33.2916, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 33.2916, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:45:38
From: Eric Anchimbe [colonial.letters at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Colonial Correspondences

 
Full Title: Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges:  Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Colonial Correspondences 

Date: 11-Apr-2023 - 14-Apr-2023
Location: University of Bayreuth, Germany 
Contact Person: Eric Anchimbe
Meeting Email: colonial.letters at uni-bayreuth.de
Web Site: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Projects/Knowledges/Knowledges_Colonial-letters/Conference-2023/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2022 

Meeting Description:

This is the final conference of the research project “Colonial Letters and the
Contact of Knowledges” funded by the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at
the University of Bayreuth. We warmly invite scholars working on British
colonialism as well as other colonialisms to join us in this event.


Call for Papers:

Written correspondence (e.g. letters, diaries, telegrams, etc.) were one of
the major means of communication during the 19th - 20th Century British
colonialism of Africa. Through them, the instructions, intensions, decisions,
complaints, justifications and agenda of resident British colonial officers,
local colonial administrators and collaborators, colonial officials in Britain
and colonised subjects (individuals, villages) were transmitted across time
and space. These letters offer extraordinary access to the mindset and overall
agenda of the entities producing them. The ways of life of these entities,
their patterns of social order, repertoires and constellations of knowledges,
linguistic voices, world views and cosmologies are projected, both directly
and indirectly, in these letters. In themselves, these letters embody the
contact zone of colonial-precolonial structures, coloniser-colonised entities,
indigenous-foreign knowledges, cultural and linguistic practices, etc. 
Letters written during British colonialism of Southern Cameroons were the
object of study of the research project “Colonial Letters and the Contact of
Knowledges” funded by the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the
University of Bayreuth, Germany
(https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Projects/Knowledges/Knowledges_
Colonial-letters/index.php). The aim conference is to present the major
findings of the project. We also invite perspectives on British colonial
correspondences in other territories and periods. 

Call section:

We invite submissions that describe, from multidisciplinary perspectives
(within the humanities and social sciences, especially linguistics, history,
literature, communication studies, anthropology and sociology), the
instantiations of colonial contacts, conflicts, contestations and eventual
coalescence, co-habitations and or hybridisations of ‘knowledges’ during
colonialism that are embodied in, and transmitted through, letters written
during British colonisation of Southern Cameroons (1916-1961) and beyond.
Other colonisations, especially in Africa, form part of the focus of the
conference. Several lines of investigation fall within the scope of the
conference including, but not limited to: 

- Colonial correspondences and the construction of multiple identities
- Colonial correspondences and the discursive enactment of (social, religious,
political, hereditary) power 
- Colonial correspondences and the coalescence, cohabitation and hybridisation
of colonial and precolonial social norms (interaction, hierarchy, respect
forms, kinship affiliation)
- Colonial correspondences and the contact of languages
- Colonial correspondences and patterns of language stratification: official,
native, local, dialect, etc. languages
- Colonial correspondences and the production, consolidation and contestation
of ‘knowledges’
- Colonial correspondences and the role of letter writing agencies
- Colonial correspondences and the concealment of, and access to, knowledge,
information and rights
- Colonial correspondences and colonial social and power structures of
stratification
- etc.

What patterns of knowledge production are adopted in colonial correspondences?
How are these different in letters written by colonial administrators and
those written by colonised subjects? What repertoires of knowledges drive
their production, rejection and perhaps co-construction? To answer these
questions, we invite submissions that adopt multidisciplinary,
trans-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary approaches.

NB: Selected papers from the conference will be published in the series Africa
Multiple: Studies of Africa and its Diasporas (Brill Academic Publishers).




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