CFP: The Levant and Europe: Shipping and Trade -- Networks of People and Knowledge. 2nd International Conference of The Levantine Heritage Foundation
Type: Call for Papers
Date: February 1, 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Subject Fields: World
History / Studies, Economic History / Studies, Diplomacy and
International Relations, Social History / Studies, Immigration &
Migration History / Studies
CFP:
The Levant and Europe: Shipping and Trade -- Networks of People and
Knowledge. 2nd International Conference of The Levantine Heritage
Foundation
Call for Papers
The Levant and Europe: Shipping and Trade -- Networks of People and Knowledge
The Levantine Heritage Foundation
2 – 4 November, 2016 Europe House and the Hellenic Centre, London
In
November 2016, the Levantine Heritage Foundation is organizing its
second interdisciplinary conference, entitled “The Levant and Europe:
Shipping and Trade – Networks of People and Knowledge,” in London, at
Europe House and the Hellenic Centre.
Building
on the success of the groundbreaking first international conference on
Levantines in Istanbul, 2014, this conference will emphasize the theme
of trade as the central dynamic in the creation of a Levantine world,
with complex economic networks giving rise to equally complex social,
cultural, political, and material interactions and syntheses.
Although
the Levant has been part of Eurasian trade networks for millennia, it
played an increasingly central role, and provided a formative
geocultural space for exchanges, during the creation of the modern
world: the economic expansion of capitalism, accompanied by imperialism,
nationalism, and the movement of people through the Levant shaped the
Middle East as we know it. The essential “engine of history” in most of
these historical dynamics was trade, providing the material exchanges
and networks, which in turn generated an array of social and cultural
interactions.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Elena Frangakis Syrett, Professor of History, Queens College & Graduate Center, City Unversity of New York.
Sibel Zandi Sayek, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, The College of William and Mary
Emrah Safa Gürkan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Istanbul 29 May University
Topics
of consideration for the proposals will include, but not be limited to:
– Trade networks and institutions; – Consular, diplomatic and
commercial interactions – Banks, manufacture, and shipping; – Individual
or family histories that reveal aspects of the Levantine world; –
Movement of people, migrations, establishment of immigrant communities; –
Flows of technology, political movements, ideologies, and other
sociocultural forces.
We invite
proposals for panels as well as individual presentations. Proposals
should include title and abstracts (limited to 400 words), and provide
the name(s) of the presenter(s), institutional affiliations where
applicable, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
Presentation duration is 20 minutes. The language of presentations will
be English. The deadline for sending a proposal is Feb 1, 2016.
For abstract submission please email lhf2016@levantineheritagefoundation.org
For enquiries please email contact@levantineheritagefoundation.org
Registration will open in February 2016 at www.levantineheritage.com
All
proposals will be blind reviewed by members of the LHF Conference
Committee. Notifications will be sent to applicants in March 2016.
Following the example of the forthcoming publication of the
peer-reviewed book based on the first conference in Istanbul, there are
plans to publish another book based on this conference.
Two
travel grants (up to £500) are available to PhD students who will be
selected to present at the conference. Students wishing to apply for a
grant should submit their CV together with their abstract proposal.
The
Levantine Heritage Foundation (LHF), UK, is a non-profit membership
association, which promotes research, preservation and education in the
heritage, arts and culture of the different ethnic and religious
communities of the wider Levant region of the Ottoman Empire between the
17th and 20th centuries. The Ottoman Levant comprised most of
present-day Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt,
and its influence extended far beyond the borders of those countries.
The Ottoman Empire was made up of many different ethnic groups,
including Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. They were joined
over the centuries by traders and diplomats from every part of Europe,
from England to Dalmatia, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, many of whom
settled in the region and intermarried with the local population. In
recent years, it has become common to refer to these European settlers
in Ottoman lands as “Levantines.” However, research into the
cosmopolitan world of the Levantines is still in its infancy, and much
remains to be discovered about their way of life and their legacy. For
further information visit: www.levantineheritage.com
Contact Info:
For abstract submission please email lhf2016@levantineheritagefoundation.org
For enquiries please email contact@levantineheritagefoundation.org
Registration will open in February 2016 at www.levantineheritage.com
Contact Email:
Contact Info:
Contact Info:
For abstract submission please email lhf2016@levantineheritagefoundation.org
For enquiries please email contact@levantineheritagefoundation.org
Registration will open in February 2016 at www.levantineheritage.com
Contact Email:
Contact Email: