Conferences

FEEGI holds a biennial conference in the even-numbered years. All sessions at FEEGI meetings have traditionally been plenary, so that each panel can enter a common conversation. As the conference proceeds, both presenters and audience often build on the work presented at that very meeting to enhance the discussion of papers given later in the conference, creating an atmosphere of scholarly exchange and collegiality that may be difficult to find at larger conferences.

As much as possible, panels at FEEGI meetings are organized thematically in order to encourage comparative thinking outside the bounds of regional histories. Among other topics, FEEGI conferences frequently have been a rich arena for discussion of the various oceanic paradigms, examining the Mediterranean World, the Indian Ocean World, and the Atlantic World, and the ways in which these worlds can be compared, contrasted, and connected.

Any topic engaging global interaction and imperial expansion between about 1350 and 1850 is welcomed at FEEGI. A sampling of previous paper topics:

the history of rice • slave revolts in Dutch Surinam • the spice trade in the Red Sea • the musical impact of the Portuguese empire • serfdom on the Russian frontier • race compared in Madras and New York • Danish culture in colonized Iceland • the British fetish for Levantine objects and art • poison among the enslaved of Martinique • Bonaparte in Egypt • the undersea excavation of Manila galleons • colonizing Taiwan • violence on Africa’s gold coast • Ambonese children in the Netherlands • missionaries in Pacific islands…for more, please browse the earlier conference programs.

Past FEEGI Conference Programs

Listing of Keynote Speakers at all conferences

“Empire and Identity” • Seventh Biennial Meeting, Georgetown University, February 22-23, 2008 • View Online Program • Download Program and Abstracts (428K PDF)

These links will download a PDF file of the program.

Sixth Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, February 3-4, 2006

Fifth Biennial Meeting, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, February 19-21,2004

Fourth Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, February 14-17, 2002

Third Biennial Meeting, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, February 17-19, 2000

Second Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, April 3-4, 1998

First Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 19-21, 1996

Founding Meeting, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, April 21-23, 1994