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Colonial
(Mis)understandings: Portugal and Europe in Global
Perspective, 1450-1900
CHAM (Center for Overseas History) International
Conference
Since the 15th century, an extended geographical,
natural, scientific and political reality has posed a
continuous challenge to the ways in which the world has
been understood historically. And misunderstood. The aim
of this conference is to address the processes of
interpretation, both explicit and implicit, recognized
and obscured, that were initiated by European Expansion.
Imperial spaces, whether governed by the Portuguese,
Spanish, Dutch, English, French or other Europeans, set
the stage for contact, confrontation, and conflict in
colonized spaces such as Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia,
India, or Martinique where regimes of translation,
circulation, and resistance emerged. How many implicit
misunderstandings or tacit silences characterized human
interactions in the face of a new, shared, and connected
reality?
In recent years concepts
such as the 'first globalization', 'global history' and
'world history', have attempted to connect these multiple
realities. But how have these approaches been understood
and put into practice? And what challenges do they pose
to scholars today? Intellectual production has been
prolific and this is an opportune moment to reflect upon
these questions, and assess what has been achieved and
what strides are yet to be made.
We invite scholars from
all humanities and social science disciplines to submit
panel proposals on the following themes:
1. Methodological challenges to global/world history
2. New directions in historiography
3. Classical traditions: fostering and impeding new
understandings
4. Religion and moral order
5. Language, communication, and translation
6. Making sense of the globe: space and territory
7. Commercial networks and the rise of capitalism
8. Imperial power dynamics and local political realities
9. Circulation and consumption of material and visual
culture
10. Law, legal regimes and the practice of justice
11. Socio-cultural interactions and the construction of
colonial societies
12. Colonial cities and urban landscapes
13. Nature, science, and empire
The Call for Panels closes on
November 30, 2012. A Call for Papers will open on
December 20, 2012.
To learn more about the conference and propose a
panel, please go to:
http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/CHAMInternacionalConference.html
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Lisboa Portugal
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