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Positivism on both sides of the Channel. Oxford and the exchanges between English Positivists and French Positivists during the Victorian Era
Date: Friday 04 Mar 2011 - 14:00 to Saturday 05 Mar 2011 - 18:30
Place: Maison Française d'Oxford
Research programme: Modernities
Friday 4 March
14:00-16:00
Welcome
Luc Borot (MFO Director, Oxford) and Michel Duchein (Vice-Président de la Maison Auguste Comte, Paris)
SESSION 1
Chair: Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford)
L'Angleterre vue par Auguste Comte
Annie Petit (Université de Montpellier)
From Protestantism to Positivism
Daniel Becquemont (Université de Lille III)
16:30-18:30
SESSION 2
Chair: Muriel Le Roux (CNRS-MFO, Oxford)
Psychology and Positivism : the Comte-Mill Controversy and its Aftermath
Vincent Guillin (UQAM)
Comte et Whewell
Laurent Clauzade (Université de Caen)
Saturday 5 March
9:30-11:10
SESSION 3
Chair : Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London)
Comte in Oxford. Richard Congreve and Mark Pattison Compared
Stuart Jones (University of Manchester1
Vernon Lushington : A Practising Positivist
David Taylor (University of Roehampton)
16:30-18:30
SESSION 4
Chair : Michel Bourdeau (CNRS-EHESS, Paris)
The Curious Nature of Auguste Comte's Appeal to British Women
Mary Pickering (San Jose State University)
Comte et Whewell
Laurent Clauzade (Université de Caen)
16:30-18:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair : Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO, Oxford)
Auguste Comte's Unfinished Business. An Anglo-French Reflexion on the Religion of Humanity
Robert Fox (University of Oxford)
Conveners: Michel BOURDEAU, EHESS, Robert FOX, Faculty of History, Martine PÉCHARMAN and Muriel LE ROUX, CNRS-MFO
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