South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu

The term “Connections” in the “Global South” has emerged to represent challenges to and efforts to decenter the dominance of the western hemisphere’s economies, nations, and geographic locations that have benefited from the exploitations of early modern empires and neo-imperialisms. “South-South Connections” evoke these exchanges and also exemplify recent efforts to establish new forms of economic, political, environmental, and cultural alliances within the Global South.

This panel extends and continues conversations begun in “The Eighteenth-Century Global South” (ASECS 2024) to consider the following questions: How might we excavate and re-conceptualize South-South connections of the long eighteenth-century, broadly conceived? How might we realign approaches to Eighteenth-Century Studies from South-South viewpoints and as a by-product, decenter western empires and the Global North?

We particularly encourage contributions highlighting connections between and from the perspectives of the Global South in any humanistic discipline from faculty, graduate students, independent scholars, and intellectuals from other learned institutions.

Please send 250 words abstracts and a brief bio to the session Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu

Keywords: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Global/World/Any Country, Culture/Globalization, Race and Empire