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Call for Papers: The Sixth Annual International Symposium on Quantitative History

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth Annual International Symposium on Quantitative History will take place at Longfor Learing Center in Yantai, Shandong Province, China, July 14 - 15, 2018. The symposium is hosted by the Center for Economic Research, Shandong University in collaboration with University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University. 

We now invite submissions of research papers on all relevant historical topics using quantitative approaches including but not limited to economic and social history, political history, cultural history, business and financial history and archival history. Submitted papers can be either in English or Chinese. Submissions must be unpublished and original. We encourage submissions from young scholars including participants of previous quantitative history summer schools. Discussants will be assigned for each accepted submission. 

The two-day Symposium consists of plenary sessions by invited speakers, parallel sessions of accepted papers in English or Chinese. Financial support available to presenting authors who are in need to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.
All submissions should be sent via Email to history_thu@163.com and tianchun@sdu.edu.cn no later than April 15, 2018. Paper selection results will be announced in mid May 2018.

Contact person: Mr. Chuan Tian (Shandong University) and Ms. Xuemei Peng (Tsinghua University)