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Appel à communication "Free and Unfree Workers in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (c. 1700-1850)" (Workshop on May 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh)

Le 28 août 2015 à 17h31

Call for Papers
Free and Unfree Workers
In Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (c. 1700-1850)

Workshop on May 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh



Annonce valable jusqu’au 1er septembre 2015

"We invite historians working on free and unfree workers in port cities to send in proposals for a workshop on May 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh.

Historians have long treated slave labor and free labor as mutually exclusive ideal types. Recent work has begun to challenge this view, yet research on the connections between free and unfree workers remains limited. Port cities are the perfect setting in which to explore a new, broader, more inclusive labor history for the period 1700-1850.

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The workshop is organized by the University of Pittsburgh, the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and the Collège d’Études Mondiales in Paris. It will lay the groundwork for a larger conference on global port cities to be held in 2017.

Proposals should include a title, a 250-word abstract, and a short CV, emailed as attachments to laborportcities@gmail.com by September 1, 2015.

The workshop will take place May 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh. It is organized by the University of Pittsburgh, the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and the Collège d’Études Mondiales in Paris. The workshop will lay the groundwork for a larger conference on global port cities to be held in 2017. We expect the conference papers to be published by a major university press or as a special issue of a major international journal. Proposals should include a title, a 250-word abstract, and a short CV, emailed as attachments to laborportcities@gmail.com by September 1, 2015.

Organizing committee : Pepijn Brandon (University of Pittsburgh / IISH, Amsterdam), Niklas Frykman (University of Pittsburgh), Marcel van der Linden (IISH, Amsterdam), Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh), Pernille Røge (University of Pittsburgh), Françoise Vergès (Collège d’Études Mondiales, Paris)

Pepijn Brandon
University of Pittsburgh
3900 Posvar Hall
peb23@pitt.edu
Email : laborportcities@gmail.com