Archive for the ‘Call for papers’ Category

@ the University of Texas. From their website (and see also their forthcoming conference on decolonisation and Mexican independence): February 25-26, 2010 The focus of the conference is the British Empire during its “decade of crisis” between the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 and the passage of the Tea Act ten years […]


Following on from the Fifth Galway Conference on Colonialism (dedicated to settler colonialism), this conference is concerned with education. From their website: Continuing in the tradition of Colonialism Conferences at NUI Galway, we are delighted to announce that the sixth conference in the series –  Education and Empire – will take place in Galway from […]


This conference looks set to take place at Maynooth, County Kildare, in August. From their website: Short Abstract This panel will explore cross-cultural experiences of crisis in the course of colonial encounters. We invite papers that focus on the colonized, and/or on the colonizers and their practices and concepts. Colonial is understood broadly, including both […]


From H-Net: The Peter Lang Publishing Group is launching a new series entitled Nationalisms across the Globe. One of these volumes will focus on Native American nationalism. The volume’s editors welcome scholarly submissions from academics and researchers in the field. If interested, please consult the list of topics below and submit a query including a […]


This conference takes place on March 2011 at the University of California, Riverside. From their website: Ethnic studies scholarship has laid the crucial foundation for analyzing the intersections of racism, colonialism, immigration, and slavery within the United States context. Yet it has become clear that ethnic studies paradigms have become entrapped within, and sometimes indistinguishable […]


From H-Net: The University of North Dakota Institute for Borderland Studies Presents: The Great Plains, the Prairies, and the US/Canadian Border An international, interdisciplinary conference focused on the role played by the US-Canadian border in the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Call For Papers The US-Canadian border performs a paradoxical function: on the […]


From H-Net: Volume 7, Issue 1 of the Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development will be published in September 2010 in preparation for the CANDO 17th Annual National Conference & AGM (Niagara Falls, Ontario). Papers should relate to one of the following areas: • Aboriginal Community Economic and Enterprise Development • Aboriginal Small Business and Entrepreneurship […]


The 2010 ethnohistory conference to be held in Ottawa. From their website: Creating Nations and Building States: Past and Present The theme for the ASE Ottawa 2010 is titled ‘Creating Nations and Building States: Past and Present,’ focusing on indigenous societies and their relations with expanding colonial and modern state structures of Canada, America, and […]