The Research Network Premodern East Slavic Europe is committed to bringing together historians studying this area in periods up to the long 18th century for scientific exchange and dialogue, to overcome the current marginalization of these fields in scientific and public perception. The conference invites participants to grapple with the concepts of dependency and (inter-)agency in the premodern northern connecting spaces of Europe and Asia.
It focuses, on the one hand, on exploring the approaches to asymmetric social dependencies, e.g., on serfs, captives, (debt-)slaves, apprentices, convicts, colonized, coerced, and within the family or household. On the other hand, cross-connections with fields of inquiry in political and (trans-) imperial history with a view to asymmetrical interethnic and resource dependencies as well as environmental history will be examined.
Submission Details
Abstract Length: Maximum 500 words
Presentation Duration: 20 minutes
Languages: German or English
Documents Required: Abstract and a tabular CV with a list of publications (if available) in PDF format
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024
Submission Email: alehmber@uni-bonn.de (Astrid Lehmberg, team assistant, Prof. Dr. Christoph Witzenrath)
Conference Details
Conference Languages: German and English (primary lingua franca is English)
Travel and Accommodation Costs: Covered by the Chair of Pre-Modern Slavery and Asymmetric Dependencies, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
Publication: A thematically focused publication of selected contributions is envisaged, conditional on the quality of the academic debate.
Visa Information
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