European Social Science History Conference

The ESSHC 2010 will take place in Ghent, Belgium at the Bijloke Site, from Tuesday 13 April up to and including Friday 16 April 2010. (Conference desk will open on Monday afternoon, April 12)

Call for papers

For the call for papers and information on registration, please click here.

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

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 is organized in a large number of networks which cover a variety of topics. It welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period. See the guidelines for papers and sessions. Read more about the ESSHC and past conferences.

Organization

The European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History (IISH), an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences. Information on the IISH is available from its website at http://www.iisg.nl.
At the IISH Els Hiemstra is responsible for the ESSHC.

Contact

ESSHC Conference Secretariat
c/o International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
P.O. Box 2169
1000 CD Amsterdam
the Netherlands
tel: + 31 20 66 858 66
fax: + 31 20 66 541 81
e-mail: esshc@iisg.nl