SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS
Macrohistorical Dynamics Network
41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
Chicago IL 17-20 November 2016
Submission Deadline: 20 February 2016
"Knowledge in an Interdisciplinary World"
We
invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 41th
annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 17-20, 2016
in Chicago. For more
information on the meeting as well as the call for proposals, please refer to
the SSHA website:
Here is
the call for proposals:
The
deadline for paper and/or panel submissions is February
20, 2016.
The members
of the Social Science History Association share a common interest in
interdisciplinary and systematic approaches to historical research, and many of
us find the SSHA one of the most stimulating conferences that we attend.
The thematic topic of the 2016 annual meeting is “Knowledge in an Interdisciplinary World” – a
theme that works very well with the research interests of many of the scholars
involved in the Macrohistorical Dynamics network.
Macrohistorical
Dynamics (MHD) is an interdisciplinary social science research field that
focuses on problems of large-scale, comparative historical
inquiry. Contributors to the field have brought perspective on a wide
variety of problem areas, including macro- and historical sociology; comparative
histories; world history; world-system analysis; comparative study of
civilizations; philosophy of history; and studies of long-term
socio-ecological, technological, demographic, cultural, and political trends
and transformations. The
Macrohistorical Dynamics network brings a rigorous perspective to bear on
questions having to do with “large” history.
Possible
topics that illustrate some of the general themes of Macrohistorical Dynamics
include …
- Comparative Methods in
Macrohistory
- Large-scale historical
causes: climate, population, geography
- Cultural and National
Identities in Large-scale Historical Change
- Theory in Macro-history:
Are There Successful Macrosociological Theories?
- Macro-, Meso-, Micro- in
Historical Explanations
- Empires and Peoples
- Globalization and World
Cities
- Social Evolution and
Systemic Transformations in World History
The list
of MHD panel themes for 2016 is open, and we encourage you to submit proposals
for paper topics or panel themes.
The MHD
network will be able to host at least six panels in 2016 and will also be able
to place additional papers through co-sponsorship with other networks (for
example, with History/Methods, Politics, Culture, State-Society, Historical
Geography, etc.).
SSHA requests that submissions be made by
means of its web conference management system. Paper title, brief abstract, and
contact information should be submitted on the site www.ssha.org, where the
general SSHA 2016 call for papers is also available. (If you haven’t used the system
previously you will need to create an account, which is a very simple
process.) The direct link
for submissions is now open for submissions:
SSHA has
set up a mechanism for networks to share papers, so even if you have a solo
paper, send the idea along. It
is possible and useful to identify a paper not only by the MHD network, but
also by some other co-sponsoring networks--for example, Theory/Methods,
Historical Geography, Politics, Culture, Economics, etc. Co-sponsored panels and papers are
encouraged by the SSHA Program Committee as a means of broadening the
visibility of the various networks.
NOTE: There is an SSHA rule concerning book sessions. For a book session to proceed, the author (or at least one of multiple authors) MUST be present. Proposals for book sessions should only be submitted if there is high confidence that the author will be able to travel to Chicago November 17-20, 2016.
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