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> 
> Cultural Encounters and Historical Practice
> Location: 
> <http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Denmark>Denmark 
> Call for Papers Date: 2007-05-01 Date Submitted: 2007-02-02 
> Announcement ID: 155317
> 
> Call for Papers: Cultural Encounters and Historical Practice
> Conference November 7-9, 2007, Carlsberg Akademi, Copenhagen, Denmark
> 
> With the third and final conference in the Nordic network for Global 
> Cultural History we wish to engage scholars studying cultural 
> encounters in the context of European colonial expansion after 1500 
> by broaching questions of theory and methodology.
> 
> The study of cultural encounters has been conducted in a variety of 
> ways, with multiple theoretical and methodological approaches 
> stretching from ethnohistory and microhistory to new historicism and 
> postcolonial deconstruction, to mention but a few. In this conference 
> we hope to explore how the study of cultural encounters is practiced 
> by individual scholars and how individual histories of specific 
> encounters can be related to the development of global economic, 
> political, and cultural structures.
> 
> During the conference we will discuss the limits and possibilities of 
> different methodological and theoretical approaches to historical 
> cultural encounters. We therefore seek contributions from scholars 
> who reflect on their own practice: on the methods and theories they 
> employ, the sources they explore, the contexts they relate to 
> (pre-colonial, colonial, imperial, postcolonial and so on), and/or 
> the narratives they have constructed. Some of the many questions that 
> we want to approach are: What is, or when is, a cultural encounter? 
> What is the place of cultural encounters in global history? How does 
> it influence our practice to adopt concepts like the Atlantic world, 
> globalization, colonialism, or empire? In what ways is it useful to 
> compare different cultural encounters like mission, trade, colonial 
> or intimate encounters in order to establish the specificities of and 
> similarities between cultural encounters? What is the balance between 
> internal dynamics of specific encounters and the larger structures by 
> which they are shaped and to which they add? What are the connections 
> between specific encounters and the mapping of the larger chronology 
> of colonialism and capitalism? And how does the history of people who 
> did not produce written documents differ from those who did and how 
> do we ensure that our analyses of the encounter deal with both sides?
> 
> Sessions may include:
> The concept of cultural encounter
> Cultural encounters and structural change
> Violent clashes and cultural confrontations
> Pre-colonial, colonial, postcolonial cultural encounters
> Economic structures and cultural encounters
> Legal, intimate, and mission encounters in comparative perspective
> Writing encounters with multiple perspectives - the problem of 
> asymmetric sources
> Strategies for writing the history of peoples without written documents
> Europeans abroad - non-Europeans in Europe
> Counting and quantification as a way of studying cultural encounters
> Material culture and cultural encounters
> Imperial ideologies as shaping or being shaped by concrete encounters
> 
> Please submit proposals for individual presentations or panels to 
> [log in to unmask] by May 1, 2007. We especially 
> encourage proposals for panels.
> 
>   Nordic Network for Global Cultural History
> University of Aarhus
> Department for History and Area Studies
> Ndr. Ringgade
> DK 8000 Aarhus C.
> Phone: (+45) 89421111
> Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
> Visit the website at 
> <http://www.globalkulturhistorie.au.dk/>http://www.globalkulturhistorie.au.dk
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