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JOURNAL/CFP- Ab Imperio 2009: Multiple Temporalities and Heterogeneous 
Spaces

Posted by: Sergey Glebov <sglebov at smith.edu>



Dear Colleagues,

Ab Imperio invites contributions to the four issues of the journal in
2009. Please, find the annual program below.

For inquiries, submissions, or subscription, please, visit the
journals website at http://abimperio.net

Sergey Glebov


2009 Annual Theme:

Homo Imperii:
The Imperial Situation of Multiple Temporalities and Heterogeneous Space

When Marc Bloch coined his famous definition of history as a science 
about humans in time, he anticipated by several decades the 
anthropological turn in historical studies. The humanistic message of 
Blochs formulation is ambivalent: does it suggest that human beings 
change together with the circumstances of total history, or that they 
remain essentially the same throughout different epochs and situations? 
Is it really possible to translate adequately the life experience of a 
representative of a certain epoch in terms of a different time period? 
How do grand narratives look through the prism of an individuals life 
experience? How does ones life perception depend on the different 
aspects of the imperial situation that may combine uneven social and 
cultural spaces, and elements of different epochs, both archaic and 
modern? Can the methods of biographical writing and prosopography be 
regarded as an alternative to grand, depersonalized historical 
narratives? Writing biography is inconceivable without taking into 
consideration time and space as crucial factors, but how does the 
specificity of these features affect human life and its perception?


No. 1/2009 Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire

In search of an analytic model of biography in the imperial context the 
autobiographical narrative in its imperial and national contexts 
national heroes and international swindlers national history as a heroic 
saga historians of empire and nation as heroes from the past personality 
cults in the culturally divided society the enemy: forging a supermans 
biography biography beyond borders: biographies of cosmopolitan 
intellectuals and a history of the phenomenon of cosmopolitanism in the 
18th C 20th centuries the migration of experiences, ideas, and practices 
across the borders of continental and colonial empires biography and 
myth the privatization of social experience in the personal life story 
the small man in the heterogeneous space the biography and prosopography 
of bureaucratic cadres in Russian empire, and of party nomenclature in 
the Soviet Union the personal dimension of foreign policy.



No. 2/2009 Homo Imperii in Space and Time: Settling and Unsettling
    Imperial Spaces

Mappa mundi, homo imperii garden cities a free port or a naval 
stronghold humans and temporality in the capital and in the provinces: a 
history of imperial cities the rotation of cadres, workforce migration, 
and travel a new appointment: governors and administrators changing 
workplaces biography as the interpretation of travel Friday, Saturday, 
Sunday: when does empire rest? calendars and clocks the many dimensions 
of empire: moving in space as traveling in time the five-stage Marxist 
historical scheme: the empire of history constructing the spheres of 
vital interests in the foreign policy of Russian empire and Soviet Union 
conception of individual, social, generational, and political age 
membership in a generation.



No. 3/2009 Maison des sciences de l'Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire

The history of enlightenment in Russia as a project of normalization and 
Europeanization scientific classifications of the population borrowings 
and adaptations of the scientific discourses and practices of 
nineteenth-century colonial empires as a condition of admittance into 
the club of European colonial powers psychology, its subjects and its 
objects of study social sciences in imperial context the sciences of 
imperial diversity: anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, etc. museums 
and exhibitions as imperial Panopticons political human sciences in 
empire the humanistic paradigm and the problem of representation of the 
modern personality medicine as a language of studying the individual and 
society the imperial concept of norm and deviation scientific 
foundations of uprising against empire projects of rational cognition 
and re-description of empire and its inhabitants caring for souls: 
theology on personality and empire.



No. 4/2009 From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial
    Communities

Is civic society possible in empire? Projects of state reform of 
imperial population: social engineering from above in empire great
ideologies on small men and their communities underground Russia as an
alternative social network the corporate structure of imperial society: 
cooperative, professional, confessional, et al. self-organization 
Utopian projects of imperial society political parties and movements and 
programs of imperial social reform the empire of obshchestvennost' in 
Russia and USSR.



Permanent Sections:

Theory and Methodology * History * Archive * Sociology, Anthropology &
Political Science * ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies * Newest
Mythologies * Historiography and Book Reviews.




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