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CALL FOR PAPERS
Contest for Continents:
The Seven Years' War in Global Perspective
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, together with Niagara and Brock Universities, will host a conference on October 22--24, 2009, to examine the Seven Years'' War (the French and Indian War, 1754--1763) as a global conflict. With nearly one million battlefield deaths and fighting on four continents and in three oceans, the Great War for Empire stands as the first world war. The conference will address the conflict as one that transcended the national and imperial categories that have traditionally been used to evaluate it.
The object is to study the war both globally, involving North America, South Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Philippines, and in transnational perspective, including its military, diplomatic, political, cultural, economic, and social aspects.
This conference seeks to cross disciplinary as well as national and imperial boundaries and will welcome paper proposals from a variety of disciplines and scholarly approaches. The perspective of military history might analyze the campaigns in various theaters, the effect of the colonial context on the conduct of operations, and the role of "natives," including indigenous North-, Anglo-, and Franco-Americans and the peoples of the South Asian Indian states. Broader economic questions such as trade interests (or the lack thereof), resource mobilization, the economics of navies, and the varying costs of the struggle for combatant states are fruitful avenues of enquiry. Political historians might examine Parliament in Great Britain and the courts of other states, the parts played by individuals (such as Frederick the Great or William Pitt), center-periphery relations, and the long-term
effects of the war on North America, South Asia, and Europe. War aims and diplomacy involve such issues as empire building and the European balance of power.
Within the cultural sphere, scholars could address representations of the overseas "other" or the war's effect on popular memory as seen in literature, material objects, and commemorative ceremonies. The conference organizers intend to publish selected papers in an edited volume.
To underscore the war's international dimensions, sessions will be held on both sides of the U.S./Canada border, on the campuses of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York, and at Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown, New York, which will be commemorating the 250th anniversary of its 1759 siege and
surrender. Although English will be the working language of the conference, we aim to guarantee a diversity of exchanges and points of view by drawing participants from a wide variety of fields and national perspectives.
The program committee invites proposals for complete panels and individual papers on any aspect of the Seven Years'' War in any of its theaters, especially submissions that treat the war thematically across geographic boundaries. We stress that we examine the Seven Years' War in its full geographic dimension and are therefore interested in papers
that examine the conflict in Eastern and Central Europe, involving Prussia, Russia, France, and Austria, as well as the North American, South Asian, and other theaters. We welcome proposals from advanced graduate students as well as more senior scholars.
The conference will cover accommodation, meals, and travel for program participants, but we encourage individuals with access to travel funds to draw on that resource. Scholars who are citizens of countries that require visas for the United States and Canada should bear in mind that they will need to secure these documents well in advance of the conference. As of January 1, 2008, passports will be required for entry into the United States and Canada from either country.
To apply, send a 500-word synopsis of your proposal along with a short c.v. to ieahc1@wm.edu, as an attachment in MS Word. You may direct questions to program co-chairs Thomas A. Chambers (chambers@niagara.edu) and David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (dschimme@brocku.ca). The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2008.
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Ronald Hoffman, Director -- 757-221-1133
Email: IEAHC1@wm.edu
Beverly A. Smith, Manager, Institute Administration -- 757-221-1114
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Post Office Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781
FAX: 757-221-1047
http://oieahc.wm.edu
John Saillant
Editor, H-OIEAHC
OIEAHC
William and Mary Quarterly
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Contest for Continents:
The Seven Years' War in Global Perspective
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, together with Niagara and Brock Universities, will host a conference on October 22--24, 2009, to examine the Seven Years'' War (the French and Indian War, 1754--1763) as a global conflict. With nearly one million battlefield deaths and fighting on four continents and in three oceans, the Great War for Empire stands as the first world war. The conference will address the conflict as one that transcended the national and imperial categories that have traditionally been used to evaluate it.
The object is to study the war both globally, involving North America, South Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Philippines, and in transnational perspective, including its military, diplomatic, political, cultural, economic, and social aspects.
This conference seeks to cross disciplinary as well as national and imperial boundaries and will welcome paper proposals from a variety of disciplines and scholarly approaches. The perspective of military history might analyze the campaigns in various theaters, the effect of the colonial context on the conduct of operations, and the role of "natives," including indigenous North-, Anglo-, and Franco-Americans and the peoples of the South Asian Indian states. Broader economic questions such as trade interests (or the lack thereof), resource mobilization, the economics of navies, and the varying costs of the struggle for combatant states are fruitful avenues of enquiry. Political historians might examine Parliament in Great Britain and the courts of other states, the parts played by individuals (such as Frederick the Great or William Pitt), center-periphery relations, and the long-term
effects of the war on North America, South Asia, and Europe. War aims and diplomacy involve such issues as empire building and the European balance of power.
Within the cultural sphere, scholars could address representations of the overseas "other" or the war's effect on popular memory as seen in literature, material objects, and commemorative ceremonies. The conference organizers intend to publish selected papers in an edited volume.
To underscore the war's international dimensions, sessions will be held on both sides of the U.S./Canada border, on the campuses of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York, and at Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown, New York, which will be commemorating the 250th anniversary of its 1759 siege and
surrender. Although English will be the working language of the conference, we aim to guarantee a diversity of exchanges and points of view by drawing participants from a wide variety of fields and national perspectives.
The program committee invites proposals for complete panels and individual papers on any aspect of the Seven Years'' War in any of its theaters, especially submissions that treat the war thematically across geographic boundaries. We stress that we examine the Seven Years' War in its full geographic dimension and are therefore interested in papers
that examine the conflict in Eastern and Central Europe, involving Prussia, Russia, France, and Austria, as well as the North American, South Asian, and other theaters. We welcome proposals from advanced graduate students as well as more senior scholars.
The conference will cover accommodation, meals, and travel for program participants, but we encourage individuals with access to travel funds to draw on that resource. Scholars who are citizens of countries that require visas for the United States and Canada should bear in mind that they will need to secure these documents well in advance of the conference. As of January 1, 2008, passports will be required for entry into the United States and Canada from either country.
To apply, send a 500-word synopsis of your proposal along with a short c.v. to ieahc1@wm.edu, as an attachment in MS Word. You may direct questions to program co-chairs Thomas A. Chambers (chambers@niagara.edu) and David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (dschimme@brocku.ca). The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2008.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ronald Hoffman, Director -- 757-221-1133
Email: IEAHC1@wm.edu
Beverly A. Smith, Manager, Institute Administration -- 757-221-1114
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Post Office Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781
FAX: 757-221-1047
http://oieahc.wm.edu
John Saillant
Editor, H-OIEAHC
OIEAHC
William and Mary Quarterly
Conferences and Calls for Papers
