Archive for the ‘Empire’ Category
Lauren Benton and Benjamin Straumann, “Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern Practice”, Law and History Review 28, 2010. ABSTRACT: What role did the Roman legal concept of res nullius (things without owners), or the related concept of terra nullius (land without owners), play in the context of early modern European expansion? […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
From Postcolonial Studies, 13, 1 (2010): A. Dirk Moses, “Time, Indigeneity, and Peoplehood: The Postcolony in Australia”: Despite many differences between settler colonial states and the African successor states of the European empires, some important parallels are identifiable in the debates among their black intelligentsias. If in Africa and Australia the language of decolonization was […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
Filed under: Australia, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
FEEGI’s biennial conference (Empire and Identity in the Early Modern World) is now only a couple of weeks away. From their website: The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. Members come to FEEGI from a wide range of […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
Laura J. Mitchell has published a brilliant monograph on the VOC, settlers, and natives in early Southern Africa. The book analyses contact, law and order, settler life, Khoisan resistance and Company authority all in one neat package – and is arranged beautifully. Congratulations to Dr. Mitchell for her fantastic monograph, and for her decision to […]
Filed under: Empire, gender, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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 […]
Filed under: Call for papers, Empire | Closed
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 […]
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