CALL FOR PAPERS

8th European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 13-16 April 2010

The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 1 May 2009.

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.

The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of

networks: Africa Antiquity Asia Criminal Justice Culture Economics

Education and Childhood Elites Ethnicity and Migration Family

and Demography Geography Health – History and Computing Labour

Latin America – Material and Consumer Culture – Middle Ages Oral

History – Politics – Religion Rural Sexuality – Social Inequality

Technology Theory – Urban Women and Gender – World History

The Conference fee will be Euro 200 for participants who pay in advance, Euro 250 for participants who pay at the conference. One- day attendance will be Euro 100 for participants who pay in advance, and Euro 125 for participants who pay at the conference. There is a special fee for MA students of Euro 50.

The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 1 May 2009.

The European Social Science History Conference 2010 is organized by the International Institute of Social History in co-operation with local partners:

* Amsab, Institute of Social History

* Hogeschool Gent (Ghent Polytechnic)

* Muziekcentrum De Bijloke (Music Center De Bijloke)

* STAM, Stadsmuseum Gent (Ghent City Museum)

For further information and the pre-registration form for the Conference please go to the Conference Internet site at http://www.iisg.nl/esshc <http://www.iisg.nl/esshc> or contact the conference secretariat:

European Social Science History Conference 2010, c/o International Institute of Social History

PO Box 2169

1000 CD Amsterdam

Netherlands

Telephone: +31.20.66 858 66

Fax: +31.20.66 541 81

E mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>