The 40th annual coming together of SSHA took house inward Baltimore this weekend. The Social Science History Association is an especiall...
The 40th annual coming together of SSHA took house inward Baltimore this weekend. The Social Science History Association is an especially rewarding academic coming together for scholars interested inward the intersection betwixt historical processes in addition to social scientific question tools in addition to explanations. The rationale for the organisation is to supply a venue for bringing together the written report of specific historical topics in addition to the operate of tools in addition to methods of the social sciences to farther empathize those episodes. History in addition to social scientific discipline methods mutually inform i unopen to other at the SSHA. The membership is highly interdisciplinary — inward fact, interdisciplinarity is the theme for the 2016 coming together inward Chicago — in addition to every coming together offers a jeopardy for participants to let on novel question in addition to novel theories that are relevant to their ain areas of work. The overall theme for the conference was "Pluralism in addition to Community", in addition to a meaning number of panels did indeed strive to shed novel calorie-free on these topics.
Several large themes were evident inward the program. One is the broadening agreement scholars are reaching almost the dynamics of human population behaviour — historical demography — through the evolution of novel tools of question in addition to analysis of population in addition to wellness records. Particularly interesting is the continuing question of the EurAsian Project inward Population in addition to Family History (EAP) (link). On a related panel on mortality patterns during the Castilian flu pandemic Matthew Miller, a molecular biologist, introduced what was to me a novel concept: viroarchaeology, or the operate of information almost antigens inward the tissue of living individuals to piece of occupation out the sequence of viral epidemics inward the past. Miller showed how nosotros mightiness operate antigen levels inward living individuals for several varieties of flu virus to depict inferences almost a prior (and historically unnoted) H1 flu virus prior to the 1918 Castilian flu pandemic. And Svenn-Erik Mamelund demonstrated the score to which flu mortality rates reflected indicators of socio-economic status.
Other large themes included financial systems in addition to their politics; race in addition to resistance; GIS analysis of historical patterns; conflict in addition to states; in addition to novel tools of formal social analysis that may move useful for historical research. My ain paper, "Fissioning Community", falls inward the category of applying novel tools from the social sciences to historical topics; I considered the relevance in addition to applicability of agent-based modeling techniques for agreement processes of ethnic in addition to religious conflict. The newspaper in addition to slides tin move institute here.
Several panels were real relevant to contemporary social developments. There was a real interesting session that was relevant to the contemporary "Black Lives Matter" campaign that looked dorsum to Detroit's progressive left inward the 1960s in addition to 1970s. Austin McCoy offered a fascinating in addition to detailed description of the DARE campaign during that period, a multiracial campaign for racial justice. And the real-world tragedy inward Paris concluding weekend institute its academic counterpart inward a panel on ethnic in addition to religious identities inward Europe, "Am I Charlie or Am I Ahmed? Comparative in addition to Historical Perspectivism on Pluralism in addition to Communities inward Crisis inward Contemporary Europe." This panel allowed participants to reverberate on the social factors in addition to processes that surroundings the formation of community inward multi-cultural in addition to multi-religious Europe. Also relevant on this topic was "Rethinking Pluralism inward France: The tenth Anniversary of the 2005 Riots", amongst papers yesteryear Patrick Simon, Jean Beaman, in addition to Crystal Fleming.
For many readers of the Social Science History Association volition essay out to move a especially rewarding intellectual destination. The telephone telephone for papers for the 2016 coming together of the association volition appear hither equally presently equally it is available. Here is a link to the organization's journal, Social Science History.
For many readers of the Social Science History Association volition essay out to move a especially rewarding intellectual destination. The telephone telephone for papers for the 2016 coming together of the association volition appear hither equally presently equally it is available. Here is a link to the organization's journal, Social Science History.
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