26-27 mai 2017

Ce colloque est organisé par la revue universitaire on-line Ritual, Secrecy and Civil Society en partenariat avec la Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Cette manifestation se veut d’abord un carrefour pour réunir les différents acteurs de l’historiographie maçonnique et faire le point sur les dernières avancées dans ce domaine. Mais elle souhaite aussi étendre son champ de recherche à d’autres organisations fraternelles. Ainsi ce sera l’occasion de présenter les travaux pionniers conduits récemment sur les « Friendly societies » dans les mondes britannique et américain, les compagnonnages en France ou en Allemagne, ou encore sur certaines organisations ouvrières (Chevaliers du Travail) ou mutuelles, utilisant aussi rituels et « secrets » symboliques. C’est pourquoi nous prenons le risque d’adapter en français le néologisme « fraternalisme » utilisé depuis quelques années par les chercheurs anglo-saxons.

Inscription gratuite (mais obligatoire)

PROGRAMME

Avant chaque conférence, un séminaire rassemblant les chercheurs spécialisés est organisé pour faire le point sur un grand sujet de l’histoire maçonnique. Cette année il sera consacré à André-Michel de Ramsay et sera l’occasion d’échanges sur les avancées récentes concernant sa vie, son oeuvre et son rôle dans l’histoire de la franc-maçonnerie. Il se tiendra mercredi 24 mai 2017 à 14h à la Bibliothèque du Grand Orient de France.

Jeudi 25 mai 2017, férié

Vendredi 26 mai 2017

Ouverture de la Conférence internationale

Bibliothèque nationale de France

9-9:30. Accueil, inscription, café : foyer de la BnF

Session plénière : Grand Auditorium.    

9:30-11:00. 

Accueil et présentation par Guillermo De Los Reyes et Pierre Mollier.

« The Idea of Associating: Fraternalism and Civil Society” : table ronde par Margaret Jacob, Naomi Taback, Natalie Bayer, Maria Eugenia Vazquez Semadeni.  

11:00-11:20. Pause-café dans le foyer. Remise du prix Bartholdi « for Distinguished Scholarship ».

11:20-13:00.  Eighteenth Century Origins and Consequences

John Belton, Chair

“The Influence of the Conflict Between Stuarts and Whigs Upon the Creation of the Grand Lodge of London and the Grand Lodge of France”

Louis Trebuchet

“The Enlightenment and German Freemasonry at the Beginning of the 18th Century and Later.” Michel Warnery 

“Lire les images de la franc-maçonnerie : l’exemple des ‘Gabanons’ (1745)”

Philippe Langlet

“New Historical Perspectives the ‘French Rite’”

Cecile Revauger.   

13:00-14:00. Lunch Break

Movie, Excerpts from The Man. Who Would Be King. Guillermo Isabel Chair

14:00-15:30.  “The Various Versions of Ramsay’s Discourse.”

Alain Bernheim

Pierre Mollier, Chair

15:30 – 15:50. Coffee Break in foyer. Presentation of the Regulus Award by Pierre Mollier.

15:50-17:30.  “Restoring the Compagnonnage to Fraternal History: Further Considerations.”

 Margaret Jacob, Chair

“The Stone and the Compass: The Company of the Humanity of the Stonemasons of Tours: Cross Paths Between Compagnonnage, Mutualism, and Freemasonry.”   

Jean Michel-Mathonière, Centre d’étude des compagnonnages à Avignon

PETIT AUDITORUM

11:00-12:00.  “Music and Masonry”

Naomi Taback, Chair

“Freemasons Franklin, Mozart, Mesmer and the Glass Armonica”

India D’Avignon, California Polytechnic State University

12:00-13:00: Lunch Break Movie, Excerpts from The Man. Who Would Be King. Guillermo Isabel, Chair

14:00 -18:00 “Freemasonry and Visual Arts: A Symposium”

Reva Wolf, State University of New York at New Paltz, and Alisa Luxenberg, University of Georgia, Athens, Chairs

 

14:00-15:30. 

Part 1:  Revolution and the Atlantic World

“Revolutionary-Era Freemasonry and the Hermetic Paintings of John Singleton Copley”

David Bjelajac, George Washington University

 “‘Within the Compass of Good Citizens’”:  The Visual Arts of Freemasonry as Practiced by Paul Revere”

Nan Wolverton, American Antiquarian Society

 “Masonic Imagery in Haitian Vodou”

Katherine Marie Smith, New York University

 

Part 2:  Eighteenth-Century Europe

 “Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the Architectural Projects of the Marquis de Pombal”

David Martín López, University of Granada

 “Meissen Porcelain and the Order of the Pug”

Cordula Bischoff, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

 “Goya’s Art and Freemasonry in Spain”

Reva Wolf, State University of New York

15:30-15:50. Coffee Break

 

15:50-18:00

Part 3:  The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 “Building Codes:  New Light on Baron Taylor and Les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France”

Alisa Luxenberg, University of Georgia

“Reveil de l’Iran: Freemasonry and Artistic Revivalism from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran”

Talinn Grigor, University of California

 “To Consummate the Plan”:  Solomon’s Temple in Masonic Art, Architecture and Popular Culture, 1865-1930”

William D. Moore, Boston University

 “‘A Change Is Gonna Come’:  Imaging Black Freemasons from Emancipation to the 1960s”

Cheryl Finley, Cornell University, and Deborah Willis, New York University

SALON  70

11:00-13:00.  

“Freemasonry and Natural Sciences in Late Eighteenth Century- Example of Georg Vega”

Matevž Košir, Archives of the Republic of Slovenia

“A Curious Swiss Certificate of 1779”

Michel Jaccard, former president of the ARGO

13:00-14:00  Lunch Break

Movie, Excerpts from The Man Who Would Be King. Guillermo Isabel, Chair

14:00-15:30.   “Intellectual Antecedents, Foundations, and Linkages” 

Maria Eugenia Vazquez Semadeni, Chair 

“German Masonry, Monarchy, Protestantism: Linkages from the Napoleonic Wars to the Overthrow of the Crowns (1918)”

Ralf Bern Herden

“Jean-Baptiste Willermoz: Intellectual  Failure or Masonic Mastermind”

Aaron Jedediah French, University of California, Davis

 “Creating a Foundation for Fraternalism in America: Literary and Debating Societies in the US Colonial Colleges”

Wayne Kraemer and Ann Burnette

“The Practice of Freemasonry in the Islamic World Through the Most Ancient Masonic Ritual in Arabic”

Saïd Chaaya, UCLA 

15:30-15:50.  Coffee Break. Presentation of Kilwinning Award

15:50-17:30 “Contemporary Scholarship views Fraternalism”

Natalie Bayer, Chair

“The Fraternal Order of Elks: U.S. Drinking and Driving Laws’ Impact on Elk Lodge Life: Exalted Rulers’ Perceptions”

“Contemporary Freemasonry: A Sociological Model of Member Involvement”

J. Scott Kenney

“Invisible Truth: Modeling Secularity through Language and Performance Games in Masonic Rituals”

Klaus-Jürgen Grün

“El tratamiento iconográfico de la Masonería. El caso de las series televisivas y la literatura / The Unfolding Iconographic Treatment of Freemasonry: The Case of the TV Series and Literature.”

 Julio Martínez García, FuegoAmigo Co-Editor

17:30-18:00. “Regularity, Recognition and Painting Ourselves into the Corner Again: A Plenary Workshop Discussion.” 

Mike Kearsley. 

Gilbert Davau, John Belton, Chairs

Participants are invited to repair to a cafe to continue this discussion.

 

                               THE SECOND DAY: SATURDAY MAY 27, 2017 

GRAND AUDITORIUM

9:00-9:30.  Continental Breakfast. Foyer

9:30-10:45. Plenary “New Discoveries and the Contested Supposed Founding of English Freemasonry.”   Susan Sommers

10:45-11:05. Coffee Break 

11:00 -13:00. “Aspects in Dispute: Past and Present of the French Masonic Scene”

Alain Bauer and Roger Dachez, Co-chairs

“Cartoons, Thrillers, and Freemasonry”

Alain Bauer, Alain Jacques Lacot (TBC), Didier Convard (TBC), Eric Giacometti (TBC), Jacques Ravenne (TBC)

“Lire les images de la franc-maçonnerie : l’exemple des ‘Gabanons’ (1745)”

Philippe Langlet

13:00-14:00.  Lunch Break. Movie, Excerpts Guillermo Isabel Chair

14:00-16:00 “Imperialism, Colonialism and Multiple Freemasonries”

Guillermo De Los Reyes, Chair

 

“Dependence and Autonomy: The English Freemasons and their Relations in Argentina and Brazil (1859-1935)

Felipe Côrte Real de Camargo, University of Bristol

 

“El discurso antimasónico católico en la defensa del imperio español. Entre antilumieres y contrarrevolución”

Felipe Santiago del Solar, Independent Scholar

“Imperialismo Fraterno: la pugna entre el GOF y la UGLE”

Rogelio Aragón. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

“El imperio contra el pueblo. ¿Presencia Masónica en la Semana Trágica de Barcelona (1909)?”

Sylvia Hottinger, Independent Scholar, CEHME, REHMLAC+

“Hermano moro, masonería y colonialismo en Protectorado Español de Marruecos (1931-1936)”

Valeria Aguiar Bobet, Universidad Jaume I de Castellón

 

“Impérialismes, maçonniques et… politique”

Yván Pozuelo Andrés, IES Universidad Laboral de Gijón, CEHME, REHMLAC+

 

“‘Civilizing the barbarians’: Freemasonries at the Service of Empires”

Ricardo Martínez Esquivel, Universidad de Costa Rica, CEHME, REHMLAC+

16:00- 16:20. Coffee Break

16:20-17:15.   The “Ramsay Summation” – Grand Auditorium

Pierre Mollier, 🙂Cecile Revauger, Margaret Jacobs,  Alain Bernheim, Paul Rich, Guillermo De Los Reyes

PETIT AUDITORIUM

9:30-10:45. “Plenary Discoveries and the Supposed Founding of English Freemasonry.”  Susan Sommers. Grand Auditorium

10:45-11:05. Coffee Break

11:05-13:00  “Ramsay and His Relationships to Intellectual History”

Craig Remes, Chair.

“Jacobites, Parliament, and the ‘Capital of the Universe’: the Chevalier “Ramsay’s Political Thought”

Andrew Mansfield

“The Influence of the Scottish Poem ‘The Bruce of John Harbour’ (about 1375) on the Ramsay’s Oration”

Francis Delon

 “A Rereading of Ramsay’s Oration 1737: The Dream of the Spiritual Empire in its Context of the New Catholic and Stuart Revival”

Pierre Besses & Louis Trebuchet

“The Paternity of Ramsay’s Speeches: de La Motta, Madame de Guyon, and the Corridors of Power”

Arnaud Marquet

 “Anton von Geusau’s Conversations with Ramsay: An Examination of his Original Diary”

Reinhard Markner

 “The Revolutionary Morality of Freemasonry: Universal Justice and Solidarity since the Paris Commune”

Alhelí de María Alvarado-Díaz

13:00-14:00. Lunch Break. Movie in Grand Auditorium, Excerpts Guillermo Isabel Chair

14:00-16:00: “Ramsey and His Disputed Contributions” 

Andreas Önnerfors, Chair

“L’entourage spirituel de Ramsay en France: du ‘Pur Amour’ de Fenelon et Mme Guyon à la ‘Fraternité universelle’ / The Spiritual Company of Ramsay in France: How Fenelon and Guyon’s ‘Pure Love’ Leads to the ‘Universal Brotherhood’ Concept”

Aymeric Le Delliou

 “Ramsay’s ideas on World Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism”

Andreas Önnerfors

 “Les Voyages de Cyrus’ du Chevalier de Ramsay: entre roman spirituel et conte philosophique / Ramsay’s ‘Voyages’: Between Spiritual Fiction and Philosophical Tale”

Samuel Macaigne

 

16:00.-16:20. Coffee Break

16:20-17:15.  “Ramsay Summation” at the Grand Auditorium.

Pierre Mollier, Cecile Revauger, Margaret Jacob,  Alain Bernheim,  Paul Rich, Guillermo De Los Reyes

17:15 Closing Toast. To Paris 2019 Foyer

Auditorium 70

 9:30 – 10:30 “Italian Conundrums”

Paul Rich, Chair

“War or Peace: the Grand Orient of Italy and World War I”

Demetrio Xoccato

 “Freemasonry in Libya”

Emanuela Locci  

“Italian Freemasonry and the Free State of Fiume”

Ljubinka Toseva Karpowicz, University of Ljubljana

10:30-11:00

Natalie Bayer, Chair

“The Sea Serjeants: A Jacobite Pseudo-Masonic Society in the Maritime Counties of South Wales in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century”

Francis Delon

 11:00-11:20.  Coffee Break

11:20-13:00 “Women and Freemasonry in Europe and the United States.” Natalie Bayer, Chair

“The GOdF and Gender Issues at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century”

Olivia Chaumont

 “Women and Freemasonry in the 18th Century, a Comparative Study Between France, England, And Germany”

Marie-Anne Mersch, Bordeaux Montaigne University 

 “Democracy and Expressing Oneself in Lodge: Similarities and Differences between Male and Female Lodges”

Celia Poulet,🙂,independent scholar

 “Excluding/Including Women, an Issue for the Masonic Atlantic”

Cécile Révauger

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break Movie, Excerpts from The Man. Who Would Be King. Guillermo Isabel Chair

14:00-14:45.  “Ramsay and Women”

“Women Operative Masons and Freemasons in the Time of Ramsey” 

Karen Kidd

“Ramsay’s Daughters. Side Degrees within the ‘Maçonnerie des Dames’ at the XVIIIth century: Female or Feminist Knighthood?”

Yves Hivert-Messeca

14:45-15:45   “The Cauldron of  Masonic invention.”       

Cecile Revauger,  Chair

 

“The Scottish Rectified Rite: A French Masonic Exception”

Roger Dachez

“Historical Reconsiderations: Franz Joseph Haydn – The Man and the Mason, Mozart’s Masonic Music.”

David H. Lewis. University College, London

16:00-16:20. Coffee Break. Presentation of Award for Lifetime Achievement  

16:20-17:15.  “Ramsay Summation” — Grand Auditorium

Pierre Mollier, Cecile Révauger, Margaret Jacobs, Alain Bernheim, Paul Rich

17:15. Closing Toast. To Paris 2019. Foyer