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University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit on World History Biannual Meeting and Dissertation Writing Workshop, May 28-30, 2004 University of California, Davis "Bondage, Subjugation and the New Slavery in Comparative World Perspective" The next meeting of the University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit on World History will be hosted by the Department of History and the Center for History, Society and Culture at UC Davis, May 28-30, 2004. The theme of this meeting will be slavery in its broadest and most inclusive sense. Slavery and bondage in their many guises are universal phenomena and at this meeting we would like to examine new approaches in comparative scholarship on servitude and human subjugation throughout world history. Any scholarship dealing with the political, social, economic, political or cultural dimensions of human subjugation throughout the world, including North America, will be considered. Papers that adopt a cross-cultural or inter-regional approach, including research beyond strictly historical disciplinary boundaries, and scholarship connecting contemporary human trafficking or 'neo-slavery' to earlier regional or economic antecedents are particularly welcome. In keeping with the broad mandate of the MRU project, which seeks to explore both scholarship and pedagogy in world history, we invite papers or panels, which examine new approaches to the teaching of slavery and/or world history. As always, we entertain submission of "off-theme" papers, and expect to have some space in the program for other work on world history. In this connection, proposals that build on and advance discussions from earlier MRU meetings are especially welcome. The MRU will cover transport and accommodations costs for UC faculty and graduate student participants, with preference for paper-givers, as far as funds permit. Funds may also be available for non-UC participants, with preference for faculty at California institutions. Please send proposals for papers/panels to Benjamin N. Lawrance at [log in to unmask] and requests for accommodations to Shadi Singh at [log in to unmask] The deadline is March 15, 2004.