[We have the following announcement. The deadline is December 15, 2016.]
CFP:
Global Legal Regimes: Beyond Imperial Frames. April
20-21, 2017. Inaugural
workshop of the Global History Initiative, Queen’s University, Kingston.
How do the concepts and methods of global history
illuminate, enrich and complicate legal history scholarship? What are the
global processes, concepts and problems that might be illuminated through a
legal archive? How does the study of legal cases shed light on cultural,
economic and political interactions between societies and nations? How do legal
regimes enable, and restrict, the movement of people around the globe?
In the inaugural event of the Queen’s Global History
Initiative, we invite presenters to consider the law as an archive for
illuminating global problems and concepts, to study legal regimes as contact
zones that forge transnational interactions and connections, and to think
through the law to track the movements of peoples, concepts, goods and ideas in
time and space.
Building on the explosion of legal history scholarship in
Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, we seek to explore how we
might conceptualize legal regimes in global history beyond national, imperial
and colonial frames. What does a global reframing offer to scholars working on
these regions? How might an understanding of legal pluralism, jurisdictional
politics, and legal subjectivities be transformed when the frame of reference
is freed from fixed geospatial and imperial units? We welcome papers that are
located in a particular geographical context, or a local archive, but
illuminate global phenomena or legal norms – rights, custom, evidence, oaths,
family, sovereignty – to name a few.
The workshop will be held on April 20-21 at Queen’s
University in Kingston, Ontario, with a keynote delivered by Prof. Jeremy
Adelman, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global
History Lab at Princeton University. Please send 300-word abstracts
and a brief c.v. including contact details to ghiq@queensu.ca with
the subject "Legal History workshop” by Dec. 15, 2016. Selected
participants will be notified by January 1 and invited to submit complete
drafts of their papers for pre-circulation by April 1, 2017. Participants will
read all pre-circulated papers, make a brief presentation on their own work,
and comment on another paper. The Global History Initiative will fund
accommodation and some meals for all participants, who will be expected to make
their own arrangements for travel to Kingston, Ontario.
Ishita Pande and Amitava Chowdhury (on behalf of the Global History Initiative, Queen's
University)
Contact Email: ghiq@queensu.ca
