Author Archives: Janka Kormos

Winner of the Early Career Award 2024

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European Society for the History of Human Sciences Committee has selected Katie Joice’s paper entitled ‘Bulls, Crocodiles and Other Scientific Instruments: Margaret Lowenfeld and the Alternative History of Child Psychotherapy‘ as the recipient of the ESHHS Early Career Award 2024. Congratulations!

The winner of the ESHHS Early Career Award has the opportunity to submit their full-length paper to the Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences where it will undergo the standard peer review process and if the paper is accepted for publication, the author will receive an honorarium of $500.

More information about the Early Career Award can be found here.

Call for Papers for the Three Societies Meeting 2025

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ESHHS, CHEIRON & SHP: Three Societies Meeting 

ESHHS—the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences
CHEIRON—the International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
& SHP—the Society for the History of Psychology (APA division 26) invite submissions for papers, posters and symposia for their first “Three Societies Meeting” to take place in Paris, France from July 1st–July 5th, 2025, hosted by the American University of Paris. 

We invite proposals for oral presentations, posters, sessions, round tables and workshops that deal with any aspect of the history of the human, behavioral and social sciences or with related historiographic and methodological issues. This year’s featured theme will be Environments, Milieux and Places in the History of the Human, Behavioral and Social Sciences and we particularly encourage submissions related to any particular aspect of this theme. With 2025 the bicentennial of J.-M. Charcot’s birth, submissions related to Charcot’s work and milieux would also be of topical interest. 

 Guidelines for submission
Submissions should include the following: name, email and institutional affiliation of all authors. Please indicate clearly on the top of the page the submission type: oral presentation, poster, session, round table or workshop. 

• Proposals for oral presentations should contain a 500–600 word abstract in English plus a  short bibliography. If the presentation itself will be given in a language other than  English, please indicate this in your proposal.
• Proposals for posters should contain a 300 word abstract in English and a short  bibliography.
• Proposals for a session, workshop or round-table should contain a 500–600 word rationale of the event, plus a short bibliography, as well as a short abstract for each individual contribution to the event. 

Please send your proposal as attachment in MSWord (.doc/.docx) via the link that will soon be posted on the societies’ websites: eshhs.eu, cheironsoc.org, historyofpsych.org. 

If you have inquiries, please feel free to contact the conference hosts, Zed Gao and Sharman  Levinson, at our conference email <cerberus.paris@gmail.com>. 

 Deadline for submissions is 5th March, 2025. Please find the submission form here.

Please find the full Call for Papers here