"Empire and Identity"
FEEGI 2008
Please join us at Georgetown University from 21-23 February, 2008, for the seventh biennial FEEGI meeting. Papers will address places as diverse as Martinique, Sri Lanka, Iceland, and Newfoundland, covering periods from the fourteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth.
Download conference flyer to post in your department, especially members in DC, MD, VA.
Program: Please view the draft program—eight intriguing panels are set, although changes may still occur. The sessions fulfill FEEGI's tradition of combining topics across the usual bounds of region and century.
Banquet and Keynote: The closing banquet will be at Las Canteras, a Peruvian restaurant in Adams-Morgan. Our esteemed president, Kris Lane, will offer a keynote address entitled "Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Medicine in the Early Modern World", as the final act of his presidency.
Registration Fees and Details
Note: If you are not already a member of FEEGI, you must become one to register for the conference—$20 for general members, $10 for student members. Fees are appropriately discounted.
Payment: FEEGI cannot accept credit cards. Please plan to bring a check written in US dollars (or cash, but a check is preferred).
Registration: $50 for general members, $25 for student members (plus cost of membership if not a member in good standing already. Registration covers Saturday lunch and the Friday reception, as well as coffee breaks, etc. Attendees are on their own for Friday lunch, and the Saturday Banquet is subject to separate charge, see below.)
Single-Day Registration: $30 plus membership.
Conference Banquet: $50. Spaces at the conference banquet are limited. You may reserve your space by emailing Linda Rupert—the banquet fee can be paid with the registration, and must be received by Friday morning.
The banquet will be held at Las Canteras in Adams-Morgan. For $50, you receive a three-course Peruvian dinner, offering hors d'oeuvres, appetizer, entree, and dessert. Your banquet ticket also entitles you to coffee and tea. NOT INCLUDED: alcohol and soft drinks. Your table will receive a beverage bill at the end of the meal and you will need to pay for your own sodas, wine, cocktails, etc. MENU: The restaurant will offer three options for each course, including a vegetarian option. We will ask you to pre-select a set menu on Friday morning. Our apologies: only banquet attendees will be able to hear the keynote address from Kris Lane, outgoing President of FEEGI, who will speak on “Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Medicine in the Early Modern World.”
Membership: If you already paid dues for 2008, your membership goes through January 2009—simply check the "pre-paid" box. Annual membership fees are $20 for general members and $10 for student members. FEEGI tradition is that you must become a member or renew your membership to register for the conference. Feel free to pay for multiple years at once, to save paperwork all around—however, in that case, just add a little note to alert our treasurer.
International Scholars: our apologies, but FEEGI can only take checks written in US dollars on a US bank, or the bank fees outweigh the deposit.
Local Information
Travel and Accommodations
Travel Planning: Washington DC is well-served by plane, train, and bus. If coming from out of town, ideally plan to arrive Thursday evening and leave Sunday, as both Friday and Saturday are very full days.
Hotel: There is not a specific conference hotel, as people can easily make independent arrangements in a city like Washington DC. Click here for Google's mapping of hotels near Georgetown University. In that list, "C" is the Key Bridge Marriot, just across the river. "H" is the Georgetown Holiday Inn.
Getting to Georgetown University
Using Public Transport
Consult the Trip Planner at WMATA's website for exact transport from your lodging to Georgetown University.
General information: the University is served by the G-2, D-2 and D-4 Metrobuses routes. Check the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) website for schedules and fares. The closest Metrorail stops are Rosslyn on the Blue/Orange Line and Dupont Circle on the Red Line. From Dupont Circle, you can catch the G2 bus on P St: it will take you to the campus gate (at 37th and O). You can also take the D2 bus (it also runs down P from Dupont Circle before it moves up to Q St. ) which will deliver you within a few blocks of campus: get off at 35th St. From the Rosslyn metro, walk across the Key Bridge. From the Foggy Bottom metro, you can take the 30, 32, 35, 35, and 36 bus line, which runs along Wisconsin Avenue: get off at O St. and walk west several blocks to the campus gate at 37th and O. On Friday, you can also take the free Georgetown shuttle, which serves the Rosslyn and Dupont Circle metros as well as some other locations.
Driving Your Own Car
Visitor Parking: A limited number of visitor parking spaces are available on an hourly or daily basis at the Leavey Center P-1 or lot A. These spaces are managed separately by the Georgetown University Hospital and can be reached by entering campus from Reservoir Road Entrance 1. A limited number of daily parking spaces are available in the Southwest Garage for a flat rate of $12/day and can be reached by entering campus from Canal Road.
Disability parking: Visitors whose vehicles display valid state-issued physical disability permits may park at visitor-designated physical disability parking spaces after paying the posted visitor parking rate. More information on GU parking.
Once on the Georgetown Campus
The main campus gate is at 37th and O streets, and the WMATA Trip Planner will send you there. From there, head north and slightly west toward the central area of campus.
Our area of campus is roughly where these three GU maps intersect, or where North and Main Campus overlap. That building in the middle of the overall map, with both Information and Parking, is the Leavey Center (building 22), where we will begin Friday morning. This detailed map view shows our Friday location for sessions and for Saturday lunch (building 22, Leavey Center) and our Saturday location for sessions (building 26, ICC). The Friday night reception will be in Riggs Library (number 57).
Call for Papers
The original CFP is presented for your information. We received a large number of excellent proposals and sadly could only accept a fraction of them. The program committee had some extended discussions before we settled on a slate of acceptances.
We invite paper proposals for the biennial conference of The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) to be held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC on February 22-23, 2008. FEEGI, an AHA affiliate, is an international organization of scholars dedicated to encouraging scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. To facilitate this, all sessions at FEEGI meetings are usually plenary.
For the 2008 conference, work that engages the theme of “empire and identity” is especially encouraged. We will consider individual proposals on any theme in the fields of European expansion or global interaction during the early modern period, broadly defined as the fourteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. Panels are welcome, but may be re-organized to fit a larger program organized thematically, in order to encourage comparative thinking outside the bounds of regional histories. FEEGI will provide partial subsidy to a limited number of graduate student presenters.
Proposals should include a 250-word abstract of the paper and an abbreviated c.v. Electronic submissions are preferred, and attachments should be in MS Word .doc format. Those who prefer a hard-copy submission must provide four (4) copies of the abstract and c.v. Proposals must be received by 1 September 2007.
Paper proposals should be sent as an email attachment to Prof. Marjoleine Kars, kars@umbc.edu or to:
Professor Marjoleine Kars
Dept. of History
713 Administration Building
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250