Colonial Places, Convict Spaces: Penal Transportation in Global Context, c. 1600-1940

Between 9-10 December 1999, the Department of Economic & Social History, University of Leicester (UK) will host an interdisciplinary conference: Colonial Places, Convict Spaces: Penal Transportation in Global Context, c. 1600-1940. Its aim is to draw together scholars researching the penal transportation of convicts in European and colonial context. Geographically, it will span Europe, the Americas (including the Carribean), Australia, India, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.

Themes explored will include:

• Transportation, Labour & Colonization in the Early-Modern Period
  
• Convicts & The Dutch East India Company
  
• The Atlantic World: The Imperatives of Transportation in the Eighteenth Century
  
• Transportation from British North America
  
• The Nature of Transportation to Australia
  
• Convict-Aboriginal Relations in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land & the Andaman
  
• Punishment & Social Control: Transportation From the West Indies and the Cape
  
• Convicts, Art & Representation
  
• Negotiating Identity in the Australian Penal Settlements
• Text, Narrative and Identity: Convict Voices (1)
  
• Text, Narrative and Identity: Convict Voices (2)
  
• Convict Labour
  
• Convicts in Siberia
  
• Convict Gender Relations Compared
  
• The Negotiation of Power in Penal Colonies

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For further information:
Dr Clare ANDERSON
Department of Economic & Social History
University of Leicester
University Road
LEICESTER LE1 7RH
e-mail: ca26@le.ac.uk
tel (w): +44 (0)116 252 2784
tel (h): +44 (0)116 220 1392
fax: 0116 252 5081

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