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Istanbul, 10/2005
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:32:22 -0400
From: John Saillant <john.saillant@WMICH.EDU>
Reminder: August 2nd Deadline Please Post Call for Papers: Ottoman and
Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the
Huntington Library, the United States Consulate in Istanbul, and Boaziçi
University invite proposals for papers and workshops to be presented at
a conference on Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World
to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, October 19-21, 2005.
The conference will focus on historically grounded cross-cultural,
inter-cultural and comparative dimensions of two principal zones of
imperial expansion in the Early Modern Era: the eastern Mediterranean in
the aftermath of the 1453 conquest of Constantinople and the North
Atlantic rim following the 1492 voyage of Columbus, through the early
nineteenth century.
Conference sessions will take two forms: 1) groups of formal papers
addressing common historical questions; and 2) workshops addressing
methodological and historiographical issues. In both instances,
sessions might coalesce around the following topics: early stages of
empire building; cultural exchanges between empires and indigenous
peoples; law and lawlessness; resistance to empire; and cultural
constructs andidentities.
Proposals for formal papers might deal with interactions between people
residing in the Ottoman and/or Atlantic (and especially British and
American) empires. They might include, but are not limited to,
discussions of travelers and their accounts, political structures,
commercial networks, social relationships, and questions of diversity
and identity.
Workshops will focus on analyses of primary sources from both Ottoman
and Atlantic worlds. The workshops will be informal, will build off of
a series of (probably on-line) discussions between the participants, and
will be considered as experiments in cross-cultural and/or comparative
conversation. We envision a series of sessions that would allow Ottoman
and Atlantic (especially British and American) scholars to work together
to consider the most basic differences and commonalities in their fields
by exploring key texts for what these reveal about the various empires
and about the ways in which they have been or can be studied.
Proposals for contributions to workshops should address a specific
document or group of documents in your field. These may be
newly-discovered or well-known. It is critical, though, that they be
accessible to scholars in the other field (most obviously, this means
that Ottoman documents must be translated into English).
The deadline for submission of proposals is August 2, 2004. Please send
a proposal of no more than 500 words as well as a one-page curriculum
vitae to Andrew Cayton, Department of History, Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio 45056 (caytonar@muohio.edu) and Daniel Goffman, Department of
History, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 60614 (dgoffman@depaul.edu).
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