SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Chicago, IL 21-2...
SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS
Macrohistorical Dynamics Network
38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
Chicago, IL 21-24 Nov 2013
Submission Deadline: xv Feb 2013
"Organizing Powers"
We invite y'all to choose purpose inwards Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 38th annual coming together of the Social Science History Association, Nov 21-24, 2013 inwards Chicago. For to a greater extent than data on the coming together every bit good every bit the telephone telephone for proposals, delight get upwards to the SSHA website:
www.ssha.org
The deadline for newspaper and/or panel submissions is Feb 15, 2013.
The members of the Social Science History Association part a mutual involvement inwards interdisciplinary as well as systematic approaches to historical research, as well as many of us honor the SSHA 1 of the nearly stimulating conferences that nosotros attend.
The thematic topic of the 2013 annual coming together is “Organizing Powers” – a theme that plant really good amongst the research interests of many of the scholars involved inwards the Macrohistorical Dynamics network.
Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) is an interdisciplinary social scientific discipline research plain that focuses on problems of large-scale, comparative historical inquiry. Contributors to the plain possess got brought perspective on a broad multifariousness of work areas, including macro- as well as historical sociology; comparative histories; footing history; world-system analysis; comparative report of civilizations; philosophy of history; as well as studies of long-term socio-ecological, technological, demographic, cultural, as well as political trends as well as transformations. The Macrohistorical Dynamics network brings a rigorous perspective to touching questions having to exercise amongst “large” history.
Possible topics that illustrate only about of the full general themes of Macrohistorical Dynamics include …
• Comparative Methods inwards Macrohistory
• Large-scale historical causes: climate, population, geography
• Cultural as well as National Identities inwards Large-scale Historical Change
• Theory inwards Macro-history: Are There Successful Macrosociological Theories?
• Macro-, Meso-, Micro- inwards Historical Explanations
• Empires as well as Peoples
• Globalization as well as World Cities
• Social Evolution as well as Systemic Transformations inwards World History
The listing of MHD panel themes for 2013 is open, as well as nosotros encourage y'all to submit proposals for newspaper topics or panel themes.
The MHD network volition live on able to host at to the lowest degree 6 panels inwards 2013 as well as volition too live on able to house additional papers through co-sponsorship amongst other networks (for example, amongst History/Methods, Politics, Culture, State-Society, Historical Geography, etc.).
SSHA requests that submissions live on made past times agency of its spider web conference management system. Paper title, brief abstract, as well as contact data should live on submitted on the site www.ssha.org, where the full general SSHA 2013 telephone telephone for papers is too available. (If y'all haven’t used the organisation previously y'all volition necessitate to exercise an account, which is a really uncomplicated process.) Here is the straight link for submissions:
www.ssha.org.
The online organisation is right away accepting submissions. If y'all possess got whatsoever questions, delight contact either of the MHD co-chairs (Peter Perdue, James Lee, Dan Little).
NOTE: There is an SSHA dominion concerning mass sessions. For a mass session to proceed, the writer (or at to the lowest degree 1 of multiple authors) MUST live on present. Proposals for mass sessions should exclusively live on submitted if at that spot is high confidence that the writer volition live on able to go to Chicago Nov 21-24, 2013.
SSHA has gear upwards a machinery for networks to part papers, as well as then fifty-fifty if y'all possess got a solo paper, transportation the persuasion along. It is possible as well as useful to position a newspaper non exclusively past times the MHD network, but too past times another co-sponsoring networks--for example, Theory/Methods, Historical Geography, Politics, Culture, Economics, etc. Co-sponsored panels as well as papers are encouraged past times the SSHA Program Committee every bit a agency of broadening the visibility of the diverse networks.
Please experience costless to contact us for farther information.
Prof. Daniel Little
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Office of the Chancellor
Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491
delittle@umd.umich.edu
Prof. Peter Perdue
Department of History
Yale University
New Haven CT
peter.c.perdue@yale.edu
Prof. James Lee
School of Humanities as well as Social Science
Hong Kong University of Science as well as Technology
Hong Kong
jqljzl@gmail.com
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