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CALL FOR PAPERS“The Future of Atlantic, Transnational, and World History”We announce a conference to be held May 1-3, 2014 at the Department ofHistory, University of Pittsburgh.The conference will explore four related themes in Atlantic,transnational, and world history, each introduced by a keynote speaker:Labor:         Marcel van der Linden (International Institute for Social History)Race:         Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh)Empire:     Richard Drayton (King’s College London)Resistance:     Vincent Brown (Harvard University)Each keynote session will be accompanied by a panel session on the sametheme.  We therefore solicit papers on labor, race, empire, and resistancein Atlantic, transnational, and world historical contexts.Our goals are to push the boundaries of boundary-less history and toimagine new ways to explore perennial subjects of historicalinvestigation.  We are especially interested in original approaches andresearch strategies that link small units and large processes, the localand the global, and that propose innovative ways to think about thoseconnections.We seek paper proposals from both established and more junior scholars.Preference may be given to those proposing to report on major work inprogress.  Proposals should include a title, a 250 word abstract, and ashort CV.  Abstracts should foreground the nature of the paper’shistoriographical and methodological intervention.  Please submit allqueries and materials by email attachment by June 1, 2013, to:futurehistory2014@gmail.com.