Lori Lee Oates
History Department, University of Exeter
The Local and the Global
ASMCF- SSFH PG Study Day, University of Exeter
Saturday March 7th 2015
Call For Papers
Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire Eldridge (Southampton)
Planned Professional Development Sessions: archival research; social media for academia; publishing journal articles; the Viva; and from PhD to monograph.
Deadline for Submissions: 9 January 2015
‘Tout le Monde à Paris’, proclaimed a poster for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The world on your doorstep; the global meets the local through a cultural conduit. A century later, and with the World Wide Web in your pocket, the global has never been more connected to the local. Conceptually these terms are antonymous: the local is specific, on a small scale, and often suggests civic or regional affiliations to a place; the global is universal, world-wide, and lacks definitive spatial rooting. Yet considering the local and the global as opposites may belie the potential impact that they can have upon one another. Continue reading “CFP: ‘The Local and the Global’, University of Exeter, 7 March 2015”
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