TIDE Project’s Call for Papers for July Conference: ‘On Belonging: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550 – 1700’

Posted on: 5 February 2018 by Nick Jones in 2018 Posts

Tide Conference attendees
Researchers are invited to submit papers.

This year, TIDE will be hosting their conference, ‘On Belonging: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550 – 1700’, at the University of Liverpool’s London Campus on 26-28 July.

TIDE is a 5-year European Research Council funded project (2016-2021) that aims to investigate how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity based on cultural identification and difference. TIDE is also one of the projects making valuable contributions to the University of Liverpool’s Heritage research theme.

Call for papers

TIDE has extended a call for papers to researchers working in relevant fields to speak at this year's conference

How did early modern processes of global exchange influence English identity? How did the movement of peoples, objects, and ideas across the globe shape English concepts of self and belonging, both at home and abroad? Join the ERC-funded ‘Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, 1550 – 1700’ (TIDE) project to explore these questions through a three-day interdisciplinary conference in the summer of 2018.

Proposals for papers are invited that examine human mobility both into and out of England, and that cover topics from the Tudor and Stuart periods, including (but not limited to) the following:

  • Legal and political processes of defining and regulating national identity and the rights of strangers, aliens, and foreigners, as well as of natural-born English men and women
  • The various forms of forced and voluntary global movement
  • Local and global migration patterns
  • Travellers, diplomacy, and trade
  • Migrant case studies: individual go-betweens and transcultural agents
  • The effect of mobility on English taste and consumption (from music to the arts, dietary habits to vices)
  • The role of non-English objects on English social rituals and ways of life
  • Representations of English encounters with other peoples in literary forms and imaginative discourse

Interventions from a variety of approaches, methodologies, and disciplines are welcomed.

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words and a short biographical note including institutional affiliation (250 words) to tide@liverpool.ac.uk by 15 February 2018 for contributions in any of the following formats:

• Traditional 20-minute papers

• Complete panels of 3 x 20 minute or 4 x 15-minute papers

• Roundtable discussions

• 'Exploration sessions’ that focus on particular research questions, provocations, or relevant

‘state-of-the-field’ discussions.

Proposals for complete panels and roundtables should have contact details of all confirmed participants.

Coordinators of exploration sessions will be expected to offer a brief introduction to their questions and methods before inviting a broader discussion with other attendees. These informal and flexible sessions will encourage helpful scholarly discussion and input for researchers (doctoral and early career, as well as more established scholars), particularly those embarking on new projects.

Conference participants will be able to sign up for exploration sessions on a first-come, first-served basis at the time of registration.

Conference speakers

The eminent novelist, historian, and mythographer Dame Marina Warner will deliver a public lecture, and further confirmed speakers are listed below.

Confirmed Speakers

  • Raingard Esser
  • Katy Gibbons
  • Imtiaz Habib
  • Claire Jowitt
  • Beverley Lemire
  • Gerald MacLean
  • Angela McShane
  • Sarah Knight
  • Barbara Ravelhofer
  • Edmond Smith

Follow TIDE on Twitter for their latest news and updates.

.