The aim of the ESSHC is to bring together scholars who explain historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences.
The conference is characterized by a lively, small group exchange, rather than in formal plenary sessions. The conference is organized in many networks covering specific topics. It welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period.
The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks:
Africa ‑ Antiquity ‑ Asia ‑ Criminal Justice ‑ Culture ‑ Economics ‑ Education and Childhood – Elites and Forerunners ‑ Ethnicity and Migration ‑ Family and Demography – Global History – Health and Environment ‑ Labour ‑ Latin America – Material and Consumer Culture – Middle Ages ‑ Oral History – Politics, Citizenship and Nations – Religion ‑ Rural ‑ Sexuality – Social Inequality – Spatial and digital History – Science and Technology ‑ Theory – Urban ‑ Women and Gender
The European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History (IISH), an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences. Information on the IISH is available from its website at socialhistory.org.
The deadline for pre-registration of a paper or session proposal on our website is 15 April 2019.
The Thirteenth European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History in cooperation with Leiden University.
For further information and the online pre-registration form for the Conference please go to our website:esshc.iisg.amsterdam or contact the conference secretariat:
European Social Science History Conference 2020,
c/o International Institute of Social History
PO Box 2169
1000 CD Amsterdam
Netherlands
Telephone: +31.20.66 858 66
E mail: esshc@iisg.nl
Els Kuperus, Organiser ESSHC