# CALL FOR PAPERS

## THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF RECENT SOCIAL SCIENCE
(HISRESS)

### London School of Economics and Political Science,

3-4 June 2016

www.hisress.org

This two-day conference will bring together researchers working on the
history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for
the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war
social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics,
psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields
like area studies, communication studies, history, international
relations, law and linguistics. We are especially eager to receive
submissions that treat themes, topics, and events that span the history
of individual disciplines.

The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and
conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the
social sciences. A number of monographs, edited collections, special
journal issues, and gatherings at the École normale supérieure de
Cachan, Duke University, the London School of Economics, New York
University, the University of Toronto and elsewhere testify to a growing
interest in the developments spanning the social sciences in the early,
late, and post-Cold War periods. Most history of social science
scholarship, however, remains focused on the 19th and early 20th
centuries, and attuned to the histories of individual disciplines.
Though each of the major social science fields now has a community of
disciplinary historians, research explicitly concerned with
cross-disciplinary topics remains comparatively rare. The purpose of the
conference is to further encourage the limited but fruitful
cross-disciplinary conversations of recent years.

Submissions are welcome in areas such as:

- The uptake of social science concepts and figures in wider
intellectual and popular discourses
- Comparative institutional histories of departments and programs
- Border disputes and boundary work between disciplines as well as
academic cultures
- Themes and concepts developed in the history and sociology of natural
and physical science, reconceptualized for the social science context
- Professional and applied training programs and schools, and the
quasi-disciplinary fields (like business administration) that typically
housed them
- The role of social science in post-colonial state-building governance
- Social science adaptations to the changing media landscape
- The role and prominence of disciplinary memory in a comparative
context

The two-day conference, hosted by the Centre for Philosophy of Natural
and Social Science at the London School of Economics, will be organized
as a series of one-hour, single-paper sessions attended by all
participants. Ample time will be set aside for intellectual exchange
between presenters and attendees, as all participants are expected to
read pre-circulated papers in advance.

Proposals should contain no more than 1000 words, indicating the
originality of the paper. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 5
February 2016. Final notification will be given in late February after
proposals have been reviewed. Completed papers will be expected by 15
May 2016.

The organizing committee consists of

Craig Calhoun (London School of Economics), Jamie Cohen-Cole (George
Washington University), Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure de
Cachan), and Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College).

All proposals and requests for information should be sent to:
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