CFP: Social Science History Association

The deadline is approaching for proposals for the 2013 meeting of the Social Science History Association (Nov. 21-24, in Chicago). The Criminal Justice-Legal History Network has reached out to H-Net with the following announcement:

We welcome panels and individual papers on any topic of interest to scholars of Criminal Justice/Legal History, especially those broadly connected to the overall conference theme, ”Organizing Powers”. We also encourage proposals for panels organized around recently published books.

Themes of particular interest to our network include:

The carceral state
Policing resistance
Exporting US Constitutionalism
Crime and political protest around the world
Juvenile Crime, Then and Now

For more information on the meeting as well as the general call for proposals, please refer to the SSHA website: www.ssha.org. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2013.