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Colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions in early America and theAtlantic World 1600-1848Poitiers, December 9-12, 2020The 8th Biannual conference of the European Early American Studies Association will be organised at the University of Poitiers, France, December 9-12, 2020. The conference will focus on the related themes of “Colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions in early America and the Atlantic World 1492-1848.”For the past twenty years, the study of EarlyAmerica and the Atlantic has reinvigorated the fields of imperial and colonialtopics by focusing on the circulations of goods and people. Much current researchon early America and the Atlantic world examines concepts such as «&#160;empires&#160;»,«&#160;commerce&#160;», «&#160;exchange&#160;», «&#160;trade.&#160;» At thesame time, the political history of the revolutionary Atlantic is often overlookedas the approach of an older historiography. A number of historians criticizethe very concept of Atlantic history by focusing instead on «&#160;global » and«&#160;connected histories&#160;». Following this trend, specialists of North Americahave embraced new concepts and notions to study the continent, such as«&#160;settler colonialism&#160;» and «&#160;vast early America&#160;».This call for papers invites established scholars, post-doctoral students and graduate students to re-examine the fundamental concept of Atlantic history in light of current research on the themes of colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions, from 1492 to 1848. It is also an opportunity to examine the history of transformations in early America and, broadly, the early modern world, by taking fuller account of scholarship on the politics of primitive globalisation. We will focus on the empires that organised European settlements in disrupting and dislocating native peoples, prompting indigenous cultures to re-invent themselves; but we will  also be attentive to the processes that led to the formation of new Euro-American societies in the Americas, often shaped by the enslavement of Africans and other forms of unfree labor. In the North-American colonies, the West Indies, India, Latin America, and Africa, entire peoples and their lands were reinvented by trading companies, individual administrators, theoreticians and executors of empires, as well as by those rare voices, many of who were abolitionists, who developed a critical approach to European expansion abroad.The social and political revolutions of thelate eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the Americas and the Atlanticworld led to the emergence of republican nations and, eventually, to modern(often exclusionary) democracies.&#160; Theseoffer a second major moment of reinvention through national, tribal, racial,and gender-based conflicts, as well as new forms of identities, forged throughwar and peace. In recent years, beyond a major historiographical focus on theHaitian Revolution, the term revolution has also come to refer to the secondrevolution of slavery&#160;and the revolution of antislavery&#160;in theAmericas and the Atlantic world. Its meaning can also be extended to otherinsurrections and rebellions, as well as to the revolution of rights asembodied in the women’s rights movement in the United States, and to the upheavalsculminating with the European revolutions of 1848 and their impact in the Atlanticworld, most notably, leading to the French abolition of slavery in thecolonies. Drawing on the theme of the 7th Biannual EEASA Conference in Londonin December 2018, on the making and unmaking of identities in the Atlanticworld, the notions of colonisation, revolutions, and reinventions also inviteparticipants to examine the individual stories of those who transformed theirlives through imperial service, social mobility, flight, immigration, as wellas by their commercial interactions and newly-crafted opportunities to serve ascultural intermediaries.The Congress may include panels on the changesin Atlantic World societies that resulted from cultural contact and conflict;the various manifestations of clashing visions of European empires and Nativesocieties; resistance to empire and its many forms of oppression as well as andthe rise of representative government and the universal validity of fundamentalprinciples.&#160; In sum, we welcome all papersthat speak to the themes of colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions.We encourage proposals from emerging andestablished scholars in all disciplines for traditional conference panels(three 20-minute papers with chair and Q&#38;A), round tables, and otherformats. Sessions are 90 minutes. We ask that panel proposals not be composedof participants from a single country or institution. The programme committeereserves the right to re-organize the composition of panels to meet thisrequirement. We also welcomeindividual proposals. Papers are posted on our website prior to the conference.We wish to focus on the research of doctoral students by devoting a half-day to discussion of their papers. The McNeil Center for Early American Studies has generously agreed to offer support for the travel expenses of a limited number of graduate student presenters from North America. All paper or session proposals should be in theformat of a single electronic document (Word or .pdf) that begins with thesurname and first initial of the contact person, e.g., «&#160;SmithJ.pdf&#160;»This single document should contain:Panel title &#38; short, one paragraph description.Proposals for each paper (no more than 200 words each) if a full session.Single-page curriculum vitae for each participant.Indication of any special requests, such as audio-visual equipment.Email addresses for the designated contact person and each participant.The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2019. Please submit your proposals by email eeasa2020@gmail.com with EEASA2020 and your surname in the subject line.Please note that all program participants willbe required to register for the conference. To facilitate participation byyounger scholars we offer a reduced conference fee to graduate students and canprovide free accommodation to presenters who are graduate students or who arewithin two years of the award of their PhD and not in full-time academicemployment.Organisation Committee: &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Poitiers) &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; Anne-Claire Faucquez (Paris-8) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Hélène Roy (Poitiers) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;   André Magord (Poitiers) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; Christèle Le Bihan (Poitiers) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; Pierre Gervais (Paris-3)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160; Philippe Cauvet (Poitiers)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;  Scientific Committee: Emma Hart (St Andrews)  Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Paris-Diderot) Allan Potofsky (Paris-Diderot)  Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Paris-8)  Elisabeth Heijmans (Leiden) Joanne van der Woude (Groningen)   Andrea Kökény (Szeged)   