SSHA 2007: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead
Deadline Extended to March 1, 2007. Please direct questions about the program for the 2007 SSHA annual meeting to ssha2007@pop.umn.edu .
The Social Science History Association returns to The Palmer House Hilton for its 32nd Annual Meeting, 15-18 November 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
History and the Social Sciences: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead
The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the US; its members share a common concern for interdisciplinary approaches to historical problems. The organization's long-standing interest in methodology also makes SSHA meetings exciting places to explore new solutions to historical problems. We encourage the participation of graduate students and recent PhDs as well as more-established scholars, from a wide range of disciplines and departments.
The SSHA was founded amidst a burst of intellectual excitement about the possibility of gaining new insights into history by utilizing social scientific approaches and theories. At the same time the organization reflected a rejection of the tendency in many social sciences to privilege the present. Just as a rich palette of new research perspectives was created in history by this movement, a whole new set of possibilities was opened in other social science disciplines.
At the 2007 SSHA meeting in Chicago, a series of sessions will assess how much progress has been made on these fronts in recent years and will identify those areas where the greatest advances have taken place. Those scholarly areas where progress has been most limited will also be identified, and the obstacles to further advances examined in order to plot paths to future development. Some panels will address very broad questions, such as the state of social science history within the contemporary historical profession and the role and status of historical research within individual social science disciplines today. Others will look at more limited areas, such as the state of the social scientific study of gender history. Of interest, too, are the implications of the rise of cultural history for the development of social scientific approaches to history. Panels are encouraged to identify both those forces within or across disciplines that have been slowing progress in social science history and those approaches and studies that show the most promise for overcoming them. As always, in addition to the sessions organized around the special theme, other sessions will deal with the full variety of topics of interest to SSHA members.
The SSHA program is developed through networks of people interested in particular topics or approaches to interdisciplinary history. Paper and session proposals should be submitted to the appropriate SSHA network(s). Current networks, their representatives, and contact information are listed on the SSHA Web site. If you are not certain about which network to send your proposal to, ask the representatives of the network closest to your interests, or ask the program co-chairs, listed below.
SSHA President for 2006-2007
David Kertzer, Brown University David_Kertzer@brown.edu
Program Committee Co-Chairs for 2007 Conference
Mary Gibson, John Jay College, CUNY (History) mgibson@jjay.cuny.edu
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware (Economics) grubbf@lerner.udel.edu
Robert Lieberman, Columbia University (Political Science) rcl15@columbia.edu
How to participate in the 2007 SSHA Program
Starting in mid-January 2007, proposals for individual papers and complete sessions will be accepted online at http://www.ssha.org. Contributors should take note of the following SSHA rules and traditions:
Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions are due 15 February 2007. Prior discussion with network representatives is encouraged but not required. Many networks have their own web page to assist in organizing panels. For more information see: http://ssha.org/call_papers/networks.shtml.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals may be expected by 1 May 2007. All participants on the 2007 SSHA Program will be required to pre-register for the conference and to join the SSHA (if not already members.)
The Social Science History Association returns to The Palmer House Hilton for its 32nd Annual Meeting, 15-18 November 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
History and the Social Sciences: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead
The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the US; its members share a common concern for interdisciplinary approaches to historical problems. The organization's long-standing interest in methodology also makes SSHA meetings exciting places to explore new solutions to historical problems. We encourage the participation of graduate students and recent PhDs as well as more-established scholars, from a wide range of disciplines and departments.
The SSHA was founded amidst a burst of intellectual excitement about the possibility of gaining new insights into history by utilizing social scientific approaches and theories. At the same time the organization reflected a rejection of the tendency in many social sciences to privilege the present. Just as a rich palette of new research perspectives was created in history by this movement, a whole new set of possibilities was opened in other social science disciplines.
At the 2007 SSHA meeting in Chicago, a series of sessions will assess how much progress has been made on these fronts in recent years and will identify those areas where the greatest advances have taken place. Those scholarly areas where progress has been most limited will also be identified, and the obstacles to further advances examined in order to plot paths to future development. Some panels will address very broad questions, such as the state of social science history within the contemporary historical profession and the role and status of historical research within individual social science disciplines today. Others will look at more limited areas, such as the state of the social scientific study of gender history. Of interest, too, are the implications of the rise of cultural history for the development of social scientific approaches to history. Panels are encouraged to identify both those forces within or across disciplines that have been slowing progress in social science history and those approaches and studies that show the most promise for overcoming them. As always, in addition to the sessions organized around the special theme, other sessions will deal with the full variety of topics of interest to SSHA members.
The SSHA program is developed through networks of people interested in particular topics or approaches to interdisciplinary history. Paper and session proposals should be submitted to the appropriate SSHA network(s). Current networks, their representatives, and contact information are listed on the SSHA Web site. If you are not certain about which network to send your proposal to, ask the representatives of the network closest to your interests, or ask the program co-chairs, listed below.
SSHA President for 2006-2007
David Kertzer, Brown University David_Kertzer@brown.edu
Program Committee Co-Chairs for 2007 Conference
Mary Gibson, John Jay College, CUNY (History) mgibson@jjay.cuny.edu
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware (Economics) grubbf@lerner.udel.edu
Robert Lieberman, Columbia University (Political Science) rcl15@columbia.edu
How to participate in the 2007 SSHA Program
Starting in mid-January 2007, proposals for individual papers and complete sessions will be accepted online at http://www.ssha.org. Contributors should take note of the following SSHA rules and traditions:
- Panels should represent more than one discipline and institution.
- Panels that include material from more than one place or time are particularly welcome.
- To maximize the number of participants, individuals may present no more than one paper and participate in no more than two sessions.
- Panels co-sponsored by two or more networks are encouraged.
Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions are due 15 February 2007. Prior discussion with network representatives is encouraged but not required. Many networks have their own web page to assist in organizing panels. For more information see: http://ssha.org/call_papers/networks.shtml.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals may be expected by 1 May 2007. All participants on the 2007 SSHA Program will be required to pre-register for the conference and to join the SSHA (if not already members.)
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