January 18 Deadline for May 2012 Cliometrics Conference

2012 Annual Cliometrics Conference

The annual Cliometrics Conference in 2012 will be held on the weekend of Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20 at Westward Look, Tucson, Arizona and hosted by the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation.

The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history. Typically, twelve papers are selected for presentation and discussion. These are sent out to all conference participants in advance. Each paper is a single session, in which authors have five minutes to make an opening statement and the rest of the hour session is devoted to discussion among all conference participants. All participants are required to read all papers and to attend the entire conference. At least one author must be a member of the Cliometrics Society. For membership information contact Michael Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu.

The deadline to submit a paper proposal or a request to attend the conference is Wednesday, 18 January 2012. Proposals and requests to attend the conference will be accepted beginning Friday, 18 November 2011. We can only invite a limited number of participants, so it is important to be prompt. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary proposals and participants. Those wishing to present a paper should provide an abstract and a 3-5 page summary of the proposed paper. In choosing papers and participants, the host committee will assign priority to those who have not attended recently or who have never attended. Graduate students wishing to attend or submit a paper proposal should also obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor. Those wishing to present papers or attend the conference should provide their addresses, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. Those whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by 14 February 2012 and are expected to provide a completed draft of the paper in the proper format for the conference volume no later than 13 March 2012.

We STRONGLY PREFER that applicants submit their materials via the web at the following site:
http://eh.net/clio/conferences/prop11.html

Proposals may also be e-mailed to clioconf@hawaii.edu or via snail mail to Cliometrics Conference Administrator, University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, 2424 Maile Way, Rm 540, Honolulu, HI, 96822 USA (e-mail: shihling@hawaii.edu) or faxed in care of Shih-Ling Chang at 808-956-4347.