CFP: Soc Sci History Assoc Annual Meeting (15 Feb; 15-18 Nov; Chicago)

Note that this is pretty local and word on the street is that they are hoping for more papers on Asia.

SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION 2007 ANNUAL MEETING:
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS

History and the Social Sciences: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead

(This document is also available in Microsoft Word format
http://www.ssha.org/call_papers/SSHA_CFP_2007.doc.)

The Social Science History Association returns to The Palmer House
Hilton for its 32nd Annual Meeting, 15-18 November 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical
research in the US; its members share a common concern for
interdisciplinary approaches to historical problems. The organization's
long-standing interest in methodology also makes SSHA meetings exciting
places to explore new solutions to historical problems. We encourage the
participation of graduate students and recent PhDs as well as
more-established scholars, from a wide range of disciplines and departments.

The SSHA was founded amidst a burst of intellectual excitement about the
possibility of gaining new insights into history by utilizing social
scientific approaches and theories. At the same time the organization
reflected a rejection of the tendency in many social sciences to
privilege the present. Just as a rich palette of new research
perspectives was created in history by this movement, a whole new set of
possibilities was opened in other social science disciplines.

At the 2007 SSHA meeting in Chicago, a series of sessions will assess
how much progress has been made on these fronts in recent years and will
identify those areas where the greatest advances have taken place. Those
scholarly areas where progress has been most limited will also be
identified, and the obstacles to further advances examined in order to
plot paths to future development. Some panels will address very broad
questions, such as the state of social science history within the
contemporary historical profession and the role and status of historical
research within individual social science disciplines today. Others will
look at more limited areas, such as the state of the social scientific
study of gender history. Of interest, too, are the implications of the
rise of cultural history for the development of social scientific
approaches to history. Panels are encouraged to identify both those
forces within or across disciplines that have been slowing progress in
social science history and those approaches and studies that show the
most promise for overcoming them. As always, in addition to the sessions
organized around the special theme, other sessions will deal with the
full variety of topics of interest to SSHA members.

The SSHA program is developed through networks of people interested in
particular topics or approaches to interdisciplinary history. Paper and
session proposals should be submitted to the appropriate SSHA
network(s). Current networks, their representatives, and contact
information are listed on the reverse side. If you are not certain about
which network to send your proposal to, ask the representatives of the
network closest to your interests, or ask the program co-chairs, listed
beneath the call for papers at http://www.ssha.org/call_papers/.