International Napoleonic Society
Eighth International Napoleonic Congress
Napoleon and the Transition to the Modern World
12 – 16 July 2010
Corinthia Palace Hotel and Spa
San Anton, Malta
P r o g r a m
Monday 12 July
08:30 Registration
09:00 Opening Ceremony
Mr. Frans Sammut, Malta
Dr. Rafe Blaufarb, Director, Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution
Mr. J. David Markham, President, International Napoleonic Society
Session I Rafe Blaufarb , USA, Chair
09:30 Frans Summut, Malta, The Enlightenment in Malta and the Coming of Bonaparte
10:00 Isis Wirth, France, Napoléon in Egypt: The First ‘Clash of Cultures?’
10:30 Break
10:45 Allon Klebanoff, Israel, The Charms of the Orient – Napoleon's
Egyptian Campaign in the Eyes of Artists
11:15 Erez Levanon and Eli Witztum, Israel, Napoleon’s Attitude Toward Religion
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Session II Frans Summut, Malta,Chair
14:00 María Zozaya, Spain, From Saragossa to France: Changes Through
the Vision of a Napoleonic State Prisoner (1808-1814)
14:30 Dennis Potts, USA, What If: The Convention of Cintra, A Counterfactual Analysis
15:00 Break
15:15 General Henri Paris, France, The War in Spain and Its Lessons for Today (in French)
15:45 Olivier Lammens, South Africa, From Iena to Ulundi
16:15 Discussion
18:00 Corinthia Palace: Welcoming Cocktail Reception
Tuesday 13 July
9:00 All-day tour of Napoleonic and other sites in Malta
Wednesday 14 July
Session III Isis Wirth, France, Chair
09:00 Nickolay Promyslov, Russia, The Retreat of the Grande Armée from Moscow to Smolensk According to the Letters of French Soldiers
09:30 Elena Khonineva, Russia, A Review of Napoleonic Exhibitions in Moscow
in Recent Years
10:00 Break
10:15 Dr. Jeanne Ruderman, USA, Advertising Napoleon: Images of Napoleon in the Modern Media
10:45 Rafe Blaufarb, USA, Napoleon's Greatest Campaign: The Pacification of France, 1799-1802
11:15 Discussion
11:30 Lunch
Session IV Olivier Lammens, South Africa, Chair
13:00 Nicholas Stark, USA (read in abstentia by Barbara Markham, FINS), Society - Friend or Enemy of the Blacks? Race and Slavery in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
13:30 Allon Klebanoff, Israel, The "Spirit of the World" on Board a Boat – Napoleon and the Re-awakening of the Mediterranean
14:00 Break
14:15 J. David Markham, USA, From Malmaison to Aix: Napoleon’s Last Days in France
14:45 Edna Mueller, Canada, A View from the Saddle II: Napoleonic Hacks and Mashups Using Google Earth
15:15 Liviu Alexandru Sofonea, Romania, Napoleon and the Industrial Revolution in France
Thursday 15 July
9:00 All-day tour of Napoleonic and other sites in Malta
19:00 Farewell Cocktail Party and Gala Dinner, Conclusion of Congres
The International Napoleonic Society
La Société Napoléonienne Internationale
Europe Discovers Napoleon: 1793 – 1804
Cittadella of Alessandra Italy 21 – 26 June 1997
Napoleon and the French in Egypt and the Holy Land 1799 – 1801
In cooperation with the Israeli Society for Napoleonic Research
Tel Aviv – Yafo – Jerusalem – Acco 4 – 10 July 1999
Napoleon’s Campaigns and Heritage
In cooperation with the Napoleonic Society of Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia 12 – 18 June 2000
Imperial Glory: Austerlitz and Europe in 1805
In cooperation with the city of Dinard, France
Dinard, France 9 – 16 July 2005
Napoleon and Poland 1807 – 2007
In cooperation with the
S ł upsk Pedagogical Academy and the Polish Historical Society
S ł upsk, Poland 1 – 5 July 2007
Napoleon and the Mediterranean
In cooperation with the City of Ajaccio,
the General Council of Southern Corsica, and the Territorial Collective of Corsica
Ajaccio, Corsica, France 7 – 11 July 2008
Napoleon, Europe and the World
In cooperation with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montréal, Québec, Canada 8-12 June 2009 |