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The Elites network of the ESSHC organizes conference sessions on the history of cultural, political, economic and social elites. At the 2006 ESSHC conference the Elites network organised 16 sessions. Papers from all over Europe and from the USA were numerous. The network hopes to host about the same number of sessions also at the next ESSHC conference in Lisbon, Portugal (27 Feb - 1 Mar 2008). To propose a paper or session, please see instructions below; the deadline for pre-registration to the conference is 1 April, 2007.
The network does not set any chronological limits for the topics of the papers. In the past, early modern themes have been frequently proposed. When the 2008 programme was discussed during the last, 2006 Amsterdam conference, it was agreed that more topics on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries should be encouraged for a more balanced overall view – without forgetting earlier centuries and the traditions of the network. However, a comparative approach between different historical case studies is favoured, as well as proposals open to multi-disciplinary discussion and joint-network sessions.
What is the ESSHC?
The European Social Science History Conferences are bi-annual gatherings of historians and social scientists of different fields. The latest conferences in Berlin 2004 and in Amsterdam 2006 were both attended by approximately 1300 scholars. The responsible organiser of the conference is the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
The seventh ESSHC will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February–1 March 2008. The conference consists of 28 more specialized, thematic networks, which arrange their own session programme. In a typical session of 120 minutes there are normally four paper presentations (20 min each), one discussant and one chair. It is also possible to organise round-table sessions. The conference fee is 200 € (if paid in advance, autumn 2007). Please visit the conference website http://www.iisg.nl/esshc for more information.
How to propose a session or a paper?
Proposals for complete sessions are welcome, but the network chairs encourage single paper contributions as well, since there are good opportunities to find a place for individual papers in some of the already proposed sessions (listed below), or in some other, forthcoming session proposals. (If you have an idea and a couple of interested speakers, please contact us.) Please note that the number of sessions that will actually be arranged depends on the number of proposed papers – in other words, some themes might drop out while others can pop up. Session suggestions with not just a title but also a short description are more likely to be arranged.
If you want to propose a paper, please contact the session organiser, if mentioned, or either of the two network chairs, Ms. Marja Vuorinen (marja.vuorinen@helsinki.fi) or Mr. Jouko Nurmiainen (jouko.nurmiainen@helsinki.fi). Allow us some time to respond; if we have not replied in a couple of days or a week, please mail again: in a world of spam it is always possible that messages from previously unknown addresses are accidentally deleted. We also ask you to use the word ESSHC in the message heading.
You also need to fill in the online pre-registration form on the conference webpage http://www.iisg.nl/esshc by 1 April 2007. All the conference participants must pre-register electronically in order to be included in the conference programme. During the pre-registration dialogue you will be asked to choose a conference network. In order to propose a paper to the Elites network session, you must choose the Elites from that list.
Also, if you are interested in attending the conference not only in order to present a paper, but also as a session chair or a discussant, please let us know. You can also pre-register yourself to the ESSHC discussant pool (more information available on the conference website).
Notifications of acceptation or rejection will be given in July 2007. Final registration and payment should be handled in October 2007 according to the guidelines that will be sent to the accepted participants by the ESSHC conference secretariat.
Proposed sessions
More detailed descriptions of session proposals are available on the page http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/elites.php
"Elites and progress in agriculture"
Organiser: Prof. Nadine Vivier
Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Email: Nadine.Vivier@univ-lemans.fr
"The country house, ca. 1700–1850: materiality, power and patronage"
Organiser: Prof. Jon Stobart
University of Northampton, UK
Email: jon.stobart@northampton.ac.uk
"Elites of the Eastern Bloc ‘Satellites’: coping with the collapsing communist system"
Organiser: Dr. Katalin Miklóssy
University of Helsinki, Finland
Email: katalin.miklossy@helsinki.fi
"The role of urban elites in the formation of new Scandinavia, ca. 1800–1830"
Organiser: Bård Frydenlund
University of Oslo, Norway
Email: bard.frydenlund@admin.uio.no
"Nobilities in Empires: Creole family networks, 16th–19th centuries"
Organiser: Prof. François-Joseph Ruggiu
Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France
Email: francois_joseph_ruggiu@hotmail.com
"The Culture of Difference (Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe)"
Organisers: Dr. Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA; Dr. Mikael Alm, Uppsala universitet, Sweden
Email: harsa1dp@cmich.edu; mikael.alm@hist.uu.se
"Urban elites in transition: features of urbanity, vectors of change, problems of methodology"
Organisers: Dr. Eva Schandevyl, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Dr. Hilde Greefs, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Email: eva.schandevyl@vub.ac.be; hilde.greefs@ua.ac.be
"Women as political actors in early modern Europe"
Organisers: Dr. Svante Norrhem and Dr. Åsa Karlsson-Sjögren
Umeå universitet, Sweden
Email: svante.norrhem@histstud.umu.se; asa.karlsson.sjogren@historia.umu.se
"Elites and nationalism in comparative perspective"
Organiser: Prof. José Antonio Sánchez Román
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Email: sanchezroman@ccinf.ucm.es
"Elites and corporativism in the Iberian World"
Organiser: Prof. José Antonio Sánchez Román
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Email: sanchezroman@ccinf.ucm.es
"Burghers and noblemen during the breaking-up of ancien régime in Europe, ca. 1770–1830"
Organiser: Dr. Charlotta Wolff
University of Helsinki, Finland
Email: charlotta.wolff@helsinki.fi
"Elite decadence: an image or an actuality?"
Organiser: Marja Vuorinen
University of Helsinki, Finland
Email: marja.vuorinen@helsinki.fi
"Elites, politics and the idea of progress from the 18th to the 21st century"
Organiser: Jouko Nurmiainen
University of Helsinki, Finland
Email: jouko.nurmiainen@helsinki.fi
"Imagining power: dominance, control and governance over the masses"
Organisers: Jouko Nurmiainen & Marja Vuorinen
"Elites and Middle Ages"
Organisers: Jouko Nurmiainen & Marja Vuorinen
"Round-table Session on Elite Theory and Historiography"
Organisers: Jouko Nurmiainen & Marja Vuorinen
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