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CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

The International Committee of Historical Sciences is now planning its 19th International Congress to be held in Oslo, August 6-13, 2000.

The American Historical Association's Committee on International Activities invites potential American participants to send in proposals according to the themes listed below. These should be about two hundred words in length and accompanied by a _curriculum vita_. Proposals for whole panels should include historians from other countries as well. Individual paper proposals, if accepted, will be forwarded to a designated organizer, responsible for composing a coherent panel on the specific theme.

BE SURE TO NAME THE THEME FOR WHICH YOU ARE PROPOSING YOUR CONTRIBUTION.

The Congress wishes to encourage communication and debate among historians of different countries. To that end, its procedure will be to enhance the time for discussion and diminish that of presentation. Specifically, participants will be expected to send a half page summary of their thesis to other panel participants by January, 2000, and to make their fully written papers available for distribution at the beginning of the conference. The goal is to engage panelists and audience as much as possible. In all, 500 contributions will be chosen; 4,000 people are expected to attend.

THEMES

Three major themes will each occupy a full day.
I. Perspectives on global history: concepts and methodology.
   A. Is global history possible?
   B. Cultural encounters between continents over the centuries.
II. Millennium, time and history
   A. The construction and division of time: periodization and chronology.
   B. Eschatology, millenarian movements and visions of the future.
III. The uses and mis-uses of history and the responsibility of the historian
     in past times.

Twenty specialized themes will occupy a half day each, some running concurrently.

- The media revolution and historical research.
- Memory and collective identity.  How do societies construct and
  administer their past?
- Scientific discoveries: the transmission and reception of scientific
  learning.
- The theory and practice of justice: law, norms, deviance.
- Muslim societies over the centuries.
- Religion and gender.
- Christian missions, modernization, colonization and decolonization.
- Generations and inter-generational conflicts.
- Slavery and other forms of unfree labor.
- Demography: Bridging family and population; a comparison of societies
  in Asia and Europe.
- Regions and regionalisation: subnational and transnational entities.
- Modes of communication and information from Antiquity to the present.
- Masculinity as practice and representation.
- Totalitarianism and dictatorship.
- Changing boundaries and definitions of work over time and space.
- Minority cultures in relation to dominant majorities.
- Changing approaches to the Pacific world.
- Modernity and tradition in Latin America.
- New developments in environmental history.
- Political force and mass death in pre-modern and modern societies.

Twenty-five Roundtables will be limited to four people engaged in lively debate on the following themes:

- The teaching of history: new techniques, textbooks, and the place of history
  in the curriculum.
- Orientalist historians and the writing of Arab history.
- Voyages and exploration in the North Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the
  17th century.
- Encounters and confrontations between European and non-European legal
  and judicial systems.
- Television news reports as sources for history.
- What is a human being? Definitions of "the human" over the centuries.
- Children and war.
- Gay and lesbian history.
- Family, marriage and property rights.
- Nobility in comparative perspective.
- Underground economies.
- Crime and criminality: new historical perspectives.
- Gender, race, xenophobia and nationalism.
- Athens and Rome in the culture and construction of Europe.
- The Baltic area in history.
- China and the world in the 18th century.
- The opening of archives and the history of communism (1990-2000).
- Propaganda and the images of power.
- The Cold War revisited: a half-century of historical writing.
- Tourism and history.
- Visions of peace, practices of peace.
- Central Europe: unity and diversity.
- The individual and the notion of private life.
- Historical journals between "generalist" approach and extreme
  specialization.

THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS MARCH 31, 1998.

Send to:

Prof. Renate Bridenthal
Ph.D. Program in History
The Graduate School and University Center
The City University of New York
33 West 42 Street
New York, NY 10036-8099

Submitted by The AHA Committee on International Historical Activities. Renate Bridenthal (Chair), Jeremy Adams, Charles D. Smith, Richard L. Kagan, Stefan Tanaka, Sandria B. Freitag, AHA ex officio.


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