CONFÉRENCES PUBLIQUES
2024
“Histoire de la censure”, Conférence publique.
Bibliothèque du Vieux-Saint-Laurent
2024
“Brève histoire du livre”, Conférence publique.
Bibliothèque municipale de Gatineau
2023
“Le livre au temps de la Nouvelle-France”, Conférence publique.
Bibliothèque du Vieux-Saint-Laurent
2023
“Brève histoire des bibliothèques”, Conférence publique.
Bibliothèque municipale de Boucherville
2023
“Le livre au temps des Lumières (série de quatre conférences :1) La France des Lumières 2) Fabriquer et éditer un livre 3) Le livre et les lecteurs 4) Censure et police du livre)”, Conférence publique.
Fondation culturelle Jean de Brébeuf
2022
“Brève histoire du livre, du l'Antiquité à l'ère numérique”, Conférence publique.
Fondation culturelle Jean-de-Brébeuf
2022
“Brève histoire du livre, du Moyen Âge à l’ère numérique”, Conférence publique.
Les Bibliothèques du Vieux-Saint-Laurent, Montréal
2019
“Brève histoire du livre, du Moyen Âge à l’ère numérique”, Conférence publique.
Bibliothèque Municipale de Boucherville, Canada
2017
Censorship, the Police, and the Book Market in 18th-century Paris:The files of Police Inspector Joseph d'Hémery.
Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, USA
2017
“Brève histoire du livre, du Moyen Âge à l’ère numérique”, Conférence publique.
Bibliothèque Municipale de Mascouche, Canada
2015
Self-publishing Science in Europe, 1750-1820”, Science and Modernization in Sweden: An Institutional Approach to Historicizing the Knowledge Society.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
2015
“L’autoédition d’hier à aujourd’hui”.
Conférences publiques des bibliothèques de Longueuil, Canada
2014
“Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London”.
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England
2014
“Librairie, droits d’auteurs et autoédition: Évolution des enjeux du XVIIIe siècle à l’ère numérique”.
(Cercle interuniversitaire des études québécoises), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
2013
“De l’écriture au commerce: Les auteurs éditeurs d’eux-mêmes à Paris au XVIIIe siècle”.
UQÀM, Montréal, Canada
2012
“Les écrivains et le commerce des livres”.
Séminaire d’Histoire Intellectuelle, Université de Paris VIII, France
2011
“The Writer, the Press and the Market: the Rise of Self-publication in Paris before the Revolution”, with a comment by Prof. Robert Darnton.
Humanities Center conference series, Harvard University, USA
2010
“The Enlightenment and the Modernization of Authorship: The Self-Publishing Authors in Paris (1750-1791)”.
New Scholars Program of the Bibliographical Society of America, New York City, USA
2009
“To Publish and Perish: The Misadventures of Self-publishing Authors in 18th-Century Paris”.
The Flemish Society for Book History (VWB), Antwerp, Belgium
COLLOQUES
2018
“A Publishing Machine : The Quest of Botanist P.J. Buch’hoz for Scientific Recognition in Enlightenment France”.
Annual conference of the History of Science Society, Seattle, USA
2018
“Author-editors in 18th-century Paris and the professionalization of authorship”.
Fifteenth annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2018), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2018
“Converting Shakespeare: The First Complete French Edition (1776-1783)”.
Early Modern Conversions Team Meeting, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
2018
“Authors and Publishers Before the Book : Searching the Parisian Registres des Privilèges from 1653 to 1790”.
SHARP, Western Sydney University, Australia
2018
“Un homme et ses livres : l’auteur-éditeur Pierre-Joseph Buc’hoz (1731-1807)”.
George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2018
Panel Chair : “Publishing in Renaissance France”.
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2017
Panel Chair; “L’écrivaine, l’écrivain: sujet, objet, facettes, profils”.
ACFAS colloquium, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
2017
“Sciences cognitives et philosophie de l’esprit sur le marché des lettres à Paris au 18e siècle”, Colloque Psy-ences: L’institutionnalisation de l’esprit.
CIRST (Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie), UQÀM, Montréal, Canada
2017
“Book Illustration and Book History”, Panel: Approaches to Teaching and and Researching Eighteenth-Century Literary Illustration.
CSECS annual conference (Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), Toronto, Canada
2015
“Self-Publishing Science Journals in 18th-Century Paris and London: A Comparative Study”.
The Royal Society of London, UK
2015
Chair of Panel “Assessing Eighteenth-Century Reading/Usages et pratiques de lectures au XVIIIe siècle”.
Annual conference of SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing). McGill-Université de Sherbrooke-BanQ, Canada
2014
“La police et les coulisses du livre: Parisian Booskellers and their Networks of Sociability in the Inspector Joseph d’Hémery’s files”.
CSECS (Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), Montréal, Canada
2014
Insight “Everybody Works for Money: Writers and the Book Trade in the French Enlightenment”. Grant - Author-Publishers in France and England in the Early Modern Period .
Center for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
2014
“Authors-Publishers, Legislations, and Literary Property: Between Discourse and Practice in the 18th Century”, International Society for the History of Intellectual Property.
University of Uppsala, Sweden
2014
“Printed and Sold by the Author: The Rise of Self-publishing in 18th century Paris and London”.
Conference in Early Modern Studies, University of Reading, England
2013
“Science, Authority, and Print: The Challenges and Reception of Self-Published Savants in 18th-century France”.
BSC (Bibliographical Society of Canada), University of Victoria, Canada
2013
“The Writer and the Law: The relationship between authorial ventures and legislations in France, England, and Germany at the turn of the 19th century”.
SHARP, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2013
“Between Secrecy and Publicity: Self-publishing and the Literary Underground of the Old Regime”.
ISECS (International Society for Eighteen-Century Studies), Forschungszentrum, Gotha, Germany
2013
“Aux portes de l’Académie des Sciences : le rôle de la publication chez les scientifiques amateurs au XVIIIe siècle”.
AQÉI (Association québécoise pour l’Étude de l’Imprimé), UQÀM, Montréal, Canada
2013
“Between Authority and Public: Self-Publishing and the Amateur Scientists in 18th-c. Paris”.
SFHS the Society for French Historical Studies, Harvard-MIT, USA
2011
“Je ne suis pas fou : The Self-publishing Journey of Poorly Esteemed Scientists in Paris during the Enlightenment”.
(SHARP), Washington, D.C., USA
2011
“La publication à compte d’auteur à Paris (1750-1791) : vers une nouvelle pratique auctoriale moderne”.
(ISECS), Graz, Austria
2011
“Cutting out the Middlemen: Self-publishing Authors and their Autonomous Commercial Endeavours on the Parisian Literary Market (1750-1791).
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Vancouver, Canada
2010
“À Paris, chez l’Auteur : Advertising and Marketing Strategies for Self-published Books in the French Capital (1763-1789)”.
ASECS, Albuquerque, New-Mexico, USA
2009
“The Cost of Perfection: The Arduous Journey of Authors who Self-published Luxurious and Illuminated Books in 18th-Century Paris”.
American Printing History Association (APHA), Newport, Rhode Island, USA
2008
“Publisher and Seller of his own Educational Books : The Battle of Luneau de Boisjermain (1731-1802) Against the Parisian Booksellers’ Privileges”.
SHARP, Oxford, UK
2008
“Control over Form and Content: The Authors Publishers of their own Books in Paris (1750-Revolution)”.
Chetham Library and the University of Manchester, UK
2007
“The Role of Family and Professionnal Networks in the Care for Orphans : The Case of Joseph Longis, Son of a Solicitor in 17th century Aix-en-Provence”.
Underhill Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
2007
“Veuvage, remariage et héritage au XVIIe siècle : la bataille juridique du jeune Joseph Longis, fils d’un procureur à Aix-en-Provence”.
Colloque étudiant des cycles supérieurs en histoire, UQÀM, Montréal, Canada
2007
“L’acquisition d’un office de procureur au tournant du XVIe siècle : gage de réussite familiale ? L’exemple du parcours professionnel des Longis, petits officiers à Aix-en-Provence”.
Colloque étudiant des cycles supérieurs en histoire (ARTEFACT), Université Laval, Canada
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