I don't think I have seen any posts passed on to histarch from the OIEAHC
list, so I thought I would pass this interesting 'call for papers' on...
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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>Date:         Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:29:59 EST
>Reply-To: H-NET/OIEAHC Electronic Association in Early American Studies
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>From: John Smolenski <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      'Traditional' Ethnicities in a 'New' World
>To: Multiple recipients of list H-OIEAHC <[log in to unmask]>
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>From: John Smolenski
>University of Pennsylvania
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>CALL FOR PAPERS: "'Traditional' Ethnicities in a 'New' World"
>American Historical Association Annual Meeting
>Washington DC, January 1999
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>I'm looking for papers for a proposed panel for the 1999 AHA Annual Meeting
>on the subject of ethnicity in the Americas (including the Caribbean) from
>the 16thc to the 18thc, specifically dealing with the ways in which the
>experience of diversity within colonial encounters produced, redefined, or
>sharpened ethnic identities. I'm especially interested in papers which
>interrogate ethnicity as a "traditional," "Old World" category and address
>the ways in which ethnic identities were (or were not) distinctively creole.
>        Papers may address such topics as: ethnic/racial/national
>categories in colonial legal systems; the role of ethnicity in the
>establishment of colonial religious institutions and religious cultures
>(including the religious encounter between Europeans, Africans, and
>indigenous peoples); identity and popular political struggle; and
>immigration and the creation of ethnic "Atlantic Worlds." My own work deals
>with the role of print culture in mediating ethnic public spheres in 18thc
>colonial Pennsylvania and the ways in which group identity was shaped
>through political conflicts.
>        I am interested in finding co-panelists who work outside of
>mainland British North America in order to put together a comparative
>panel; or in finding co-panelists who treat (non-English) ethnic groups in
>other regions of British North America which have been left out of standard
>historical treatments of this subject.
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>If interested, please contact me at: [log in to unmask] by 3 February.
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>John Smolenski
>Department of History
>University of Pennsylvania
>Suite 352B
>3401 Walnut Street
>Philadelphia PA 19104-6228
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