EH.N: CfP: Economics Network at the 2009 Social Science History Association Meetings in Long Beach, CA

[amccants at MIT.EDU]

			ECONOMICS NETWORK
		Call for paper and session proposals

The Social Science History Association conference for 2009 will be held 
in Long Beach, California on the historical Queen Mary ocean liner. The 
conference theme is “Agency and Action.”

SSHA draws submissions of papers and panels through networks organized 
by topic or field. The economic network chairs are Anne McCants 
(amccants at mit.edu), Tim Leunig (T.Leunig at lse.ac.uk), and Peter B Meyer 
(pbmeyer at econterms.net). We invite submissions of papers or (preferably) 
full panels by March 1, 2009. We are also interested to hear from 
specialists who are willing to volunteer to be chairs or discussants, 
and on what topics. For information on the spectrum of SSHA networks see 
http://www.ssha.org/networks, and for the conference-wide call for 
papers, see http://www.ssha.org/SSHA%202009%20CFP.doc

The economics network meeting at the November 2008 meetings generated 
numerous ideas for panel sessions, many of which are related to the 
conference theme of "Agency and Action" or the local surroundings. Other 
submissions related to social science history which can be incorporated 
into interdisciplinary panels are also welcome. Please contact network 
the chairs with any questions.

Submissions of either individual papers or whole sessions are welcome. 
Please submit at the SSHA.org web page, link on the button for 
conference submissions (not active yet as of January 6, 2009) and upload 
an abstract, title, contact information, and designate a network (or 
networks) where your paper is likely to fit.  You are free to email us 
with questions, ideas, etc. but the actual submission is all self-serve.

Topic areas identified at our 2008 Network meeting include:

1) Financial crashes and depressions

2) Vacations and holidays

3) Commerce, shipping, or immigration, especially to and from Asia or 
Latin America.

4) Panels discussing new books of interest to the network.

5) Links to human biology, perhaps co-sponsored with anthropologists at 
SSHA.

6) The California Gold Rush, 160 years ago, and/or analogues to it.

7) Land surveys and their effects, a panel which could be co-sponsored 
with the many historical geographers who come to SSHA.

8) Ecological history and the environment, again perhaps with the 
geographers.