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CALL FOR PAPERS
European Social Policy (ESPAnet) Conference
'Changing European Societies - The Role for Social Policy'
Copenhagen, 13th -15th November 2003
Historical Dimensions of Social Policy
The European Social Policy Network is holding a conference in Copenhagen
between 13th and 15th November 2003 entitled 'Changing European
Societies - The Role for Social Policy' (full details
www.sfi.dk/espanet). We invite abstracts (maximum of 250 words by 1
June 2003) for the session(s) that we are convening on the broad theme
of 'Historical Dimensions of Social Policy'. We are exploring the
possibility of a special issue of a journal as a publishing outlet for
the session. Papers exploring any aspect of the relationship between
history and social policy will be welcomed - and priority will also be
given to cross-national papers - but we especially encourage those with
one or more of the following themes:
1. theoretical perspectives - can historical analyses illuminate
contemporary theoretical perspectives, for example is 'path dependency'
anything more than what historians understand as structure and
causality?
2. history and contemporary policy - can an understanding of the
formulation and implementation of past policies aid an understanding of
contemporary policy issues?
3. counterfactual history ('what if?') - would the British
National Health Service have taken the same shape had Aneurin Bevan NOT
been Minister of Health?
Proposals, which are invited from colleagues at all stages of their
careers, should be sent to the session convenors, Martin Powell
(University of Bath, [log in to unmask]) and John Stewart (Oxford Brookes
University, [log in to unmask]); and the conference organiser Jon
Kvist ([log in to unmask]).
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Martin Powell
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Forwarder:
Dr Theodoros Papadopoulos
Director of Studies, MRES in European Social Policy
Department of Social Policy
University of Bath
Tel: +44(0)12225 386831
Fax: +44(0)1225 386381
http://www.tp.social-policy.net
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