08:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/seminar\/a19-larca-umr8225-universite-de-paris-friday-may-21-2pm-john-tresch-the-warburg-institute-at-the-univer-sity-of-london-edgar-poe-and-the-forging-of-modern-science\/1982\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T08:29:59","slug":"a19-larca-umr8225-universite-de-paris-friday-may-21-2pm-john-tresch-the-warburg-institute-at-the-univer-sity-of-london-edgar-poe-and-the-forging-of-modern-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/seminar\/a19-larca-umr8225-universite-de-paris-friday-may-21-2pm-john-tresch-the-warburg-institute-at-the-univer-sity-of-london-edgar-poe-and-the-forging-of-modern-science\/1982\/","title":{"rendered":"A19, LARCA-UMR8225, Universit\u00e9 de Paris, Friday, May 21, 2pm : John Tresch, the Warburg Institute at the Univer sity of London, \u201cEdgar Poe and the Forging of Modern Science\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chers et ch\u00e8res coll\u00e8gues,<\/p>\n<p>Vendredi 21 mai avril, A19, l\u2019atelier XIXe du LARCA @ Universit\u00e9 de Paris accueille <strong>John TRESCH<\/strong> pour une communication en anglais, intitul\u00e9e \u00ab <strong>Edgar Poe and the Forging of Modern Science \u00bb. <\/strong>R\u00e9ponse : <strong>Bruno Monfort<\/strong>, CREA\/LARCA.<\/p>\n<p>La session questions\/r\u00e9ponses sera \u00e0 la fois en anglais et en fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n<p>La s\u00e9ance aura lieu par visioconf\u00e9rence, \u00e0 14h. Vous trouverez le lien pour vous inscrire sur le site A19: <a href=\"https:\/\/a19.hypotheses.org\/\">https:\/\/a19.hypotheses.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Tresch is Professor and Mellon Chair in History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute at the University of London. Before that he taught for 12 years in the department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was trained in Chicago, Cambridge, and Paris, where he studied at the ENS- Rue d\u2019Ulm and the EHESS. He is the author of <em>The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon<\/em> (U. of Chicago Press, 2012)<em>, <\/em>which examined intersections between romantic arts and philosophy and the early industrial revolution in France before 1848. The book deals with such figures as Auguste Comte, Francois Arago, Pierre Leroux, Alexander von Humboldt and Balzac. His most recent book, to be published in June, is a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, which is the basis of this presentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edgar Poe and the Forging of Modern Science <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Allan Poe has been understood as the master of mystery and imagination, and the founder of a literary criticism focused purely on the text as a realm of ideal abstraction. This talk examines Poe in the material reality of his time and uses his work to reflect on relations between literature, science, and politics in the early 19th century United States. Poe invented stunning forms of literary sensationalism; yet he had trained at West Point Military Academy and wrote constantly about the sciences. His work in both literature and science reflected two contradictory tendencies: an explosion of unruly public claims and hoaxes in new periodicals and lecture halls, and elite strategies to control knowledge through centralised institutions. P. T. Barnum\u2019s \u201cAmerican Museum\u201d typified the first; the U.S. Coast Survey, directed by Benjamin Franklin\u2019s great-grandson, Alexander Dallas Bache, exemplified the second. Seen in context, Poe\u2019s works offer incisive, prophetic, and dramatically conflicted commentary on cultural authority, science, and the stories we tell about the universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edgar Poe et les sciences modernes, entre savoir et mystification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme ma\u00eetre du myst\u00e8re et de l&rsquo;imagination, Poe passe aussi pour le fondateur d&rsquo;une critique litt\u00e9raire centr\u00e9e uniquement sur le texte en tant que domaine de l\u2019 id\u00e9alit\u00e9 abstraite. Cette conf\u00e9rence se propose de situer Poe dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 mat\u00e9rielle de son \u00e9poque afin que son oeuvre serve \u00e0 r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir sur les relations entre litt\u00e9rature, science et politique au d\u00e9but du 19e si\u00e8cle aux \u00c9tats-Unis. Inventeur de formes \u00e9tonnantes de sensationnalisme litt\u00e9raire, Poe, qui avait fait des \u00e9tudes \u00e0 l&rsquo;Acad\u00e9mie militaire de West Point, ne cessa jamais d\u2019\u00e9crire sur les sciences. Son travail concomitant dans les domaines de la litt\u00e9rature et de la science refl\u00e9tait deux tendances contradictoires : la diffusion immod\u00e9r\u00e9e de canards, canulars et supercheries venait duper les lecteurs des nouveaux p\u00e9riodiques et l\u2019auditoire des conf\u00e9renciers, tandis que des strat\u00e9gies \u00e9litistes s\u2019emparaient des savoirs par l\u2019entremise d\u2019institutions centralis\u00e9es. L\u2019American Museum de P. T. Barnum est un bel exemple du premier cas de figure ; le U.S. Coast Survey, dirig\u00e9 par l&rsquo;arri\u00e8re-petit-fils de Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Dallas Bache, illustre le second. Rapport\u00e9es \u00e0 leur contexte, les \u0153uvres de Poe offrent des commentaires incisifs, proph\u00e9tiques et exacerb\u00e9s sur ce qui fait autorit\u00e9 en mati\u00e8re de culture et de science et dans les r\u00e9cits que nous racontons \u00e0 propos de l\u2019univers.<\/p>\n<p>Vous \u00eates tous et toutes cordialement invit\u00e9\u00b7e\u00b7s.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9cile Roudeau<br \/>\nDirectrice du LARCA-UMR8225<br \/>\nCoordinatrice de <a href=\"https:\/\/a19.hypotheses.org\/384\">A19<\/a>, l\u2019atelier XIXe<br \/>\nUniversit\u00e9 de Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chers et ch\u00e8res coll\u00e8gues, Vendredi 21 mai avril, A19, l\u2019atelier XIXe du LARCA @ Universit\u00e9 de Paris accueille John TRESCH 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