Past Conferences

Past ISCHE conferences

2024 ISCHE 45, Natal, Brazil, 18 – 21 August, Natal and 5 – 6 September, online. “(De)coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education”.

– 2023 ISCHE 44, Budapest, Hungary, July 18 – 21. “Histories of Education and Reform: Traditions, Tensions and Transitions”.

– 2022 ISCHE 43, Milan, Italy, August 31 – September 3. “Histories of Educational Technologies: Cultural and Social Dimensions of Pedagogical Objects”

– 2021 ISCHE 42, Örebro, Sweden (online) “Looking from Above and Below: Rethinking the Social in the History of Education”.

-2020: postponed

– 2019 ISCHE 41, Oporto, Portugal, July 16- 20. Spaces and Places of Education

– 2018 ISCHE 40 Berlin, Germany, August 29- September 1. Education and Nature

– 2017 ISCHE 39 Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18-21. Education and Emancipation

– 2016 ISCHE 38 Chicago, USA, August 17-20. Education and the Body

– 2015 ISCHE 37 Istanbul, Turkey, June 24-27. Education and Culture

– 2014 ISCHE 36 London, England, July 23-26. Education, War and Peace

– 2013 ISCHE 35 Riga, Latvia, August 21-24. Education and Power

2012 ISCHE 34 Geneva, Switzerland, June 27-30.  Internationalization in Education [PDF of Conference Abstract Volume]

– 2011  ISCHE 33 San Luis Potosí, México, July 26-29.  State, Education and Society: New Perspectives on an Old Debate

– 2010 ISCHE 32 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 26-27, (integrated into the meeting of the International Committee of Historical Sciences) Discoveries of Childhood in History [PDF of Conference Abstract Volume]

– 2009 ISCHE 31 Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 26-29, The History of Popular Education [PDF of Conference Abstract Volume]

– 2008 ISCHE 30 Rutgers University, Newark (NJ, USA), July 23-26, Education and Inequality : Historical Approaches on Schooling and Social Stratification. [PDF of Conference Abstract Volume]

– 2007 ISCHE 29 Hamburg, Germany, July 25-28, Children and Youth at Risk. [PDF of Conference Abstract Volume]

– 2006 ISCHE 28 Umeå, Sweden, August 16-19, Technologies of the Word. Literacies in the History of Education.

– 2005 ISCHE 27 Sydney, Australia. Borders and Boundaries in the History of Education.
(integrated into the meeting of the International Committee of Historical Sciences)

– 2004 ISCHE 26 Geneva, Switzerland. New Education : Genesis and Metamorphoses

– 2003 ISCHE 25 São Paulo, Brazil. Education and Modernity

– 2002 ISCHE 24 Paris, France. Secondary Education : institutional, cultural and social history

– 2001 ISCHE 23 Birmingham, UK. Urbanisation and Education: the city as light and beacon?

– 2000 ISCHE 22 Alcala, Spain. Books and Education

– 1999 ISCHE 21 Sydney, Australia. Education and Ethnicity

– 1998 ISCHE 20 Kortrijk, Belgium. The Challenge of the Visual in the History of Education

– 1997 ISCHE 19 Dublin, Eire. Faiths and Education: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

– 1996 ISCHE 18 Krakow, Poland. Schooling in Changing Societies: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Earlier conferences were held at:

  • ISCHE XVII – Berlin (Germany), 1995
  • ISCHE XVI – conference: Amsterdam (Netherlands), 1994
  • ISCHE XV – conference: Lisbon (Portugal), 1993
  • ISCHE XIV – conference: Barcelona (Spain), 1992
  • ISCHE XIII – conference: Zürich (Switzerland), 1991
  • ISCHE XII – conference: Prague (Czechoslovakia), 1990
  • ISCHE XI – conference: Oslo (Norway), 1989
  • ISCHE X – conference: Joensuu (Finland), 1988
  • ISCHE IX – conference: Pécs (Hungary), 1987
  • ISCHE VIII – conference: Parma (Italy), 1986
  • ISCHE VII – conference: Salamanca (Spain), 1985
  • ISCHE VI – conference: Wolfenbüttel (Germany), 1984
  • ISCHE V – conference: Oxford (United Kingdom), 1983
  • ISCHE IV – conference: Budapest (Hungary), 1982
  • ISCHE III – conference: Sèvres (France), 1981
  • ISCHE II – conference: Warsaw (Poland), 1980
  • ISCHE I – conference: Leuven (Belgium), 1979