From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:17 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP "The Asia-Pacific Maritime World" (July 2012,
Heidelberg, Germany)
> H-ASIA
> December 19, 2011
>
> Call for papers: "The Asia-Pacific Maritime World", July 2012, University
> of Heidelberg
> ***********************************************************************
> From: "Kamm, Bjoern-Ole" <kamm@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de>
>
> Dear H-ASIA members,
>
> The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" welcomes
> papers for the conference "The Asia-Pacific Maritime World: Connected
> Histories in the Age of Empire". It will take place from July 6 to 8,
> 2012, at Heidelberg University, Germany.
>
> The aim of this conference is to question the ways in which we tend to
> divide the maritime world into spatial blocs such as the 'Atlantic World',
> the concept of 'Mediterranean' blocs, the 'Indian Ocean' and so on.
> Instead, we wish to focus on the nature of maritime connections between
> two such maritime spheres, namely the 'Pacific' world and a space that is
> often characterized by scholars of the pre-modern period as the 'East
> Asian Mediterranean'.
>
> Our starting point is East Asia in the nineteenth century, when maritime
> history is often framed by scholarly interest in the establishment and
> workings of the treaty port system. By placing East Asia in a wider
> Pacific context, one that reflects the reality of steamships beginning to
> cross greater distances with relative ease, we hope to broaden our
> understanding of the ways in which maritime space was both imagined and
> lived during the long nineteenth century. Thus, instead of focusing on
> land-based issues such as extraterritoriality, we want to examine the
> relationship between ports and new maritime networks, so as to develop a
> more fluid, comparative sense of shifting East Asian-Pacific sovereignties
> in this period. Drawing on the new maritime history of the British empire
> (in particular, elastic concepts of a 'British Sea', of 'home' on the
> water and of the naval 'theatre') we want to consider the relationship
> between ships, the sea and the East Asian/Western imperial imagination. To
> complement our focus on sovereignty and imagination, we plan also to
> examine the significance of the increasing numbers of goods, peoples and
> even diseases crossing between and within East Asia and the Pacific. In
> short, how (if at all) does the categorization of 'Asian' and 'Pacific'
> maritime blocs in this period change when we attempt to write connected
> histories 'on' as well as 'of' the sea?
>
> We welcome submissions to answer these questions and many more from
> scholars working within history and related disciplines, and on all
> aspects of East Asia and the Pacific World. The organizers of the
> conference plan to create an edited volume out of the conference papers.
> To that end, please send your proposed titles, institutional affiliation
> (and year of study, in the case of doctoral students), and abstracts of
> 400-500 words as a Word attachment to Ms Shupin Lang
> (lang@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de) by Tuesday 31 January 2012.
> Successful participants will be informed by mid-February 2012 and will be
> expected to submit their conference papers for discussion by 31 May 2012.
> Following the conference, we would anticipate sending full-length chapters
> out for review in November 2012. Any questions on the theme of the
> conference should be sent to martin.dusinberre@ncl.ac.uk.
>
> To support the participation of scholars from around the world, we can
> offer hotel accommodation in Heidelberg and travel assistance. Please
> indicate your anticipated travel costs at the end of your abstract.
>
> Kind regards
> Harald Fuess (Heidelberg) and Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle), December 2011
>
>
> --
> The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" is an
> interdisciplinary network of researchers at Heidelberg University. About
> 300 scholars examine the processes of cultural exchange between Asia and
> Europe from a global perspective.
>
> http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/
>
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