A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Eighteenth Century Empires: Forging Communities of Global Imperial Practice

HISB, Oct 10-11, 2024 in 1008 Humanities Bldg AND via Zoom.

This conference will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines and perspectives to examine the everyday life of empires in the long eighteenth century (1656-1833). The practices of creating nominally European domains on other peoples’ lands, whether outpost, factory, plantation or seaport, created a repertoire of policies, activities and meanings that were transported across the globe. Ranging over the period’s contending themes of dispossession, perpetual war, slavery and liberation, we will explore both the circulation of practices of imperial sovereignty in a global maritime empire and the irreducibility of the peoples and ways of life that empire attempted to exploit, reform, or extinguish.

Sponsored by SBU FAHSS Fund, the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Department of English, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies and HISB.

Moderated by: Kathleen Wilson Stony Brook University

and Michael Rubenstein Stony Brook University

See event schedule here. (Subject to change.)