Posts Tagged ‘conference’
“The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies is proud to celebrate its 40th anniversary with the conference, CAAS at 40: Research and Community Partnerships. “This three-day conference will feature a keynote lecture by the Detroit-based author and activist Grace Lee Boggs, musical performance by the neo-artist Dwele and the jazz pianist Randy Weston and his [...]
“A Priest at the Bottom of Every Plot: Catholic, Indian, and Irish Contexts for Discovering Slave Conspiracies in the Seventeenth Century” A Paper by Jason T. Sharples of Princeton University sharples at Princeton.edu Beginning in the 1670s, residents of English North America and the Caribbean developed common scripts for understanding the prospect of slave insurrection. [...]
via H-Net: Call for Papers Women and Gender in Colonial Contexts International Conference 19-21 January 2012 Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Cemaf et Centre d??Histoire du XIXe siècle), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon (LARHRA), New York University (Paris) For decades, colonizing was perceived and analysed as a masculine undertaking. This is probably why historians of colonisation (and [...]
CFP: States of Freedom: Freedom of States cross-post from H-Net Duke University and University of the West Indies-Mona Symposium June 17 and 18, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica. How are notions of freedom and governance practiced and contested within and across national spaces in the Caribbean postcolonial? This symposium explores questions of freedom and governance generated from [...]
Centering Families in Atlantic Worlds, 1500–1800 Call for Papers A conference co-sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas, Austin. February 27–March 1, 2011, University of Texas at Austin. “For people in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, families mattered. Families functioned as key [...]
The Triangle African American History Colloquium (TAAHC) hosts The Fourth Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference February 26-27, 2010 “The Triangle African American History Colloquium (TAAHC) is a student-based organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which was founded in January 2005 for the purpose of bringing together [...]
Haiti’s Archives in the Balance Conference featuring Haitian archivist Patrick Tardieu, Haitian historian Jean Casimir, Duke faculty Ian Baucom, Laurent Dubois, Deborah Jenson, and Deborah Jakubs and Digital Library of the Caribbean coordinator, Brooke Wooldridge. Sponsored by the Duke University Center for French and Francophone Studies. Date: Monday, February 15, 2010 Time: 12:00pm-4:00pm Location: Perkins [...]
*Endangered Archives Workshop 2010 Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada Saturday, January 23 * * * With the explosive use of computers in recent decades, a growing number of researchers have been involved in the preservation of endangered archival documents through digital means. Accordingly, there are researchers funded by various significant bodies currently working in [...]
July 1-3, 2009 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia From the website: Africa as a continent is lagging far behind in the global drive to build digital libraries and archives. As a continent, it has not engaged in any significant discussions and dialogue on strategy and policy for preserving and accessing its resources in digital form. There is [...]
