[Discussion] "The Rise and Demise of International Orders"

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From: Evan Dawley <dawley@fas.harvard.edu
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ConIH 5: The Fifth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on
International History

"The Rise and Demise of International Orders"

The Department of History invites graduate students to submit
proposals for the Fifth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on
International History (ConIH) to take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts
on 18-19 March 2005.

The theme for this year's conference is "The Rise and Demise of
International Orders." This theme is concerned with the nature and
exercise of order across boundaries, its endurance, and the sources
of its collapse over time.

We welcome papers that consider the issue of order at any level--state,
national, regional, colonial, imperial, or global. Papers may also focus
on specific components of order--military & geopolitical, scientific &
technological, legal, economic & financial, cultural, intellectual &
ideological, and religious. We especially encourage papers that compare
institutional orders, namely organizations like the United Nations or
the Catholic Church. All papers should address questions of hierarchy
and stability, namely, which schemes has humankind developed for subduing
conflict? How far have such schemes historically benefited the schemers?
How successful have various international orders been relative to one
another?

There are no temporal or geographic limits. The conference aims for a wide
diversity of topics, to include Western and non-Western populations, and
ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary contexts, as well as papers
addressing the "world system" itself.Papers will be selected and assigned
to panels on the basis of their strength and their utility as a basis for
historical comparison.

ConIH welcomes innovative research approaches and agendas. Particular
attention will be given to papers developing comparative perspectives and
utilizing multi-archival research bases. We actively encourage students
to reach beyond the immediate conclusions of their research to consider
"order" as a conceptual tool in international and world history. The
conference will conclude with a plenary session, at which several leading
scholars in the field of international & world history will discuss these
broad issues. The keynote address will be delivered by Akira Iriye.

Commentary on papers will be provided by specialists from Harvard and
beyond. Graduate student presenters who must travel from outside New
England will receive a small stipend to help defray expenses. Details
will be available in the weeks ahead on the conference website
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/. Information can also be found here
on past conferences.

Graduate students who are interested in participating in the conference
should submit a one-page paper proposal and curriculum vita (in Word,
RTF, or PDF format) to ConIH@fas.harvard.edu
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=ConIH@fas.harvard.edu>. 

Proposals must be received
by October 31, 2004 in order to be considered. Notification of acceptance
will be made by November 30, 2004. For additional information about the
conference, please contact the conference organizers at
<conih@fas.harvard.edu
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=conih@fas.harvard.edu>> 

or visit the conference website.