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Call for Papers: "Islands of War; Islands of Memory"

6-7 April 2013, Macdonald Institute of Archaelogical Research, University of Cambridge

To present a paper in this conference or discuss paper ideas, please contact:

Gilly Carr (gcc20@cam.ac.uk) (University of Cambridge, UK)  and Keir Reeves (keir.reeves@monash.edu) (AITRU,  Monash University, Australia).

Abstracts should be no more than 200 words long and a brief biographical note should be included in your submission. Abstracts  should  be  sent  to  the conference conveners by the 30th of September 2012.

The Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia will

organize a Conference entitled “Balkan worlds: Ottoman past and Balkan nationalisms”. It will be held on October 5-7, 2012 in the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki.

The Conference will be dedicated on the centenary of the outbreak of the Balkan wars, which signified the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, however it aims at

broadening the scope and topics including the rise of Balkan nationalisms and the State

transformation during the Ottoman “long nineteenth century” (1789-1914) as well as the

reconstruction of the memory through the emergence of historiographical schemes dealt with the problem of the Ottoman past. Consequently the Conference Scientific Committee

encourages the submission of papers concentrated on the comparative analysis of the

emerging national movements in the Ottoman Balkans as well as on the treament of different aspects of the Ottoman past on the part of the Balkan historiographies .

Exactly because the definition of the Balkan History is impossible to ignore the Ottoman

legacy in the peninsula the main perspective of the Conference deals with the epistemological fields of the Ottoman and Balkan studies as intersecting and overlapping. The basic aim of the Conference should be summarized as an endeavour of the convergence of both epistemological fields through the study of imperial structures and practices, the comparative study of the dissolution of the continental empires (Ottomans, Romanovs, Habsburgs) as well as the emergence of nation-states. This conference aims at bringing together a representative sample of scholars and, especially young, researchers of the Late Ottoman as well as the Balkan History. The papers will be pre-prepared and circulated in advance to other presenters, discussants and chairs

Possible Topics:

- Historiography and national discourses

- Comparative approaches to the national movements in the Balkans

- Comparative aprroaches to the dissolution of the Continental Empires

- Comparative approaches to the imperial and national discourses

- Religion and Nationalism in the ottoman context

- Social/Power Networks and State Reformation

- Violence and Memory

- Modernization and Revolution

The Conference Scientific Committee consists of the following:

Nathalie Clayer (CNRS, Paris)

Raymond Detrez (University of Gent)

Sükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton University)

Miroslav Hroch (University of Prague)

Karl Käser (University of Graz)

Dimitris Stamatopoulos (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki)

The working language of the Conference will be English. We welcome individual proposals

for a 20-minute presentations:

Deadline for abstracts – May 31st 2012

Notification of acceptance – June 30th 2012

Deadline for papers – August 31st 2012

Please include the following information with your proposal: i)full title of paper, ii)abstract

(ca.200-300 words), iii) name, iv) institutional affiliation, v) short CV, vi) telephone, fax, email.

The Conference will do the best for covering accommodation and travel expenses.

However if there is a possibility the travel expenses to be covered by the affiliation institution it would be really helpful.

Informations: Dimitris Stamatopoulos, ds at uom.gr

Thinking Global: a workshop on methods and concepts in Global History

Friday 25^th May 2012, 2pm-5pm

Common Room, History Faculty, University of Oxford.

The workshop will be followed by drinks from 5pm-6pm.  For further information and to register interest contact https://owa.nexus.ox.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=b64209d99f224059b1ae062fe1357c52&URL=mailto%3aglobal%40history.ox.ac.uk .

Speakers:

• Professor Nicholas Purcell - TBC
• Dr Catherine Holmes – ‘Defining the Global Middle Ages’
• Professor Konstantin Dierks – ‘Global representations of indigenous and unfree people, 1789-1870: Comparisons to Home?’
• Dr Faisal Devji - TBC

CALL FOR PAPERS: Lisbon Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) Meeting
12-12 October 2012, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon,

Prospective speakers should submit a one-page abstract and a short CV to
freshlisbon@gmail.com no later than May 31, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be given by mid June 2012.
For more information about FRESH meetings and FRESH membership, please visit
the FRESH website at www.keynes.dk/FRESH

Call for Papers: Economic History Society Annual Conference, 2013
5 -7 April 2013, University of York

Proposals should please be submitted online via the Economic History Society
website (www.ehs.org.uk).

For full consideration, proposals must be received by 12 September 2012.
Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by mid-November
2012.

Call for Papers: International Colloquium By-Passing Periphery: South-Eastern European Economy and Its Convergences to the Core. Routes and Goods, Actors and Factors (16th-19th Centuries)

18-20 October 2012, The Centre for Danubian Studies and the Department of History of the Lower Danube University of Galati (Romania)

Proposals (max. 500 words) for a 20-minute paper and a short academic CV (maximum 2 pages) should be sent to the organising committee: Dr. Constantin Ardeleanu (constantin.ardeleanu@ugal.ro) and Dr. Cristian Luca (cristiluca_ugal@yahoo.com).

The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2012. For further information see the colloquium website: http://www.istorie.ugal.ro/periphery-core.htm

Call for Papers: 'Transfer, Traffic and Mobility ', Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility

15-18 November 2012, Madrid Railway Museum

Papers must be sent to: submissions@t2m.org. The deadline for sending abstracts and an abbreviated CV (maximum of one page per paper: Word or Rich Text Format only) will be May 15, 2012.

The posters corresponding to all oral presentations will be exhibited in the public area of the Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid. The specific instructions for the submission of posters will shortly be posted at www.t2m.org.

Thematic session proposals must also include an one-page on their academic interest.

The Program Committee will assess all the proposals received as soon as possible and will reply to those concerned before June 15, 2012, thus allowing the selected to make their travel arrangements and to obtain any funding they may require.

Call for Papers: II International "Worlds of Labor" Conference,  VI Labor History Workshop.

27-30 November, Center for Research and Documentation on Brazilian Contemporary History, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The VI Labor History Workshops and the II International “Worlds of Labor” Conference will comprise roundtables and coordinated sessions. The round table be composed by invited national and international specialists. The coordinated sessions are open to registration, and proposals can be made either for individual presentations or for complete sessions (with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 participants). Proposals based on interdisciplinary and inter-institutional connections, as well as those involving different countries and regions are particularly welcome.

Pre-registration: : Feb. 1st 2012 – Apr. 1st 2012
Release of acceptance letters: Jul. 1st 2012
Delivery of papers: Sep. 1st 2012

For further details: http://cpdoc.fgv.br/en/mundosdotrabalho/callforpapers

Call for Papers: 32th CONFERENCE OF THE PORTUGUESE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION (APHES) "CONSTRUCTING FORTUNE OR FAILURE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES"
ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, 16th and 17th November 2012

Fortune and failure are concepts with historical changeable meanings that
meet cultural constructions very present in Western thought. We are dealing
with concepts which application in each moment is based in comparative
perceptions of the reality, their evaluation depending on the available tools
in precise contexts. Economic, social and political changes are differently
understood through this couple of opposed concepts, or others from the same
semantic field, by the several actors involved. Among other potentials, some
reflection on the application of these concepts in different historical
contexts and in separate thematic areas may provide a debate on the historian
work and a reflection on the way that language relates with historical
experience.

The 32nd APHES Conference invites the national and international scientific
community to participate in this debate, submitting thematic panels or
individual papers.

Even though the Call for Papers is directed at the Conference’s main theme,
proposals for panels and papers on other topics will be accepted in the areas
of economic history and social history.

Proposals should include an abstract, maximum 500 words (including up to 4
keywords, object, objectives, theoretical frame and empirical grounding) and
a brief CV (maximum 1 page) of the author or the main author. The deadline
for submission of papers has been extendend to May 31 2012, and proposals should be sent to
aphes32.cehc@iscte.pt.

The full-text version (maximum 7500 words, including notes) should be sent until 15th October 2012, so that they can be made available on the Conference website.

For additional information about the conference, please go to
http://aphes32.cehc.iscte-iul.pt/index_en.htm or contact the conference
organization at aphes32.cehc@iscte.pt.

Official Languages: Portuguese and English