Non-WHA Events/Info
The Robert Tillmanns House offers one-week seminars dealing with German history and politics.
Our institution was founded in West Berlin in 1959 as part of Germany's "citizenship education" program. The seminars are state-subsidized and we have had over 100,000 visitors since our house was opened. We do not have a particular political or religious affiliation.
Altogether, we offer almost 20 different seminars – featuring lectures, excursions, group discussions and other methods. We have a capacity of up to 53 beds.
We take pride in making the seminars stimulating and, at the same time, providing the participants with critical perspectives. All of our tutors and guides speak fluent English. The seminars can be booked all year round, we only close down during the Christmas period.
If you would like to know more – please contact us under +49 30 80 36 602 or send an e-mail to: info@rth-berlin.de; our website www.rth-berlin.de is also available in English.
Call for Papers
Childhoods Conference: Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood
Venue: University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date: Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7, 2011
This multidisciplinary conference will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines (including the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, policy studies, and education) in a consideration of the state of child studies, which has changed significantly in recent decades. Disciplines long dedicated to the study of the child, and childhood, have been recently revitalized and are engaged with the central problematic of what the child and childhood represent, including how these categories relate to others such as infant and youth. Figured in the plural, childhoods pose a significant crossroads for theoretical and empirical work on the nature of being human and development broadly construed. Various disciplines consider childhood as an experience, as a biological fact, as a social category, as an artistic and literary construct, as a category for historical and demographic analysis, as a category of personhood, and as a locus for human rights and policy interventions. Participating scholars will examine childhoods of the past, present, and future from around the world, and will present research results, policy approaches, and theoretical paradigms that are emergent in this re-engagement with the child and childhood. Bringing together divergent networks of expertise, this conference offers the opportunity for new research collaborations and the scholarly dissemination of innovative research.
Conference Format: three days of multidisciplinary panels with scholarly presentations on conference themes; poster sessions; several keynote events; practitioner sessions; and a film night.
Conference Themes and Questions: definitions and boundaries of childhood: invented or discovered?; indigenous theories and experiences of childhood; the importance of gender; the impact of globalization; the impact of changing technologies on children and childhood, and on the study of children and childhood; concepts of adolescence; vulnerability and empowerment; and health, development, disability, and risk. Proposals for papers on additional themes will also be considered.
Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Patrizia Albanese (Co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth and Families, Ryerson University)
- Dr. Mona Gleason (Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- Dr. Allison James (Professor of Sociology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield)
- Dr. Perry Nodelman (Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Winnipeg)
- Dr. Mavis Reimer (Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood and Director of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg)
- Dr. Richard Tremblay (Director, Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal)
Submission Guidelines: For presentations, and for posters, please submit a 300 to 500 word proposal/abstract by October 1, 2010 on the conference website: www.uleth.ca/conreg/childhoods/ Proposals for organized panels that are multidisciplinary are also welcome. Please note that presentations should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. We would especially like to encourage graduate students to contribute posters on their current research and will offer a prize for best student poster.
For more information and to submit abstracts, please see the conference website
www.uleth.ca/conreg/childhoods. For general inquiries, please contact childhoods@uleth.ca.
French Political Science Association Congress
Strasbourg, August 31st - September 2nd 2011
Thematic Section 37
Participation or deliberation?
Towards a historical sociology of citizens inclusion in democracy
Convenors :
Paula Cossart (Centre de Recherche 'Individus, Épreuves, Sociétés', CeRIES)
Julien Talpin (Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris,
CRESPPA)
Call for papers
The last two decades have been marked by the proliferation of political and scientific discourses on the virtues of deliberative and participatory democracy. In parallel, procedures and devices sharing the ambition to intensify or enlarge the participation of the citizenry in the collective discussion of public issues have spread and been institutionalized. They are often seen as a remedy to the crisis representative government is undergoing. While not coined participatory or deliberative democracy at the time, we can find in the past discourses and experiences praising public and reasoned exchanges of arguments among citizens aiming at building a consensus on the common good. This workshop is devoted to these discourses and experiences. Who promoted them? What did they become? Our aim is to track down the common grounds between the questions raised by thedeliberative arenas of the past and present times. While some deliberative devices are hardly participative, and some participatory institutions little deliberative, the democratic forms developing nowadays share to some extent these two features. Was it already the case in the past? The aim of this workshop is to question, from an historical perspective, the growing tension between two ways of engaging the public (Mutz 2006). On the one hand, participatory democracy's supporters stress the need to include the greatest number of people in the administration of public affairs; thus emphasizing the importance of the link to the decision-making process and of the number of participants, rather than the quality of the discussion. On the other hand, deliberative democracy's advocates underscore the virtues of collective discussion to enlighten public decisions, implying that a limited number of participants foster the quality of deliberation. Our goal is therefore to historicize the controversies and experiences at the core of this distinction between participation and deliberation. Approaches open to diachronic perspectives and to geographical comparisons between countries are welcome. The aim will be to understand whether past practices are similar in different historical and national contexts, in order to shed light on the "less cultural attachment to the virtues of deliberation" (Blondiaux 2008) that seems to characterize France - among
others - in comparison to the US or Northern Europe.
Dealine for sending paper proposals: October 15th 2010
Proposals should be sent to:
Paula Cossart cossart.paula@free.fr
Julien Talpin, julien.talpin@eui.eu
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The Core Fulbright Scholar competition for 2011-2012 is now open. Over 800 grants are available for teaching, conducting research, or combining both in more than 125 countries around the globe. The deadline is August 2. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.iie.org/cies. If you are interested in requesting information, please write to scholars@iie.org.
Greetings from the Institute of International Education!
We are pleased to announce that the application is now available for the 2010 Toyota International Teacher Program to the Galapagos Islands, a fully-funded professional development program for U.S. educators. Funded by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and administered by the Institute of International Education, the program aims to advance environmental stewardship and global connectedness in U.S. schools and communities.
The program will take place November 20 – December 4, 2010 and the deadline to apply is May 26, 2010. Full-time classroom teachers and librarians of all subjects for grades 6 – 12 are eligible to apply! Please visit our website at www.toyota4education.com for application instructions, FAQs, and to apply online.
Please help us reach out to educators by sharing this information with your members and constituents. If you post programs and professional development opportunities on your website, listserv, or newsletter, we would greatly appreciate you posting information on the program as well.
Thank you for considering this request to help us spread the word about this unique opportunity. In the words of a program alumnus:
“International opportunities such as these completely expand our worldviews and shift our priorities. My approach to teaching has changed - I have become more passionate about making my students global citizens with knowledge of and sensitivity to international issues.”
If you have any questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact me by email at toyotateach@iie.org or by phone at (toll-free) 877-832-2457.
Best regards,
Toyota International Teacher Program Team
Institute of International Education
Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. GEEO hopes to make America more outward-looking by helping teachers travel and then giving them an effective way to share these experiences in their classrooms.
GEEO is now taking reservations for summer travel programs to India, Peru, Tunisia, Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe) and China.
Educators can earn graduate school credit and professional development credit while seeing the world. The trips are designed for teachers and include school visits. The trips are deeply discounted so as to be affordable to teachers. GEEO also helps teachers find funding to subsidize the cost of the trips.
Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can also be reached 7 days a week, toll free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-10PM EST. To sign-up for GEEO's listserv, please send an email to listserv@geeo.org with the subject line "subscribe."
Jesse Weisz
President and Founder
Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)
Toll-free: 1-877-600-0105
jesse@geeo.org
www.geeo.org
Bridging the Gulf Between Cultures: Cultural Interaction and Exchanges in World History
A Social Studies Teacher Workshop
For more information, please go to: http://www.thewha.org/files/non_WHA/social_studies_flyer_summer_2010_teacher_workshop.pdf
E-Mail: jdavidann@hpu.edu
WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD
STIPENDIARY JUNIOR RESERCH FELLOWSHIP in WORLD HISTORY 2010
For more information, please go to: http://www.thewha.org/files/Advert_2010_World_History.pdf
E-Mail: sue.hales@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
MWWHA 2010 Conference
First Annual Midwest World History Association Conference
October 15-17 2010, Loyola University
(Lake Shore campus), Chicago
Theme: Middle Grounds
The Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of the World History Association, invites proposals from scholars and teachers for panels (up to 3 panelists, one chair and one discussant), single papers, roundtables (4 to 5 participants) and workshops on topics related to the pedagogical and scholarly aspects of the conference’s theme: "Middle Grounds." We intend this theme to both encompass the concept of middle grounds in world history scholarship and to encourage the sharing of world history pedagogical practices between teachers and scholars at different kinds of institutions.
To underscore this conversational and inclusive focus, we particularly welcome workshops of pre-circulated papers (accessible to registered participants online) that would allow for open discussion at the meeting. In addition we encourage proposals from undergraduate students as well as mixed panels that include students, K-12 teachers, college professors and independent scholars.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
-The connections between the K-12 world history curriculum and world history in the college classroom
-Best practices for the training of future world history teachers
-Discussions of syllabi, texts and lesson plans
-Interrogations of moments of cross-cultural encounter, communication and negotiation in world history
-The Middle Ground as “between” space: dividing and connecting the world we study
Each proposal should include a 250 word abstract of the paper and a curriculum vitae. Where a complete panel is proposed, the convener should also include a 250 word abstract of the panel theme. Panelists should plan to spend no more than 20 minutes presenting their paper.
October 15-17 2010, Loyola University
(Lake Shore campus), Chicago
Theme: Middle Grounds
The Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of the World History Association, invites proposals from scholars and teachers for panels (up to 3 panelists, one chair and one discussant), single papers, roundtables (4 to 5 participants) and workshops on topics related to the pedagogical and scholarly aspects of the conference’s theme: "Middle Grounds." We intend this theme to both encompass the concept of middle grounds in world history scholarship and to encourage the sharing of world history pedagogical practices between teachers and scholars at different kinds of institutions.
To underscore this conversational and inclusive focus, we particularly welcome workshops of pre-circulated papers (accessible to registered participants online) that would allow for open discussion at the meeting. In addition we encourage proposals from undergraduate students as well as mixed panels that include students, K-12 teachers, college professors and independent scholars.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
-The connections between the K-12 world history curriculum and world history in the college classroom
-Best practices for the training of future world history teachers
-Discussions of syllabi, texts and lesson plans
-Interrogations of moments of cross-cultural encounter, communication and negotiation in world history
-The Middle Ground as “between” space: dividing and connecting the world we study
Each proposal should include a 250 word abstract of the paper and a curriculum vitae. Where a complete panel is proposed, the convener should also include a 250 word abstract of the panel theme. Panelists should plan to spend no more than 20 minutes presenting their paper.
For more information, please go to: http://www.mwwha.org/MWWHA_2010_Conference.html
E-Mail: ricelc@uwec.edu
Conference Announcement: Cambodia and World History/World History and Cambodia, January 3-4, 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
This is an open invitation to attend a forthcoming symposium in Phnom Penh sponsored by Teachers Across Borders. There is no registration fee. It is not necessary to make a presentation to participate in this dialog, but please RSVP mgilbert@hpu.edu to save a place at the symposium.
For more information, please go to: http://www.thewha.org/files/non_WHA/CambodiaProgramInvitation.pdf
E-Mail: mgilbert@hpu.edu
Undergraduate Conference
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Underpinnings:
The Evolution of Underwear from the Middle Ages through Early Modernity
A conference organized by the undergraduate students of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) in conjunction with Troubadours and Trebuchets, The Medieval Studies Club
From the trailing sleeves and towering headdresses of the High Middle Ages to the ornate, jewel-encrusted ensembles of Elizabethan England and the elaborate turbans of the Mamluk and Ottoman empires, clothing and headgear have captured the imagination of historians for decades. Few, however, have given thought to what lies beneath, which, even while having a functional role, comprises a system of sartorial signs that tell much with respect to social mores and shifting views of the body. This conference aims to explore the evolution of undergarments from the Middle Ages through the early modern era in a variety of contexts, from the material forms of the garments themselves to their symbolic associations and latent meaning. Geographic and temporal reach: global, 500-1750.
Possible topics of discussion include:
- Differences and similarities in men’s and women’s undergarments according to class, social status, age, and distinctions between the laity and religious
- Changing notions of modesty, comfort, and hygiene and their effects on the under-covering of bodies
- The materiality of undergarments
- The decorative range of undergarments, from the utilitarian to the elaborate, including the use of lace and embroidery
- Underwear as outerwear (the exposure of undergarments through sleeves, necklines, and cutaway skirts; the display of underwear in private spaces; the role of underwear in the public stripping of the body)
- Shaping the body: the use of undergarments to achieve desired silhouettes
- The effects of sumptuary laws on undergarments
- The rise of certain industries related to the production of undergarments, including the whaling trade in relation to the rise of the whalebone corset
- The erotics of underwear
- The myths and realities of the chastity belt
- The representation of underwear in painting, poetry, and song
Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more than 500 words in length and may be sent by email, with a current CV if graduate level and a resume if undergraduate, to hallen1@binghamton.edu (Re: Undergarment Conference). Those wishing to submit hard copies of the proposal and CV should forward them to: CEMERS (ATTN: Undergarment Conference), Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. We also welcome proposals for integrated panels. Panel organizers should describe the theme of the panel and send abstracts with names and affiliations of all participants along with current CVs. A panel should consist of no more than three papers, each twenty minutes in length. Deadline for submissions is December 5th, 2009.
The Evolution of Underwear from the Middle Ages through Early Modernity
A conference organized by the undergraduate students of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) in conjunction with Troubadours and Trebuchets, The Medieval Studies Club
From the trailing sleeves and towering headdresses of the High Middle Ages to the ornate, jewel-encrusted ensembles of Elizabethan England and the elaborate turbans of the Mamluk and Ottoman empires, clothing and headgear have captured the imagination of historians for decades. Few, however, have given thought to what lies beneath, which, even while having a functional role, comprises a system of sartorial signs that tell much with respect to social mores and shifting views of the body. This conference aims to explore the evolution of undergarments from the Middle Ages through the early modern era in a variety of contexts, from the material forms of the garments themselves to their symbolic associations and latent meaning. Geographic and temporal reach: global, 500-1750.
Possible topics of discussion include:
- Differences and similarities in men’s and women’s undergarments according to class, social status, age, and distinctions between the laity and religious
- Changing notions of modesty, comfort, and hygiene and their effects on the under-covering of bodies
- The materiality of undergarments
- The decorative range of undergarments, from the utilitarian to the elaborate, including the use of lace and embroidery
- Underwear as outerwear (the exposure of undergarments through sleeves, necklines, and cutaway skirts; the display of underwear in private spaces; the role of underwear in the public stripping of the body)
- Shaping the body: the use of undergarments to achieve desired silhouettes
- The effects of sumptuary laws on undergarments
- The rise of certain industries related to the production of undergarments, including the whaling trade in relation to the rise of the whalebone corset
- The erotics of underwear
- The myths and realities of the chastity belt
- The representation of underwear in painting, poetry, and song
Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more than 500 words in length and may be sent by email, with a current CV if graduate level and a resume if undergraduate, to hallen1@binghamton.edu (Re: Undergarment Conference). Those wishing to submit hard copies of the proposal and CV should forward them to: CEMERS (ATTN: Undergarment Conference), Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. We also welcome proposals for integrated panels. Panel organizers should describe the theme of the panel and send abstracts with names and affiliations of all participants along with current CVs. A panel should consist of no more than three papers, each twenty minutes in length. Deadline for submissions is December 5th, 2009.
E-Mail: hallen1@binghamton.edu
CALL FOR PANELS - THIRD EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
11-14 April 2011, London School of Economics & Political Science
THEME: CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS
Recent decades have seen the re-emergence and, on an unprecedented scale, the further development of various interacting strands of world, global and trans-national history, all sharing the aim of transcending national historiographies. Connections and comparisons have been central to these intellectual enterprises. The third European Congress on World and Global History, to be held in London at the LSE in April 2011, provides an opportunity for sustained reflection on these themes.
We cordially invite proposals for panels examining comparisons, connections and entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives involved will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, international organizations, oceans as spaces of sustained interaction between communities from different continents, the experience and consequences of migration, periods of 'de-globalization' and 'globalization', and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. Not least, we encourage critical reflection on the methodological and conceptual issues involved in comparative, transnational and entangled histories: whether in general, or in relation to specific areas of historical inquiry, from religions to real wages, from diasporas to epistemic communities. We look forward to contributions from not only from scholars in various disciplines, based both in Europe and around the world. Conference languages will be English, French and German.
Proposals: We invite proposals for panels comprising 3-6 participants. In addition to the names, affiliations and email and snailmail addresses of the participants, proposals should include titles and abstracts of the panel as a whole (200-600 words) and of each individual paper (100-300 words).
Please note that, at this stage, it is only proposals for panels, rather than for isolated papers, that are sought. However, panel proposers are welcome to leave one or two spaces for further papers. After the Steering Committee has selected panels, in April 2010, there will be a second Call, inviting proposals for individual papers to take up any vacant slots in the already-accepted panels.
All LSE meeting rooms have Powerpoint facilities. When the time comes, it is hoped that all papers will be posted in advance on the congress webpage.
Submission: all proposals must be received by 28 February 2010.
They should be submitted as email attachments to Katja Naumann at:
eniugh-headquarters@uni-leipzig.de
Dates and deadlines
28 February 2010: Call for Panels closes.
28 April 2010: Date by which proposers will be notified of the outcome. A Call for Papers will be issued, inviting proposals for individual papers, mainly to complete panels already accepted.
October 2010: Congress registration and reservation of accommodation opens (through the congress website). It will be possible to reserve accommodation to suit different needs and pockets, in a range of hotels and in a LSE hall of residence.
Inquiries: at this stage inquiries about the conference may be sent to Katja Naumann (as above) or to Gareth Austin, Department of Economic History, LSE (g.m.austin@lse.ac.uk), who chairs the ENIUGH Steering Committee and the LSE local arrangements committee.
For more information on ENIUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please visit http://www.eniugh.org/
Members of the ENIUGH Steering Committee: Gareth Austin (president), London School of Economics & Political Science; Attila Melegh (vice-president), Central European University, Budapest; Matthias Middell (vice-president), University of Leipzig; Carlo Marko Belfanti, University of Brescia; Giovanni Gozzini, University of Siena; Regina Grafe, Northwestern University; Margarete Grandner, University of Vienna; Frank Hadler, University of Leipzig; Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde University; Stefan Houpt, University Carlos III, Madrid; Miroslav Hroch, Charles University, Prague; Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Barbara Lüthi, University of Basel; Alexey Miller, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow/ Central European University, Budapest; Patrick O’Brien, London School of Economics and Political Science; Diego Olstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hagen Schulz-Forberg, University of Aarhus; Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS/ CNRS (Paris); Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent; Peer Vries, University of Vienna.
11-14 April 2011, London School of Economics & Political Science
THEME: CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS
Recent decades have seen the re-emergence and, on an unprecedented scale, the further development of various interacting strands of world, global and trans-national history, all sharing the aim of transcending national historiographies. Connections and comparisons have been central to these intellectual enterprises. The third European Congress on World and Global History, to be held in London at the LSE in April 2011, provides an opportunity for sustained reflection on these themes.
We cordially invite proposals for panels examining comparisons, connections and entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives involved will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, international organizations, oceans as spaces of sustained interaction between communities from different continents, the experience and consequences of migration, periods of 'de-globalization' and 'globalization', and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. Not least, we encourage critical reflection on the methodological and conceptual issues involved in comparative, transnational and entangled histories: whether in general, or in relation to specific areas of historical inquiry, from religions to real wages, from diasporas to epistemic communities. We look forward to contributions from not only from scholars in various disciplines, based both in Europe and around the world. Conference languages will be English, French and German.
Proposals: We invite proposals for panels comprising 3-6 participants. In addition to the names, affiliations and email and snailmail addresses of the participants, proposals should include titles and abstracts of the panel as a whole (200-600 words) and of each individual paper (100-300 words).
Please note that, at this stage, it is only proposals for panels, rather than for isolated papers, that are sought. However, panel proposers are welcome to leave one or two spaces for further papers. After the Steering Committee has selected panels, in April 2010, there will be a second Call, inviting proposals for individual papers to take up any vacant slots in the already-accepted panels.
All LSE meeting rooms have Powerpoint facilities. When the time comes, it is hoped that all papers will be posted in advance on the congress webpage.
Submission: all proposals must be received by 28 February 2010.
They should be submitted as email attachments to Katja Naumann at:
eniugh-headquarters@uni-leipzig.de
Dates and deadlines
28 February 2010: Call for Panels closes.
28 April 2010: Date by which proposers will be notified of the outcome. A Call for Papers will be issued, inviting proposals for individual papers, mainly to complete panels already accepted.
October 2010: Congress registration and reservation of accommodation opens (through the congress website). It will be possible to reserve accommodation to suit different needs and pockets, in a range of hotels and in a LSE hall of residence.
Inquiries: at this stage inquiries about the conference may be sent to Katja Naumann (as above) or to Gareth Austin, Department of Economic History, LSE (g.m.austin@lse.ac.uk), who chairs the ENIUGH Steering Committee and the LSE local arrangements committee.
For more information on ENIUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please visit http://www.eniugh.org/
Members of the ENIUGH Steering Committee: Gareth Austin (president), London School of Economics & Political Science; Attila Melegh (vice-president), Central European University, Budapest; Matthias Middell (vice-president), University of Leipzig; Carlo Marko Belfanti, University of Brescia; Giovanni Gozzini, University of Siena; Regina Grafe, Northwestern University; Margarete Grandner, University of Vienna; Frank Hadler, University of Leipzig; Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde University; Stefan Houpt, University Carlos III, Madrid; Miroslav Hroch, Charles University, Prague; Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Barbara Lüthi, University of Basel; Alexey Miller, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow/ Central European University, Budapest; Patrick O’Brien, London School of Economics and Political Science; Diego Olstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hagen Schulz-Forberg, University of Aarhus; Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS/ CNRS (Paris); Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent; Peer Vries, University of Vienna.
For more information, please go to: http://www.eniugh.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval and Early Modern World
An interdisciplinary conference presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY)
September 24 – 25, 2010
With the ongoing development of trans-regional commerce, trade in the medieval and early modern periods required an increasing number of institutions (social, economic, legal, and administrative) to mediate between local and foreign merchants, and among merchants, state officials, creditors, money exchangers, and brokers. Such institutions protected those who traveled long distances and assisted them in unfamiliar systems of exchange even as they permitted local polities to control and profit from the activities of this growing merchant class. Alongside these institutions may be counted the increasingly international systems of credit and banking, which operated above or beyond the sphere of states issuing currencies, and a growing class of agents who served “on the ground,” as it were, translating local languages and practices for traveling merchants.
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University invites papers for a conference to be held on the Binghamton University campus on September 24 and 25, 2010, to explore the institutions that facilitated and accommodated long-distance trade and the globalizing of capital in the medieval and early modern world. The conference organizers conceive “institutions” as a broad category that includes formal, informal, permanent and temporary organizations, associations, conventions, and practices. The scope of the conference is global; papers may concentrate on particular localities or regions, or they may present cross-regional comparisons and convergences. We encourage submissions from a broad range of disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-Permanent sites of trade, such as harbors, marketplaces, customs houses, banks, and exchanges
-Hostels, warehouses, and other spaces used by merchants for temporary residence and storage
-The development of regional markets (urban and rural) and international fairs
-Permanent and ephemeral architecture associated with trade
-Social and economic conventions that governed commercial transactions
-State administrative policies relating to trade and commercial travel
-Supra-state networks of trade (social, cultural, geo-political and economic implications)
-Cross-cultural systems of banking and credit
-Translation across linguistic and cultural boundaries
-Modes of determining creditworthiness across regional boundaries
-The practices of brokers and creditors
-Methods of accounting and documenting transactions
-Strategies (individual and corporate) for adapting to foreign systems of trade
-Modifications in commercial institutions with the expansion of early modern trade networks
-The politics of merchant tribute
-The relationship of merchants, companies, banks, and brokers to states minting currency
-The emergence and operations of legal institutions adjudicating disputes concerning trade
-Religious stances towards cross-cultural commercial endeavors
-The representation of commercial institutions in art and literature
Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more than 500 words in length and may be sent by email, with a current CV, to cemers@binghamton.edu (Re: 2010 Conference). Those wishing to submit hard copies of the proposal and CV should forward them to:
CEMERS [ATTN.: 2010 Conference], Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000.
We also welcome proposals for integrated panels. Panel organizers should describe the theme of the panel and send abstracts with names and affiliations of all participants along with current CVs. A panel should consist of no more than three papers, each twenty minutes in length. Selected papers may be published in Mediaevalia, a journal of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Submission Deadline: Please submit abstracts by October 30, 2009.
Please send all inquiries to cemers@binghamton.edu. For information about CEMERS, please visit our website (cemers.binghamton.edu).
An interdisciplinary conference presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY)
September 24 – 25, 2010
With the ongoing development of trans-regional commerce, trade in the medieval and early modern periods required an increasing number of institutions (social, economic, legal, and administrative) to mediate between local and foreign merchants, and among merchants, state officials, creditors, money exchangers, and brokers. Such institutions protected those who traveled long distances and assisted them in unfamiliar systems of exchange even as they permitted local polities to control and profit from the activities of this growing merchant class. Alongside these institutions may be counted the increasingly international systems of credit and banking, which operated above or beyond the sphere of states issuing currencies, and a growing class of agents who served “on the ground,” as it were, translating local languages and practices for traveling merchants.
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University invites papers for a conference to be held on the Binghamton University campus on September 24 and 25, 2010, to explore the institutions that facilitated and accommodated long-distance trade and the globalizing of capital in the medieval and early modern world. The conference organizers conceive “institutions” as a broad category that includes formal, informal, permanent and temporary organizations, associations, conventions, and practices. The scope of the conference is global; papers may concentrate on particular localities or regions, or they may present cross-regional comparisons and convergences. We encourage submissions from a broad range of disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-Permanent sites of trade, such as harbors, marketplaces, customs houses, banks, and exchanges
-Hostels, warehouses, and other spaces used by merchants for temporary residence and storage
-The development of regional markets (urban and rural) and international fairs
-Permanent and ephemeral architecture associated with trade
-Social and economic conventions that governed commercial transactions
-State administrative policies relating to trade and commercial travel
-Supra-state networks of trade (social, cultural, geo-political and economic implications)
-Cross-cultural systems of banking and credit
-Translation across linguistic and cultural boundaries
-Modes of determining creditworthiness across regional boundaries
-The practices of brokers and creditors
-Methods of accounting and documenting transactions
-Strategies (individual and corporate) for adapting to foreign systems of trade
-Modifications in commercial institutions with the expansion of early modern trade networks
-The politics of merchant tribute
-The relationship of merchants, companies, banks, and brokers to states minting currency
-The emergence and operations of legal institutions adjudicating disputes concerning trade
-Religious stances towards cross-cultural commercial endeavors
-The representation of commercial institutions in art and literature
Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more than 500 words in length and may be sent by email, with a current CV, to cemers@binghamton.edu (Re: 2010 Conference). Those wishing to submit hard copies of the proposal and CV should forward them to:
CEMERS [ATTN.: 2010 Conference], Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000.
We also welcome proposals for integrated panels. Panel organizers should describe the theme of the panel and send abstracts with names and affiliations of all participants along with current CVs. A panel should consist of no more than three papers, each twenty minutes in length. Selected papers may be published in Mediaevalia, a journal of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Submission Deadline: Please submit abstracts by October 30, 2009.
Please send all inquiries to cemers@binghamton.edu. For information about CEMERS, please visit our website (cemers.binghamton.edu).
For more information, please go to: http://cemers.binghamton.edu
E-Mail: cemers@binghamton.edu
Conference on Cambodia and World History
If you cannot make it in person, please read the announcement below and consider submitting related essays, lesson plans or other materials that can be circulated in Cambodia and the U.S and possibly published in _World History Connected_.
Teacher Across Across Borders, Inc., a non-profit international educational organization, will again begin its annual series of programs in Cambodia by sponsoring a two-day symposium on "Cambodia and World History/World History and Cambodia" hosted by Pannasastra University of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, January 3-4, 2010. The first symposium, held in January 2009, attracted scholars from Britain, Thailand and the United States who engaged in lively discussions with their counterparts at Pannasastra University and the Royal University of Cambodia on this theme.
This year's program will similarly be devoted to generating dialog among scholars within and outside of Cambodia about Cambodia's place in World History. It also seeks to stimulate discussion of world history methodology and those world history processes that have application to the Cambodian past. Further, it will examine the possible role world history can play in framing pre- and post-conflict Cambodian history and thus aid in the development of Cambodia's educational establishment at all levels of instruction.
Among the topics that may be addressed at the symposium are: the nature of world history; the processes of indigenization; localization, and syncretism in Cambodian history; the decline and fall of classical societies; Diaspora and gender studies; the colonial experience; nationalism; post-conflict studies; trade, religion and culture in Cambodian, regional questions in global perspective; borderlands; regionalism and regional diplomatic relations; investment, tourism and resource management issues; the environment; comparative genocide; and models for World History and global studies in Cambodia both in terms of scholarship and instruction. These topics are examples only and should not be taken to exclude proposals on other topics.
A working dinner meeting will be held on Sunday, January 3, with an all-day conference on Monday, January 4, which will follow an all-plenary roundtable format, with all participants attending consecutive one hour-long sessions held throughout the day (with a break for lunch), followed by a working farewell dinner. The sessions will be organized around topically grouped presentations limited to 10-15 minutes each to encourage discussion. It is not expected that formal papers will be read. These presentations can, however, form the basis for publication in a contemplated volume or as part of a forum or individual articles in the journal World History Connected.
TAB programs are open to all. There is no registration fee and it is not necessary to make a presentation to participate in this dialog. There is, however, no honorarium for travel or housing.
Individual presentations as well as an entire panel may be submitted for inclusion in the program. Please send a brief vita with full contact information and a brief abstract to the program chair. Those who plan to attend the symposium, but not make a presentation, should inform the program chair of their plans for logistical purposes (room seating, etc.).
The program chair is Professor Marc Jason Gilbert, National Endowment for the Humanities Endowed Chair in World History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, 1188 Fort Street Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. Phone: 808-544-1169; E-mail: mgilbert@hpu.edu.
Tentative Schedule:
Participants will gather for transportation to a working dinner on Sunday evening (exact time to be arranged), January 3 in the lobby of the Goldiana Hotel, near the conference venue, which offers substantial discounts for Teachers Across Borders activities) For reservations, go to http://www.goldiana.com/pp/goldiana_hotel.htm. Merely mention you are with Teachers Across Borders. Other inexpensive hotels are close by.
At 8:30 a.m. Monday morning, January 4, participants will gather in the lobby of the Goldiana for transportation to symposium's venue at the nearby South Campus of Pannasastra University of Cambodia Campus (in the "NGO" zone, about 2k from the city center--see http://www.puc.edu.kh/), not the central campus near the National Museum. Pannasastra is a large, English-medium, multi-campus institution and among the region's premier universities. Participants making their own way to the campus should check in at the Central Office on the Second Floor of the South Campus main building to the right at the top of the main staircase.
Further information:
Respondents to this call will receive updated information. Participants may wish to visit Siem Reap and the Angkor historical site before of after the program due to the ideal weather and the multiple means of transportation to and from Phnom Penh. There is a (very) expensive Son et Lumaire on the Western New Year's Eve at Angkor, for which one must book early. In Siem Reap, the Soria Moria is an inexpensive yet friendly and splendid boutique hotel that offers a reduced rate for TAB participants (currently $25.00 a night). It was established with a view to support the sustainable development movement in Cambodia. See http://www.thesoriamoria.com/.
Teacher Across Across Borders, Inc., a non-profit international educational organization, will again begin its annual series of programs in Cambodia by sponsoring a two-day symposium on "Cambodia and World History/World History and Cambodia" hosted by Pannasastra University of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, January 3-4, 2010. The first symposium, held in January 2009, attracted scholars from Britain, Thailand and the United States who engaged in lively discussions with their counterparts at Pannasastra University and the Royal University of Cambodia on this theme.
This year's program will similarly be devoted to generating dialog among scholars within and outside of Cambodia about Cambodia's place in World History. It also seeks to stimulate discussion of world history methodology and those world history processes that have application to the Cambodian past. Further, it will examine the possible role world history can play in framing pre- and post-conflict Cambodian history and thus aid in the development of Cambodia's educational establishment at all levels of instruction.
Among the topics that may be addressed at the symposium are: the nature of world history; the processes of indigenization; localization, and syncretism in Cambodian history; the decline and fall of classical societies; Diaspora and gender studies; the colonial experience; nationalism; post-conflict studies; trade, religion and culture in Cambodian, regional questions in global perspective; borderlands; regionalism and regional diplomatic relations; investment, tourism and resource management issues; the environment; comparative genocide; and models for World History and global studies in Cambodia both in terms of scholarship and instruction. These topics are examples only and should not be taken to exclude proposals on other topics.
A working dinner meeting will be held on Sunday, January 3, with an all-day conference on Monday, January 4, which will follow an all-plenary roundtable format, with all participants attending consecutive one hour-long sessions held throughout the day (with a break for lunch), followed by a working farewell dinner. The sessions will be organized around topically grouped presentations limited to 10-15 minutes each to encourage discussion. It is not expected that formal papers will be read. These presentations can, however, form the basis for publication in a contemplated volume or as part of a forum or individual articles in the journal World History Connected.
TAB programs are open to all. There is no registration fee and it is not necessary to make a presentation to participate in this dialog. There is, however, no honorarium for travel or housing.
Individual presentations as well as an entire panel may be submitted for inclusion in the program. Please send a brief vita with full contact information and a brief abstract to the program chair. Those who plan to attend the symposium, but not make a presentation, should inform the program chair of their plans for logistical purposes (room seating, etc.).
The program chair is Professor Marc Jason Gilbert, National Endowment for the Humanities Endowed Chair in World History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, 1188 Fort Street Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. Phone: 808-544-1169; E-mail: mgilbert@hpu.edu.
Tentative Schedule:
Participants will gather for transportation to a working dinner on Sunday evening (exact time to be arranged), January 3 in the lobby of the Goldiana Hotel, near the conference venue, which offers substantial discounts for Teachers Across Borders activities) For reservations, go to http://www.goldiana.com/pp/goldiana_hotel.htm. Merely mention you are with Teachers Across Borders. Other inexpensive hotels are close by.
At 8:30 a.m. Monday morning, January 4, participants will gather in the lobby of the Goldiana for transportation to symposium's venue at the nearby South Campus of Pannasastra University of Cambodia Campus (in the "NGO" zone, about 2k from the city center--see http://www.puc.edu.kh/), not the central campus near the National Museum. Pannasastra is a large, English-medium, multi-campus institution and among the region's premier universities. Participants making their own way to the campus should check in at the Central Office on the Second Floor of the South Campus main building to the right at the top of the main staircase.
Further information:
Respondents to this call will receive updated information. Participants may wish to visit Siem Reap and the Angkor historical site before of after the program due to the ideal weather and the multiple means of transportation to and from Phnom Penh. There is a (very) expensive Son et Lumaire on the Western New Year's Eve at Angkor, for which one must book early. In Siem Reap, the Soria Moria is an inexpensive yet friendly and splendid boutique hotel that offers a reduced rate for TAB participants (currently $25.00 a night). It was established with a view to support the sustainable development movement in Cambodia. See http://www.thesoriamoria.com/.
E-Mail: mgilbert@hpu.edu
Fulbright Scholar Program for US Faculty and Professionals for 2010-2011 is open
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers grants in more than 125 countries around the world. For the Academic Year 2010-2011, Fulbright lists 42 lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research awards in history (non-U.S.), including 4 Distinguished Chairs and the African Regional Research Program. Even better, faculty and professionals in American history also can apply for one of the 144 “All Discipline” awards open to all fields.
The application deadline is August 1, 2009. U.S. citizenship is required. For a full listing of all Fulbright programs and other eligibility requirements, please visit our website at http://www.cies.org or send a request for materials to scholars@cies.iie.org. For a detailed listing of Fulbright opportunities in history, please consult our website at: http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2010/discipline/HIST25.htm
The application deadline is August 1, 2009. U.S. citizenship is required. For a full listing of all Fulbright programs and other eligibility requirements, please visit our website at http://www.cies.org or send a request for materials to scholars@cies.iie.org. For a detailed listing of Fulbright opportunities in history, please consult our website at: http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2010/discipline/HIST25.htm
For more information, please go to: http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2010/discipline/HIST25.htm
E-Mail: scholars@cies.iie.org
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) - CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
THIRD EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY
11-14 April 2011, London School of Economics & Political Science, Britain
Following the successful congresses organized by ENIUGH in Leipzig (2005) and Dresden (2008), the 2011 congress will be in London, hosted by the LSE. The overall theme will be Connections and Comparisons. Within this we can expect to see discussions of comparison, connection and entanglement between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, large-scale crises, international organizations, and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. The common emphasis is a commitment to transcending national historiographies and exploring different approaches to wide-ranging comparisons. While most panels will be substantive, some are likely to consider the various approaches to this endeavour, examining the methods and the problems involved. The conference will include keynote sessions as well as a series of parallel panels. We look to welcoming to London scholars practicing or interested in global, world and trans-national history from whatever discipline, based both within Europe and from around the world.
Timetable:
September 2009: announcement of the Call for Panels: proposals for panels will be invited, which may be complete or leaving space for further papers to be added.
February 2010: the Call for Panels closes. Proposers will be notified of the outcome in April.
April 2010: Call for Papers: proposals for individual papers will be invited, mainly to complete the panels already accepted.
October 2010: Conference registration and reservation of accommodation opens (through the congress website). It will be possible to reserve accommodation to suit different needs and pockets, in a range of hotels and university halls of residence.
For more information on ENIOUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please visit http://www.eniugh.org/
For early inquiries about the 2011 congress, prior to the Call for Papers, please contact Gareth Austin (g.m.austin@lse.ac.uk)
Following the successful congresses organized by ENIUGH in Leipzig (2005) and Dresden (2008), the 2011 congress will be in London, hosted by the LSE. The overall theme will be Connections and Comparisons. Within this we can expect to see discussions of comparison, connection and entanglement between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, large-scale crises, international organizations, and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. The common emphasis is a commitment to transcending national historiographies and exploring different approaches to wide-ranging comparisons. While most panels will be substantive, some are likely to consider the various approaches to this endeavour, examining the methods and the problems involved. The conference will include keynote sessions as well as a series of parallel panels. We look to welcoming to London scholars practicing or interested in global, world and trans-national history from whatever discipline, based both within Europe and from around the world.
Timetable:
September 2009: announcement of the Call for Panels: proposals for panels will be invited, which may be complete or leaving space for further papers to be added.
February 2010: the Call for Panels closes. Proposers will be notified of the outcome in April.
April 2010: Call for Papers: proposals for individual papers will be invited, mainly to complete the panels already accepted.
October 2010: Conference registration and reservation of accommodation opens (through the congress website). It will be possible to reserve accommodation to suit different needs and pockets, in a range of hotels and university halls of residence.
For more information on ENIOUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please visit http://www.eniugh.org/
For early inquiries about the 2011 congress, prior to the Call for Papers, please contact Gareth Austin (g.m.austin@lse.ac.uk)
For more information, please go to: http://www.eniugh.org/
E-Mail: g.m.austin@lse.ac.uk