Daniel Little
SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Baltimore MD 12-15 November 2015 Submission Deadline: 14 February 2015 "Pluralism and Community" We invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 40th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November …
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The European Network for Philosophy of Social Science will hold its next meeting as a joint conference with the North American counterpart, the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable. The meeting will occur at the University of Washington in Seattle May 8-10. Here is the call for papers. CALL FOR PAPERS 2015 JOINT MEETING: PHILOSOPHY OF …
This week marks the seventh anniversary of Understanding Society. That's 954 posts, almost a million words, and about a hundred posts in the past twelve months. The blog continues to serve as an enormously important part of my own intellectual life, permitting me to spend a few hours several times a week on topics of …
The annual meeting of the American Sociological Association is taking place in San Francisco this week, and it is a tsunami of ideas, methodologies, research strategies, sections, and fields of study. Begin with the program: it is vast. Over five thousand names are listed in the index as presenters, discussants, and chairs; there are 600 …
SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Toronto, Ontario 6-9 November 2014 Submission Deadline: 14 February 2014 "Inequalities: Politics, Policy, and the Past" http://www.ssha.org We invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 39th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November …
THE THIRD CONFERENCEOF THEEUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (ENPOSS) UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIAUNEDMADRID,SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2014 Keynote Speakers:Margaret Gilbert (University of California, Irvine)Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki) CALL FOR PAPERS: The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites contributions to its 3rd Conference to be held …
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This week celebrates six years of Understanding Society. This effort represents over 850 posts, on topics ranging from current debates in philosophy about causal powers to China's urban transformation to the conservative war on the poor, leading to nearly three million page views since the first post in 2007. I’m grateful to the communities of …
Here is an exciting RFP for researchers in psychology, philosophy, and religious studies who are interested in "understanding". Funding Opportunity Fordham University invites proposals for the “New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Understanding” funding initiative. Our aim is to encourage research from both new and established scholars working on projects related to understanding in its …
SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Chicago, IL 21-24 November 2013 Submission Deadline: 15 February 2013 "Organizing Powers" We invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 38th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 21-24, 2013 in Chicago. …
This week represents the end of the fifth year of the UnderstandingSociety blog. Writing the blog continues to be a source of great intellectual growth for me, not least because it has led me to read and discuss books and articles I wouldn't otherwise have encountered. Readers have often suggested sources I hadn't previously known about, …
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