FEEGI 2010
19-20 February • John Hope Franklin Center • Duke University, Durham, NC
Program • Abstracts • Flyer (PDF)
We've got eight great panels planned, plus a keynote address, banquet and reception—view the program or the abstracts. If you are relatively local, please download a flyer to hang in your department.
Local Information
Please download these two very useful maps highlighting all conference locations, with information on parking.
The conference is two full days on Friday and Saturday. If you are in town on Thursday, you are invited to meet the program committee and the other members of the FEEGI executive committee at an informal (no-host) gathering. We'll be at the Six Plates Wine Bar, about 1/2 mile from the conference hotel (map with hotel, bar, and Franklin Center). They serve small plates based on local food until late, so you can get dinner if you choose. Look for the room in the back—we're certain to be there between 7:00pm-9:00pm.
Panel sessions on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th, will be held at the John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708-0402. Both the Friday reception and Saturday banquet will be held on Duke's West campus. Maps and Directions to the Franklin Center can be found here; to and of Duke's campus here. Registration will be in Room 130; all panels will be in Room 240.
Useful local information about Durham can be found, amongst other places, on the Durham Convention & Visitor's Bureau website. Local weather conditions can be checked here. Foodies might enjoy this blog on Durham area restaurants and bars, as well as this recent article in the New York Times travel section on the Research Triangle. More local information, including sights and recommended dining options, will be included in registration packets.
Online Registration is Now Closed
Please register on-site (small additional fee assessed). There will be one-day registration available of $25 each day. Registration will open at 8:15am on Friday morning, and 8:00am on Saturday morning. Go to Room 130 in the John Hope Franklin Center.
Fees
Support from many units has allowed us to keep the fees well below the actual costs of putting on the conference, and to offer graduate students subsidies even beyond that.
Conference Fees are $45 ($25 for students). Your conference fees include as much caffeine and knowledge as you can absorb in two days, as well as breakfast and lunch on both Friday and Saturday. There will be an additional fee of $10 for on-site registration, or for online registrations received after Sunday 14 February.
The Banquet will require an additional fee of $35 ($15 for students). The banquet will close the conference on Saturday evening, featuring a keynote address by Alison Games, our outgoing president and the Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History at Georgetown University. It will be held at Dos Perros, a new Mexican restaurant in downtown Durham.
Membership: You must be a FEEGI member to attend the conference—membership is $20 for 1 year, $10 for graduate students.
Duke affilates do not need to pay registration fees, but must pre-register to partake of the lunches, etc, and will pay the additional fee for the banquet. We invite them to become members and also attend the Business Meeting on Saturday, at which lunch will be served.
Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at a special conference rate of $99+tax/per night at the Millennium Hotel, 2800 Campus Walk Avenue, Durham, NC 27705. A limited number of rooms have been set aside, and you can make reservations by calling 1.800.633-5379 or online by clicking this link.
Rooms must be booked before January 21, 2010 to ensure eligibility for the special conference rate. Hotel deadline extended to 25 January! The conference rate is available from for stays from Tuesday, February 16 to Monday, February 22, 2010.
The hotel is located about a mile from the John Hope Franklin Center as well as the center of Duke's West Campus, where conference events will be held. There is ample free parking at the hotel, and the hotel provides a free local shuttle for travel within Durham.
Travel
The conference will be held on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC. Durham is located in North Carolina's "Research Triangle," about 10 miles to Chapel Hill and 25 miles from Raleigh. It is about 150 miles from Richmond, VA (approx 2-2.5 hours by car), 250 miles from Washington, DC (4 to 4.5 hours), 300 miles from Charleston (4.5-5 hours), and 380 miles from Atlanta (approx 6 hours).
Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) is the best option for air travel; it is about 16 miles from Duke, a 20-30 minute drive, and is serviced by a number of major carriers. The Amtrak station and Greyhound Bus terminals are located in downtown Durham, about 5 miles from Duke's West Campus and the conference hotel.
There are a number of transportation options to get from RDU to Duke, including taxi (approx $30-40/each way), super shuttle, and rental car. The conference hotel also offers an airport shuttle; the cost is $35 each way. Phone the hotel (919-383-8575) upon arrival to order a pick-up (it can take 20-30 minutes for the shuttle to arrive, since it might be coming from the hotel).
Acknowledgments
FEEGI greatly appreciates the generous support and co-sponsorship of multiple units at Duke University: the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, the Department of History, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of Romance Studies. FEEGI also thanks the UNC Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Georgetown University Institute for Global History, the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge Publishing and Maney Publishing/ Terrae Incognitae for their support.
Call for Papers
The Call for Papers remains in place for historical interest.
download flyer to hang in your department
The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction is pleased to announce its eighth biennial conference, an opportunity for scholars to gather, exchange ideas, and participate in conversation about the causes and consequences of increased global interaction in the period between 1450 and 1850.
We welcome papers that explore any facet of early modern encounters. We especially encourage proposals that offer an imaginative re-framing of “European Expansion and Global Interactions” in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean Worlds. We are eager to read a wide range of proposals, including work that takes an interdisciplinary approach (including art, literature, economics, gender studies, environmental studies, for example) and papers that present African, American, Asian, or Australian/Pacific Islands perspectives on this period of expansion.
Although we prefer individual paper proposals, panels may also be submitted for consideration; panels may be re-organized to fit a larger program organized thematically in order to encourage comparative thinking outside the bounds of regional histories.
FEEGI hopes to provide some financial support to graduate students who are on the program.
Proposals should include paper title, 250-300 word abstract, and the name, affiliation, and contact information of the presenter, along with a 2-page CV. Panel proposals should include this information for all participants, plus a 250-word rationale for the full panel and the name and contact information for the panel coordinator compiled in a single document.
Please send proposals for individual papers or full panels as email attachments (Word.doc or pdf) by 1 September 2009.
For questions, comments, & submissions, contact Laura Mitchell (vice-president of FEEGI), History Department, UC Irvine by email at mitchell@uci.edu.