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SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History AssociationChicago IL 17-20 November 2016Submission Deadline: 20 February 2016 We invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 41th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 17-20, 2016 in Chicago. For more information on the …
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The 40th annual meeting of SSHA took place in Baltimore this weekend. The Social Science History Association is an especially rewarding academic meeting for scholars interested in the intersection between historical processes and social scientific research tools and explanations. The rationale for the organization is to provide a venue for bringing together the study of specific …
This week marks the end of the eighth year of Understanding Society. This year passed the 1000 mark — the blog is now up to 1,029 posts, or well over one million words. The blog continues to be a very good venue for me for developing and sharing ideas about the foundations of the social sciences …
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 …
