The 79th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) will be held on May 30-31, 2015 at Shiga University. Shiga University is situated in Hikone City, a beautiful historical city which is within 1 hour by train from Kyoto.
The organising committee invites proposals for individual papers (in English or in Japanese) on all aspects of the history of economic thought.
Submissions should be mailed to:
furuya [at mark] econ.tohoku.ac.jp
Each applicant should send his/her abstract of about 600 words in English (or 2000 letters in Japanese) for a paper as an attached document (PDF or WORD format) to an e-mail, containing the title of the paper, his/her name, affiliation, postal and electronic addresses and the fax number.
The deadline for submission is October 6, 2014.
A complete list of accepted contributions and a provisional programme will be available at the beginning of December 2014.
The outlines (within 6 pages of A4 format) of the paper should be submitted by February 27, 2015.
They will be printed and mailed to all participants one month before the conference.
The fee for non-members of JSHET to present a paper at the conference is 6,000 yen.
Further information of JSHET and the conference may be found on the web site:
For additional information, please send your queries to the above email address.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you next year in Japan.