European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network
Event type:
Conference
Date:
11 April 2012 - 14 April 2012
The ESSHC 2012 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Information about the European Social Science and History Conference can be found at: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/
The conference
The ESSHC aims to bring together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The conference is organized in a large number of networks which cover a variety of topics. It welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period.
Organization
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 www.iisg.nl. At the IISH Els Hiemstra is responsible for the ESSHC.
ESSHC Network Material and Consumer Culture
The Material and Consumer Culture Network was established as a seperate conference network at the 7th ESSHC in Lisbon 2008. At that time there was a growing number of papers submitted to the conference that were dealing with topics like design history, consumerism, museology and material culture. Papers dealing with these topics also tended to transcend the traditional fields of economic, social and cultural history which made it difficult to assign them to one of the existing networks. As a result, the Material and Consumer Culture Network was established to provide a platform at the ESSHC for historians and social scientists working in these fields.
