CFP: Atlantic Geographies Institute, University of Miami (Miami May 14-17 2012)

2nd Announcement: Call for Proposals

The American Studies Program at the University of Miami presents:

ATLANTIC GEOGRAPHIES
A 4-day institute for advanced graduate students and recent PhDs
May 14-17, 2012
The Elena Díaz-Versón Amos Conference Room of the Cuban Heritage
Collection and the 3rd-Floor Conference Room, Richter Library, University
of Miami

www.as.miami.edu/ams/atlanticgeographies

Keynote lecture and workshop by Vincent Brown (Professor of History and of
African and African American Studies, Duke University). Public lecture:
Monday, May 14, 4:30 p.m. Closed workshop: Tuesday, May 15, 9:30 a.m.

The field of Atlantic studies has been at the forefront of the spatial
turn in the humanities and social sciences for several decades,
challenging national paradigms for the study of history and culture,
embracing historical geography in groundbreaking projects such as the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, and producing a rich body of
scholarship that brings together art, geography, history, literature, and
politics in innovative and fruitful ways. From D. W. Meinig’s Atlantic
America, 1492-1800 (1986) to Nicolás Wey Gómez’s The Tropics of Empire
(2008), geographical studies of the Atlantic world have centrally informed
Atlantic history and transatlantic literary studies. Most recently,
Atlantic studies has also begun to engage the expanded datasets and
sophisticated cartographies of geographical information systems (GIS).

Eager to see what the next generation of scholars brings to this
conversation and how they will change it, we invite applications from
advanced doctoral students and recent PhDs in the humanities and social
sciences who have completed or will complete the PhD between May 2010 and
May 2013. We are interested in all environments, regions, communities, and
countries of the Atlantic world and particularly in the wide array of
discourses, events, and processes that bind them together. We hope that
new maps of the field will emerge from these discussions and that
participants will be able to draw and build on them over the course of
their careers.

Participants will discuss their pre-circulated working papers in closed
seminars led by faculty from the University of Miami, Florida
International University, and Florida Atlantic University, all of which
share a strong scholarly tradition in Atlantic studies. The institute will
provide several meals and a $300 stipend for all participants and hotel
accommodations for out-of-town guests. Participants are responsible for
their own travel arrangements and expenses, though we may be able to
defray travel costs for one or two applicants who otherwise would not be
able to attend. Although the common working language of the seminar will
be English, we are eager to discuss a variety of geographic and linguistic
areas and encourage applications from scholars in and of Africa, the
Caribbean, and Latin America.

Please send the following materials in PDF format to
atlantic.geographies @ miami.edu:

1. a two-page description of your dissertation or book project;
2. a current CV;
3. a one-page abstract of the paper you wish to present;
4. (only if applicable) a request for partial travel funding.
5. Please arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation to be
sent to the same email address.

Completed applications are due December 8, 2011. We will notify up to
twelve successful applicants by mid-January 2012.

Organizing committee: Tracy Devine Guzmán (Modern Languages and
Literatures), Kate Ramsey (History), Tim Watson (American Studies and
English), Ashli White (History).

The Atlantic Geographies Institute is generously supported by the
following units at the University of Miami: the Program in American
Studies, the University of Miami Libraries, the Office of the Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of History, the Department of
English, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund of the Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures, the Department of Geography and Regional
Studies, the Department of Philosophy, the Center for the Humanities, the
Center for Latin American Studies, the Graduate School, the Atlantic
Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group, and the Program in Africana
Studies.

Timothy Watson watsont @ miami.edu

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