Call for Papers: Caribbean Postgraduate Network Research Student Workshop
to be held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London 11th May 2011, 10.00-6.30pm
The Institute for the Study of the Americas is pleased to host the second annual workshop for research students working on any aspect of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Postgraduate students located in discipline-based departments often find they are the sole scholar within their department working on the Caribbean. This workshop seeks to bring together students who share a common interest in the Caribbean to share their work with other regional specialists in a friendly and informal setting.
The workshop will be led by Dr Kate Quinn, Lecturer in Modern Caribbean History at the Institute, and Steve Cushion, a late-stage doctoral student. Doctoral students at all stages in their research and from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome. Participants in last year’s workshop will be welcome to submit a paper on the progress they have made in the past year.
Those wishing to present a paper are asked to submit a short abstract by 15th April 2012. All attendees should submit a short outline of their research interests by the same deadline. We also encourage you to submit any questions or issues you would like us to raise at the workshop for an open discussion on undertaking research on the Caribbean.
Registration is £10, and the workshop will be followed by a rum reception. Lunch will be included. Students interested in attending and in presenting their work should contact Kate Quinn on kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk and Steve Cushion on s.cushion@yahoo.co.uk
Friday, 30 March 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Colonial administration records (migrated archives) to be released to The National Archives
The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer and begin releasing colonial administration records, referred to as the 'migrated archives' between April 2012 and November 2013, in accordance with FCO's published timeline on the FCO website.
The first batch will be made available in the reading rooms at The National Archives from Wednesday 18 April 2012. This release will contain records from Aden, Anguilla, Bahamas, Basutoland. Bechuanaland, British Indian Ocean Territories, Brunei, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaya, Sarawak and Seychelles.
On Wednesday 18 April 2012, a guide to the first batch of files will be published on The National Archives website and will provide more information on how to search the records.
In addition, there will be free public talks on accessing the records in the reading rooms at Kew at 11:00 and 14:00. Tickets are available on site on 18 April.
The collection will form record series FCO 141: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations: Migrated Archives.
The records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration. The material reflects events in the territories generally pre-independence and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time.
For up to date information about the records and ongoing release, see the National Archives' Colonial administration records web page.
The first batch will be made available in the reading rooms at The National Archives from Wednesday 18 April 2012. This release will contain records from Aden, Anguilla, Bahamas, Basutoland. Bechuanaland, British Indian Ocean Territories, Brunei, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaya, Sarawak and Seychelles.
On Wednesday 18 April 2012, a guide to the first batch of files will be published on The National Archives website and will provide more information on how to search the records.
In addition, there will be free public talks on accessing the records in the reading rooms at Kew at 11:00 and 14:00. Tickets are available on site on 18 April.
The collection will form record series FCO 141: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations: Migrated Archives.
The records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration. The material reflects events in the territories generally pre-independence and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time.
For up to date information about the records and ongoing release, see the National Archives' Colonial administration records web page.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Easter Opening Hours
Advance notice of Easter Opening Hours.
Senate House Library, including the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Libray, will operate Saturday hours on Thursday the 5th and Tuesday the 10th of April 2012. On these days the Library will open at 09.45 and close at 17.30.
The Library will be closed 6 to 9 April 2012.
Senate House Library, including the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Libray, will operate Saturday hours on Thursday the 5th and Tuesday the 10th of April 2012. On these days the Library will open at 09.45 and close at 17.30.
The Library will be closed 6 to 9 April 2012.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Institute of Commonwealth Studies and OSPA (Overseas Service Pensioners' Association) Witness Seminar: Indirect Rule – right or wrong?
ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indirect Rule – right or wrong?
Speakers:
Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS);
Session One: Nigeria, Bechuanaland/Botswana, and Aden Protectorate – Three contrasts
Mr John H Smith, CBE: Nigeria
Mr Simon Gillett: Bechuanaland/Botswana
Mr Godfrey Meynell, MBE: Aden Protectorate
Session Two: East and Central Africa
Mr Andrew Stuart, CMG, CPM: Uganda
Mr David Salmon: Northern Rhodesia
Mr Don Barton: Tanganyika
Session Three: Round Table Discussion
Professor Richard Rathbone (SOAS)
Professor David Killingray (ICwS)
Professor Simon C Smith (University of Hull)
Dr Karl Hack (Open University)
Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: mailto:chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Speakers:
Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS);
Session One: Nigeria, Bechuanaland/Botswana, and Aden Protectorate – Three contrasts
Mr John H Smith, CBE: Nigeria
Mr Simon Gillett: Bechuanaland/Botswana
Mr Godfrey Meynell, MBE: Aden Protectorate
Session Two: East and Central Africa
Mr Andrew Stuart, CMG, CPM: Uganda
Mr David Salmon: Northern Rhodesia
Mr Don Barton: Tanganyika
Session Three: Round Table Discussion
Professor Richard Rathbone (SOAS)
Professor David Killingray (ICwS)
Professor Simon C Smith (University of Hull)
Dr Karl Hack (Open University)
Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: mailto:chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Monday, 26 March 2012
CFP: 'Canada's "special relationships", London Journal of Canadian Studies
Call for papers on 'Canada's "special relationships", deadline July 2012
Volume 27 (October 2012) of the London Journal of Canadian Studies, the on-line journal of the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), will be a themed issue on 'Canada's "special relationships"' based largely on papers given at the BACS History and Politics Group annual conference in July 2011. Articles submitted so far, or in the pipeline, include Canada's relations with Britain, the USA, France, NATO and the EU. There is still room for one or two more articles on any of the above or on Canada's other "special relationships" such as the Arctic, Mexico, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, etc. The journal is multidisciplinary so articles are welcome from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective including history, politics, international relations, literature, film and art.
The deadline for submission of articles is 13 July 2012. All articles will be sent to two anonymous reviewers in July 2012 and successful ones will be published, subject to amendments, in October 2012. Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words in length and include endnotes and a bibliography. The house style can be seen by accessing the journal via the LoCSA website.
The current volume of the London Journal (Volume 26, published October 2011, guest editor: Tracie Scott) is entitled 'Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches' and resulted from a conference organised by the Aboriginal Studies Circle in London in October 2009.
Articles are welcome from established academics, early careerists and doctoral students. The journal is now in its 27th year and its articles have frequently been submitted to the RAE. Submissions should be made in the form of a Word document to the editor, Dr Tony McCulloch by 13 July 2012.
Volume 27 (October 2012) of the London Journal of Canadian Studies, the on-line journal of the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), will be a themed issue on 'Canada's "special relationships"' based largely on papers given at the BACS History and Politics Group annual conference in July 2011. Articles submitted so far, or in the pipeline, include Canada's relations with Britain, the USA, France, NATO and the EU. There is still room for one or two more articles on any of the above or on Canada's other "special relationships" such as the Arctic, Mexico, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, etc. The journal is multidisciplinary so articles are welcome from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective including history, politics, international relations, literature, film and art.
The deadline for submission of articles is 13 July 2012. All articles will be sent to two anonymous reviewers in July 2012 and successful ones will be published, subject to amendments, in October 2012. Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words in length and include endnotes and a bibliography. The house style can be seen by accessing the journal via the LoCSA website.
The current volume of the London Journal (Volume 26, published October 2011, guest editor: Tracie Scott) is entitled 'Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches' and resulted from a conference organised by the Aboriginal Studies Circle in London in October 2009.
Articles are welcome from established academics, early careerists and doctoral students. The journal is now in its 27th year and its articles have frequently been submitted to the RAE. Submissions should be made in the form of a Word document to the editor, Dr Tony McCulloch by 13 July 2012.
Friday, 23 March 2012
Conference: Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), Curacao, May 13-18, 2012
The Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) will hold its next annual, meeting at the Renaissance Hotel and Casino in Willemstad, Curacao, May 13-18, 2012. Conference topics span the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries and address a wide range of themes, including early colonization, slavery, Pan-Africanism, abolition, medical history, gender studies, business networks, religious history, and commemoration and celebration.
The full program is available on the ACH website at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceprogram.htm
The deadline for the *conference hotel rate is MARCH 29, 2012*. Rooms are $149/single and $159/double. More information can be found online at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceaccommodations.htm
To ensure cross-linguistic scholarly exchange, all paper presentations will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish and French. They will be also be available prior to the conference for those who register in advance. For more information about registration or other aspects of the ACH conference, please email: Michelle Craig McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, at achsecretary@gmail.com
The full program is available on the ACH website at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceprogram.htm
The deadline for the *conference hotel rate is MARCH 29, 2012*. Rooms are $149/single and $159/double. More information can be found online at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceaccommodations.htm
To ensure cross-linguistic scholarly exchange, all paper presentations will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish and French. They will be also be available prior to the conference for those who register in advance. For more information about registration or other aspects of the ACH conference, please email: Michelle Craig McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, at achsecretary@gmail.com
Thursday, 22 March 2012
CFP: The Global Antiapartheid Era: 1946-1994
The Global Antiapartheid Era: 1946-1994 (Radical History Review, Number 119) Call for Proposals
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue on the global politics of the anti-apartheid movement, 1946-1994. The time frame underlines our sense of the global significance of what we call the Anti-apartheid Era, inaugurated by the postwar United Nations debates on discrimination suffered by Indians in South Africa and culminating in the post-Cold War transition to democracy in South Africa during the 1990s. As we see it, this anti-apartheid era encompasses the evolution of the United Nations, decolonization, the Cold War, the founding of the non-aligned movement at Bandung, the rise (and fall) of Third World solidarity structures, the U.S. Civil Rights Movements, Left-Leaning Revolutions, human rights politics, upheavals of the global Sixties, and the onset of neoliberal globalization and offers new ways of connecting and contextualizing these various developments.
In 1990, the same year that Nelson Mandela walked free from prison to celebrations held around the world, the RHR published a double issue on "History from South Africa." The issue was the result of years of collaboration between the History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Social History Project. A little over twenty years later, as a companion and follow-up to that volume, RHR is calling for an issue that centers the history of antiapartheid solidarity. One of the most striking developments in historical research and writing over the last twenty years has been the growing interest in international, transnational, and global history. Widening our focus from the struggle against apartheid inside South Africa to a global frame reveals an exciting range of new perspectives.
For example, what happened in South Africa was bound up with struggles and anti-racist/anti-imperialist work across southern Africa and throughout the world. This activism of citizens from dozens of countries and South/ern African exiles took not only local and national forms, but often transnational forms in such initiatives as sports and cultural boycotts, corporate accountability campaigns, and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela that involved coordination across borders and appeals to a global audience. These transnational networks and campaigns were astonishing in their variety, interconnections, and persistence. There is much more to learn about the nature, scale, and scope of the antiapartheid cause, from civic and popular organizing in India, Japan, the Caribbean, independent Africa, and the "actually existing" socialist countries to the realm of international nongovernmental organizations, such as labor confederations, ecumenical religious councils, and humanitarian, pacifist, and human rights groups, to the formation of a new post-Civil Rights cohort of social activists inside the U.S.
If we borrow from the work of sociologists on global social movements and the global structures of political opportunity they engage with, we can appreciate that the antiapartheid cause unfolded from above as well as below. In addition to transnational advocacy networks and international NGOs, we need to take into account the often substantial efforts of the United Nations and allied intergovernmental agencies (e.g., the International Labour Organisation), the Organization of African Unity, international groupings such as the socialist countries and the European Community, international trade union federations, and individual states. Accordingly, we seek contributions that will trace and assess the extent and limits of the worldwide solidarity achieved in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa and the impact of this solidarity on global norms of racial equality and human rights to self-determination, democracy, and development.
We are soliciting submissions that engage with one or more of the following areas of concern.
* the emergence of large-scale organizations, networks, publications, campaigns, that gave shape and weight to this global movement.
* the roles and experiences of individual activists, advocates, artists, writers, and scholars, especially the diaspora of exiles from South/ern Africa. Interviews with anti-apartheid activists are especially welcome.
* the role of "new nation-states and socialist nations" such as India, Egypt and Cuba, and/or the Non-aligned Movement in the antiapartheid struggle.
* the impact of transnational activism on apartheid South Africa and the other white minority and colonial regimes of Southern Africa, the foreign banks, corporations, the governments of the U.S., Britain, and other states involved in the region.
* the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, the OAU, international labor and ecumenical bodies, and collaborations/challenges that emerged between/against these agencies.
* the production, circulation, and reception of antiapartheid and liberation symbols, imagery, music, fiction, theater, films, and other cultural expressions and media.
* the adaptation of the global anti-apartheid cause in diverse communities and societies and its articulation to local or national demands, especially around recognition and justice for excluded or subordinated populations, such as indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, Dalits in India, Palestinians, and people of African descent throughout the Americas. Comparative investigations are welcome.
* the application of international human rights law to the case of apartheid and the further development of this framework through interaction with the antiapartheid cause.
* the place of the global anti-apartheid struggle in the reshaping of public history and memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in museums, historical sites, and history textbooks.
Radical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms.
The editors will consider scholarly research articles as well as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, essays on museum and other public history forums, "conversations" between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
At this time we request that potential contributors submit 1-2 page abstracts summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 119 abstract submission" in the subject line. Initial abstracts and article proposals are due by May 15, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, selected authors will be invited to prepare a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is February 1, 2013. Final article manuscripts ready for publication must be returned to the editors by Aug. 1, 2013.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 119 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2014. The issue editors strongly encourage the submission of images or artwork to illustrate textual pieces, as well as photo or other visual essays. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document. If chosen for publication, authors will need to send separate, high-resolution images files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), along with written permission to reprint all images.
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue on the global politics of the anti-apartheid movement, 1946-1994. The time frame underlines our sense of the global significance of what we call the Anti-apartheid Era, inaugurated by the postwar United Nations debates on discrimination suffered by Indians in South Africa and culminating in the post-Cold War transition to democracy in South Africa during the 1990s. As we see it, this anti-apartheid era encompasses the evolution of the United Nations, decolonization, the Cold War, the founding of the non-aligned movement at Bandung, the rise (and fall) of Third World solidarity structures, the U.S. Civil Rights Movements, Left-Leaning Revolutions, human rights politics, upheavals of the global Sixties, and the onset of neoliberal globalization and offers new ways of connecting and contextualizing these various developments.
In 1990, the same year that Nelson Mandela walked free from prison to celebrations held around the world, the RHR published a double issue on "History from South Africa." The issue was the result of years of collaboration between the History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Social History Project. A little over twenty years later, as a companion and follow-up to that volume, RHR is calling for an issue that centers the history of antiapartheid solidarity. One of the most striking developments in historical research and writing over the last twenty years has been the growing interest in international, transnational, and global history. Widening our focus from the struggle against apartheid inside South Africa to a global frame reveals an exciting range of new perspectives.
For example, what happened in South Africa was bound up with struggles and anti-racist/anti-imperialist work across southern Africa and throughout the world. This activism of citizens from dozens of countries and South/ern African exiles took not only local and national forms, but often transnational forms in such initiatives as sports and cultural boycotts, corporate accountability campaigns, and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela that involved coordination across borders and appeals to a global audience. These transnational networks and campaigns were astonishing in their variety, interconnections, and persistence. There is much more to learn about the nature, scale, and scope of the antiapartheid cause, from civic and popular organizing in India, Japan, the Caribbean, independent Africa, and the "actually existing" socialist countries to the realm of international nongovernmental organizations, such as labor confederations, ecumenical religious councils, and humanitarian, pacifist, and human rights groups, to the formation of a new post-Civil Rights cohort of social activists inside the U.S.
If we borrow from the work of sociologists on global social movements and the global structures of political opportunity they engage with, we can appreciate that the antiapartheid cause unfolded from above as well as below. In addition to transnational advocacy networks and international NGOs, we need to take into account the often substantial efforts of the United Nations and allied intergovernmental agencies (e.g., the International Labour Organisation), the Organization of African Unity, international groupings such as the socialist countries and the European Community, international trade union federations, and individual states. Accordingly, we seek contributions that will trace and assess the extent and limits of the worldwide solidarity achieved in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa and the impact of this solidarity on global norms of racial equality and human rights to self-determination, democracy, and development.
We are soliciting submissions that engage with one or more of the following areas of concern.
* the emergence of large-scale organizations, networks, publications, campaigns, that gave shape and weight to this global movement.
* the roles and experiences of individual activists, advocates, artists, writers, and scholars, especially the diaspora of exiles from South/ern Africa. Interviews with anti-apartheid activists are especially welcome.
* the role of "new nation-states and socialist nations" such as India, Egypt and Cuba, and/or the Non-aligned Movement in the antiapartheid struggle.
* the impact of transnational activism on apartheid South Africa and the other white minority and colonial regimes of Southern Africa, the foreign banks, corporations, the governments of the U.S., Britain, and other states involved in the region.
* the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, the OAU, international labor and ecumenical bodies, and collaborations/challenges that emerged between/against these agencies.
* the production, circulation, and reception of antiapartheid and liberation symbols, imagery, music, fiction, theater, films, and other cultural expressions and media.
* the adaptation of the global anti-apartheid cause in diverse communities and societies and its articulation to local or national demands, especially around recognition and justice for excluded or subordinated populations, such as indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, Dalits in India, Palestinians, and people of African descent throughout the Americas. Comparative investigations are welcome.
* the application of international human rights law to the case of apartheid and the further development of this framework through interaction with the antiapartheid cause.
* the place of the global anti-apartheid struggle in the reshaping of public history and memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in museums, historical sites, and history textbooks.
Radical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms.
The editors will consider scholarly research articles as well as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, essays on museum and other public history forums, "conversations" between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
At this time we request that potential contributors submit 1-2 page abstracts summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 119 abstract submission" in the subject line. Initial abstracts and article proposals are due by May 15, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, selected authors will be invited to prepare a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is February 1, 2013. Final article manuscripts ready for publication must be returned to the editors by Aug. 1, 2013.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 119 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2014. The issue editors strongly encourage the submission of images or artwork to illustrate textual pieces, as well as photo or other visual essays. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document. If chosen for publication, authors will need to send separate, high-resolution images files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), along with written permission to reprint all images.
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