[Grad_history_students] FW: Call for Papers: Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on International and Global History

[Green-Givens, Onie]

FYI.

Onie Green-Givens
Department Assistant
History Department
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave., SAC 419
Chicago, IL 60614
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From: daniel.immerwahr at gmail.com [mailto:daniel.immerwahr at gmail.com] On
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Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:43 AM
Subject: Call for Papers: Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on
International and Global History

Dear Graduate Coordinator:

Please share with the graduate students of your department the
following final reminder about UC Berkeley's upcoming Graduate Student
Conference on International History. The deadline for proposals is
September 30, 2010. Prominent historians who will participate in the
conference include Tom Laqueur, Brian DeLay, and Jan de Vries of UC
Berkeley, Mark Bradley of the University of Chicago, Antoinette Burton
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Erez Manela of
Harvard, Emily Rosenberg of the University of California, Irvine, and
Susan Ferber of Oxford University Press. Details are available at
http://bighconference.blogspot.com/ and the call for papers follows.

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Big-H: The First Annual Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on
International History

Integration and Disintegration in International History

The Berkeley International and Global History (Big-H) committee
invites graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to submit
proposals for the First Annual Graduate Student Conference on
International History to take place at the University of California,
Berkeley, on March 4-5, 2011.

All history was the history of nation-states. In recent years,
however, historians have devoted increasing attention to transnational
historical themes and processes that cut across the borders of state
units. But at the same time as political structures, markets, and
solidarities have bound together diverse configurations of peoples
across space, so too have the very same processes generated
backlashes, alternative political projects, catastrophes, new forms of
difference, and systemic transformations. This conference will
interrogate the specific problems of integration and disintegration in
international history.

Four questions will animate this conference:

First, what causes integration? Under what circumstances have the
scopes of market activity, political power, cultural patterns, and
ideological affinity come to encompass new and diverse populations?
What role if any have particular agents played in determining the
march of transnational integrations, which are often understood as
products of inexorable historical forces?

Second, what forms (economic, political, legal, social, intellectual,
religious, etc.) have these processes taken in specific places and
times and how are these forms related?

Third, where do these processes lead? What internal or external limits
do integrative projects encounter?

Fourth, how might we demarcate distinctive regimes of integration? For
example, in what way if any is contemporary globalization
qualitatively different from the kinds of integration that accompanied
nineteenth-century imperialism or that proceeded within the earlier
landed empires, such as the Roman and Mughal?

It is the intent of the conference organizers to put specialists in
dialogue across the expanses of space and time in the hope that broad
comparison, both interregional and intertemporal, might reveal
recurrent historical dynamics. While we welcome researchers who study
the general processes of international integration, we also welcome
specialists in particular times and places who seek to position their
work within a broader framework. Specialists from Berkeley and beyond
will provide commentary on the papers. The conference will conclude
with a plenary session, at which several leading scholars in the field
of international and global history will discuss broad issues
pertaining to the theme of the conference.

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in
participating in the conference should submit a one-page paper
proposal and one-page curriculum vitae (in Word, RTF, or PDF format)
to bighist at gmail.com. We will not accept panel proposals. Applications
must be received by September 30, 2010, in order to be considered.
Notification of acceptance will be made in the beginning of October.
For additional information, please visit the conference website at
http://bighconference.blogspot.com or e-mail the conference organizers
at bighist at gmail.com.