[AIW] CFP: Colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions in early America and the Atlantic World 1600-1848 [EEASA conference], University of Poitiers, Poitiers/France, December 9-12, 2020

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Call for Papers

8th Biannual conference of the European Early American Studies Association
(EEASA)

Colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions in early America and the
Atlantic World 1600-1848

University of Poitiers, Poitiers/France

December 9-12, 2020

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/eeasa/ 

 

The 8th Biannual conference of the European Early American Studies
Association will be organised at the University of Poitiers, France,
December 9-12, 2020. The conference will focus on the related themes of
“Colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions in early America and the
Atlantic World 1600-1848.”

 

For the past twenty years, the study of Early America and the Atlantic has
reinvigorated the fields of imperial and colonial topics by focusing on the
circulations of goods and people. Much current research on early America and
the Atlantic world examines concepts such as « empires », « commerce », «
exchange », « trade. » At the same time, the political history of the
revolutionary Atlantic is often overlooked as the approach of an older
historiography. A number of historians criticize the very concept of
Atlantic history by focusing instead on « global » and « connected histories
». Following this trend, specialists of North America have embraced new
concepts and notions to study the continent, such as « settler colonialism »
and « vast early America.

 

Call for papers:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/eeasa/eeasa_2020_cfp_final_version.docx 

 

This call for papers invites established scholars, post-doctoral students
and graduate students to re-examine the fundamental concept of Atlantic
history in light of current research on the themes of colonisations,
revolutions, and reinventions, from 1600 to 1848. It is also an opportunity
to examine the history of transformations in early America and, broadly, the
early modern world, by taking fuller account of scholarship on the politics
of primitive globalisation. We will focus on the empires that organised
European settlements in disrupting and dislocating native peoples, prompting
indigenous cultures to re-invent themselves; but we will  also be attentive
to the processes that led to the formation of new Euro-American societies in
the Americas, often shaped by the enslavement of Africans and other forms of
unfree labor. In the North-American colonies, the West Indies, India, Latin
America, and Africa, entire peoples and their lands were reinvented by
trading companies, individual administrators, theoreticians and executors of
empires, as well as by those rare voices, many of who were abolitionists,
who developed a critical approach to European expansion abroad. 

 

The social and political revolutions of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries in the Americas and the Atlantic world led to the
emergence of republican nations and, eventually, to modern (often
exclusionary) democracies.  These offer a second major moment of reinvention
through national, tribal, racial, and gender-based conflicts, as well as new
forms of identities, forged through war and peace. In recent years, beyond a
major historiographical focus on the Haitian Revolution, the term revolution
has also come to refer to the second revolution of slavery and the
revolution of antislavery in the Americas and the Atlantic world. Its
meaning can also be extended to other insurrections and rebellions, as well
as to the revolution of rights as embodied in the women’s rights movement in
the United States, and to the upheavals culminating with the European
revolutions of 1848 and their impact in the Atlantic world, most notably,
leading to the French abolition of slavery in the colonies. Drawing on the
theme of the 7th Biannual EEASA Conference in London in December 2018, on
the making and unmaking of identities in the Atlantic world, the notions of
colonisation, revolutions, and reinventions also invite participants to
examine the individual stories of those who transformed their lives through
imperial service, social mobility, flight, immigration, as well as by their
commercial interactions and newly-crafted opportunities to serve as cultural
intermediaries.

 

The Congress may include panels on the changes in Atlantic World societies
that resulted from cultural contact and conflict; the various manifestations
of clashing visions of European empires and Native societies; resistance to
empire and its many forms of oppression as well as and the rise of
representative government and the universal validity of fundamental
principles.  In sum, we welcome all papers that speak to the themes of
colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions.

 

We encourage proposals from emerging and established scholars in all
disciplines for traditional conference panels (three 20-minute papers with
chair and Q&A), round tables, and other formats. Sessions are 90 minutes. We
ask that panel proposals not be composed of participants from a single
country or institution. The programme committee reserves the right to
re-organize the composition of panels to meet this requirement. We also
welcome individual proposals. Papers are posted on our website prior to the
conference.

 

We wish to focus on the research of doctoral students by devoting a half-day
to discussion of their papers. The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
has generously agreed to offer support for the travel expenses of a limited
number of graduate student presenters from North America. 

 

All paper or session proposals should be in the format of a single
electronic document (Word or .pdf) that begins with the surname and first
initial of the contact person, e.g., « SmithJ.pdf »

 

This single document should contain:

1.	Panel title & short, one paragraph description.
2.	Proposals for each paper (no more than 200 words each) if a full
session.
3.	Single-page curriculum vitae for each participant.
4.	Indication of any special requests, such as audio-visual equipment.
5.	Email addresses for the designated contact person and each
participant.

 

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2019. Please submit your
proposals by email eeasa2020 at gmail.com <mailto:eeasa2020 at gmail.com>  with
EEASA2020 and your surname in the subject line.

 

Please note that all program participants will be required to register for
the conference. To facilitate participation by younger scholars we offer a
reduced conference fee to graduate students and can provide free
accommodation to presenters who are graduate students or who are within two
years of the award of their PhD and not in full-time academic employment.

 

Organisation Committee:                   Scientific Committee:

Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Poitiers)         Emma Hart (St Andrews)

Anne-Claire Faucquez (Paris-8)         Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
(Paris-Diderot)

Hélène Roy (Poitiers)                         Allan Potofsky (Paris-Diderot)

André Magord (Poitiers)                    Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Paris-8)

Christèle Le Bihan (Poitiers)              Elisabeth Heijmans (Leiden)

Pierre Gervais (Paris-3)                      Joanne van der Woude
(Groningen)   

Philippe Cauvet (Poitiers)                   Andrea Kökény (Szeged)

 

Contact Email: eeasa.secretary at gmail.com <mailto:eeasa.secretary at gmail.com> 

 

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