ISCH Prize 2013 for Cultural Historians

In order to support cultural historical research and encourage scholars in their early career, the International Society for Cultural History, ISCH, has decided to offer an essay prize which will be awarded each year to the best article on cultural history. The ISCH Prize in 2013 is 250 GBP. The winning article will also be published in the society’s journal Cultural History. The ISCH welcomes original texts that make an insightful contribution to scholarship on cultural history through methodological innovation, theoretical originality or historiographical significance. Articles on any aspect of cultural history, on any historical period or geographical area will be accepted for consideration. Submissions should be original, unpublished works in English, written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are either preparing their PhD or have completed their PhD during the last five years. Essays should be double spaced, and no more than 7000 words in length. To submit an entry, please send a complete application to each member of the Prize Committee. The submissions should include a cover sheet with author information, the essay and its publication details and a short CV. All files should be in pdf format. Your submission must be sent not later than by 10 May 2013. The winner will be announced at the ISCH Conference in Istanbul, September 2013.

Please send your submission to:
Prof. Jorg Rogge, Chair of the Prize Committee Email: rogge@uni-mainz.de
Address: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Historisches Seminar, Mittelalterliche Geschichte Saarstr. 21, D-55099 Mainz,
Germany

Prof. Anne Eriksen
Email: anne.eriksen@ikos.uio.no
Address: University of Oslo Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages Postboks 1010 Blindern
N-0315 OSLO
Norway

Prof. Patrick Hutton
Email: phutton@uvm.edu Address: Department of History University of Vermont
133 South Prospect St. Burlington, VT 05405
USA

CFP, International Society for Cultural History

7TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL HISTORY (ISCH):

Artefacts, Culture, and Identity

Istanbul, 11-14 September 2013

Istanbul University and Fatih University invite the members of ISCH to join the society’s seventh annual conference 2013 on the shores of the Bosphorus. Istanbul defines its unique location through the border between two continents. Its multifaceted history as a metropolis in different civilisations invites us to reflect what it is when we talk about culture: Who is the agent manifesting cultures? How does culture change over time across political and social transitions? How do present-day inhabitants relate to cultural artefacts found in the soil of their land? The conference will explore the relationship between culture, concepts of geographical space, historical time, socio-ethnic groups and individuals. Language, religions, ideologies, elite and mass cultures all converge in shaping the way human beings understand themselves and one another. 

Proposals for individual talks and for thematic panels should be submitted before 28 February 2013, including an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short academic CV to ischcongress2013@culthist.org . All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizing committee. Contributors will be notified within four weeks.
The organising committee proposes the following list of topics:
• Culture and change
• Whose artefacts … whose remains?
• Constructing collective memories
• Scramble for Istanbul’s Past: Archaeology, urban development, and identity
• Healing artefacts
• Culture and political resistance 
• Artefacts in the age of social networks
• Methodologies in the study of artefacts, culture, and identity
Members are cordially invited to suggest further items and organise thematic panel sessions.
We are also planning a meeting of the ISCH postgraduate network; please, contact the organisers separately at the address below.
For initial questions, please, contact ischcongress2013@culthist.org 
Congress fee: 50 € (students free)
Presenters whose papers have been accepted are expected to join ISCH for the year 2013 (go tohttp://abdn.ac.uk/isch/directory.php for further details). Members of ISCH will receive the benefit of two issues of Cultural History, the Journal of ISCH (http://www.culthist.org/isch-journal/ ) and the opportunity to win the essay prize.