[Bilimsel Haber] Conf. CFP - "The Mandate States in Global Perspective" 20-22 September 2013, Princeton University

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Andrew Arsan <andrew.arsan at cantab.net>


Call for papers

The Mashriq in the Age of Late Imperialism: the Mandate States in
Global Perspective
Princeton University
20-22 September 2013



This conference sets out to examine new perspectives on the tangled
histories of the Mandatory states that emerged in the mashriq in the
wake of the Great War. Furthermore, it proposes situating them within a
more extensive chronological and spatial framework, tracing the 
protracted and fraught transition from late Ottoman to Mandatory rule, 
and placing this within broader debates on political and cultural life 
in the world beyond Europe, the changing nature of imperialism, and the 
international system in the early twentieth century.

The three decades from the outbreak of World War I to the end of
French and British Mandatory rule in the 1940s were a formative period 
for the new states that emerged from the embers of the Ottoman empire in 
the Arabic-speaking mashriq: in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and
Syria alike, populations moved – and were moved – about, constructing 
new collective identities and confronting new categorizations; borders
were drawn and redrawn; and institutions formed and reformed, leaving a
troublesome legacy which still endures, for better or worse, across
the region.

Despite its significance, the last large-scale collective work on this 
period – The British and French Mandates in Comparative
Perspective, edited by Peter Sluglett and Nadine Méouchy – is now almost 
a decade old. Scholarship on the Mandatory states of the Middle East has 
flourished in the intervening years into an expanding and rapidly 
evolving field. This conference seeks to take stock of these changes, 
and to stimulate further development.

Furthermore, its organizers wish to foster dialogue between scholars of 
the mashriq and their peers by inviting scholars of other periods and 
parts of the world to serve as panel chairs and commentators. In doing 
so, we hope to provide new perspectives on the history of a region all 
too often considered in splendid isolation, and to emphasize its central 
importance to our understandings of late imperialism, the workings of 
the modern state in the world beyond Europe, and the creation and 
expansion in the early twentieth century of novel
mechanisms of international governance. Our hope is that this
gathering will enrich scholarly understanding both of the region itself, 
and of the world of which it became such an integral part.


  Paper proposals on the following themes are solicited:
• Transitions: from the dusk of the Ottoman Empire to the dawn of a
new state system
• The Mandates as a new form of international governance: the League
of Nations, international law, and humanitarianism
• Above and below the new ‘nation-state’: local and global perspectives
on the Mandates
• The everyday state and its challenges: law, bureaucracy and
citizenship
• Insurgency and counter-insurgency: the Mandatory state and its
antagonists
• Notables, merchants, effendis, and subalterns: new approaches to the
social, economic, and political history of the Mandate states
• Sectarian and secular institutions and identities: new approaches to
social construction and political culture
•  Cultural production and the self: education and the arts in the
Mandate States


The conference will be held on 20-22 September 2013 at Princeton
University. Participation costs (travel and hotel) will be fully
covered.

Please send abstracts in word or PDF format to the conference
organizers, Cyrus Schayegh (Princeton University) and Andrew Arsan 
(University of Cambridge) at the following email address: 
mandateconference at gmail.com

Abstracts should be 250-300 words; applicants should also provide
name, institutional affiliation, and contact details.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 February 2013.

Successful applicants will be notified by 1 March 2013.

The deadline for submission of pre-circulated papers of no more than
8,000 words is 1 July 2013. The conference proceedings will be published 
in an edited volume.