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Version fran&#231;aiseXVIth World Economic History Congress, 9th-13th July 2012, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South AfricaRencontrer l&#8217;exotisme : la collection, le commerce et l&#8217;&#233;change d&#8217;objets exotiques en Europe, Asie, Afrique et Am&#233;riques, du XVIe si&#232;cle au XXIe si&#232;cle.La rencontre entre voyageurs, marchands, explorateurs ou touristes et une culture mat&#233;rielle exotique et les &#233;changes d&#8217;objets soul&#232;vent des questions relatives aux pratiques culturelles comme aux changements technologiques et &#233;conomiques. Cette session veut explorer les circulations et les formes d&#8217;appropriation d&#8217;objets exotiques en observant la mani&#232;re dont ces objets sont collect&#233;s, transport&#233;s, d&#233;plac&#233;s et &#233;chang&#233;s entre diverses cultures, du XVIe si&#232;cle &#224; nos jours.&#160;Consid&#233;rer le caract&#232;re exotique de ces objets nous invite &#224; pr&#234;ter attention aux fonctions et statuts successifs de ces objets circulant &#224; travers les fronti&#232;res nationales, &#224; travers les campagnes et les villes, &#224; travers les espaces publics et priv&#233;s, des espaces d&#8217;origine aux espaces de consommation. Cette session veut explorer l&#8217;influence de ces &#233;changes et rencontres sur tous les genres d&#8217;objets, des objets rituels aux objets d&#8217;art, des objets domestiques aux objets techniques, scientifiques ou militaires, que les objets soient nouveaux ou anciens, ordinaires ou rares. En observant une large p&#233;riode, il s&#8217;agit de mieux comprendre les mutations de la collecte, du commerce, de la production et de la consommation de ces objets et comment ces circulations d&#8217;objets influencent plus largement les changements &#233;conomiques nationaux et internationaux.Cette session vise &#224; appr&#233;hender ces &#233;changes depuis une double perspective&#160;: &#224; la fois en observant la fa&#231;on dont le monde occidental rencontre par les objets le reste du monde et en observant la fa&#231;on dont les &#171;&#160;autres&#160;&#187; rencontrent l&#8217;Occident et ses objets. Il s&#8217;agit &#224; chaque fois de comprendre comment ces objets sont vendus, appropri&#233;s, consomm&#233;s et comment ces &#233;changes modifient l&#8217;activit&#233; &#233;conomique et influencent la nature de la production. Le questionnement des mutations de nature et de statut des objets exotiques comme des mutations dans le temps et l&#8217;espace des cat&#233;gories pour les penser sont au c&#339;ur de cette session.Dans un monde o&#249; la circulation des objets et des personnes concerne les mutations &#233;conomiques comme industrielles, le tourisme comme les migrations, les objets offrent le moyen de questionner l&#8217;imaginaire de l&#8217;exotisme et l&#8217;&#233;volution des activit&#233;s &#233;conomiques et des pratiques commerciales qu&#8217;il engendre.Les papiers pourront notamment s&#8217;interroger sur :les acteurs de ce commerce &#8211; les voyageurs, les explorateurs, les marchands, les scientifiques, les artistes, les marchands de curiosit&#233;s, les collectionneurs, les soldats&#8230;la biographie des objets exotiques dans toute leur diversit&#233; &#8211; objets rituels, domestiques, luxueux, objets cr&#233;&#233;s pour l&#8217;exportation, objets techniques ou de savoir&#8230;les espaces d&#8217;&#233;changes et de commerce &#8211; espaces marchands, ventes aux ench&#232;res, galleries, boutiques&#8230;les espaces d&#8217;exposition &#8211; mus&#233;es, expositions publiques, jusqu&#8217;&#224; la mise en sc&#232;ne dans les espaces int&#233;rieurs priv&#233;s.Modalit&#233;s de soumissionMerci d&#8217;envoyer un r&#233;sum&#233; de moins de 400 mots aux addresses suivantes&#160;:Manuel Charpy (CNRS France/University of Lille IRHIS) manuel.charpy@wanadoo.fr andMark Westgarth (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) m.w.westgarth@leeds.ac.ukDate limite : 15 f&#233;vrier 2012English versionXVIth World Economic History Congress, 9th-13th July 2012, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South AfricaEncountering the &#8216;exotic&#8217;: the collecting, trade and exchange of exotic goods between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, from the 16th century to 21st century.The encounter between travellers, merchants and explorers and the exchange of the &#8216;exotic&#8217; acted as a diverse catalyst for cultural practices, innovation, technological change and economic generation. This session will explore the circulation, assimilation and appropriation of exotic and foreign goods as they are transported, translated, collected and exchanged between diverse cultures from the 16th century to the present day.Thinking about &#8216;exotic&#8217; goods invites us to pay attention to the role and function of the &#8216;exotic&#8217; in different scales &#8211; across national boundaries, countries and cities; and in different spaces &#8211; in the public and the private domain &#8211; as well as the relationships between the places of consumption and the places of origin. This session aims to explore the influence of the encounter with all kinds of &#8216;exotic&#8217; goods, from ritual objects, to artworks, from objects for the domestic interior, to technological, scientific and military objects; both newly made objects as well the old and the rare. By taking a broad time frame we hope to better understand the mutations of the exchange, collection, trade, display and production and consumption of &#8216;exotic&#8217; goods and how these encounters influenced broader transnational and transcultural economic change.The session aims to explore these exchanges both in terms of the perspective of the Western encounter with the &#8216;Other&#8217; (the West&#8217;s appropriation, adaption and translation of the &#8216;exotic&#8217;), and from the perspective of the &#8216;Other&#8217;s&#8217; encounter with the West (how the encounter impacted upon and stimulated economic activities in Asia, Africa and the Americas). The nature and status of &#8216;exotic&#8217; goods are multiple and complex, as is the nature and status of the &#8216;exotic&#8217; as it changed through time and space. In our increasingly complex world of exchange, tourism, and migration, the encounter with &#8216;exotic&#8217; goods may be decreasing, but as a catalyst for the imagination the &#8216;exotic&#8217; still has a profound impact upon economic activity and practices.We invite papers to explore these themes and relationships from a wide range of perspectives:On the marketplace actors &#8211; the travellers, explorers, merchants, scientists, artists, curiosity dealers, collectors, soldiers.On the biographies of the &#8216;exotic&#8217; objects themselves &#8211; ritual objects, domestic and luxury goods such as porcelain and lacquer, new technologies such as clocks and maps.On the spaces of exchange &#8211; market-places, auctions, shops.On the spaces of exhibition and display &#8211; institutions such as museums, public exhibitions and galleries, to the display in the domestic interior.SubmissionsPlease send abstracts of no more than 400 words abstracts to the session organisers:Dr Manuel Charpy (CNRS France/University of Lille IRHIS) manuel.charpy@wanadoo.fr andDr Mark Westgarth (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) m.w.westgarth@leeds.ac.ukClosing Date for Abstracts: 15th February 2012