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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 […]

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Keynote lecture ‘Revolts Against the Modern World: Masculinity, Modernity, and Far-Right Body Politics’ by Christopher E. Forth is now online

The keynote by Christopher E. Forth (University of Kansas) took place on 6 September 2024 as part of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at the University of Potsdam. The lecture’s topic is ‘Revolts Against the Modern World: Masculinity, Modernity, and Far-Right Body Politics’. The lecture can be now viewed

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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

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April issue of the Cultural History journal

The newest issue 13.1 of the 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 journal is here! It includes five articles on the theme ‘Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Rome’ and a book forum on 𝘋𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 by Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, Bernhard Struck (eds.) Articles: ‘Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Rome: Introduction’, by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Marta

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New issue of the South African Journal of Cultural History

The new issue (36.2) of the South African Journal of Cultural History has been published: link. Research Articles: ‘Colonial Alienation, Resistance and Assimilation: A Hopefield History‘, by Francois Johannes Cleophas ‘Circular Farms on Maps of the Southwestern Cape‘, by Elri Liebenberg ‘Historical Fiction as a Reflection on Present Concerns: Dalene Matthee’s Forest Novels’, by Marike

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October 2023 issue of the Cultural History journal

The new issue (12.2) of the Society’s journal Cultural History has been published. The issue includes the following articles: ‘Plague Markings: Doors and Disease’, by Edward Brookes ‘The ‘Autographic Self’: Facsimile Signatures and Lithographic Portraiture at the Crossroads of Liberalism, Romanticism and Nationalism, c. 1800–60’, by Tom Young ‘Recognizing Traces of Colonialism and Coloniality in

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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

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The summer newsletter

The latest ISCH newsletter has been published: it includes news about our upcoming conference, the journal and the book series, our partner the South African Society for Cultural History, and about other events and conferences. Read the newsletter here. You can subsribe to the biannual ISCH newsletter by inserting you email address below. In addition

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The ISCH 2023 conference 19-22 June: Online attendance registration this week

The next ISCH conference is coming up soon! This year, ISCH members gather in Singapore from 19 to 22 June. The ISCH conference theme this year is ‘Cultural Histories of Empire’. The ISCH conference will be held simultaneously with the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress, and their conference theme is ‘Comparative Empire: Conflict,

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April 2023 issue of the Cultural History journal

The new issue (12.1) of the Cultural History journal has been published. Articles: Reviews: Cultural History journal promotes the work and aims of the International Society for Cultural History which was founded in 2008. It generates discussion and debate on the nature of cultural history and current trends, and advances theoretical and methodological discussions relating

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Call for Papers for 2023 ISCH Conference ‘Cultural Histories of Empire’, 19-22 June, Singapore

Update 25. February 2023: It is not too late to join us! A small number of spots have become available for presenters in the International Society for Cultural History’s 2023 conference on “Cultural Histories of Empire.” The program committee welcomes proposals that address the conference theme outlined below. Individual paper or panel proposals (3 presenters)

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ISCH 2023 conference website and registration

The registration for the ISCH conference in Singapore, on 19-22 June 2023, is open and the discounted early bird prices are available until 28 February: https://www.ischconference2023.com/ Regular registration will run from 1 March to 31 March. Late registration will be available from April to 1 May. Non-presenting attendees are warmly welcome as well! Also, if

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National Congress of the South African Society for Cultural History (SASCH) 2023

On behalf of our partner the South African Society for Cultural History (SASCH): The national congress of the South African Society for Cultural History will be held on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 May 2023 at the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria. The theme is: The dialogue between the past and the present and the relevance for

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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

Website.

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

Website.

Cultural history of writing, autobiographical sources, everyday life during World War II, women and children at war, holocaust

Jasmin Lukkari

Ph.D. in History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki

Website.

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