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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 for panels are invited for this international conference.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Professor Paul Gootenberg (State University of New York)
Professor James Simpson (Carlos III University of Madrid)
Panel proposals (3 x 20-minute papers) or individual papers (20 minutes) are invited. We will also consider proposals for fringe sessions using non-conventional formats e.g. screenings, debates etc.
Subjects may include (but are not limited to):
Global drugs trade and the war on drugs
Crime and policing
Prohibition
Tobacco control
Regulation of drugs in art, film and literature
Temperance and its influences
Alcohol licensing and pricing
Media regulation / advertising and marketing
Religion and alcohol or drugs
Dependency and treatment
Policymaking and the political process
Alcohol and radical politics / revolutions / social movements
Use and control of drugs in premodern cultures
Alcohol and drugs in sport and popular culture
Proposal formats:
Panel sessions: brief abstracts (c. 200 words) of each paper plus a brief statement (c. 200 words) outlining the panel theme and a brief biography of participants.
Single papers: brief abstract (c. 200 words) and brief biography
Revised deadline for submission:
30th October 2012
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send all proposals to undercontrol2013 [at] gmail [dot] com