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Call for Papers: "Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies in the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776"

This colloquium, the fifth in a biennial series, offers an opportunity for scholars from  a variety of disciplines to work together to enrich their mutual understanding of the  intersections between public finance, politics and literature during Britain's 'financial  revolution'. The term 'Britain' is used loosely to refer to all constituent parts of the  United Kingdom and also to Ireland and the colonies. The term 'literature' is broadly  defined to include newspapers, pamphlets, treatises, novels, plays and illustrations.

The organizers invite proposals for papers that explore: the mechanics of the 'financial revolution' itself - the ins and outs of institutions  like banks, joint-stock companies, public debt and paper money; how the new financial technologies affected contemporary political debate and/or the  literature of the period; how the literature of the period shaped people's perceptions of the financial  revolution and/or its political consequences; or recent developments in one's own discipline that will be of interest to scholars  working on the financial revolution from other disciplinary perspectives.

Papers will be distributed in advance and presented in 2-hour sessions at which all  colloquium participants are present. Presenters will have five minutes to summarize their  findings. The rest of each session is given over to questions and discussion, in which  the goal is to enrich our mutual understanding by eliciting insights from all of the  disciplines represented at the table. Authors are therefore expected to write for a  non-specialist audience, avoiding jargon, making concepts from their own discipline  readily accessible to all those present, seeking to identify areas of general interest,  and focussing on questions  on which scholars of various disciplines will have something  to contribute.

Graduate students and emerging scholars are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.

Proposals of 250 words or less are due 15 June 2011. Those whose initial proposals are  accepted will be asked to get a finished paper to the conference organizers by 15  December 2011. The final decision to accept or reject papers will be made in mid-February  2012 and the program will be published shortly thereafter.

Final drafts of accepted papers will be due no later than 1 May 2012.

For information on previous colloquia in this series, see www.moneypowerandprint.org.

Initial expressions of interest are welcome and can be addressed to any of the colloquium organizers listed below.

Chris Fauske
Communications Department
Meier Hall 100A
Salem State College
352 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA
USA 01970
christopher.fauskesalemstate.edu

Rick Kleer
Department of Economics
University of Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada S4S 0A2
richard.kleeruregina.ca

C. Ivar McGrath
School of History and Archives
University College Dublin
Dublin
Ireland
ivar.mcgrathucd.ie