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Call for Papers Theme: European Expansion and Global Interaction Type: 10th Biennial Conference Institution: Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) Location: New Orleans, LA (USA) Date: 21.–22.2.2014 Deadline: 16.9.2013 __________________________________________________ The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) invites paper proposals for its tenth biennial conference to be held in New Orleans, LA, on February 21-22, 2014. FEEGI is interested in papers that explore early modern interactions from a variety of perspectives, across national and geographical categories, in an attempt to enhance our understanding of the global consequences of European expansion in the early modern world. Thus, we are interested in creative approaches from a variety of fields and disciplines to the study of the expansion of Europe and the world-wide response to that expansion. As our conference utilizes plenary sessions, we prefer individual paper proposals. In rare circumstances, panels may also be submitted for consideration; panels may also be re-organized to fit a larger program organized thematically in order to encourage comparative thinking outside the bounds of regionally- and chronologically-bounded histories. If you are interested in organizing a panel, please send an email to the address below first to check on whether it would be appropriate; papers should still be submitted individually. FEEGI hopes to provide some financial support to graduate students who are on the program. Please enter proposals for individual papers no later than Monday, September 16, 2013 by clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/16i7ww0 Proposers will be prompted to submit a paper title, 250-300 word abstract, and the name, affiliation, and contact information of the presenter, along with an abbreviated CV of no more than 500 words. The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. Members come to FEEGI from a wide range of fields, interests, and perspectives. Some members study Europe, others European colonies overseas. Some focus on European expansion, while others work on powerful kingdoms and empires or small scale societies around the globe with which Europeans had different kinds of interactions. We focus on the colonist and the colonized, on the conqueror and the conquered. We specialize in different oceanic basins and land masses. Some of us adopt a global perspective while others pursue microhistory. Some live within nations whose histories are deeply entangled with the issues central to FEEGI's intellectual scope. But, together, we look at places and people touched directly and indirectly, benignly or catastrophically, by the process of enhanced global interaction that commenced in the fourteenth century. Please send any questions, comments, or notification of trouble with online submissions to: Philip J Stern, Department of History, Duke University, feegi2...@gmail.com Contact: Philip J. Stern Department of History Duke University Email: feegi2...@gmail.com Web: http://www.feegi.org/conferences.htm __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
