Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500-1700: A Two-Week Workshop
Accra, Ghana
12-26 July 2009
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in
Williamsburg, Virginia, and the International Institute for the
Advanced Study of Cultures, Institutions, and Economic Enterprise in
Accra, Ghana, invite applications to participate in a two-week
workshop, to be held 12-26 July 2009 in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of
the workshop is to expand and deepen the connections among scholars
from sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the Americas begun at the
Omohundro Institute conference,"The bloody Writing is for ever torn":
Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental
Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade, that took place in
August 2007, at Accra and Elmina. Applicants to the 2009 workshop may
be advanced graduate students or faculty working on any aspect of the
theme "Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500-1700." Spaces have been
reserved for twelve scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa and eight
located in other parts of the world.
For additional information and to apply, please visit
http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/african_seminar/
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Editor, H-OIEAHC
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