HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY AT THE SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION
The 28th Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2003, Baltimore, Maryland

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1, 2003

This year's Social Science History Association conference will be held at the Wyndham-Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland on November 13-16. The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the U.S. We encourage the participation of graduate students and recent Ph.D.s, as well as more established scholars, from a wide range of disciplines and departments.

The SSHA's historical geography network covers all aspects of research into historical geography. Recent areas of interest include:

• The social and cultural geography of national and ethnic identities;
• urban and rural geographies;
• historical ecologies;
• historical applications of GIS for visualization and spatial analysis
• methods for digital historical geography--gazetteers, interoperability solutions, remote sensing, etc.
• historical geographies of labor migration and industrial development
• historical geography and cultural heritage preservation;
• trade, travel, and transnational exchange
• geography, demography, and censuses

At the meeting in Baltimore, we would like to encourage the submission of papers and panels on aspects of urban history, race and residence, historical geography in the classroom, and geostatistics, as well as any and all other topics connected to historical geography in its many varieties.

For the conference we would welcome complete sessions or individual papers on any aspect of historical geography. Sessions typically include three or four research papers or roundtable participants, a chair, and one or two discussants. Submission of sessions or papers can be done online however we would welcome the chance to discuss proposals before they are submitted.

For more information on the SSHA's historical geography network see our website. The SSHA's main site where a full call for papers can be found and sessionscan be submitted is at: http://ssha.org/.

For further information or to discuss a session please contact either of the network chairs: Robert Schwartz or Ruth Mostern (ruth@socrates.Berkeley.edu).