Conference
- 2012
Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History
Keynote Address: Ian Tyrrell, Scientia
Professor of History at the University of New South Wales
Date of Conference: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: May 1, 2012
The Transatlantic History
Student Organization (THSO), in collaboration with Phi Alpha Theta, the
Barksdale Lecture Series, the History Department, and the College of Liberal
Arts of the University of Texas at Arlington, is sponsoring the Thirteenth
Annual Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History.
Transatlantic history, as
defined by the Transatlantic PhD program at the University of Texas at
Arlington, pertains to the interactions of people, goods, and ideas between any
of the four continents surrounding the Atlantic basin between the time of the
European “discovery” of the Americas in the 1500s and the present day. Situated
primarily in the fields of both social and cultural history, its approaches are
transnational and comparative in scope. Rejecting the conceptualization of
cultural transmission as a one-way imposition, transatlantic scholars examine
the reciprocity of cultural exchange through intercultural transfer. By taking
a transnational and problem-oriented approach, scholars are able to look beyond
and below the state-nations, focusing instead on the qualities of individual communities
or individuals. While transatlantic history shares the geographic focus of
Atlantic history, it seeks to move beyond the temporal and analytical
limitations established by the fields of colonial/imperial and national
history.
In his keynote address,
"The Spaces and Times of Transnational History and Historiography”, Dr.
Ian Tyrrell will examine the relationship between Atlantic, Pacific, and global
history; the European and North American versions of transnational history; and
the mapping of time onto the conception of transnational history and how it
affects national history, especially around key ‘moments’ in which spaces are
constituted and reconstituted.
We invite submissions that are
historical, geographical, anthropological, literary, sociological, and
cartographic in nature which fall within the scope of transatlantic history. We
will accept submissions for papers written in English, French, Spanish, German,
and Portuguese.
Topics
may include but are not limited to the following:
▪ New World encounters
▪ Atlantic empires
▪ Transatlantic
networks
▪ Making
of state-nations
▪ Transatlantic
migration
▪ Diaspora studies
▪ Collective Memory
▪ Identity
Construction
▪ Transatlantic
cuisine and consumption
▪ Intercultural
transfer and transfer studies
▪ Transnational
families
Selected participants’ papers
may be eligible for publication in Traversea,
the peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal in transatlantic history which
is operated by doctoral students as a joint project between THSO and the
doctoral program in transatlantic history at the University of Texas at
Arlington.
Submission of abstracts should
be approximately three-hundred words in length and should be accompanied by an
abbreviated maximum one-page curriculum vita. Deadline for submission is May 1, 2012. We will notify authors of
papers accepted for a twenty-minute presentation by August 1, 2012.
Please
direct submissions and questions to either:
Nicole
Léopoldie at nicole.leopoldie@mavs.uta.edu
Rufki Salihi at rufki.salihi@mavs.uta.edu
Transatlantic History Doctoral Program
THSO, Department of History, Box 19529, 601 S. Nedderman Drive, 201 University Hall, Arlington, TX 76019
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