ISCH Prize Competition 2025 for Cultural Historians Message from the Prize Committee In order to support cultural historical research and encourage scholars in their early career, the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) offers the yearly ISCH Prize for the best conference presentation by an early career scholar in the annual ISCH conferences, which in…
One of the ISCH 2025 keynote lectures, titled ‘No more than human history – exploring human/nature entanglements in a life of a deafblind’, given by Hannu Salmi, professor of cultural history in the University of Turku, at the ISCH conference in Rovaniemi on 19 June 2025 is now available on Youtube. Link to the lecture.
Thursday 19 June at 14:15-16:00 (UTC +3) in the ISCH conference at Lapland University Zoom link for online participation: link. All ISCH members are welcome! Agenda for the meeting: TOP 1 Opening of the AGM TOP 2 Reception of the report of the committee (A. Dana Weber) TOP 3 Reception of the treasurer’s report (Liisa-Maija…
The latest issue (14.1) of the Cultural History journal was published in April. The theme of the issue is ‘Democratization, National Identity and Collective Memory in Modern Romania’. The contents: ‘Introduction: Democratization, National Identity and Collective Memory in Modern Romania’, by Victor Rizescu ‘Politics of Eternity, Messianism and Liberal Democracy: Shapes and Waves of Modernity…
The ISCH committee has decided that ISCH will quit the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, and will start using BlueSky instead. In the coming months, we will publish on both concurrently. Eventually, the X account will be deactivated. You can find us on BlueSky with the same username “ISCHistory“. See you there!
Noora Kallioniemi
Ph.D. in Cultural History, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku.
Popular culture studies; film and television history; entertainment; audiovisual culture; digitized newspaper materials; environmental history and animal studies; film history of the Second World War.
Website: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Person/936427
Pälvi Rantala
Ph. D. in Cultural History, Senior lecturer in Cultural history (University of Lapland), Title of Docent in Applied Cultural History (University of Turku)
Website:
https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/persons/p%C3%A4lvi-rantala
https://purorantala.com/
Cultural history of everyday life, contemporary history, history of sleep and sleeplessness, Northern cultural history, creative writing
Daniel Gicu
Researcher at “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Popular culture in the nineteenth century; High and low culture in modern Romania; Cultural exchange in modern Romania; Cultural history of folk and fairy tales
Josephine Hoegaerts
Professor of European Culture after 1800, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Prof. dr. J.A.I. (Josephine) Hoegaerts - Universiteit van Amsterdam
History of sound and voice, gender history, history of parliament, 19th cent cultural history, history of the senses, disability history
Liisa-Maija Korhonen
Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki
Histories of colonialism and migration; History of emotions and senses; Latin American history (especially Argentina)
Anna-Leena Perämäki
Ph.D. in Cultural History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku
Jasmin Lukkari
Ph.D. in History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki
History of ancient Greece and Rome, cultural identity, international relations, Hellenistic kings, the Roman Republic, ancient historiography, historical narratives, narratology
Dr. Cathleen Sarti
Post-Doctoral Associate in the ERC-Project The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870, University of Oxford
Personal Website; Academia.edu; Twitter
Political Culture; Northern Europe in 16th/17th century; Royal Studies; Depositions; Counsel
