ISCH Annual Conference

Call for individual papers: 2025 ISCH conference in Rovaniemi, Finland, 16–19 June 2025

Call for Individual Papers 

Update: The CfP has been extended until the 2nd of February.

2025 ISCH Conference: ‘Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History’  

16–19 June 2025, Rovaniemi, Finland (On Site only)

The ISCH 2025 conference thus invites individual papers exploring human-nature entanglements from diverse angles.

You can direct your abstract proposal to a panel you wish to attend, or suggest an abstract related to a topic (see list of panels and topics below).

Max. 300 words abstract proposals are to be submitted via Submission Form by 15th of January at the latest.

Call for Panels: ISCH 2025 conference in Rovaniemi (Finland)

Call for Panels  2025 ISCH conference:    ‘Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History’   16–19 June 2025, Rovaniemi, Finland   Cultural history has mainly studied humans: their actions, experiences, and ways of thinking. Yet the past is not shaped by only human actions and thoughts. Human beings inevitably interact with the nature surrounding them, which further means that…

Keynote lecture ‘Disabilities and the Disabled in the Ancient World. A Social and Cultural History’ by Christian Laes is online

The keynote by Christian Laes (University of Manchester) took place on 4 September 2024 as part of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at the University of Potsdam. The lecture’s subject is ‘Disabilities and the Disabled in the Ancient World. A Social and Cultural History’. The lecture can be viewed…

Call for Papers/Panels 2024 ISCH conference in Potsdam: ‘Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body’

Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body 04.-06. September 2024, Potsdam, Germany For its 2024 conference, the International Society for Cultural History invites paper and panel proposals on the theme of “Embodied Histories.” Historians and contextually oriented scholars working on any period or location are encouraged to explore (but…