The University of Sheffield
Department of French

Histoires de la Terre - International Conference

Supported by the Society for French Studies,
the Ambassade de France au Royaume Uni and
the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield

terre

University of Sheffield - Crookesmoor Building

Fri 30th March – Sun 1st April 2007

The publication of Buffon´s Théorie de la Terre in 1749 heralded the advent of an era in which thinkers would seek a new understanding of the earth and humanity´s relationship with its physical environment. This conference invites exploration of how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (e.g. cartography, oceanography, mining, tunnelling, palaeontology, evolution) have informed French and Francophone literary texts of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Contact : Dr Louise Lyle
Tel: + 44 (0)114 222 4894

email : l.lyle@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr David McCallam
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 2860

email : d.mccallam@sheffield.ac.uk

Pietro Fabris´s illustration from Sir William Hamilton´s Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland.