CFP:Macrohistorical Dynamics, SSHA,

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Social Science History Association
November 13-16, 2003, Baltimore
Macrohistorical Dynamics Network

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of
the 28th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association,
November 13-16, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland.  For more information on
the meeting, please refer to the SSHA website:
http://www.ssha.org/ssha2003/. The members of the Social Science History
Association share a common interest in interdisciplinary and systematic
approaches to historical research. 

Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) is an interdisciplinary social science
research field that focuses on problems of large-scale, comparative
historical inquiry.  Contributors to the field have brought perspective
on a wide variety of problem areas, including macro- and historical
sociology; world history; social evolutionism; world-system analysis;
comparative study of civilizations; philosophy of history; and studies
of long-term socio-ecological, technological, demographic, cultural, and
political trends and transformations.  More detailed information on MHD
is available at the SSHA website.

Since its beginning in 1997 such distinguished scholars as A.F. Frank,
R. Carneiro, G. Modelski, J. Goudsblom, A. Stinchcombe, R. Collins, S.
Sanderson, M. Mann, C. Chase-Dann, and T. Hall have taken  part in MHD
panels, and we hope that some of them will participate in the MHD
network in Baltimore in 2003.

We will have four panels but may also be able to place additional papers
through co-sponsorship with other networks (for example, with
History/Methods, Politics, Culture, State-Society, Historical Geography,
etc.).

By way of example, we propose some preliminary titles of possible
panels.  These topics illustrate some of the general themes of
Macrohistorical Dynamics.

· Comparative Methods in Macrohistory

· Large-scale historical explanation: climate, population, geography

· Cultural and National Identities in Large-scale Historical Change

· Theory in Macro-history: Are There Working Macrosociological Theories?

· Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Geoculture: Bridging Paradigms

· Problems of Macro-,Meso-, Micro- in Historical Explanations

· Social Structures and Human Agency in History

· Spatial Analysis of Large-scale Change

· Social Evolution and Systemic Transformations in World History

· What Can Sociobiology Offer the Sociologist and Historian?

The list of MHD panel themes is open and you are invited to propose
other panel topics.  However, if a given theme is relevant to your paper
submission, please indicate this so we can prepare the most constructive
groupings for the panels.

The deadline for paper and/or panel submissions is March 1, 2003.

SSHA requests that submissions be made by means of Web applications.
Paper title, brief abstract, and contact information should be submitted
on the site

http://www.ssha.org/ssha2003/

where the general SSHA-2003 call for papers is also available.

NOTE: There is an SSHA rule concerning book sessions.  For a session on
one book to proceed, the author (or at least one of multiple authors)
MUST be present. Proposals for book sessions should only be submitted if
there is high confidence that the author will be able to travel to
Baltimore November 13-16, 2003.

SSHA has set up a mechanism for networks to share papers, so even if you
have a solo paper, send the idea along.  It is possible and useful to
mark a paper not only by the MHD network, but also by some other
co-sponsoring networks-for example, Theory/Methods, Historical
Geography, Politics, Culture, Economics, etc.  Co-sponsored panels and
papers are being encouraged by the SSHA Program Commitee as a means of
broadening the visibility of the various networks.

Please use the SSHA submission site (find the address above) and feel
free to write to us if something is unclear.

Prof. Daniel Little
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Office of the Chancellor
Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491
(313)593-5500 Fax (313) 593-5204
E-mail: delittle@umd.umich.edu
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Nikolai S. Rozov, PhD, Dr.Sc. Professor of Philosophy
E-MAIL: rozov@nsu.ru   FAX: 7-3832-397101
ADDRESS: Philosophy Dept. Novosibirsk State University
630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, RUSSIA