The 9th Annual International Conference on Conceptual History
Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-26, 2006

Welcome!

The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study is delighted to welcome you to the 9th Annual International Conference on Conceptual History. Since its foundation in London in 1998, the History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG) has expanded research agendas, forged methodological connections between different branches of the social sciences and humanities, and posed difficult questions regarding the practice of conceptual history itself. This year's conference intends to continue this work.

The title of the 9th Annual Conference - "Crossroads" - is intended to signal that conceptual history is at a moment in its own history when some of the national underpinnings of research are being undermined. One way or another, conceptual history has to face up to the challenge of analysing the reception, dissemination and translocation of concepts across borders. It will have to probe the possibility of writing transnational conceptual accounts and to address the potential contributions of conceptual history even to civilisational analysis.

In a spirit of welcoming new perspectives, the Conference includes sessions that present results from the writing of methodologically rigorous comparative histories of concepts. Furthermore, one or several session will be devoted to the intellectual legacy of the late Reinhart Koselleck, who passed away on February 2, 2006.

Björn Wittrock
Principal