Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Windows of Empire: Colonial Celebrations & the Imperial World, 1780-1950, Univ. of Bristol, Sept 15-16, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Windows of Empire: Colonial Celebrations & the Imperial
World, 1780-1950, Univ. of Bristol, Sept 15-16, 2011

> H-ASIA
> May 20, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Windows of Empire: Colonial Celebrations & the Imperial
> World,
> 1780 – 1950, University of Bristol, September 15-16, 2011
>
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> Call for papers: Windows of Empire: Colonial Celebrations & the Imperial
> World,
> 1780 – 1950, University of Bristol
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-06-20
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-17
> Announcement ID: 185290
>
> Windows of Empire: Colonial Celebrations & the Imperial World, 1780 – 1950
> 15 – 16 September, 2011, University of Bristol
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> We invite proposals from postgraduates and early career researchers for 20
> minute papers exploring the theme of colonial celebrations. We encourage
> applicants to think broadly about celebrations, exploring topics ranging
> from
> colonial subjects' private parties to empire-wide festivities, from
> triumphant
> international exhibitions to celebrations of empire presented in print and
> on
> film.
>
> Topics allied to any discipline or disciplines are welcomed and may
> include,
> but are by no means limited to:
>
> • Analyses of the great exhibitions of the nineteenth and twentieth
> centuries
> and their presentation of the imperial world
>
> • Considerations of how the empires of different nations celebrated their
> sense
> of belonging to empire by participating in festive occasions
>
> • Textual analyses of the ways in which empire was presented in music,
> print
> media, children's and adult literature, fine art, newsreels, photography,
> and
> film
>
> • Explorations of the ways in which empire was celebrated in the private
> sphere
> in everyday objects of the home, through letters, and in popular pastimes
>
> • Examinations of how subjects of empire, both colonialist and colonized,
> celebrated personal milestones such as promotions and birthdays as well as
> religious and national holidays
>
> Professor Robert Aldrich of the University of Sydney, author of Vestiges
> of the
> Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories, will
> present a keynote address and teach a masterclass.
>
> The conference will cover the registration fees of speakers. This includes
> the
> conference dinner and the drinks reception to celebrate the latest edition
> of
> the postgraduate e-journal Ex Plus Ultra, which is tied by theme to the
> conference. Several travel bursaries are also available on request.
>
> Please send paper proposals of no more than 300 words by 20 June, 2011 to
> ex-plus-ultra@bristol.ac.uk. Submissions should include the author's name,
> institutional affiliation, status (e.g. PhD student), and email address.
>
> See the conference website for further details:
> http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/community/conferences/window-of-empire
>
> Isabella Jackson,
> University of Bristol, UK
> Email: ex-plus-ultra@bristol.ac.uk
> Visit the website at
> http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/community/conferences/window-of-empire
>
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