Activities of the Cunliffe Centre for Atlantic Studies (2003-2007)
Jamestown, 1607: A Symposium
15 May 2007 (in conjunction with the Centre for early Modern Studies, University of Sussex).
This symposium marks the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Speakers: Jamestown and the Beginnings of English Imperialism in the Americas, 1607-1660
Trevor Burnard University of Sussex
Improving America: From John Smith to John Locke
Jesse Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University
Built and Unbuilt Virginia
Peter Thompson, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Reconsidering the Political Histories of Early Settlement Communities in North America
Simon Middleton, University of Sheffield
Richard Hakluyt and Early America
18 June 2007: Coinciding with the New World exhibition of the works of John White in Roanoke and elsewhere in 1585, the Cunliffe Centre for Atlantic Studies has invited Professor Peter Mancall of the University of Southern California and the Huntington Library, Los Angeles, to give an illustrated presentation on his recent book, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (Yale University Press, 2007).
British Asia And The British Atlantic, 1500-1820: Two Worlds Or One?
8-10 July: The Cunliffe Centre for Atlantic Studies, in conjunction with the University of Leicester, the University of Akron and St. Mary's University, Halifax will host a major international conference, exploring the links between the two developing fields of British Atlantic history and British Asian history.
This project aims to define the processes of British overseas expansion, development, and crisis firmly within a global framework of interpretation. This objective is to be achieved through exploration by a team of scholars of core themes located in two different geographical contexts: the Atlantic world and the Indian Ocean world. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this project will identify patterns of cultural interactions, through comparisons, contrasts, and linkages across the period, 1500-1820.
Conference Programme
- Sunday 8 July
2:00-2:30 Introduction
2:30-4:00 The Oceans:
The Atlantic Ocean: Stephen Hornsby
The Indian Ocean: Femme Gaastra
4:30-6:00 Governance and Regulatory Frameworks
Atlantic Basin: Jerry Bannister
Indian Ocean Basin: Philip Stern - Monday 9 July
9:00-11:00 Anglo-Indigenous Commercial Relations
Asia: Rajat Datta
Americas: Elizabeth Mancke/Paul Costa-Grant
Africa: Joseph Inikori
11:30-1:00 Military Relations
Anglo-Asian: Douglas Peers
Anglo-Amerindian: Wayne Lee
2:30-4:30 Diplomacy
Asia: Michael Fisher
Africa: Christopher Brown, Rutgers University
Americas: Eric Hinderaker - Tuesday 10 July
9:00-11:00 Societies within the Pale
Asia: Seema Alavi
Africa: Michel Doortmont
Americas: Trevor Burnard, University of Sussex
11:30-1:00 Sovereignty and Law
Asia: Robert Travers
Americas: Ken MacMillan
Atlantic Studies Journal
Atlantic Studies provides an international forum for research and debate on historical, cultural and literary issues arising within the new disciplinary matrix of the circumatlantic world. In particular, it seeks to foster a transcultural dialogue between the two hemispheres and, specifically, among the nations of Europe, the Americas and Africa.
The Journal aims to celebrate the original Atlantic mappemonde: a highly critical space, centered not on a single nation or land mass but on a new cosmopolitan interchange of ships and peoples, cultures and texts, ideas and tools.
Published on behalf of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the Journal aims to be an important site for scholarship on the comparative study of multi-ethnic cultures and societies. It challenges nationalist histories and literatures by focusing on the Atlantic as an arena of cultural change and exchange, translation and interference, communication and passage.
Atlantic Studies accordingly invites submissions in the areas of history, cultural studies, critical theory, and literature from academics, public intellectuals, contemporary commentators, and activists whose focus of interest lies in circumatlantic perspectives. The Journal will also publish work based on such visual materials as photography, film, and information media. Each volume will also include book and media reviews.
Atlantic Studies encourages both scholarly research and timely critical debate on current issues within its chosen paradigm. In as much as they develop a comparative and intercultural perspective, essays on race, class, gender, ethnicity and on human rights, citizenship and identity politics will also be welcomed.
Editors and Editorial Board:
William Boelhower - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Stephen Fender - University of Sussex, UK
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung - University of Heidelberg, Germany
Maria Lauret - University of Sussex, UK
William O' Reilly - University of Cambridge, UK
Review Editors:
Jacob Berman - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
William Nelson - University of Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board:
Nicholas Canny - National University of Ireland, Ireland
Harry Elam - Stanford University, USA
Donna Gabaccia - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Paul Gilroy - London School of Economics, UK
Rick Halpern - University of Toronto, Canada
Alfred Hornung - University of Mainz, Germany
Günter Lenz - Humboldt University, Germany
Françoise Lionnet - University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Paul Lovejoy - York University, Canada
Achille Mbembe - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Marcus Rediker - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Epifanio San Juan - Philippines Cultural Studies Center, USA
Verene Shepherd - University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Wolf-Dietrich Sahr - Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Werner Sollors - Harvard University, USA
Activities of the Cunliffe Centre for Constitutional Studies (1991-2003)
Colloquia
- An international research series inaugurated at the University of Sussex:
- Professionals as Guarantors and Protectors of Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School, September 1994
- Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies, University of Bologna, April 1993
- Writing a National Identity: Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives on the Written Constitution, Fulbright Colloquium, University of Sussex, April 1991
A Rockefeller Foundation funded series:
- Constitution-making, Conflict, and Transition in Divided Societies, with meetings at the Bellagio Center, February 1999, in Londonderry, August 1999, and the United Nations, Geneva, January 2000
Inter-University Workshops
Faculty and postgraduate meetings to explore mutual research interests and teaching developments:
- Identity, Rights and Constitutional Transformation, University of Toronto/Sussex, at Toronto, April 1996
- Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective, Sussex/Ohio State University, at Sussex, November 1995
- Workshop on Constitutionalism, Sussex/University of Toronto, at Sussex, May 1995
- University of Sussex/George Washington University, at Sussex, May 1994
Research Seminars
- From 1998 to 2000, the Centre led a Research Seminar Series on 'Constitutional Change: the United Kingdom Programme of Reform,' sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council.
- In 2000-2001, a series on women and constitutional change is bringing practitioners from the various parts of the United Kingdom, North America and South Africa together for practical discussions about equality goals.
Refer to the Undergraduate prospectus for more information on the undegraduate degree programmes.