Announcements

CFP: Southern Conference on British Studies 2006 meeting
18-20 November 2006
New Orleans, Louisiana
Proposal deadline: 1 October 2005 http://www.star.ac.uk/Events/announce/247.html

CFP: Transatlantic Stevenson
18-20 July 2006
Saranac Lake, New York
Proposal deadline: 1 December 2005
http://www.star.ac.uk/Events/announce/216.html

CFP: DENMARK AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC
4-6 May 2006
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Organised by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Proposal deadline: 1 December 2005
Please send individual paper and collective panel proposals to the conference organising committee at bone@hum.ku.dk by 1 December 2005. Enquiries can be directed to the same address.

CFP: Second Annual Cultures in Conflict Conference, University of Toledo
Cultures in Conflict: Oceanic Encounters, Entrenchments, and Empires, 1450-1750
22-23 April 2006
Proposal deadline: 13 January 2006
Contact: Charles Beatty Medina <charles.beattymedina@utoledo.com>
University of Toledo, Department of History, Mail Stop #503, Toledo OH 43606


CFP: 4th Biennial Transatlantic Studies Conference Maastricht Centre for Transatlantic Studies
Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History, and Politics
25-28 October 2006
Teikyo University Holland, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Proposal deadline: 1 February 2006
http://www.star.ac.uk/Events/announce/251.html

CFP: FROM COLONIES INTO REPUBLICS IN AN ATLANTIC WORLD : North America and the Caribbean in a Revolutionary Age
7-9 December 2006
University Paris 7-Denis Diderot
University of Orleans
Proposal deadline: 1 October 2005
Contacts : M-J Rossignol rossignol@paris7.jussieu.fr
                 Lucia Bergamasco gan.berg@wanadoo.fr
                 Monica Henry Monica.Henry@infonie.fr

5-7 October 2005
Third Biennial Conference, The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
Diasporic Encounters and Collaborations
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.aswadiaspora.org/ASWAD2005.html

Friday, 14 October 2005
9:00am - 5:00pm
The Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
Membership in Communities and States in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Legal Rules, Social Judgments, and the Negotiation of Citizenship

Primary funding provided by the University of Illinois College of Law, with additional funding from the University of Chicago Law School & the Pennsylvania State University History Department.

Registration: While there is no fee to attend this event, participants should register in advance. Please ring the Center for Renaissance Studies (312.255.3514) or email renaissance@newberry.org

For additional information: Richard Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217.244.7890)

 

13-15 October 2005
Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery
An international conference organised by the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire and National Museums Liverpool.
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, UK http://www.star.ac.uk/Events/announce/254.html

21 October 2005 (provisionally)
Cartography and Cartographic Images, 1000 - 2000 A.D.
Interpreting Transatlantic Cultures and Consciousness
University of Texas at Arlington
http://www.star.ac.uk/Events/announce/249.html

3-5 November 2005
Transport(s) in the British Empire and Commonwealth
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, France
http://www.star.ac.uk/Events/announce/191.html

10-13 November 2005
Interdisciplinary Conference
Black European Studies
Johann-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
For additional information: Peggy Piesche <piesche@uni-mainz.de>

This interdisciplinary conference is the first scholarly investigation of the African Diaspora as an aspect of intra-European history. Organized in connection with a multi year, international research project on Black Europeans co-sponsored the Universities of Mainz and Massachusetts and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the conference will endeavor to further scholarly exchange on the centuries-old history of Black Europeans, to encourage interdisciplinary contacts among scholars hitherto working in isolation, and to advance the development of new theoretical and methodological tools to understand the African Diaspora within Europe.

9-10 December 2005
New Worlds Reflected: Representations of Utopia, the New World, and Other Worlds (1500-1800)
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London

Details available at:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/c_houston/Utopias%20Homepage.htm

Events

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem

For additional information & view on-line gallery tour.

13th New York African Diaspora Film Festival
25 November - 11 December 2005
Anthology Film Archives, Schomberg Center & Teachers College

Started in 1993 in New York City, the African Diaspora Film Festival --the festival that brought to New Yorkers Kirikou and the Sorceress, Sankofa, the Tracker, Otomo, Orfeu, The Other World, and many other quality films --is a seventeen day event that presents an eclectic mix of independent, urban, foreign and classic films that focus on the Global Black Experience.

For additional information: http://www.nyadff.org/

Awards

English Language & Literature Faculty:

Jennifer Wenzel will be a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. during the 2005-2006 academic year.

Sandra Gunning’s co-edited volume, Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas, has recently been published by Blackwell Publishing.

David Halperin received $5000 from LSA to support the conference on The Traffic in Women.

Steven Mullaney has been awarded a Michigan Faculty Fellowship at the Institute of the Humanities.

Scotti Parrish has been awarded the Jamestown Prize “for an exceptional book-length manuscript pertaining to the early history and culture of the Atlantic World” for her book American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.  This prize is given jointly by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the University of North Carolina Press, and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.  The prize has been awarded since 1957. Scotti has the distinction of being the first non-“historian” to win the prize and the first woman to receive this honor.

Xiomara Santamarina received $5000 from the Dean’s Office, OVPR, and the English Department for the Paperback edition of African American Hairdresser.

Righteous Propagation is a new work by ASI-affiliated Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History and Afro-American and African Studies.

"Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem"--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. In Righteous Propagation, Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of racial destiny, demonstrating how it forcefully linked particular visions of gender, conduct, and sexuality to collective well-being."

"The Haitian Revolution of 1804 was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspora. Black Cosmopolitanism looks to the aftermath of this historical moment to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, and the British West Indies during the nineteenth century. "

Texts collected by / Textes réunis par Judith Misrahi-Barak
Collection 'Les carnets du Cerpac' n° 2, Services des Publications, Montpellier III
ISBN: 2-84269-648-4
http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/serpub/rubrique8.html
http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/cerpac/index.htm

The Department of Health is producing a book which will recognise, document and celebrate the contribution made to the NHS, in its formative years, by those from the Caribbean.
Details: http://www.star.ac.uk/messages/30.html

ABC-Clio announce the publication of the first two titles of their six-title Transatlantic Relations Encyclopedia Series

(Will Kaufman, Series Editor)

Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 vols.) Will Kaufman and Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, Editors Print version: ISBN 1-85109-431-8, $270.00
eBook: ISBN 1-85109-436-9, $297.00

France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 vols.) Bill Marshall, Editor Print version: ISBN 1-085109-411-3, $270.00
eBook: ISBN 1-85109-416-4, $297.00

Visit ABC-Clio's website at http://www.abc-clio.com/ for more information on the Transatlantic Relations Series.