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Reply-to: World-L - Forum on non-Eurocentric world history
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From: Haines Brown <BROWNH@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD
HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Pamplona, Spain
20-22 June 1997
Conference Secretaries:
Local Arrangements: Enrique Banus, Director, European Documentation
Center, University of Navarra.
Program Committee Co-Chairs: (in Europe) Fred Spier, Amsterdam
School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam; (in
U.S.) Hugh R. Clark, Ursinus College.
Conference Headquarters in Spain: European Documentation Center,
University of Navarra, Pamplona. (Participants will stay in hotels
in Pamplona.)
The Program Committee welcomes proposals on all topics but is
particularly interested in proposals that address one of the
following THEMES:
WORLD HISTORY: THEORIES AND PRACTICE IN EUROPE, AFRICA,
AND THE MIDDLE EAST
What is the status of World History in Europe? Africa? the Middle
East? at the university level? in secondary schools? What are the
main research interests and theoretical models? How are these
related to topics explored in North America and other parts of the
world?
CROSSROADS OF GLOBAL INTERACTIONS: THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
What is the nature and significance of cross-cultural contact and
interchange in the Mediterranean Basin from earliest times until the
twentieth century? What are differences and similarities across time
or with other sea and ocean basins? Are there models of analysis
specific to this region? that could be applied to other sea and ocean
basins?
FAITH AS REALITY AND REPRESENTATION: PILGRIMAGES IN GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE
What are the many varieties of "pilgrimage"? What have been their
functions and significance in world history? What is ideological and
spiritual in the phenomenon and in its representations? what is
economic and political? Can these aspects be separated in our
analyses of the phenomenon? How does "pilgrimage" compare with other
realities and representations of the faiths of different regions or
cultures?
Fax or e-mail proposals for panels (or single submissions) and a
short vita for each participant to:
Europe:
Professor Fred Spier
University of Amsterdam
Oude Hoogstraat 24
1012 CE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: spier@pscw.uva.nl
Fax: 31 20 525 2446
Tel: 31 20 525 2244
U.S.:
Professor Hugh R. Clark
Department of History
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA 19426-1000
E-mail: hclark@acad.ursinus.edu
Fax: 610-489-0627
Tel: 610-409-3595
The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 February 1997.