Call for Papers in ESSHC Sessions: ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases’, ‘Spatial Perspectives of Mortality’, ‘ Socioeconomic gradients in cause-specific mortality’, ‘Gender differences in mortality’

The 16th European Social Science History Conference will take place 21–24 April 2027 in Lyon, France, and is hosted by ENS. We are aiming for sessions on ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases’, ‘Spatial Perspectives of Mortality’, ‘Socioeconomic gradients in cause-specific mortality’, and ‘Gender differences in mortality‘ with participants from our COST-Action GREATLEAP.

If you are interested in joining one of these sessions, please email kristina.thompson@wur.nl, katarina.matthes@iem.uzh.ch, tim.riswick@ru.nl, and wieke.metzlar@ru.nl your title, the authors, and a short abstract of your presentation before 1 April 2026. This gives us time to select proposals and submit the session before April 15th.

We anticipate that our Action will be able to provide a couple of ITC Conference Grants and/or Dissemination Conference Grants to scholars who are selected to present but lack the financial means to attend otherwise.

If you would like to organize a GREATLEAP session at this or another conference, please contact tim.riswick@ru.nl.