Call for Papers

We invite e-mail submissions. For papers, send a 250-word titled abstract; for a complete panel, send an overall title and individual 250-word titled abstracts for each paper. Please also include 1-page CV which includes an e-mail and a regular mail address at which you can be reached during the spring and summer of 2004. Please indicate any expected audio-visual needs (including special software needs).

Please send submissions to: Christopher Hodgkins and Karl Schleunes of the UNCG English and History Departments (atlanticworld@uncg.edu) and visit our conference website at http://atlanticworld.uncg.edu.

Due Date for Submissions: March 1, 2004

Some Suggested Paper and Session Topics:

Race: Racial definition/redefinition and Atlantic geography
Racial definition/redefinition through biology
Free blacks in slave societies
Comparative attitudes toward race and color throughout the Americas
Free women of color in the Americas

Religion: Religion and colonial racism
Religious rationales for and religious critiques of empire
Native religions and the response to European conquest
Impact of religious confessions on personal and public identity

Literature and Language: Myths of imperial inheritance and recovery
Learning to Curse: Revisiting Greenblatt’s Caliban
Greenblatt’s “self-fashioning” and colonial identity
Literary historicisms, old and new
Atrocity tales and colonial discourse
Colonial settings and subtexts in the Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century novel
Impact of print publication on personal and public identity
Leading the explorer astray: Trickster tales and the land of gold
George Herbert in America (UNCG houses one of the U.S.’s two largest rare Herbert archives)

Gender: Renewing virility on the colonial frontier
Marriage and miscegenation in the Atlantic World
Redefining manhood/womanhood in the colonies
Miscegenation and female identity
Motherhood and slavery
Female slave owners

Class: The colonies and upward mobility
Indenture, servitude, and slavery in the Atlantic World

Science: Intersections of science and race
Mapping native peoples
Constructing categories: The scientific traveler
Ecology and the Atlantic World

Commerce: Impact of commerce on personal and public identity
Competing models of commerce and empire
The material cultures of empire

Region and Nation: Empires of Liberty: Expansion in the name of freedom
Nationalism for and against empire
Imperialism and counter-imperialism: The scramble for empire
Anti-imperialism in the Sixteenth/Seventeenth/Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century
Performing empire: rites and rituals of power and resistance
Impact of the Pacific on the Atlantic World
Incorporating the borderlands
Natural landscape and oral culture

Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary benefits and discontents
Archives: Historical and literary approaches
Literature and History: programs, journals, conferences

Pedagogy: Teaching about identity and empire in secondary schools and colleges
Teaching about the Atlantic World in secondary schools and colleges
Teaching across traditional geographical and chronological boundaries in secondary
schools and colleges