21 Oct 2005

Indian and Pacific Crossings: Perspectives on Globalisation and History, Dec 2006
Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia
Supplied note: "Indian and Pacific Crossings: Perspectives on Globalisation and History 12-15 December 2006. Fremantle, Western Australia. Sponsored by Edith Cowan University and the Western Australian Museum [...]
We are now making a first call for papers for the international conference Indian and Pacific Crossings, an interdisciplinary gathering which will explore the processes and systems developed in the Indian and Pacific rims over extended periods and from a variety of perspectives.
Suggested themes for the conference are: * Navigation and Commerce: patterns, methods, technologies. * Diffusion of Ideas: transfer of political, religious, cultural, and social ideas, including revolts, labor movements, technologies, missionary work, etc. * Imperial Structures: alternative means of conceptualizing power and authority, models and patterns of rule. * Archaeology: recent excavations or surveys germane to any portion of the regions. * Migration: including permanent settlement, itinerant movement, patterns of labor diffusion. * Cartography: development of cartographic technologies, exchanges and transfer of information, conceptualizations of land- and sea-scapes * Periodizations and Perceptions of the areas: the development of an Indian-Pacific narrative(s)
We welcome submissions that afford both narrow and broad perspectives on these and related themes. We anticipate the body of scholarship emerging from this conference will help address such questions as: Can we speak of an Indian Ocean Basin and a Pacific Basin in the way scholars have construed types of coherence for the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds? What, furthermore, are the possible links between these two basins? - md."
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