Last updated 12 April 2012

The Origins of the Society, Founding and Subsequent Conferences

At the 'Varieties of Cultural History' conference, at the University of Aberdeen, 5-8 July 2007, a meeting was held to consider the establishment of a Cultural History Society. It was proposed by Peter Burke of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and generally agreed, that 'International' should be included in the title . In order to launch such a Society, the meeting set up a provisional committee to prepare a constitution, to arrange a founding conference, to develop the membership, and to explore the establishment of a Journal and occasional publications series. The Provisional Committee co-opted additional members so as to increase the number of countries represented. The report and recommendations of the provisional committee can be viewed by clicking here. A consitution, prepared by the provisional committee and approved at the Founding General meeting of the Society in Ghent on 31 August 2008 is here. Subseqent annual reports of the Committee, AGM minutes, and accounts can be found on the Committee, AGM Reports/minutes page.

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• NEW MEMBERSHIP SYSTEM: 21 MARCH 2012 : CULTURAL HISTORY OUT NOW!

  From now on a new annual membership will be payable which includes two numbers of Cultural History. For details of the contents of the first number click here. Other benefits of membership include discounts on the Society's other publications, discounted conference registration and (if qualified) participation in the prize essay competition. The 2012 the membership fee will be £35 / 45 Euro (waged) or £25/ 30 Euro (unwaged). Anyone who has paid the old £10 waged membership fee after 31/12/2010 are entitled to pay a discounted fee for 2012 of £25 / 30 Euro. Anyone who has paid the old £5 unwaged membership fee after 31/12/2010 are entitled to pay a discounted fee for 2012 of £20 / 25 Euro (assuming they are still unwaged).

  Applicants from outside the Euro area should pay their membership fees via the University of Aberdeen online store. Click here.

  Applicants from the Euro area should pay their fees directly into the Society's journal account. The details are:

  Account name: International Society for Cultural History

  IBAN: FI26 3131 1000 9649 85

  BIC: HANDFIHH

  Bank address: Handelsbanken, Raisiontori 1a 21200 Raisio, Finland

  Those paying in this way should use their full name and address as the reference, if possible, and should also send the same details to the membership secretary Heta Aali htaali@utu.fi. They should also send details for the membership directory (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/isch/journal.php) to David Smith d.f.smith@abdn.ac.uk And to join the email list culthist, they should send a message to Rainer Brömer Rainer.Broemer@gmx.de

• NEXT CONFERENCE (2012)

July 2012, Lunéville Castle, France. Call for papers deadline 15 MARCH.

FOR DETAILS INCLUDING REGISTRATION CLICK HERE:  www.ihce.eu

• ISCH Essay Prize Competition

The call for submissions for the 2012 prize competition may be downloaded by clicking here. The competition is open to scholars who are either preparing their PhD or have completed their PhD during the last five years. Enquires should be sent to Jörg Rogge .

The 2011 prize was awarded to Erin Sullivan, of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, for her essay entitled 'The Watchful Spirit: Religious Anxieties toward Sleep in Seventeenth-Century England'

The 2010 prize was awared to Kirsi Kanerva for her essay entitled 'Ogoefa (misfortune) as an Emotion in Thirteenth-Century Iceland'.

• New Journal, Cultural History

The first number of the Society's journal Cultural History, published by Edinburgh University Press will University Press will appear very soon. Watch this space for details.

• First publications in ISCH publication series with Pickering & Chatto

A History of Emotions, 1200–1800 edited by Jonas Liliequist

The history of emotions is an expanding field of research. The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality, and theoretical questions as to their use. Bringing together a series ofcase-studies from points across the medieval and early modern periods,the authors in this volume provide fascinating glimpses into humanemotional experience across a variety of cultures.
Hb: c.256pp August 2012 £60.00/$99.00
For more, see
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/history_of_emotions_1200_1800_a

A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area by Anthony Ashbolt

"The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. But until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture in this area unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture. Ashbolt argues that geography played a key role the development of radicalism in the region. His study makes an important contribution to the history of radical politics and offers a new way at looking at America in this period."

FOR FULL DETAILS NOW AVAILABLE ABOUT HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL Click here>>

 

ELECTION TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE ISCH 2011: Five candidates were nominated for the five places by the time of the deadline of 4 July 2011 and so all were declared elected. They are:

Seldağ Ceylan, Ankara; Marius Kwint, Portsmouth; Stephen Wallace, Plymouth; Catherine Ng, Aberdeen; Philipp Amour, Fribourg

The 2011 conference, 3-6 August 2011, Oslo, Norway, was a great success. For further details, click Past Conferences