Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Call for Papers: Alcohol & Drugs History Society

Dear ADHS Members:

Here are the upcoming meetings of the American Historical Association. We have two panels for 2010 but there is plenty of time to develop panels for future meetings. I have listed the upcoming meeting of the AHA below. Please feel free to send either paper proposals or full panels. If I receive your proposals before January 2010, I will submit them for the main program of the AHA. Even if the AHA program committee reject them, there is a good chance that the ADHS will place them on its affiliate program. Thanks so much for your consideration!

Sincerely, Scott Haine shaine@aol.com

The Next Several Annual Meetings:

2010—San Diego January 7–10
Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego Marriott

2011—Boston January 6–9
Boston Marriott Sheraton Boston
Westin Boston

2012—Chicago January 5–8
Sheraton Chicago
Chicago Marriott

2013—New Orleans January 3–6
New Orleans Marriott
Sheraton New Orleans

2014—Washington, D.C. January 2–5
Marriott Wardman Park
Omni Shoreham Hotel

Welcome to the ADHS Daily Register

And to the online home of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (SHAD). The site will be updated on a daily basis with news, publications, or resources of interest to members of our group. We encourage you to check back often. Keep reading to find out more about the site and how to contribute to it.

Formerly known as the Alcohol and Temperance History Group, the ADHS is an international group of alcohol, temperance, and drug history scholars. Formerly published as The Social History of Alcohol Review, the SHAD is a scholarly annual featuring peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Please explore the links on the left to learn more about the group and our journal.

The center column of the main page consists of the society's daily weblog. Each post provides information about news, publications, including book reviews, book chapters, and online articles, or other resources of interests for those who study the history of alcohol and drugs.  Each post is filed under one or more "categories" that describe its topical or geographical focus.  By clicking on the "category" links at the right, you can easily sort the content of the weblog.  On every category page, the posts are sorted from new to old.  This makes it easy to view only the material that has been posted since the last time you visited the website.

To Contribute to the Site

The site will be moderated by the Web Editor.  To contribute to the site, please send an email to Matthew McKean, with the complete details of your post, including full bibliographic information, web links, and email addresses, where necessary.  The Web Editor will add your post to the site on your behalf.

This project replaces, and may soon incorporate, the current literature feature from the print journal and the annotated bibliographies from the old Alcohol and Temperance History Group website.

CFP: Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Call for submissions: The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal

The SHAD is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original academic research, reflection essays and reviews in the field of alcohol and drug history, broadly construed. We invite authors from a range of disciplines to submit papers on the wide range of topics within the journal’s purview.

General topics include the manufacture, prohibition, consumption and regulation of alcohol, drugs (recreational, pharmaceutical etc), tobacco, coffee, and so on. The disciplinary focus can be broad, from economic, business, political, social, cultural history, to sociology, anthropology and criminology. The journal remains a history journal, however, so the main focus of the papers need to be historical.

The editors are also open to suggestion for special thematic issues. These suggestions should include an idea of whom we could approach as guest editors.

SHAD is published under the auspices of the Alcohol and Drug History Society (ADHS) twice annually, in the Fall (Issue 1) and in the Spring (Issue 2) of each year.

To submit a paper, authors should submit either three copies of a printed manuscript by regular mail or one digital version in MS Word or WordPerfect format to the Editor-in-Chief. Digital copies are preferred, and will usually be evaluated much more quickly than hard copy submissions. We aspire to have decisions to the authors within one or two months of paper submission.

For more information, please contact Dan Malleck, editor-in-chief of SHAD at the email address listed below, or view the society’s website, at the URL listed below.

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

CFP: 5th international conference on the history of drugs & alcohol (pathways to prohibition), Glasgow, 26-28 June 2009

The 5th International Conference on the History of Drugs and Alcohol: The Pathways to Prohibition,

26-28th June 2009, CSHHH, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

When John Shanks acquired the Barrhead pottery company to establish his “sanitary engineering workshop” in the late nineteenth century, the decision was more than a simple business one. The man who was to become the President of the Barrhead Evangelist Association chose the town, which bordered Glasgow, as it had the reputation of having the highest number of pubs per head of population. Workers had to sign the temperance pledge to ensure employment. Shanks was following in the footsteps of temperance campaigner Sir William Collins, Glasgow book publisher and Lord Provost who earned the nickname “Water Willie”. In Britain, however, the impact of such campaigners remained local, and only those who adopted the global/colonial platform against intoxicants met with success. Such limited influence paved the ground for the British anti-intoxicant policy of the twentieth century which rejected prohibition for the medical solution, ultimately another localised response to local problems.

The conference is seeking papers on the broad subject of the ‘pathways to prohibition’, the underlying motives governing policy and reactions to policymaking across the globe. Proposed papers or panels can be on any topic in the history of drugs and alcohol, but some issues to be considered include the ways in which the cultures of consumption evolved to meet the challenge of prohibition; the impact upon previously good citizens, including distillers and brewers, whose activities were now criminalised; the changing images of consumption under prohibition policies; the construction of consumption which underlay decisions to instigate prohibition or reject it; the effectiveness of the merging of local initiatives with national and international politics of prohibition.

Abstracts of proposed papers (no more than 500 words long) or of proposed panels should be sent by email, fax or post by November 15th 2008 to

Dr Patricia Barton
CSHHH
Dept of History
University of Strathclyde
16 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XQ
Scotland
E: p.barton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 44 (0)141 548 2932/ Fax: 44 (0)141 552 8509

Volume 21, Number 2 now available online

Volume 21, Number 2 is now available for download through the links on the left.

SHAD 22/2 (Spring 2008)

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: an Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 2008) has been published. Under the guest editorship of Catherine Carstairs and Norman Smith, this SHAD issue presents nine papers from "Global Aproaches," the fourth international alcohol and drug history conference, held in August 2007 at the University of Guelph in Canada. The issue also includes seven book reviews. The cover features an old Bayer ad that promotes several health aids including heroin (good for coughs).

Volume 21, Number 1 now online

PDF files for volume 21, number 1 are now online through the link at the left.

Dissertations on drug and alcohol history

Jonathan Erlen (University of Pittsburgh) has compiled a list of recent doctoral dissertations on drug and alcohol history that appears in the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs beginning with vol. 22, no. 1.

SHAD review editors

Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) will join Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, England) as review editor of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. She is a specialist on the history of drugs, while he specializes in alcohol history.

Forthcoming SHAD issue from 2008 Global Approaches conference

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, vol. 22, no. 2, will be a special issue of eight articles selected from the papers presented at the August 2008 Alcohol and Drugs History Society conference that centered on the theme of Global Approaches and which was held at Guelph, Canada. The organizers of the Global Approaches conference, Catherine Carstairs and Norman Smith, will serve as guest editors.