ESSHC 2008
Call for Papers
The International Institute for Social History will organize the Seventh European Social Science History conference at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February - 1 March 2008.
The aim of the ESSHC is 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 language is English. The conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in 28 networks, which cover a certain topic: 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, Citizenship and Nations; Religion; Rural; Sexuality; Social Inequality; Technology; Theory; Urban; Women and Gender; World History.
Deadline for paper and session proposals is 1 April 2007.
Pre-registration
All conference participants are required to register. When you have pre-registered we will send you information on the final registration, payment, and accomodation in the Fall of 2007. Below, you will find information on how to register a paper proposal, a session proposal, as chair or discussant or as spectator and on the new features on this website: The chair and discussant pool and the personal page.
Full fee / Euro 200 / Euro 250
One day attendance / Euro 100 / Euro 125
Special (MA) student fee / Euro 50
How to propose a paper
Fill out the web pre-registration form. Include and abstract of your paper (100-500 words). If you have trouble registering through the Internet, please contact the Conference Secretariat ( ) for an e-mail or paper form. Abstracts that are sent in through the web pre-registration form will appear in the programme published on the website in September 2007. Please send in your form as soon as possible, but before 1 April 2007 at the latest. No individual should present more than one paper. However, every participant can act as chair or commentator/discussant in another session in addition to presenting a paper.
Notification of acceptances or rejections will occur by July 2007. All participants are required to handle their final registration and payment before 1 November 2007 (a notification will be send in September of 2007).
How to propose a session
Gather three or four speakers who each will present a paper on a related topic, a commentator who will start the discussion with a prepared comment on the papers and a chair. The roles of session organizer, chair and commentator can be fulfilled by the same or different persons. Confirm participation and arrange with these individuals the (date of) exchange of papers and the way the session will be conducted. If possible, have one or more substitute speakers at hand in case of withdrawal of one of the speakers. Submit the proposal for a session on the pre-registration form for each individual speaker. The proposed session title can be filled in each form. Additional information on the proposed session can be filled in (by the session organizer(s) only) in the extra session field. The deadline is 1 April 2007 but please send in your form as early as possible. Contact speakers regularly, to make sure that the preparation of the session is progressing as you would want it to be.
Register as chair or discussant for an organized session
Fill in your personal and address information in the pre-registration form, click next and select that you would like to present a paper and/or session. Fill in chair and/or discussant in the box for paper title and the session title in the abstract field and select the network.
Register as listener
Fill in the personal and address information in the pre-registration form, click next and select that you would like to register as spectator.