SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Toronto, Ontario 6...
SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS
Macrohistorical Dynamics Network
39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
Toronto, Ontario 6-9 Nov 2014
Submission Deadline: xiv Feb 2014
Toronto, Ontario 6-9 Nov 2014
Submission Deadline: xiv Feb 2014
"Inequalities: Politics, Policy, together with the Past"
We invite yous to select role inwards Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 39th annual coming together of the Social Science History Association, Nov 6-9, 2014 inwards Toronto. For to a greater extent than data on the coming together every bit good every bit the telephone phone for proposals, delight scream to the SSHA website at www.ssha.org.
The deadline for newspaper and/or panel submissions is February 14, 2014.
The members of the Social Science History Association portion a mutual involvement inwards interdisciplinary together with systematic approaches to historical research, together with many of us uncovering the SSHA one of the virtually stimulating conferences that nosotros attend.
The theme of the 2014 annual coming together is “Inequalities: Politics, Policy, together with the Past”.
Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) is an interdisciplinary social scientific discipline research champaign that focuses on problems of large-scale, comparative historical inquiry. Contributors to the champaign own got brought perspective on a broad multifariousness of work areas, including macro-historical sociology; comparative histories; Eurasian history; earth history; world-system analysis; philosophy of history; together with studies of long-term socio-ecological, technological, demographic, cultural, together with political transformations. The Macrohistorical Dynamics network brings a rigorous perspective to affect questions having to practise alongside “large” history.
Possible topics that illustrate approximately of the full general themes of Macrohistorical Dynamics include …
• Comparative Methods inwards Macrohistory
• Large-scale historical causes: climate, population, geography
• Cultural together with National Identities inwards Large-scale Historical Change
• Theory inwards Macro-history: Are There Successful Macrosociological Theories?
• Macro-, Meso-, Micro- inwards Historical Explanations
• Empires together with Peoples
• Globalization together with World Cities
• Social Evolution together with Systemic Transformations inwards World History
The listing of MHD panel themes for 2014 is open, together with nosotros encourage yous to submit proposals for newspaper topics or panel themes.
The MHD network expects to hold upwards able to host at to the lowest degree 6 panels inwards 2014 together with volition too hold upwards able to house additional papers through co-sponsorship alongside other networks (for example, alongside History/Methods, Politics, Culture, State-Society, Historical Geography, etc.).
SSHA requests that submissions hold upwards made yesteryear agency of its spider web conference administration system. Paper title, brief abstract, together with contact data should hold upwards submitted on the site, where the general SSHA 2014 telephone phone for papers is too available. (If yous haven’t used the organization previously yous volition involve to practise an account, which is a real uncomplicated process.) Here is the straightaway link for submissions:
The online organization is at nowadays accepting submissions. If yous own got whatever questions, delight contact either of the MHD co-chairs (Peter Perdue, James Lee, Dan Little).
NOTE: There is an SSHA rule concerning majority sessions. For a majority session to proceed, the writer (or at to the lowest degree 1 of multiple authors) MUST hold upwards present. Proposals for majority sessions should exclusively hold upwards submitted if at that spot is high confidence that the writer volition hold upwards able to go to Toronto Nov 6-9, 2014.
SSHA has ready a machinery for networks to portion papers, together with then fifty-fifty if yous own got a solo paper, transportation the sentiment along. Co-sponsored panels together with papers are encouraged yesteryear the SSHA Program Committee every bit a agency of broadening the visibility of the diverse networks.
Please feel gratis to contact the MHD network organizers for farther information.
Prof. Daniel Little
University of Michigan-Dearborn
delittle@umich.edu
University of Michigan-Dearborn
delittle@umich.edu
Prof. Peter Perdue
Department of History
Yale University
New Haven CT
peter.c.perdue@yale.edu
Prof. James Lee
School of Humanities together with Social Science
Hong Kong University of Science together with Technology
Hong Kong
jqljzl@gmail.com
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