Call for Papers "Beyond Imperial Centre and Colonial Periphery: Reconnecting the Global and the Local" Interdisciplinary Conference Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge Cambridge (UK) 11-12 March 2005
This conference seeks to explore new ways of understanding the global movement of ideas and information. Moving beyond the problematic ideas of the 'centre' and 'periphery' which have dominated the recent historiography of the extra-European world, it will explore exchanges between colonisers and colonised, and between Atlantic, African and Asian colonial spheres. As well as questioning current conceptions of the geography of knowledge, we hope to present work challenging conventional chronological divisions between the colonial and the post-colonial. Part of the 'Conversation' theme coordinated by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk), the conference will discuss dialogues and conversations between cultures, media, knowledge systems, geographies and chronologies. The conference aims to highlight the work of graduate students and scholars at an early stage in their careers. While its focus is historical, we welcome papers from historians, anthropologists, social scientists, geographers, and other disciplines. Particular focuses will be: - The limits of imperial reach: how ideas associated with empire have been reshaped by the social and cultural practices of individual communities; and how ideas and knowledge move beyond national and imperial borders - 'Trans-imperial' ideas: the movement of ideas between different imperial systems, both within the same geographical area, and between Africa, Asia and the Atlantic - Bridging the colonial and the post-colonial: continuities between colonial and post-colonial experiences, whether through the retention of ideas, policies, and personnel; or through the emergence of 'post-colonial' ideas within colonial states - Science and medicine: encounters between different knowledge systems; tensions between European science's ideal of universal knowledge, and the difficulties of science's geographical and cultural extension - Modernity and knowledge: how connections between ideas and information have been expanded and reshaped by new technologies of media, commerce and transport; and by distinctively modern spaces, from new cities to factories Call for Papers Deadline: 15 November 2004 Contact: Rachel Berger University of Cambridge [email protected] or Michael Lewis University of Cambridge [email protected] Abstracts may be sent to: [email protected] Website: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/world.history/ _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
