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In order to support cultural historical research and encourage scholars in their early career, the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) offers an essay prize that will be awarded each year to the best article on cultural history. The ISCH Prize in 2022 is 350 €. The winning article will also be published in the society’s journal, Cultural History. For the previous winners, see here.

The ISCH welcomes original texts that make an insightful contribution to scholarship on cultural history through methodological innovation, theoretical originality or historiographical significance. Articles on any aspect of cultural history, on any historical period or geographical area will be accepted for consideration. Submissions should be original, unpublished works in English, written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are either preparing their PhD or have completed their PhD during the last five years. Essays should be double spaced, and no more than 7000 words in length (including references).

To submit an entry, please send a complete application to each member of the Prize Committee. The submissions should include a cover sheet with author information, a short CV and the essay itself. All files should be in pdf format. Your submission must be sent not later than 15 April 2022. The winner will be announced at the 14th ISCH Conference, to be held in Verona, Italy 2-5 August 2022.

Please send your submission to:
Prof. Alessandro Arcangeli, Chair of the Prize Committee
Email: alessandro.arcangeli@univr.it
University of Verona

Prof. em. Harvey Green
Email: harvey@waterloom.com
Northeastern University

Dr Josephine Hoegaerts
Email: josephine.hoegaerts@helsinki.fi
HCAS – Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

The ISCH book series, Studies for the International Society for Cultural History, has a new title: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror. Mediations Through Migrations, edited by Susanne Korbel and Philipp Strobl.

“The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as “cultural mediators” or “agents of knowledge” between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case studies provided in this volume are of global scope, focusing on routes of escape and migration to Iceland, Italy, the Near East, Portugal and Shanghai, and South-, Central-, and North America. The chapters examine the hybrid ways refugees envisaged, managed, organized, and subsequently mediated their migrations. It focuses on how they dealt with their escape in their art and science. The chapters ask how the emigrants located themselves––did they associate with ethnic, religious, and/or cultural affiliations, specific social classes, or specific parts of society—and how such identifications were portrayed in their knowledge transfer and cultural translations. Building on such possible avenues for research, this volume aims to offer a global analysis of the multifarious processes not only of cultural translation and knowledge transfer affecting culture, sciences, networks, but also everyday life in different areas of the world.”

See more here.