Call for Papers
Social Inequality Sessions of the ESSHC * Deadline for pre-registration on 1 May 2009.
The next European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) will meet in Ghent, April 13-16, 2010.
You are invited to present a paper or to organize a session of four papers on the theme of social inequality in a broad sense.
Sessions that have been suggested (you may well propose something different):
- European almshouses and hospitals
- Ideological origins of European welfare practices
- Empires and Inequality
- Inequality in urban communities
- Comparative social work, and welfare work
- Globalization and inequality
- Philanthropic globalism
- Coding occupations across cultures
- Demographic Pressures, State Welfare Systems and Inequality
- Entitlements, Fears and Moral Panics
- Historical Perspectives on the Future of the Welfare State
- Intergenerational Social Mobility
- Help by kin and friends
- Effect of kin on social mobility
- Census categories of difference (race, ethnicity) and their problems
- Notions of Giving
- Philanthropy and Civil Society
- Risks in World History
- Social Hierarchies in the Past
- Social Segregation in Cities: GIS-studies
- Underclass and poverty
- Work Experiences over the Life Course: Careers or Not?
To propose a paper, please use the ESSHC-website: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/esshc[/url] while ticking off the Social Inequality Network, and send an abstract of ½ page to: [mailto]lhlees@history.upenn.edu[/mailto] and [mailto]m.h.d.vanleeuwen@uu.nl[/mailto].
We encourage sessions that are comparative in nature, with papers from more than one country.
Lynn Lees and Marco van Leeuwen
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Dept. of Sociology, Utrecht University
Heidelberglaan 2
PB 80140
3508 TC Utrecht
Change of emailaddress: [mailto]m.h.d.vanleeuwen@uu.nl[/mailto]