Check out the special events like the General Meeting and Walking Tours.  We also have some nice conference offers lined up for you:  discounts at local museums and lunch deals at selected restaurants.

The deadline for sending in your paper and session proposals is April 15, 2024

The 15th European Social Science History Conference 2025  is organized by the IISH in co-operation with Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

The aim of the ESSHC is bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in 27 thematic networks.

We strongly encourage interdisciplinary and international sessions.

Click here for guidelines of how to submit a paper or session proposal.

Click here to submit  your paper and session proposals on the Ex Ordo platform.

PhD students are invited to enter their paper for the Prof. Jan Lucassen Award for best paper by a PhD student in the conference programme.

Impressions of the 2023 conference held in Gothenburg, Sweden 12 - 15 April.
Photographs by Robert Lipic and Astrid Verburg.

Many thanks to all participants.

See you in Leiden, the Netherlands March 2025.

Download: 480p (71 MB), 720p (145 MB), 1080p (328 MB)

At the general meeting of the ESSHC in Gothenburg the winner of the Jan Lucassen Award was announced and presented by jury member Silke Neunsinger.

The Winner: Maya Adereth (London School of Economics)

with the paper: Trade Unions and Universal Welfare: The Importance of Organizational Context

She wins the prize consisting of: € 1000  

There were two Honorary Mentions

for Claudio Monopoli (Università degli Studi di Padova) with his  paper: The agency of pornographic photography: sexuality and visual culture in Italian censorship nets, 1839-1919

and Josep Mas-Ferrer (Universitat de Girona) with his paper: Forks and napkins on poor tables. Production and consumption in humble rural households at the end of the Ancien Régime (north-eastern Catalonia, 1750-1807)

Each receiving an encouragement prize of:  €250

Congratulations!

The Winner: Maya Adereth (London School of Economics)