The registration for the upcoming 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) taking place between July 1st – July 5th 2025 at the American University, Paris, France is now officially open!

To register for the conference please follow this link.

The conference website is now online with information on accommodation, transportation options and conference registration. The full conference program is coming soon!

https://www.aup.edu/news-events/event/2025-07-01/three-societies-meeting

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.

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

We are happy to announce that the program for our 2023 conference at Sapienza Università di Roma is now online – you can find it here. Further information can be found at our conference website.

Registration for our next conference in Rome is now open! Please follow this link to find all necessary information about the registration, travelling, accomodation and many other things that awaits us in Rome.

We are happy to announce that Roger Smith, long-term members of ESHHS, has just published his new book titled as “Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience” at Routledge. The book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world. If you would like to find more about this, please follow this link.

We are happy to announce that the final program for the ESHHS 2022 conference is now online! We are very much looking forward to meeting members old and new again in person in Berlin next week. Please note that registration is closed now – if you have any further questions, please contact the local organizers at eshhs2022@gmail.com.

Dear friends and members of the ESHHS,

we are happy to announce that the registration for our 2022 conference at the Sigmund Freud University Berlin is now open. Please follow this link to register. Further information about the conference can be found here.

Dear ESHHS member,

attached please find the first call for abstracts for our joint meeting with Cheiron in Barcelona next year. Our host in Barcelona will be the long-time member and former President Annette Mülberger.

Hope to see you as well as the “Cheironians” there!