The Social Science History Association conference for 2009

Call for paper and session proposals

The Social Science History Association conference for 2009 will be held in Long Beach, California on the historical Queen Mary ocean liner. The conference theme is "Agency and Action."

SSHA draws submissions of papers and panels through networks organized by topic or field. The economic network chairs are Anne McCants (amccants@mit.edu), Tim Leunig (T.Leunig@lse.ac.uk), and Peter B Meyer (pbmeyer@econterms.net). We invite submissions of papers or (preferably) full panels by March 1, 2009. We are also interested to hear from specialists who are willing to volunteer to be chairs or discussants, and on what topics. For information on the spectrum of SSHA networks see http://www.ssha.org/networks, and for the conference-wide call for papers, see http://www.ssha.org/SSHA%202009%20CFP.doc

The economics network meeting at the November 2008 meetings generated numerous ideas for panel sessions, many of which are related to the conference theme of "Agency and Action" or the local surroundings. Other submissions related to social science history which can be incorporated into interdisciplinary panels are also welcome. Please contact network the chairs with any questions.

Submissions of either individual papers or whole sessions are welcome. Please submit at the SSHA.org web page, link on the button for conference submissions (not active yet as of January 6, 2009) and upload an abstract, title, contact information, and designate a network (or networks) where your paper is likely to fit. You are free to email us with questions, ideas, etc. but the actual submission is all self-serve.

Topic areas identified at our 2008 Network meeting include:

1. Financial crashes and depressions
2. Vacations and holidays
3. Commerce, shipping, or immigration, especially to and from Asia or Latin America.
4. Panels discussing new books of interest to the network.
5. Links to human biology, perhaps co-sponsored with anthropologists at SSHA.
6. The California Gold Rush, 160 years ago, and/or analogues to it.
7. Land surveys and their effects, a panel which could be co-sponsored with the many historical geographers who come to SSHA.
8. Ecological history and the environment, again perhaps with the geographers.