Atlantic World

CFP: 13th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted virtually by James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

February 14-17, 2023Deadline EXTENDED: November 15, 2022 The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference, to be held from Tuesday, February 14 to Friday, February 17, 2023.  The conference...

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Seeking Freedom: The Underground Railroad in the Mid-Atlantic

From H-Atlantic, June 2, 2021 Lincoln University and Voices Underground 2021 CFP Lincoln University, Pennsylvania March 31, April 1-2, 2022 The Lincoln University Center for the Study of the Underground Railroad and Voices Underground, an organization focused on preserving and...

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LeBlanc on Ogborn, ‘The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World’ by H-Net Reviews

Miles Ogborn. The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. x + 309 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-65768-4; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-65592-5.  Reviewed by Dylan LeBlanc (La Lumiere School) Published on H-Atlantic (May, 2021) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette...

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CONTAGIOUS CONNECTIONS: Epidemic disease in the Vast Early Americas

OIEAHC CFP From the OIEAHC Website The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture invites proposals from scholars across academic disciplines and ranks for a series of workshops dedicated to revisiting and rethinking the history and historiography of epidemics...

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CFP Territories of Diplomacy: The Anglo-American World and International Relations in the 17th and 18th centuries

Date:  21-22 January 2022, Toulouse, France. Proposals in French or English (300-500 words and a short CV) should be sent to diploseaa1718@gmail.com by 15 May 2021. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by 30th June. Papers will be given via videoconference if delegates...

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Teaching to Treat: Medical Education in the Empires (18th-20th centuries)

From H-Net, February 24 2021 Call for Papers Date: 21 & 22 June 2021 (Dates and time TBC), University of Oxford Venue: online with Zoom Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2021 This online workshop aims to bring together early career...

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Seeking panelists for AHA 2022: “Slavery and Sexual Economies in the Atlantic World”

 From H-Atlantic, March 1, 2021 We are seeking to put a panel together for the 2022 AHA on the sexual economy of slavery in the Atlantic World (broadly construed) from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Currently, one paper will analyze...

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