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- Subject: Call for Papers: 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences
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- Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:02:55 GMT
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- CALL FOR PAPERS: 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HISTORICAL
- SCIENCES
-
- In 1995, the Canadian Historical Association will host the 18th
- International Congress of Historical Sciences. With headquarters
- in Paris and Geneva, the Comite International des Sciences
- Historiques (CISH)/International Committee of Historical Sciences
- holds a Congress every five years; the last meetings were held in
- Madrid (1990) and Stuttgart (1985). Montreal will represent only
- the second time that the Congress has been held outside Europe
- (San Francisco 1975). Some 3,000 historians are expected to
- attend the sessions, which will be held in the Montreal
- Convention Centre and the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. The
- official languages will be French and English with simultaneous
- translation being provided for plenary sessions.
-
- Since 1990 two Canadian committees have been preparing for the
- Congress. A programme committee proposed themes and lobbied for
- their acceptance; an organization committee has worked on
- logistics (space, transportation, accommodation, translation,
- book displays, publication of the Acts of the Congress, and the
- social events and field trips that form part of the Congress).
- The organizers are giving particular emphasis to facilitating
- intellectual and social exchange among the participants. Besides
- sponsorship by the CHA, the Congress anticipates strong support
- from the Canadian and Quebec governments as well as UNESCO and
- other international agencies.
-
- The Montreal Congress represents a unique occasion for historians
- in Canada to present their work and to meet with historians from
- around the world. As well as European and North American
- historians, strong delegations are expected from Asia and Latin
- America. Icelandic historians have expressed a particular
- interest in meeting Canadian historians, while new members of
- CISH such as the Association of Vietnamese Historians will be
- present; changing political structures in regions such as Eastern
- Europe will offer a new dynamic to the Montreal Congress.
- Graduate students from around the world will be encouraged to
- attend.
-
- Sessions at the Congress are divided into three main sections: 1.
- MAJOR THEMES form the subject of large sessions lasting a full
- day. In each session some ten to twenty papers are usually
- summarized by the chair with a view to leaving maximum time for
- discussion among presenters and participants. Major themes are:
- Nations, Peoples and State forms; Women, Men, and Historical
- Change--the impact of Gender History on Historical Practice; and
- People in Diaspora. 2. SPECIALIZED THEME sessions, in which the
- paper is usually summarized by the paper's author, are held in
- three-hour slots. Sixteen themes have been defined at this point:
- Power and Liberty--Historical Research and Publication;
- Fictionality, Narrativity, Objectivity (History and Literature);
- Decline as an Historical Concept; Oral History; Rethinking
- Scientific Revolutions; Religious Movements--proselytization,
- intolerance, liberty; Nordicity--Peoples and Societies; Old Age
- and Aging; Childhood in History; The Fall of Empires in
- Comparative Perspective; War and Culture; Police, Penal and
- Judicial History; Development of Underdevelopment--Experience of
- the Third World; Economy and Ecology--Friends or Enemies;
- Transport in Pre-Industrial Societies; Banking and its Influence
- on Commercial and Industrial Capitalism in Europe, the Americas,
- and Asia from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. 3. ROUND
- TABLES/WORKSHOPS should relate to the major and specialized
- themes proposed for the Congress. They must be organized more
- fully, including title, brief synopsis of the issues, and a
- preliminary list of participants (both Canadian and non-Canadian)
- and short cv's. Selection of the Round Table/Workshop sessions
- will be made by the international organizers. 4. OTHER SESSIONS;
- the twenty-three International Commissions and eighteen Internal
- Organizations of the CISH will hold their meetings during the
- Congress. These meetings are organized by the Commissions and
- Internal Organizations themselves.
-
- Proposals of papers are welcomed for the major theme, specialized
- theme and round-table sessions. The Canadian programme committee
- will review submissions emanating from Canada, will forward its
- suggestions for the Canadian delegation to the international
- organizers and chairs of sessions, and will lobby for the
- strongest possible Canadian presence. The chairs of individual
- sessions are responsible for choosing participants from
- propositions forwarded by national committees such as Canada. If
- your paper is accepted, you will be contacted by the interna-
- tional organizer of that particular session giving you additional
- information.
-
- Paper proposals should include name, address, phone, fax,
- institutional affiliation and status, theme for which the paper
- is proposed, title of paper and a one paragraph description of
- the proposal, and a one-paragraph summary of your cv and interest
- in the theme. The entire proposal should not exceed one page.
- Round table/ workshop proposals should follow the same format and
- may be up to two pages. PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 31
- JANUARY, 1993. Proposals and questions concerning the PROGRAMME
- should be directed to: Brian Young, Chair, Canadian Programme
- Committee of CISH, History Department, McGill University, 855
- Sherbrooke West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 (Tel: 514-398-7393;
- FAX: 514-398-8365). Matters concerning ORGANIZATION of the
- Congress should be addressed to: Jean-Claude Robert, Chair,
- Organization Committee of CISH, Departement d'histoire,
- Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succ. "A," Montreal,
- Quebec H3C 3P8 (tel: 514-987-8433; FAX: 514-987-7813).
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