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CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Imperial Centre and Colonial Periphery: Reconnecting the Global
and the Local
Friday and Saturday, March 11-12, 2005, University of Cambridge, UK
An interdisciplinary postgraduate/post-doctorate conference organized by
the World History Workshop, University of Cambridge
This conference seeks to explore new ways of understanding the global
movement of ideas and information. Moving beyond the problematic ideas
of the 'centre' and 'periphery' which have dominated the recent
historiography of the extra-European world, it will explore exchanges
between colonisers and colonised, and between Atlantic, African and
Asian colonial spheres. As well as questioning current conceptions of
the geography of knowledge, we hope to present work challenging
conventional chronological divisions between the colonial and the
post-colonial.
Part of the 'Conversation' theme coordinated by the Centre for Research
in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of
Cambridge (www.crassh.cam.ac.uk), the conference will discuss dialogues
and conversations between cultures, media, knowledge systems,
geographies and chronologies.
The conference aims to highlight the work of graduate students and
scholars at an early age in their careers. While its focus is
historical, we welcome papers from historians, anthropologists, social
scientists, geographers, and other disciplines.
Particular themes will be:
- The limits of imperial reach: how ideas associated with
empire have been reshaped by the social and cultural practices of
individual communities; and how ideas and knowledge move beyond national
and imperial borders.
- 'Trans-imperial' ideas: the movement of ideas between
different imperial systems, both within the same geographical area, and
between Africa, Asia and the Atlantic.
- Bridging the colonial and the post-colonial: continuities
between colonial and post-colonial experiences, whether through the
retention of ideas, policies, and personnel; or through the emergence of
'post-colonial' ideas within colonial states.
- Science and medicine: encounters between different knowledge
systems; tensions between European science's ideal of universal
knowledge, and the difficulties of science's geographical and cultural
extension.
- Modernity and knowledge: how connections between ideas and
information have been expanded and reshaped by new technologies of
media, commerce and transport; and by distinctively modern spaces, from
new cities to factories.
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Deadline for submission of abstracts for 30-minute papers (approx. 300
words, preferably by email) is November 15, 2004. Deadline for
submissions of paper is January 31st, 2005.
Abstracts may be sent to:
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For more information, see http://pages.britishlibrary.net/world.history,
or contact the conference organizers Rachel Berger ([log in to unmask]) or
Michael Lewis ([log in to unmask]).
***Apologies for cross-posting***
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Rachel Berger
PhD Candidate in History
Clare College, University of Cambridge
+44 (0) 7919 386014
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