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Forwarded message from Janette Gayle <[log in to unmask]>: The Nicholson Center for British Studies is pleased to announce a CALL FOR PAPERS Peoples and Ideas in Motion: The British Atlantic World Thursday, May 4, 2006 University of Chicago Proposal Deadline: March 17, 2006 Submit to: Janette Gayle ([log in to unmask]) and Christopher P. Todd ([log in to unmask]) Keynote Speaker: David Scott, Columbia University Within the last decade, studies of the ideologies, politics, commerce, culture, and peoples who traversed the Atlantic during the early modern period have emerged as an important area of intellectual inquiry. Because of this, Atlantic Studies has become a useful lens through which to refocus the questions scholars have asked about the societies that developed within the orbit of this geographic expanse. This new historical posture has had the benefit of eschewing narrow nationalistic explorations and investigations while embracing the interactions among the peoples integrated by the Atlantic Ocean. Clearly the most well elaborated imperial Atlantic project emanated from the shores of the British Isles. This is due to the central role British imperialism played in the spread of commerce, communication, and colony building within the Atlantic. Thus, it is our contention that a focus on the movement of these people and the flow of ideas between the British metropole and her Caribbean colonies offers an important and heretofore largely unmarked area of inquiry. As such, this conference is interested in the ways in which Caribbean colonial subjects received the political, social and economic ideas that emanated from Great Britain, how these ideas were reformulated within the Caribbean context and then were recast across the Atlantic and back to the metropole. Papers Submission Parameters: Papers for this interdisciplinary conference should engage questions on the movement of ideas and ideology in the British Atlantic World, its impact on colonial subjects (broadly conceived), and on how these ideas were reinterpreted and redeployed within the colonial and metropolitan worlds. Please e-mail an abstract of 400 words or less for a 15-minute paper to Janette Gayle ([log in to unmask]) and Christopher Todd ([log in to unmask]). Include your name, institution and program, and any A/V needs. Papers from all relevant disciplines are encouraged. This conference has been generously co-sponsored by The University of Chicago's Comparing Colonialisms Workshop and the Social History Workshop. Eva Wilhelm Administrator Nicholson Center for British Studies Judd 325 773-834-3403 [log in to unmask]