The politics network of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) invites submissions for papers on topics relating to ethnicity and politics to be presented at the association's annual meeting, to be held this year in Portland, Oregon on Nov. 3-6, 2005.

Further information about the conference appears at http://www.ssha.org/ssha2005/index.html. All proposed sessions or papers should be submitted electronically via that website. Please designate the politics network as your "first choice" network. Panels should be interdisciplinary, with presenters and commentators representing at least two disciplines as well as different institutions. The deadline for proposing individual papers is Feb. 2, 2005 and that for entire sessions Feb. 16, 2005. The program committee hopes to announce acceptances by April 29, 2005. Please also note that panel participants must pre-register for the conference and join the SSHA in order to appear on the program. Inquiries about the politics network or possible sessions or topics can be directed to Liette Gidlow at the following e-mail address.