{"id":1325,"date":"2009-01-21T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:20:20","slug":"cfp-agency-and-action-event-california-deadline-01032009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"CfP: „Agency and Action“ (Event: California), Deadline: 01.03.2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

34th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long Beach, California
\n12-15 November 2009
\nSubmission deadline:<\/strong> 1 March 2009<\/p>\n

The 2009 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that will focus on questions related to Agency and Action<\/strong>. Agency \u2013 the capacity to act \u2013 is a concept central to everyday life and many academic disciplines. But quite different ideas of actors and agency abound. Constructivists celebrate agents as the autonomous springs of action. Utilitarians focus on agents as both foundational units of social structure and evasive delegates in need of monitoring. What are we to make of the relationship between these camps, each in its own way faithful to the idea of the unified social actor operating within external constraints, and others\u2019 ideas of subjects as internally riven and constituted by social, biological or discursive structures?<\/p>\n

Turn the problem around, then, and foreground historical formations of agency, including social movements and the \u2018depersonalized edifices\u2019 of firms, states, families, networks, associations, schools, churches, and other forms of organized social order in whose name people act. How these edifices emerge, are designed, built, demolished and rebuilt, in continual processes of change: this is the flip side of the agency question.<\/p>\n

As social science historians and historical social scientists, we hail from many traditions and disciplines. But we share common ground in the weight we assign to thinking historically about agency and action. In exploring the connections between agency and history, can we deploy our differences to advantage? How might our collective intellectual resources help each of us rethink our own and others\u2019 work? More broadly still, what do the streams of social science history imply for understanding action in today\u2019s world, and for the historical social science of the future? Let\u2019s embark.<\/p>\n

How to participate in the 2009 SSHA Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions will be accepted at http:\/\/ssha.org<\/a>. Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions are due 1 March 2009<\/strong>. Papers and Panels on themes not related to the \u201cAgency and Action\u201d theme are also welcome. SSHA will continue its generous support of graduate student travel, with the exciting addition of the Charles and Louise Tilly Fund,<\/strong> which will provide travel grants and, funds permitting, graduate student support for interdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in building a session (always our preference) or making an individual submission (always okay), please contact:<\/p>\n