Calls for Papers

Calls for papers from across different conferences and journals.

CFP: Complexity: Researching Alcohol and Other Drugs in a Multiple World (August 21-23, Aarhus, Denmark)

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The last decade has seen the idea of complexity gain force in social science and epidemiological research. This conference offers a forum in which the issues and dilemmas of complexity in alcohol and other drug research can be explored. It welcomes research based on quantitative and qualitative methods, and encourages innovative use of methods, concepts …

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The ADHS at AHA: Two Panel Possibilities

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Editor’s note: Emily Dufton, assisting the ADHS in assembling panel proposals for the AHA conference in January, 2014, passes along two potential panels for which paper contributions are eagerly sought. Please contact Emily directly, at ebdufton@gwmail.gwu.edu, if you are interested.  1) A drug use and social movements panel: What are the various roles drug use …

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Call for Proposals: Criminal Justice/Legal History @ SSHA

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Editor’s note: The Points symposium marking the 40th anniversary of David F. Musto’s The American Disease will continue on Monday. In the meantime, friends of the ADHS call our attention to the following CFP:

The Criminal Justice/Legal History network of the Social Science History Association is soliciting panel and paper proposals for the 38th annual meeting of the SSHA, November 21-24, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. Panels and individual papers on any topic of interest to scholars of Criminal Justice/Legal History are welcome. Proposals connected to the overall conference theme, “Organizing Powers,” and panels organized around recently published books, are encouraged. Themes of particular interest include the carceral state, policing resistance, juvenile crime then and now, exporting U.S. Constitutionalism, and crime and political protest around the world.

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2013. For more information on the meeting as well as the general call for proposals, refer to the SSHA website. More on how to submit proposals after the jump.

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Call for Proposals: ADHS @ AHA

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The Alcohol and Drugs History Society hope that any members or interested scholars will put together proposals for papers or panels for the next annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA). This meeting will be in Washington D.C. from January 2-5, 2014. Panels or papers that are not accepted by the AHA will be considered …

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Call for Proposals: “Challenging Punishment: Race, Public Health, and the War on Drugs”

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Editor’s Note: last summer, Points ran a call for participants in a working group focused on “Challenging Punishment”; this conference is a related but separate event, with its own deadlines. Friday 4 October and Saturday 5 October, 2013 will see the Challenging Punishment Conference, a two-day critical dialogue among scholars and researchers; health and legal …

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CFP: Big Events, Substance Use and Interventions — A Global Perspective

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Editor’s Note:  Stan Einstein, editor of the journal Substance Use and Misuse, sends along the following call for papers and notice of a special issue. The journal Substance Use and Misuse is soliciting abstracts for a special issue exploring “Big Events, Substance Use and Interventions: A Global Perspective.”  The term “big events” is sometimes called “complex …

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CFP: “Under Control? Alcohol and Drug Regulation, Past and Present” –London, 2013

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Call for Papers: “Under Control? Alcohol and Drug Regulation, Past and Present,” London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 21st-23rd June 2013. (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION!) Sponsored by the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, Alcohol Research UK, the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Bowling Green State University, and Brock University. Individual papers and proposals …

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CFP: Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, The Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology

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The Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology requests submissions for the best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, pharmaceuticals, tobacco or similar substances. Qualifying submissions will be judged by a committee of ADTSG members.  The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award …

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