Previous Conferences

Recent conference pages include themes, keynote biographies, conference programmes, videos, calls for papers, and conference abstracts.

Recent conferences (2022-2026)

ISCHE 47 - Athens (2026) ISCHE 46 - Lille (2025) ISCHE 45 - Natal (2024) ISCHE 44 - Budapest (2023) ISCHE 43 - Milan (2022)

Conference Archive

The table below provides an overview of ISCHE conferences held prior to ISCHE 43, including locations, themes, and available conference materials.

Edition	Location	Date	Theme	Resources
ISCHE 42	Örebro, Sweden (online)	14-15 June 2021	Looking from Above and Below: Rethinking the Social in the History of Education	Abstracts
2020: Conference postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ISCHE 41	Oporto, Portugal	16-20 July 2019	Spaces and Places of Education	Abstracts
ISCHE 40	Berlin, Germany	29 August - 1 September 2018	Education and Nature	Abstracts
ISCHE 39	Buenos Aires, Argentina	18-21 July 2017	Education and Emancipation	Abstracts
ISCHE 38	Chicago, USA	17-20 August 2016	Education and the Body	Abstracts
ISCHE 37	Istanbul, Turkey	24-27 June 2015	Education and Culture	Abstracts
ISCHE 36	London, United Kingdom	23-26 July 2014	Education, War and Peace	Abstracts
ISCHE 35	Riga, Latvia	21-24 August 2013	Education and Power	Abstracts
ISCHE 34	Geneva, Switzerland	27-30 June 2012	Internationalization in Education	Abstracts
ISCHE 33	San Luis Potosí, México	26-29 July 2011	State, Education and Society: New Perspectives on an Old Debate
ISCHE 32	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	26-27 August 2010	Discoveries of Childhood in History (integrated into the meeting of the International Committee of Historical Sciences)	Abstracts
ISCHE 31	Utrecht, The Netherlands	26-29 August 2009	The History of Popular Education	Abstracts
ISCHE 30	Rutgers University, Newark (NJ, USA)	23-26 July 2008	Education and Inequality: Historical Approaches on Schooling and Social Stratification.	Abstracts
ISCHE 29	Hamburg, Germany	25-28 July 2007	Children and Youth at Risk.	Abstracts
ISCHE 28	Umeå, Sweden	16-19 August 2006	Technologies of the Word. Literacies in the History of Education.
ISCHE 27	Sydney, Australia	2005	Borders and Boundaries in the History of Education. (integrated into the meeting of the International Committee of Historical Sciences)
ISCHE 26	Geneva, Switzerland	2004	New Education: Genesis and Metamorphoses
ISCHE 25	São Paulo, Brazil	2003	Education and Modernity
ISCHE 24	Paris, France	2002	Secondary Education: institutional, cultural and social history
ISCHE 23	Birmingham, United Kingdom	2001	Urbanisation and Education: the city as light and beacon?
ISCHE 22	Alcala, Spain	2000	Books and Education
ISCHE 21	Sydney, Australia	1999	Education and Ethnicity
ISCHE 20	Kortrijk, Belgium	1998	The Challenge of the Visual in the History of Education
ISCHE 19	Dublin, Ireland	1997	Faiths and Education: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
ISCHE 18	Krakow, Poland	1996	Schooling in Changing Societies: Historical and Comparative Perspectives