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As national organisers of the conference, we regard this as an excellent opportunity to bring up to the research front a theme that is both congenial to the choice of place (in the northern part of Sweden) and of apparent relevance in today's increasingly globalised world, namely the important but still relatively unexplored potential of perspectives from the periphery in the history of sociology and the social sciences. By addressing issues related to different geographical, social, disciplinary and temporal peripheries, by inviting several of today’s most prominent scholars on these issues, by offering plenary sessions and parallell workshops, and by welcoming researchers from sociology as well as from other disciplines, the conference aims at encouraging a dynamic and truly interdisciplinary history that contributes to a richer and more complex understanding of the social sciences both in the past and in today's common world.