CFP: II CHAM International Conference - Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchange

The II CHAM International Conference will be hosted by Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar / Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM), an inter-University research unit of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and of the Universidade dos Açores, and will take place at FCSH/NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal, from 15-18 July 2015. This year's edition will revolve around the theme Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges.
After closing the call for panels, with the approval of 32 panels, the II CHAM International Conference Committee invites those interested in the above theme to submit proposals for call for papers and posters. The submission of proposals will be open until 19 December, 2014.
Several panels might be of interest to members of this list. Among then:
P06 New frontiers, new spaces: Africa and the circulation of knowledge, 16th -19th centuries
P09 Global connections, local practices? Interactions in the framework of colonial public works
P10 Medical knowledge and transfer in the colonies
P13 From Mediterranean to the oceans: circulation of people and knowledge in the Early Modern Iberian era
P16 Transfer or …? Revisiting concepts in the global history of knowledge
P13 From Mediterranean to the oceans: circulation of people and knowledge in the Early Modern Iberian era
P22 Lost in translation? Negotiating colonial knowledge in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East
P23 Medical knowledge in motion: exchange, transformation and iteration in the medical traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean world
P31 International circulation of engineering teaching models in the 19th and the 20th centuries: the creation of European and Latin American engineering schools in historical and comparative perspectives
P33 Poster Session
For further details see the conference website: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015/cfp.shtml
Proposals must consist of:
- a paper/contribution/poster title
- the name/s and email address/es of author/s
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
Please note that all proposals must be made via online form (not email).