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W19 – Louise Michel en Amérique
Publié le 22 avril 2025
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Mis à jour le 22 avril 2025
Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) accueille des chercheuses et chercheurs spécialistes d’histoire du XIXe siècle. Il s'intéresse en particulier à la circulation des personnes, des idées, des textes et des savoirs dans le monde anglophone et au-delà, dans une perspective d'histoire globale, transnationale ou impériale.
Date(s)
le 30 avril 2025
14h-15h30
Lieu(x)
Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 830, Université Paris Cité.
Le séminaire de l’Atelier Dix-Neuvième (A19) et le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) organisent une séance commune intitulée « Louise Michel en Amérique ». Elle se tiendra le mercredi 30 avril de 14h à 15h30 au bâtiment Olympe de Gouges de l’université Paris Cité (salle 830).
J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester) présentera un chapitre de son ouvrage Louise Michel in America (à paraître chez Rutgers University Press). Thomas Caubet (Université Paris Cité) sera discutant.
Il est possible d’assister à la séance à distance. Le lien de connexion est le suivant : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/85028711383?pwd=CpyPXXDXZCxEnOVmwIcSTsyQSU9QqZ.1
J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester) présentera un chapitre de son ouvrage Louise Michel in America (à paraître chez Rutgers University Press). Thomas Caubet (Université Paris Cité) sera discutant.
Louise Michel journeyed far beyond France—enduring forced exile in New Caledonia and chosen exile in London; touring Europe in the early 1880s; and voyaging to Algeria in 1904, in the final months of her life. But unlike comrades such as Peter Kropotkin, she never visited America, as plans for her much-anticipated US lecture tour were scrapped in 1897 under intense US government pressure. Yet even from afar, this celebrated—and infamous—anarchist orator, educational activist, and former Communarde made her presence felt across the United States both during and long after her lifetime. ‘Louise Michel in America’ uncovers her expansive influence on late-nineteenth-century American radicals—especially Emma Goldman, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Lucy Parsons—and her outsized presence in US culture at large. That Michel once mattered so much to so many reveals not only nineteenth-century US radicals’ internationalist circuits of affiliation, but also how national borders—and her demarcation as French—continue to obscure the importance of those cross-national ties, despite decades of transnational scholarship and recent work tracing the Commune’s global ripples.
The chapter I’ll present, ‘Epistolary Activism: Re-tracing Louise Michel’s US Radical Networks,’ recovers Michel’s under-appreciated footprint in US radical periodicals and circles by way of her essays and speeches, reports on her lectures and radical experiments like the free International School she founded in London in 1891, and the letters she exchanged with US radicals. I argue this overlooked archive helps to adumbrate not just how US radicals heard or read about Michel, but how they came to think with and be moved by her.
The chapter I’ll present, ‘Epistolary Activism: Re-tracing Louise Michel’s US Radical Networks,’ recovers Michel’s under-appreciated footprint in US radical periodicals and circles by way of her essays and speeches, reports on her lectures and radical experiments like the free International School she founded in London in 1891, and the letters she exchanged with US radicals. I argue this overlooked archive helps to adumbrate not just how US radicals heard or read about Michel, but how they came to think with and be moved by her.
Il est possible d’assister à la séance à distance. Le lien de connexion est le suivant : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/85028711383?pwd=CpyPXXDXZCxEnOVmwIcSTsyQSU9QqZ.1
Mis à jour le 22 avril 2025