The Commonwealth at 60: Transitions, Belonging and Identities

A one day conference at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Thursday 3rd June 2010, Keynote Dr John Darwin (Oxford)
Expanding on the success of 2009’s ‘Writing African Histories’ conference, postgraduate students in Imperial and International history at the University of Sheffield are delighted to announce the call for papers for a one day interdisciplinary conference on the theme of the Commonwealth at 60. We invite the submission of abstracts from postgraduate researchers from across the arts, humanities and social sciences of no more than 250 words for papers of 15-20 minutes by 1st March to International-History@shef.ac.uk. Papers might intersect with one or more of the following themes:

• The nature of Decolonisation and the transition to Commonwealth
• Development and Neo-Imperialism
• Identity
• Belief and Symbolism
• Diaspora
• Expulsion and Inclusion
• Postcolonial Commonwealth relationships
• Networks and Trade
• Transnational relations
• The Local and The Global

For all enquiries please contact International-History@shef.ac.uk