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X-Posted from "H-NET List on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800" <H-ATLANTIC@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: Jordana Dym <jdym@skidmore.edu> ---------------------- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:56:18 -0400 From: Pat Denault <pdenault@fas.harvard.edu> Subject: August 2004 Atlantic Seminar Application Period Extended We are extending the application deadline for this summer's Atlantic Seminar through May 20. Indigenous Cultures: Adaptation, Annihilation, or Persistence? Applications are invited for participation in the Seminar, to meet for approximately ten days at Harvard University in early to mid-August 2004 [dates seem likely to be August 2-12, 2004]. Participants, for whom travel and accommodation will be provided, must be recent recipients of the Ph.D. or its equivalent or advanced doctoral students engaged in creative research on aspects of Atlantic history. Members of the Seminar will be drawn from Latin American, European, and African universities, to be joined by U.S. and Canadian scholars who are also at an early stage of their career, for presentation of work in progress, discussions of the theme of the Seminar, and exchange of views with senior scholars. It is hoped that some of the expenses of the American participants will be defrayed by their own universities. The aim of the Seminar is to advance the scholarship of young historians of many nations interested in aspects of Atlantic history in the formative years; to help create an international community of scholars familiar with approaches, archives, and intellectual traditions different from their own; and ultimately to further international understanding. The theme of the Seminar for 2004 is Indigenous Cultures: Adaptation, Annihilation, or Persistence? Work in progress on the question of how indigenous cultures—in Africa, the West Indies, and North and South America—responded to the impact of European and other non-indigenous commerce, settlements, and conquests, 1500-1825, and themselves influenced the new arrivals, will be presented and discussed. Detailed studies of various regions and cultures in the Atlantic world, considering the current state of knowledge on the question of persistence and adaptation, the kinds of evidence available, and the difficulties of using records prepared by one group to construct images and interpretations of others will be especially relevant. All applications materials are available on the Atlantic History Web site at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/sempack.html [Please note that we're using the same forms, which have a deadline of April 30 prominently displayed. The new deadline is May 20, 2004.] Applications may be mailed or sent as e-mail attachments to the addresses indicated. Pat Denault _____________________________________________________________ Administrator <pdenault@fas.harvard.edu> Atlantic History Seminar Phone: 617-496-3066 Emerson Hall 4th Floor Fax: 617-496-8869 Harvard University URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic Cambridge, MA 02138
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