Conference : International Conference of Economic and Social History. New Perspectives in Theory and Empirical Research. Rethymno, Crete, December 2008. Deadline : 15 March 2008.

Economic and social history have given great impetus in the Greek historical studies during the 1970s and 1980s and have contributed to the renewal of thematic, research and methodology that has built on heated discussions and has resulted in an upsurge of production of studies. Although a remarkable production of scholarly research on a Greek and international level has continued during the 1990s and to the present day, the academic dialogue among scholars on Greek economic and social history has not been systematic and the interrelations between empirical research and theory has weakened. The Greek paradigm, despite the different and isolated attempts, has not been explored in its totality and has not been integrated in the international academic dialogue.

In order to overcome this situation, a group of historians, economists and social scientists, that publishes in the internet the Electronic Bulletin of Economic History (Hlektroniko Deltio Oikonomikis Istorias) with the acronym HDOISTO ( <http://www.hdoisto.gr/> www.hdoisto.gr), and organizes since September 2005, a biweekly Open Seminar of Economic and Social History, has decided to put together the first International Conference of Economic and Social History. The aim is to give the opportunity to Greek scholars and their colleagues abroad to participate in the exchange of ideas in economic and social history among historians, economists and researchers from different fields.

This conference is open to scholars involved in the Economic and Social

History of Greece in modern and contemporary times. The languages of the

Conference are Greek, English and French and papers will be accepted on the

following three fields:

*  Economic and Social History,

*  Business History,

*  History of Economic Thought and Social Theory

Please complete the participation form and send it to the Organizing

Committee by 15 March 2008. The proposals will be assessed by the Academic

Committee of the Conference. Papers accepted will have to be delivered end

of October 2008, in order to be distributed among participants. All papers

will be commented by commentators and we plan to allocate more time to

discussion than to presentation.

Five proposals of young colleagues will be selected whose participation cost

(travel and accommodation) will be covered by the Conference. The organizing

committee hopes to publish the Proceedings of the Conference.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Socrates D. Petmezas (University of Crete/Institute of Mediterranean

Studies-Institute of Technology and Research) and Gelina Harlaftis (Ionian University)

Secretariat: Katerina Papakonstantinou (Piraeus University) and Andreas

Lyberatos (Institute of Mediterranean Studies- Institute of Technology

and Research)

Communication:

Socrates Petmezas

Institute of Mediterranean Studies-Institute of Technology and Research

Melissinou & Nikiforou Foka 130, Mail Box 119, Rethymno 74100

tel.: 28310 25146, 56627 / fax : 28310 25810

 <mailto:petmezas@uoc.gr> petmezas@uoc.gr

Academic Committee:

Christina Agriantoni, University of Thessaly

Stavros Thomadakis, University of Athens

Vassilis Kardasis, University of Crete

Kostas Kostis, University of Athens/ EHESS

Ioanna Minoglou, Economic University of Athens

Olga Katsiardi-Hering, University of Athens

Christos Hadziiossif, University of Crete, IMS/ITR

Maria-Christina Chatziioannou, Institute of Neohellenic Research-NFR

Michalis Psallidopoulos, University of Athens

Languages of the Conference:

Greek, English, French

Deadlines:

Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2008

Announcement of acceptance: 20 April 2008

Deadline of submission of final paper for commentators and conference

participants: 30 October 2008.

Conference: December 2008

Participation Form :

First name & Last name:

Date of Birth:

University or Research Institute:

Academic status: (Academic staff, PhD candidate etc)

Personal address:

Phone number:

Fax number:

Mobile:

Office address:

Office Telephone number:

Office Fax number:

E-mail:

Title of paper:

Summary (up to 250 words):