H-Empire seeks to bring together scholars and others interested in sharing resources, research and questions concerning the origin, development, working and decline of empires, rather broadly defined across academic disciplines and professional interests, chronological time periods, and geographical regions.
Members of this list may be interested in the following event on Indigenous Temporalities on the West Papuan Plantation Frontier, organised by the Pacific Circle.
PACIFIC CIRCLE ONLINE LECTURE
Registration for the digital conference "Imperial Lives. Biographic Approaches as Decolonial Practice" is now open! You can find the program and register at https://imperiallives.com/
Keynotes by Paul Basu (Univeristy Bonn), Vanessa Opoku (PARA Collective), and Patrice Nganang (Stony Brook University).
About Imperial Lives:
See also: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65075
2023–2024 AKPIA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2023-2024 Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present.
A small number of spots have become available for presenters in the International Society for Cultural History's 2023 conference on "Cultural Histories of Empire." The program committee welcomes proposals that address the conference theme outlined below. In addition to two plenary speakers, Jane Lydon (Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia) and Carlos F.
Elizabeth Swanson, James Brewer Stewart, eds. Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries. Slaveries since Emancipation Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 376 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63736-4; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18662-0.
Bonnie G. Smith. Modern Empires: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 416 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-937592-9.
Reviewed by Patrick M. Kirkwood (Metropolitan Community College-Blue River) Published on H-Empire (December, 2018) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
Krishan Kumar. Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Illustrations, maps. 600 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15363-6.
Reviewed by Luke Gibbon (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Published on H-Empire (December, 2018) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
Andreana C. Prichard. Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970. African History and Culture Series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. 360 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-240-9.
Reviewed by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University) Published on H-Empire (December, 2018) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
