European Social Science History Conference

CFP: ESSHC, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008

Call for Papers

Seventh European Social Science History Conference
University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February - 1 March 2008

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.

The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks:
Africa - Antiquity - Asia - Criminal Justice - Culture - Economics -Education and Childhood - Elites - Ethnicity and Migration - Family and Demography - Geography - Health - History and Computing - Labour - Latin America - Material and Consumer Culture - Middle Ages - Oral History - Politics - Religion - Rural - Sexuality - Social Inequality - Technology - Theory - Urban - Women and Gender - World History

The Conference fee will be Euro 200 for participants who pay in advance, Euro 250 for participants who pay at the conference. One-day attendance will be Euro 100 for participants who pay in advance, and Euro 125 for participants who pay at the conference. There is a special fee for MA students of Euro 50.

The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 1 April 2007.

The Seventh European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History.

Further information and the pre-registration form for the Conference can be obtained from the Conference Internet site at [url]http://www.iisg.nl/esshc[/url] or from the conference secretariat:

European Social Science History Conference 2008, c/o
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
Netherlands
Telephone: +31.20.66 858 66
Fax: +31.20.66 541 81
E mail: [mailto]esshc@iisg.nl[/mailto]