The Atlantic World Research Network
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Nature's Publics: The Making of Publics for knowledge of the natural world in Europe, 1500-1800
CONFERENCE
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
18-20 March 2010
The history of European society and culture between ca.1500-1800 is characterized in part by new discoveries about the heavens and the material or physical characteristics of the earth and its inhabitants and the widespread distribution of this new knowledge. Nature's Publics takes this growing area of scholarly and public interest as the subject for an interdisciplinary conference to be held in Montréal, Quebec, Canada from 18-20 March 2010 under the sponsorship of Making Publics: Media, markets, & association in early modern Europe, 1500-1700, a project based at McGill University in Montréal, Quebec Canada and funded under the Major Collaborative Research Initiative of Canada's Social Science and Humanities
Research Council. Scholars who have agreed to give keynote talks include Lesley Cormack (Simon Fraser University), Mary E. Fissell
(Johns Hopkins University), Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), and Stephen D. Snobelen (University of King's College and Dalhousie
University).
Proposals are invited for papers, 20-30 minutes in length, devoted to the making of publics for knowledge of natural philosophy, natural history, medicine, geography, cosmography and related subjects in Europe between 1500 and 1800. We would especially welcome papers devoted to the collective relations of the investigators; the agencies or groups engaged in publishing or disseminating knowledge of the new discoveries; the forms and mechanisms employed in the communication of ideas or information about the natural world; the institutions or communities in which this new knowledge was received and assessed or criticized; or the role played by "nature's publics" in shaping or reshaping conceptions of public life, including ideas about membership in publics and about their practices. We would also welcome proposals on the above topics from scholars studying historical and cultural developments in the Americas during the period on which the conference is focused.
Those interested in presenting papers at this conference should send via email by Wednesday, 15 July 2009 an abstract of no more than 800 words and a short CV of 2-3 pages to David Harris Sacks, Richard F.Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College at dsacks@reed,edu, with a copy to Vera Keller <vera.keller@mail.mcgill.ca>. For further information about Making Publics, please consult the project's website:
http://makingpublics.mcgill.ca.
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
"Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth Century"
This conference will discuss the ways in which people and polities from the Americas, Europe, and Africa assumed, legitimized, rejected and interacted with various forms of authority in the “long eighteenth century.” This period is typically characterized by the dissolution of Atlantic Empires
combined with the emergence of the nation state. Yet, historians have begun to argue that even as nation states began to emerge in the colonial
Atlantic, Empires continued to thrive, reconstructing themselves in the face of changing notions of sovereignty, freedom and territoriality. This
conference seeks to explore the affinities, groups and networks that were important to peoples’ thinking and acting politically and examine the ways
that nations and empires coexisted and came into conflict during the period of the ‘long eighteenth century.’
Keeping in mind that the options for “acting like a state” were not simply national or imperial, we invite proposals from well-established and newer
scholars, working on any aspect of the experience and mechanisms of authority in the “long eighteenth century Atlantic world,” understood in its
broadest sense and reaching across disciplinary boundaries. Topics might include:
• Collective memories and origin myths about the forming of nations, extra-national and supranational bodies, citizenship and subjecthood,
migration
• State-knowledge formation; law, legal spaces, jurisdiction
• Consumption; material culture, arts, commodity frontiers/exchange, commodity trade, trade networks
• Political economy
• Authority and the private sphere
• Inter-state interactions and actors
• Politics in Africa, North and South America, informal authorities
• Impositions and experiences of disciplinary regimes (e.g, slave codes, master and servant law, crime and punishment)
• Structures of religious authority
• Wars and violence
Please send submissions to atlanticconf2010@nyu.edu . Include a 200-300 word abstract and two-page C.V. Some funds may be available to defray transportation costs for graduate student presenters.
Applications will begin being reviewed on June 1, 2009. The conference will be held in New York City on February 26-27, 2010.
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A History of Human-Water Interactions in the Northeast United States: Dynamics in a Water-Rich Environment
Thayer Hotel
West Point, New York
July 25 to 27, 2009
http://www.cuahsi.org/capstone.html
Hosted by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) and the City University of New York (CUNY)
Water is a critical factor to human dynamics in arid environments and thus the relationship between water and human systems in these regions has been well-studied as a limitation to economic and social systems. Water issues in the arid West are front-and-center in the popular media. Human-water interactions in the more humid environments of the Nation, however, have not received such attention. What then is the role of water in societies in our more humid environments? Although water is not considered as critical of a factor in humid regions, water has played a vital role in how human systems have developed historically. Human activities, in turn, have impacted hydrologic form and function. Understanding the historical relationships between water and humans and how these relationships have changed over time is important as we forecast socio-political and economic dynamics in the Northeast.
Over the past 2 years, research guided by the CUAHSI hydrologic synthesis project hosted at CUNY has studied how human-water relationships have changed in the Northeast U.S. over the 300 years from 1600 to 1900. This seminar is an opportunity for the CUNY project to present new ideas that have arisen from this effort and to continue building a dialog with the broader academic community on human-water interactions in humid environments. The seminar will be a forum to share ideas and discuss future research needs to better understand the changing role of water in the Northeast.
Limited funding to attend the seminar is available for early career individuals (post-docs and assistant professors). To join us for the seminar or for further inquiries, please contact Mark Green ( mgreen1@ccny.cuny.edu ).
Space is limited.
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Mark B. Green
Post Doctoral Research Associate
CUNY Environmental Cross-Roads Initiative at The City College of New York New York, NY
email: mgreen1@ccny.cuny.edu
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Visiting Scientist
Water Systems Analysis Group
Complex Systems Research Center
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space University of New Hampshire Durham, NH
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Society for the History of Discoveries
50th Annual Meeting
11-13 October 2009
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
The Program Committee of the Society for the History of Discoveries invites those wishing to make a presentation at this meeting to submit a proposal to the chair of the committee at their earliest convenience: ron.fritze@athens.edu Ron Fritze, Athens State University, College of Arts and Sciences 300 N. Beaty Street, Athens, Alabama 35611, USA/ Tel: (256) 233-8184 DEADLINE: 25 May 2009.
Presentations on all aspects of geographical discovery and exploration are welcome. Especially welcome are proposals emphasizing our host region, North Carolina and the American Southeast.
The SHD paper sessions will begin on Monday, October 12, and will conclude at mid-day on Tuesday, October 13.
Proposals may be up to 500 words in length and should include the following:
- the title of the presentation
- the author’s name and address, including email address, and affiliation
- an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions
- a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new, unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.
- anticipated audio-visual equipment required
SHD members are invited to send suggestions for sessions, speakers, and general program ideas.
The time allotted for the presentation of papers is generally about 20 minutes, followed by a short question-and-answer period.
The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various professions. All are especially interested in the processes and consequences of geographical exploration and discovery. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings, photographs, etc.). It is preferable that all visuals be in the form of PowerPoint Presentations.
When selecting papers for presentation, preference will be given to papers that are intended for submission to the society’s journal, Terrae Incognitae.
Thank you.
Program Committee: Ron Fritze (chair), Joyce Lorimer, Gerald Saxon
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FEEGI: Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
Biennial Conference
Announcement and Call for Papers
19-21 February 2010 | Duke University | Proposals due 1 September 2009
The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction is pleased to announce its eighth biennial conference, an opportunity for scholars to gather, exchange ideas, and participate in conversation about the causes and consequences of increased global interaction in the period between 1450 and 1850.
We welcome papers that explore any facet of early-modern encounters. We especially encourage proposals that offer an imaginative re-framing of “European Expansion and Global Interactions” in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean Worlds. We are eager to read a wide range of proposals, including work that takes an interdisciplinary approach (including art, literature, economics, gender studies, environmental studies, for example) and papers that present African, American, Asian, or Australian/Pacific Islands perspectives on this period of expansion.
Although we prefer individual paper proposals, panels may also be submitted for consideration; panels may be re-organized to fit a larger program organized thematically in order to encourage comparative thinking outside the bounds of regional histories.
FEEGI hopes to provide some financial support to graduate students who are on the program.
Proposals should include paper title, 250-300 word abstract, and the name, affiliation, and contact information of the presenter, along with a 2-page CV. Panel proposals should include this information for all participants, plus a 250-word rationale for the full panel and the name and contact information for the panel coordinator compiled in a single document.
Please send proposals for individual papers or full panels as email attachments (Word.doc or pdf) by 1 September 2009
For questions, comments, & submissions, contact
Laura Mitchell, History Department, UC Irvine
mitchell@uci.edu
This CFP and additional information are available at the FEEGI website: http://feegi.org/conference2010.htm
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MARE Conference People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change 9 - 11 July 2009, Amsterdam
The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) at the University of Amsterdam announces its fifth biennial conference, 'People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change'. The conference will take place from July 9-11, 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Call for Papers
Since its inception in 2001, the international MARE People and the Sea conference has established itself as one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for debate and learning in the realm of maritime and coastal research and policy. The 2009 conference is the fifth in the series and builds on previous conference outcomes that have clearly placed the capabilities of social sciences on the agenda of wider maritime interests. This conference bridges several debates on coastal change and questions how people, around the globe, are tackling the challenge of living with uncertain futures and adapting, or not, to a myriad of changes.
Five conference themes address the challenges of uncertainty over coastal change across different, but strongly connected sectors.
1. Transformations in fisheries and aquaculture
2. Transformations in coastal and deltaic landscapes
3. Governing under conditions of uncertainty
4. Culture and imaginations of coasts under change
5. Whose needs count in adapting to change?
There will be keynote addresses by:
Professor Fikret Berkes (Canada Research Chair, University of
Manitoba)
Professor Alpina Begossi (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Professor Edmund Penning Rowsell (Middlesex University, UK)
For more information about the conference see www.marecentre.nl. All queries may be directed to Bas Bolman (conference@marecentre.nl)
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Call for Papers- Women in the IBERO-AMERICAN ATLANTIC (1500-1800)
Feb 18-20, 2010
The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) at the College of Charleston calls for papers on Women in the Iberian and Latin American Atlantic World. The conference will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, from Feb. 18 to 20, 2010. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers on Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American history, literature, cultural production, etc. We hope to examine questions such as: Who were the women that traveled from the Iberian Peninsula to the New World or vice-versa? What ideas did they bring with them? What influence did women who did not physically travel have on the Atlantic world? What role did women play in creating an Atlantic network? What can women's experience in the Atlantic World tell us about the Atlantic cultural production, literary exchanges, economy, race relations, religion, etc., between 1500 and 1800?
Three Keynote Speakers:
1. Lisa Vollendorf: Professor of Spanish, California State University at Long Beach.
2. Allyson Poska, Professor of History, University of Mary Washington.
3. Bianca Premo, Associate Professor of History, Florida International University.
Logistics: The symposium will take place from Thursday to Saturday. The three keynote speakers will each give a plenary talk. We will also have 5 or 6 additional panels of select participants. This symposium is open (and not limited) to professors of literature, history, political science, anthropology, and sociology. We particularly encourage new scholars and graduate students to submit proposals. The format of the sessions will be roundtable discussion. One month before the conference each participant will submit their completed paper to be posted on a secure site. During the session each participant will be allotted 10 minutes to discuss the main points of their paper. There will be a respondent for each session and ample time for discussion. There is the possibility for a volume of selected papers from the conference to be published in our Carolina Atlantic World Series by the University of South Carolina Press (For more info. see www.sc.edu/uscpress < https://gibbes.cofc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.uscpress.edu/ > )
Charleston, South Carolina is a prime location for this conference. It was a major city in the Atlantic World with strong connections to Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean as well as other parts of North America. South Carolina was also site of Santa Elena (1566-1587), the northern most Spanish settlement during the colonial period and the capital of La Florida Province.
Please submit one-page proposals in English and one-page c.v. to Dr. Sarah E. Owens, Dept. of Hispanic Studies as an attachment to owenss@cofc.edu by August 1, 2009. For more info. on the CLAW program visit www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld/
Archived Announcements
Dr. Neil Norman will speak at the College of William & Mary (Gram 421) on October 30th at 3:30p.m. "Country and Town in Atlantic Africa: Towards a Regional Understanding of the Rise and Collapse of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, 1650-1727 AD" (click here to view flyer)
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Silenced Histories: Enslaved Women, the Archive and Power in the Urban Atlantic World
WGS Lecture by Dr. Marisa Fuentes on Thursday Nov. 6 at 4PM - Alumni House.
Marisa J. Fuentes completed her Ph.D. in the Department of African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley in July of 2007. Her work explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in two eighteenth-century British Atlantic port cities: Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina. Fuentes work brings together critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory to analyze enslaved women in the urban Atlantic. Her other research interests include studies of power and sexuality, postcolonial studies, and histories of the African Diaspora.
Archival power operates to silence sources in which enslaved women are found. Available colonial sources are fragmented and mired in a language which sexualized enslaved women's bodies, appraised their economic viability, and when criminalized, confined their memories into the wretched and untamable. In this talk archival power is illuminated as it maneuvers through narratives of the most visible of particular slave societies, and the most invisible. From a brothel owner in Bridgetown, Barbados to women in flight in Charleston, South Carolina, this talk discusses the silences in the records and the ways in which some historians of female slaveryhave overlooked how the nature of the archive prevents us from articulating the many facets of enslaved women's lives.
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"Global Goods, Local Consumers: Textiles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Atlantic World," Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College, National Humanities Center Thurs Nov. 6 5:00 PM
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Global Encounters conference, 14-15 November at UNC Chapel Hill (click here to view program)
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Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi will speak in MHRA 1215 on Friday, 21 November at 2:00p.m. "The Woman-Girl in/at War in African Women's Writing" (click here to view flyer)
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The North Carolina Colloquium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is hosting a graduate student conference on Mapping Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. The conference will be held at Duke University on February 20-21, 2009.
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On Febrary 23, 2009, Jeffrey R. DiLeo, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English and Philosophy at University of Houston at Victoria, will give a Cross Disciplinary Workshop on Multidisciplinary Writing and Publishing, a two part roundtable on the problems associated with successfully developing interdisciplinary affiliations and publishing interdisciplinary scholarship.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Inquiry, the Atlantic World Research Network, the Jackson Library, and the Women and Gender Studies Program.
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The eSharp board are delighted to announce that they are receiving papers for the thirteenth issue of eSharp on 'Atlantic Exchanges' to be launched in June 2009. This issue emphasises cross-cultural Atlantic exchanges, noting that the ocean has served not to separate but connect the peoples of the Atlantic continents --- Africa, South America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe --- from 1492 to the present day. 'Atlantic Exchanges' seeks to encourage inter-cultural perspectives in a variety of disciplines. We welcome submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research and contributors are invited to interpret the theme broadly. Subjects may include, but are not limited to:
- colonialism and postcolonialism
- migrations and diasporas
- the slave trade
- intellectual exchange
- mobility of political ideologies and structures
- trans-Atlantic movements of prominent individuals
- international exchanges in education
- language and linguistics
- legal structures and constitutions
Submissions must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. These should be made in Word document or RTF format. Please ensure that you accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. A full list of guidelines and our style sheet is available here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/esharp/forauthors/howtosubmitanarticle/
Submissions and enquiries should be sent to submissions@esharp.org.uk. The deadline for submissions is Friday 13th March.
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"Danish Modernity, rytmisk musik, and the Film Danmark"--Leslie C. Gay, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
4:00pm, Thursday, March 26, 2009; School of Music Room 221
Co-Sponsored with the Atlantic World Research Network
Drawing upon Danish composer Bernhard Christensen’s music and scholarship, and interviews with his contemporaries and students, this paper explores confluences of African American jazz and Danish modern identity, particularly as revealed by Christensen’s collaboration with filmmaker Poul Henningsen on Danmark (1935). The film meaningfully juxtaposes Christiansen’s jazz compositions against iconic rural and urban scenes of Denmark.
Most scholarship on European musics and culture reinforces a narrow musical canon and overlooks the vast contributions of black peoples, their cultures, and musical practices in shaping modern Europe. However, as Paul Gilroy argues, narrow and one-way conceptions of flows between Africa and the Americas should be replaced by a larger unit of analysis, the “Black Atlantic,” in order “to produce an explicitly transnational and intercultural” research perspective (Black Atlantic, 1993). Emphasizing the importance of black musical practices within global flows across northern Europe, I argue for the discursive power of African American jazz as an essential component of Danish identity.
In adopting African American rooted jazz as Danish expression, Christensen ties the music of Danmark to a varied landscape of Danes’ work and leisure. The film’s images and sound in conjunction profoundly signify “modern times,” re-imagining a globally-connected Denmark in an industrial present, while encompassing a Danish agrarian past.
Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Leslie Gay holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. He has published
articles and reviews on American music and culture in the journals Ethnomusicology, American Music, and World of Music. He also co-edited Music and Technoculture (Wesleyan University Press) with Rene T.A. Lysloff, which examines relationships among music, culture, and
technology. In other areas of his research, Dr. Gay focuses on indie rock musicians in New York City and music publishing in the 19th-century
United States. Currently, he is investigating the reception of African American music in Denmark, an historical and ethnographic project begun with a Fulbright Scholar grant in 2002.
Click here to view poster.
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Beginning March 3, 2009, a film series will be presented in Science 101:
After Trauma: Across The Atlantic Cinema and Postdictatorship in Spain and Argentina.
For more information, visit http://www.uncg.edu/rom/spanish/club/Trauma001.pdf
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"Another Corleone, Another Sicily" by Anthony Fragola will be shown at the Weatherspoon Art Museum on Sunday April 5, 3-5 pm. This is a short promo of a documentary in process. There will also be selected readings from Sicilian Women: True Stories of Conviction and Courage translated from the Italian by Anthony Fragola. Click here to see the flyer.
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NCSU Global Middle Ages and Renaissance Speaker Series: Wendy Belcher, Princeton University
"Divine Queenship: Representing Sheba in Medieval and Early Modern African and European Literature"
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:15pm, Tompkins Hall G118, NCSU
Brown Bag lecture; please feel free to bring your lunch. Drinks and cookies will be provided.
Wendy Belcher (B.A. Mount Holyoke College, Ph.D. UCLA) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated with the Center for African American Studies. Dr. Belcher's current research addresses the circulation of African thought in Europe and England before the nineteenth century. She works at the intersection of diaspora, postcolonial, and eighteenth-century studies, theorizing transcultural intertextuality as a form of discursive possession in which African discourse animates representations in the English canon. In addition, Dr. Belcher has published an award-winning memoir about Ghana (Honey from the Lion: An African Journey) and has written for such media as the BBC, Salon.com, The Seattle Times, LAWeekly, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and The Ethiopian Review.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the NC State University Honors Program, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, and the English Department Speaker Series.
For further information about Wendy Belcher's talk or the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance Speaker Series, please contact Meg Lamont at
meg.lamont@gmail.com
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April 23, 2009--Prof. Edurne Portela: "Beyond the 'Post': Seeking a New Critical Language for Contemporary Narratives of Argentina and Spain"
Click here to view flyer.
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Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World--Hines Prize 2009--Call for Manuscripts
The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) seeks submissions for its 2009 Hines Prize. The Hines Prize is awarded biennially for the best first book manuscript relating to any aspect of the history and life of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World at the College of Charleston was established in 1994 with the purpose of exploring and illuminating those links and reciprocal influences between the Lowcountry and other cultures in the broader Atlantic world as they have changed over time, stressing the comparative analysis of institutions, cultures, and developments within it. CLAW focuses on the broader Atlantic world of which the Lowcountry was and is part, and facilitates the development of an understanding of the interactivity among subregions, regions,
nations, and areas. Deadline for submission is May 1, 2009.
The prize carries a cash award of $1,000 and preferential consideration by the University of South Carolina Press for the Carolina Lowcountry
and Atlantic World Book Series http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/
Previous winners include: 2003--Brad Wood for This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina,
1725-1775. 2005--Nic Butler for Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, SC 1760-1820 2007--T. J. Desch-Obi for Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts Traditions in the Atlantic World.
Do you have a manuscript you would like to submit for this prize? If so please send to:
Dr. David Gleeson,
Director, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World
Dept. of History
College of Charleston
66 George St.
Charleston, SC 29424
gleesond@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/atlantic