[H-verkko] CFP: EGL workshop, theme: Portals of globalization and Atlantic spaces during the era of the slave trade

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EGL workshop, theme: Portals of globalization and Atlantic spaces
during the era of the slave trade 

Call for Papers – EGL workshop 

Theme: Portals of globalization and Atlantic spaces during the era of
the slave trade 

Place: Åbo/Turku, Finland, 4-5 October 2012 

The Academy of Finland research project at Åbo Akademi, Entangled
Spaces -Global Connections and Local Articulations: Portals of Early
Modern Globalization and Creolization During the Era of the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (EGL), will hold its first workshop in
October 2012. 

The aim of the workshop is to provide scholars and PhD students who
study and analyze the 
interconnected histories of the Atlantic world during the era of the
slave trade an opportunity 
to discuss their work. Inspired by the concept of “portals of
globalization” (Middell and 
Naumann 2010), it can be argued that the effects and consequences of
proto globalization and 
its local articulations in the Atlantic world can best be studied by
focusing on various 
localities as portals of globalization? 

Portals of globalization can be understood as localities that served
as entrance points for 
cultural transfers and sites for the development of institutions and
practices dealing with 
global connectedness. These portals of globalization were products of
a new spatial order, the Atlantic world economy during the age of
proto globalization, as well as physical sites of a range of both
produced and overlapping spaces. On an abstract level, they signify
overlapping or entangled spaces. The simultaneity and multiplicity of
physical, virtual and imagined spaces can be studied by focusing on a
particular location and, by extension, pursuing an asymmetrical
comparison between different locations in the Atlantic world.
Colonized space, 
entangled space and global space are the key concepts that serve as
underlying guidelines and 
analytical categories for the workshop. 

We call for submissions that deals with Atlantic spaces during the
era of the slave trade by 
-using of the concept of ‘portals of  globalization’ and its
application 
-studying the simultaneity of the micro-, meso-and macro-level at a
certain portal of 
globalization 
-focusing on intra-, inter-and translocality 
-reflecting on portals of globalization as entangled spaces. 

We have invited two keynote speakers, professor Gunlög Fur (Linnaeus
university, Växjö, 
Sweden) and professor Göran Rydén (Uppsala university, Sweden) to
contribute with their 
expertise of entangled spaces in the eighteenth-century larger
Atlantic world. 

Submissions that do not directly deal with the aforementioned topics
will also be considered. 

The deadline for abstracts is 16 April 2012. Please submit an
abstract of no more than 300 
words together with a short CV for consideration to
holger.weiss at abo.fi. 

Authors will be notified on acceptance by 25 April 2012. 

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