Call for Papers/Abstracts: Race/Ethnicity section for the Social
Science History Association (SSHA)
We serve as co-chairs of the Race/Ethnicity section for the Social Science History Association (SSHA). The meeting is scheduled to take place in Vancouver, Canada, November 1-4, 2012. Our theme this year is "Histories of Capitalism."
Our main goal is to structure sessions so that they explicitly draw on an interdisciplinary group of scholars who hail from different institutions. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1
2011. Note, all SSHA requires at this point is an abstract. You can find more information at: http://www.ssha.org/, including the Call for Papers.
We are hoping to put together a number of sessions related to the conference site that were discussed at the planning meeting:
- Indigenous Communities, Land Rights and Natural Resources
- The Rise and Decline of Multiculturalism and/or Cosmopolitanism
- Race and Collective Violence
- Anti-Asian Discrimination and Asian Integration on the West Coast
- The Underground Railroad
- Racialized Immigration Policy
- Bilingualism and Racialized Language Struggles
- Conflicts and Contradictions in Anglo-French Conceptions of Race
- Multiracial Identities and Racial Boundaries in Historical Perspective
- Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in Contemporary America
- Race and Capitalism
- Race and Eugenics
You are welcome to submit papers regarding any of these topics, or on a topic relating to your own research. If you are interested in putting together an entire session, let us know and we would be happy to provide you with details as to how to do this. Feel free to forward this call widely, particularly to graduate students (there is funding available for graduate students to travel to the conference which can be found at http://www.ssha.org/grants).
We also had three wonderful Author Meets Critics panels at the 2011 session and are looking to "recreate the magic" this year in Vancouver. So if you have read any great books that you would like to seen discussed and meet the author, please let us know. Or if you would just like to volunteer to be a critic for books to be decided within the next month, please let us know.
Finally, please feel free to check our Facebook page, which you can find by searching for "Race/Ethnicity Network - Social Science History Association."
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email:
mfweiner@holycross.edu or e-onasch@u.northwestern.edu
Sincerely,
Melissa Weiner
Elizabeth Onasch
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