We are happy to announce that the programme of the 2021 ESHHS virtual conference (running from June 29 until July 2) is now online – you can find it here. Participation at the conference is free, but you need to register online to receive the access codes for all sessions.
We are proud to announce the newest publication of the ESHHS community: Our current president of the ESHHS, Petteri Pietikäinen, published his award-winning book “Madness. A history” in English! For more information, please take a look at the book description or order at the publisher’s website.
As you might have read in our last mailing, Armin Stock has launched a website for our upcoming conference in Würzburg. You’ll find information there on the conference location and the program, on accomodation and how to get there. There is also a very helpful document with information on interesting sites, museums, guided tours around…
The ESHHS encourages young / early career researchers to submit their papers for the Early Career Award. If you gave a paper at the ESHHS conference in 2018 or 2017, you do not hold a tenured university position (or equivalent) and you are a member of ESHHS, then you are eligible to submit a paper….
It is with great concern and horror that we watch a humanitarian crisis unfold before our eyes in Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion by the Russian army on February 24. Since its foundation in the 1980s, the ESHHS has striven to build a truly inclusive scholarly community that bridges East and West, and…
Petteri Pietikäinen, current president of the ESHHS, received the prestigious Finnish national Kanava Award for the best non-fiction book of 2013 for his recent publication “Hulluuden historia” (“History of Madness”). The awarding committee noted that the book tells an impressive story of how madness has been an intrinsic part of human experience and social organization….
Dear friends and members of the ESHHS, we are happy to raise your attention towards a Call for Papers announced by the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences devoted to public history. The link to the full call can be found here. An excerpt from the call: “Inspired by the crucial role of…