The Transit of Christianity, 1500-1825: European Aspirations and New World Realities
Applications are invited for participation in the Seminar, to meet for approximately ten days at Harvard University in early to mid-August 2004. Participants, for whom travel and accommodation will be provided, must be recent recipients of the Ph.D. or its equivalent or advanced doctoral students engaged in creative research on aspects of Atlantic history. Members of the Seminar may be drawn from Latin American, Western European, and African universities, to be joined by U.S. and Canadian scholars who are also at an early stage of their career, for presentation of work in progress, discussions of the theme of the Seminar, and exchange of views with senior scholars. It is hoped that some of the expenses of participants will be defrayed by their own universities.
The aim of the Seminar is to advance the scholarship of young historians of many nations interested in aspects of Atlantic history in the formative years; to help create an international community of scholars familiar with approaches, archives, and intellectual traditions different from their own; and ultimately to further international understanding.
The theme of the Seminar for 2006 is The Transit of Christianity, 1500-1825. Work in progress on connections, Catholic and Protestant, linking parts of Europe, Africa, and the Americas will be presented and discussed. Detailed studies of specific millenarian and utopian projects and pan-Atlantic religious networks will be especially relevant.
The Seminar, under the auspices of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is directed by Professor Bernard Bailyn. For application forms, to be returned by April 30, 2006, or information, please contact Pat Denault, Administrative Director, International Seminar, Emerson Hall 4th Floor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. Telephone: 617-496-3066; Fax: 617-496-8869; E-mail: atlantic@fas.harvard.edu. All application materials are also available on our Web site.
© 2006 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College.