Hi, Just to add one more idea for panels (or simply internal organisation within the conference), if there is not enough papers per general topic, it may be interesting to organise the papers by counties or regions. The idea comes from the first suggestion of Ann Marie since my two countries are also Mexico and Venezuela but on a complete different topic -their different oil strategies and the consequences for economic performance in this century-. It may be interesting to see one´s countries from a complete different perspective... cheers Mar Ms.Mar Rubio PhD candidate Economic History Department London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom tel: O (+44) 020 7955 7858 H(+ 44) 020 7323 4946 [log in to unmask] www.lse-students.ac.uk/rubio %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%