Call for Papers for the 2007 Social Science History Association Meeting,
November 15-18, Chicago Illinois
The theme of this year's SSHA meeting is: "History and the Social Sciences: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead." We especially encourage panels and papers that consider this theme, broadly conceived.
The labor network is looking for complete panels and individual papers for panels dealing with labor and working-class history, broadly defined.
Panels that focus on, among other things, are encouraged:
- Comparative labor histories -- space, place, time, geography, identities
- Labor history and methodology
- Narratives of working class people
- Labor and working class history in the era of globalization
- Theorizing working class history
- Narratives of workers
- The intersection of working class history with cultural, intellectual, political and women's history
- Working Class History and the politics of identity
- Unpaid and paid labor history
- Academic work in an age of student consumption and univesity capitalization
We also welcome panels that cross disciplinary boundaries, drawing connections between econimics, demography, geography, migration, and politics.
The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the US; its members share a common concern for interdisciplinary approaches to historical problems. The organization's long-standing interest in methodology also makes SSHA meetings exciting places to explore new solutions to historical problems. We encourage the participation of graduate students and recent PhDs as well as more-established scholars, from a wide range of disciplines and departments.
The deadline for individual paper submissions is February 1, 2007.
Complete panel submissions are due by February 15, 2007. There are also SSHA-Rockefeller Foundation Grants to subsidize the travel of thirty graduate students. The application deadline for these grants is March 1, 2007.
We have attached the formal call for papers below. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at the email addresses below.
Best wishes and we hope to see you in Chicago,
Gerry Ronning and Caroline Merithew, SSHA Labor Network Chairs
[url]http://www.ssha.org/call_papers/[/url]
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Call for Papers for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History
Association Conference Theme: "History and the Social Sciences: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead".
The Social Science History Association returns to The Palmer House Hilton for its 32nd Annual Meeting, 15-18 November 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the US; its members share a common concern for interdisciplinary approaches to historical problems. The organization's long-standing interest in methodology also makes SSHA meetings exciting places to explore new solutions to historical problems. We encourage the participation of graduate students and recent PhDs as well as more-established scholars, from a wide range of disciplines and departments.
The SSHA was founded amidst a burst of intellectual excitement about the possibility of gaining new insights into history by utilizing social scientific approaches and theories. At the same time the organization reflected a rejection of the tendency in many social sciences to privilege the present. Just as a rich palette of new research perspectives was created in history by this movement, a whole new set of possibilities was opened in other social science disciplines.
At the 2007 SSHA meeting in Chicago, a series of sessions will assess how much progress has been made on these fronts in recent years and will identify those areas where the greatest advances have taken place. Those scholarly areas where progress has been most limited will also be identified, and the obstacles to further advances examined in order to plot paths to future development. Some panels will address very broad questions, such as the state of social science history within the contemporary historical profession and the role and status of historical research within individual social science disciplines today. Others will look at more limited areas, such as the state of the social scientific study of gender history. Of interest, too, are the implications of the rise of cultural history for the development of social scientific approaches to history. Panels are encouraged to identify both those forces within or across disciplines that have been slowing progress in social science history and those approaches and studies that show the most promise for overcoming them. As always, in addition to the sessions organized around the special theme, other sessions will deal with the full variety of topics of interest to SSHA members.
The SSHA program is developed through networks of people interested in particular topics or approaches to interdisciplinary history. Paper and session proposals should be submitted to the appropriate SSHA network(s).
Current networks, their representatives, and contact information are listed on the reverse side. If you are not certain about which network to send your proposal to, ask the representatives of the network closest to your interests, or ask the program co-chairs, listed on [url]http://www.ssha.org/call_papers/[/url]