From John.Komlos at econhist.vwl.uni-muenchen.de Tue Sep 14 14:50:55 2004 From: John.Komlos at econhist.vwl.uni-muenchen.de (John Komlos) Date: Wed Nov 16 18:04:33 2005 Subject: EHB: Biological Welfare and Inequality Message-ID: "Biological Welfare and Inequality in Preindustrial Times: A Political Economy Workshop" Call for Papers This workshop brings together political scientists who are interested in the long-run development of government structure and economic historians who have recently started to measure and analyze the biological welfare and inequality during the ancient, medieval and early modern period. We invite papers that contribute to the above mentioned areas. We are also very interested in methodological papers that contribute to the development of new methods using * archaeological sources on health, longevity and nutrition * indirect estimates based on relicts such as harnishes etc. * numerical heaping as human capital proxies * similar methods This workshop will be held at the YCIAS Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven, March 4-5, 2005 For each proposed paper, an abstract not exceeding 500 words together with the institutional affiliation and e-mail address of the authors should be sent by e-mail and in WORD format by November 31, 2004 to Prof. Joerg Baten Mohlstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen 49 7071 29-72985 497071 29-5119 joerg.baten@uni-tuebingen.de www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/wwl/baten.html or Prof. Frances McCall Rosenbluth Department of Political Science Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8301 frances.rosenbluth@yale.edu http://www.yale.edu/polisci/rosenbluth/index1.htm All submissions will be acknowledged. Notices of acceptance will be sent to corresponding authors by December 15th, 2004.