We learned of a call for papers
for an international conference in Teheran on connections between Latin
America, Asia and Africa during the decolonization process and the Cold War
from an interdisciplinary perspective. Here the call:
This conference aims to explore
historical, political and cultural connections between Latin America, Asia and
Africa during the decolonization process and the Cold War from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Traditionally, the history of the
‘international’ has been presented from the perspective of major Western
European and North American powers, based on their specific experience of the
events and according to their imperial expansion, geostrategic and economic
interests, the challenges they faced and the strategies they developed to
counter them, and more generally the political and cultural or ideological
climate and circumstances prevalent in the Europe and North America. Little
attention has been paid to works developed taking into account or written from
the perspective of the territories that were the object of the Western European
and North American powers’ projection and interests. Networks, connections and
alliances that were put into place by state and non-state actors coming from
the so-called Global South that did not serve or follow those projections and
interests were overlooked by historians. Although in the last two decades some
works have appeared in the fields of Political Science and Economy, these are
limited in number and moreover do not offer an adequate historical perspective.
In addition, fields such as Diplomacy, Visual Studies or the Arts remain largely
understudied if not unexplored. This is due to several reasons, among them the
difficulty to access primary sources, instability or insecurity in different
Global South countries, long distances among them and language diversity. The
aim of the conference is to fill this gap by fostering the mapping of
South-South connections between Latin America, Asia and Africa.
