INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON BRITISH AND UNITED STATES IMPERIALISM
IN AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

MAY 15-18, 2006

Call for Papers

We invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of British and/or American imperialism in Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Middle East (from the eighteenth century to the present day). Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, including: History; Politics; Economics; Language(s) and Literature; Media Studies; Law; Social Science; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Religious Studies; Geography; the Sciences. We particularly welcome contributions that compare and/or contrast British and United States policies, practices, and legacies. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to, issues of:

• Formal and informal modes of imperialism and colonization
• Environment and resource exploitation
• War, genocide, and humanitarian intervention
• Corporations and the movements of national and global capital
• Mapping and borders
• Labour and class relations
• Public memory (archives, monuments, museums…)
• Race, sex, and gender
• Religion
• Writing and narrative
• Alliances, including political/cultural relations between Britain and the United States
• Anti-colonial resistance, revolution, and insurgency

Please send 300-word abstracts to the following e-mail address by January 20, 2006.

A conference website will be posted in April at the web address provided below.