Past conferences

Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History. 16-19 June 2025, Rovaniemi (Finland). For the Call for Papers, see here.

Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body. 4-6 September 2024, Potsdam (Germany). For the Call for Papers, see here.

• For the keynote lecture ‘Disabilities and the Disabled in the Ancient World. A Social and Cultural History’ by Christian Laes, see here.
• For the keynote lecture ‘Revolts Against the Modern World: Masculinity, Modernity, and Far-Right Body Politics’ by Christopher E. Forth, see here.

Cultural Histories of Empire. 19-22 June 2023, Singapore. For the Call for Papers, see here.

Cultures of Belief and Unbelief. 2-5 August 2022, Verona (Italy). For the Call for Papers, see here.

Cultures of Participation and Belonging. 2-3 September 2021, Mainz (Germany). Originally scheduled for 2020, then transformed into a reduced online conference in 2021. See the original Call for Papers here.

Global Cultural History. 26-29 June 2019, Tallinn (Estonia).

Performance, Politics, and Play. 13-16 September 2018, New York City (USA). For the Call for Papers, see here.

Senses, Emotions and the Affective Turn – Recent Perspectives and New Challenges in Cultural History. 26-29 June 2017, Umeå (Sweden).

Gender and Generations. 18-21 July 2016, Trieste (Italy): For the Call for Papers, see here.

• Selected papers of this conference were published as Gender and Generations: Spaces, Times, Identity, edited by Gabriella Valera, Ecaterina Lung and Christopher Heath. Chronica Mundi, 13,1 (2018). More information here.

Time and Culture. 7-10 September 2015, University of Bucharest Campus, Romania. For the Call for Papers, see here.

• Selected papers of this conference were published as TIME AND CULTURE / TEMPS ET CULTURE, edited by Ecaterina Lung, Étienne Bourdon, Christopher Heath, Laurence Shee, Cécile Vallée. Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2017. More information here.

Cultures of Damaged Societies: from Post-Conflict Resolution to Intercultural Dialogue. 24-27 November 2014, Monash South Africa, Ruimsig Johannesburg. For the call for papers, see here.

Artefacts, Culture, and Identity. 11-14 September 2013, Istanbul, Turkey. For the call for papers, see here.

The Cultural History of Work. 2-5 July 2012, Lunéville Castle, France. For the call for papers, see here.

History – memory – myth: Re-presenting the past. Oslo, Norway, 3-6 August 2011.

Close Readings, Critical Syntheses. Turku, Finland,  26-30 May 2010.

Cultures of Violence and Conflict. Brisbane, Australia, 20-23 July 2009. For the call for papers, see here.

Inaugural Conference, Ghent, 27-31 August 2008: Orientations

• Review of Conference by Sophie Kienlen of Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines Université de Versailles, France.
• Conference Booklet cover
• Conference Poster
• Call for papers

Varieties of Cultural History, Aberdeen, 5-8 July 2007

At the ‘Varieties of Cultural History’ conference, at the University of Aberdeen, 5-8 July 2007, the Provisional Committee was founded to prepare for the formal launch of the ISCH in Ghent.

• Conference Booklet
• Addendum to Conference Booklet