9-11 May, 1996
Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands
European Social Science History Conference
The International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) will organize the first
European Social Science History Conference in May 1996. Modelled on the conferences of the
American Social Science History Association (and in cooperation with this Association), the
conference aims to bring together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the
methods of the social sciences every two years. The aim is to have a gathering characterized by a
lively exchange in a number of small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. Workshops will
discuss themes selected by network chairs.
The conference will be held from May 9-11 1996, in the Leeuwenhorst Congress Centre in
Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. The congress centre is located 30 minutes by car from
Amsterdam, in the middle of the bulb region, a sight well worth seeing during the month of
May.
The conference will consist of a large number of sessions, organized in networks, which will discuss
themes selected by the networks chairs. The networks will convene during the conference, but the
IISH is planning to ask the networks to organize themselves on a more permanent basis as an
international network of scholars in their own specialized field. Where international networks already
exist, they will be asked to participate in the conference. The networks will continue to function in
the inter-conference period. The following networks will be represented at the conference:
antiquity; criminal justice; culture; economics; education; environment; ethnicity; family/demography;
geography; health; identity; labour; methods; middle ages; migration; nations and nation-building;
political movements; political systems; religion; rural; social inequality; states and societies;
technology; theory; urban; women/gender.
Papers will be presented in panel sessions, consisting of three or four presentations of 15 minutes each
with one discussant, thus leaving 30 minutes for discussion. Round tables about a certain issue and
'meet the author' are encouraged.
For more information:
ESSHC
c/o Caos
W.G. Plein 475
1054 SH Amsterdam
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