Deadline for pre-registration: 15 May 2013.
The next European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) will meet in Vienna, 23-26 April 2014. 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): Philanthropy and Civil Society; National campaigns for Good Causes; European welfare traditions; Social inequality by design: taxation regimes and welfare states; Welfare in multi-ethnic societies; Inequality in failed states; Disparities in the former Austria-Hungarian Empire; 100 years after 1914: Inequalities in World War I; Comparative social welfare; Globalization and inequality; Social Segregation in cities; Hospitals and public health; Social dimensions of medicine; Inequality in settler societies; A history of man-made risks: occurrence, prevention, resilience; A history of natural risks: occurrence, prevention, resilience; Inequalities in colonial empires; Vital registers and their use in Africa; Social inequalities in Latin America; Gender segregation on the labour market; Work Experiences over the Life Course; Social homogamy; Finding a spouse via a newspaper; Finding a job via a newspap!
er; Census categories of difference (race, ethnicity); Social Mobility between the generations; Kin and social mobility; Women's work
To propose a paper, please use the ESSHC-website: http://esshc.socialhistory.org/esshc-vienna-2014 while ticking the Social Inequality Network,
and send an abstract of ½ page to: lhlees [at] history.upenn.edu and m.h.d.vanleeuwen [at] uu.nl