Dear colleagues
Since the most recent issue of SHAD is not yet out (it goes to print this week) I am sending you a reminder of the following call for papers.

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Call for Papers:  Alcoholism - Historical and Social Issues
 
The National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, „Iuliu Maniu” Center for Political and Historical Studies, University of Alba Iulia, is pleased to announce the organizing of a conference with the title
Alcoholism – historical and social issues
 
The aim of this conference is to discuss the different aspects of alcoholism around the world, and also to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue between different branches of science (history, anthropology, sociology, psychology or medicine), and to promote a comparative analysis between eastern and western European patterns of alcoholism.   At the same time, the conference is intended to encourage the improvement of alcoholism studies in Romania.
 
The conference will be held on 28-29 August 2009 at the National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania.
 
Selected papers from the conference will be revised for publication in the form of an edited volume.
 
The cost of accommodations (all the meals, hotel rooms, official reception of the conference) will be covered by the organizers, excepting the travel expenses for participants.
 
Please send an abstract not exceeding 250 words with your paper proposal to Dr. Marius Rotar, at [log in to unmask]
Deadline: 15 May 2009
 
http://www.apulum.ro/index-en.htm
http://www.muzeuluniriialba.ro/
http://www.uab.ro/index_.php

Dan Malleck, PhD
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Secretary/Treasurer, The Alcohol and Drugs History Society
Editor-in-chief, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal
http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com

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