The Kettil Bruun Society  - - CALL FOR PAPERS - - June 2-6 1997 in Iceland
 
The organizers of 'The 23th annual alcohol epidemiology symposium of the
Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiologican Research on Alcohol'
June 2-6 1997 in Iceland, Hildigunnur Olufsdottir and Asa Gu mundsdottir,
Landspitalinn, Reykjavik Iceland, has asked for my assistance to
coordinate a session on 'historical alcohol studies'.
 
As already mentioned on this ATHG-list there has been very fruitful
discussions on alcohol traditions at previous KBS-meetings, especially
around the very provocative ideas of Harry G. Levines articles on the
creation of the western alcohol culture.
 
Anyway there are still much to say about the subject. To put up a sort of
comparative session I would propose to concentrate about the following
two themes:
 
- the origins and character of the prohibition periods in various
countries to highlight to what extend it is possible to talk about the
same phenomenon.
 
- pretemperance alcohol cultures - and eventually the transversion to
temperance cultures - especially in relation to the Mary Douglas thesis
on the existence of a preindustrial and 'problem free' alcohol culture.
 
Abstracts (half a page) must be received before the 15.th of February and
the final papers (max. 15 pages) before the 15.th of April 1997.
 
For further information contact eventually in e-mail:
 
Sidsel Eriksen: [log in to unmask]
Asa Gudmundsdottir: [log in to unmask]
 
Papers and abstracts should be sent to:
 
KBS's 1997 Symposium Secretariat,
att. Asa Gudmundsdottir and Hildigunnur Olufsdottir,
Department of Psyciatry
Landspitalinn, University Hospital,
101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
 
Partial support will problably be available for a very limited number of
rescherchers otherwise unable to attend this meeting.
 
                        On behalf of the KBS-Symposium Secretariat
                                    sincerely Sidsel Eriksen
 
 
Sidsel Eriksen,
Institute of History,
Njalsgade 102,
DK-2300 Copenhagen S.
Denmark.
Tlf. +45 35 32 82 87 (work)  +45 31 31 48 58 (home)