Indigenous Sovereignties: Native Monarchies, Principalities, and Empires in the atlantic worlds (America and Africa, 15th-19th centuries)
Overview
For the historian, can the interest in indigenous sovereignty ever be anything other than desire for “the beauty of death,” to borrow Michel de Certeau’s phrase from 1970, referring to studies by nineteenth-century men and de Certeau’s contemporaries on popular culture and folklore? According to de Certeau, “popular culture presupposes a mechanism that cannot be admitted. It had to be censored in order to be studied. Thus, it can only become an object of interest because the danger [it represented] had been eliminated.”
The conference will take place from the 24th to the 26th of March 2016. Paper proposals should be sent as a summary of 2 000 characters to the address colloquesouverainetes2016@gmail.com. These abstracts should specify which primary sources will be used for the case study, and must include a short author bio and bibliography. The deadline for proposals is May 1, 2015. Applicants will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision at the end of June 2015. Proposals may be submitted in English, French or Spanish, which will be the languages of the conference. For accepted papers, lodging (four nights), and meals in Nantes will be paid for by the conference organizing committee for one author per paper.
Organizing Committee
Yann Lignereux, Université de Nantes, Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique
Luis Mora Rodríguez, Universidad del Costa Rica, Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes
Grégory Wallerick, Université de Nantes, Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique
Clément Thibaud, Université de Nantes, Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique
Scientific Committee
Antonio de Almeida Mendes, Université de Nantes, CRHIA
Nadine Béligand, Université Lyon II-LARHRA
Capucine Boidin, Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, IHEAL
Ângela Domingues, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CHAM-Açores
Marcela Echeverri, Yale University
Eduardo França Paiva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CEPAMM
Thomas Grillot, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique-EHESS (CENA)
Gilles Havard, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique-EHESS (CENA)
Michel Morin, Université de Montréal
Isabelle Surun, Université Lille III Charles-de-Gaulle, IRHIS – Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Université Paris VIII
