EH.N: CfP: Sixth World Congress of Cliometrics

[Ann Carlos]

The Sixth World Congress of Cliometrics will be 
held from Thursday July 17 through Sunday July 
20, 2008 at the Dalkeith Palace located near 
Edinburgh, Scotland. The Program Committee will 
put together an international program from the 
proposals submitted to the conference. Proposals 
are due November 15, 2007 and should be submitted 
via the form on the Congress web site at 
http://www.eh.net/Clio/WCC6/proposal_submission_form.php. 
The program will be posted on the Congress web 
site, http://www.eh.net/clio/WCC6/content.html, 
and the applicants will be informed in January 
2008. If your paper is accepted for presentation, 
you are committing to sending a 22 page version 
of your paper to Program Committee no later than 
March 11, 2008.

All members of sponsoring organizations are 
invited to attend. Advance registration will be 
open January 1, 2008. To receive the Congress 
book in a timely fashion, those interested in 
attending must register for the conference by 
March 1, 2008.

As with the Annual Cliometrics Conference and the 
previous World Congresses, papers will be 
available in the Congress Book, sent to all 
participants. Sessions will be held in the 
traditional Cliometrics Conference format. Rather 
than formal presentations, authors will provide a 
brief five-minute introduction of the paper and 
then the floor will be open for discussion by the 
session participants. Thus, participants will be 
expected to have read the papers when they attend 
the sessions.

Accommodations will be available at Dalkeith 
Palace, the University of Edinburgh and local 
hotels. Complete information about registration 
and lodging, and the Congress Registration Form 
will be announced through the EH.NET list serves 
and on the Congress website later this year. 
Applicants will be encouraged to use the 
registration form on the Congress web site. 
However, they will also be able to submit the 
required information via e-mail, fax or post.

A limited number of Travel Grants will be 
available for Economic History Ph.D. students who 
would like to attend the Sixth World Congress. 
The U.S. National Science Foundation has provided 
funds through the Cliometrics Conference grant to 
help Ph.D. students defray travel and lodging 
expenses for the conference. Students from all 
countries are eligible for the grants.. Students 
who receive the grants must be a member of one of 
the sponsoring organizations.

Graduate students interested in applying for the 
grants must submit a paper proposal. When 
submitting the proposal, follow the link to the 
Travel Grant Application Form.  Students whose 
proposals are accepted for presentation will 
receive first priority. Students whose proposals 
are not accepted for presentation are also 
eligible, funding permitting. In 2004 travel 
grants were awarded to nearly 20 Ph.D. students 
in economic history.

Additionally, the British Academy has made 
available funds to support five awards of £500 
for early career Cliometricians at the 2008 
Congress who will be presenting a paper at the 
Congress and received their PhD within the last 
five years. Junior colleagues from all countries 
are eligible for these awards, and those 
interested in applying should follow the links to 
the Early Career Travel Grant Application Form.