Next Meeting

The next CIHEC event will be part of the upcoming CISH Centennial Conference “The Past, the Present, and the future of History: Celebrating 100 Years of International Committee of Historical Sciences” to be held in Leipzig, Germany, 27–30 August 2026.

Session on Friday, 28 August 2026, 08:30-10:30, Educational Science Center – Campus Jahnallee, Leipzig University, House 1 T-1004:
Why is CIHEC part of CISH? Actual reflections on integrating religious history into general historiography

The Leipzig centennial conference challenges international historians of Christianity to ask a simple question on the CISH/CIHEC connection since 1926/1952: Why should general historians consult church historians? Or why should church historians cooperate with general historians? The question may be answered from historiographical perspectives of different countries connected to CIHEC. Can we collect comparative insights on practices of church history in the interbellum or (also) in the postwar period? What made church historians to profile themselves apart from or close to general historians, and what effects can be observed in terms of coercion, isolation, or confrontation? How should historians of religion deal with conceptual and methodological renewals in the humanities in a post-secular age and world?
Papers:
Riho Altnurme: Writing church history in Estonia from its independence in 1918 and through the Soviet period
Peter Morée: History of Church and Religion in the Czech Lands: between confessional, political and social approaches
Fred van Lieburg: Dutch church historians navigating in international historiography in the past century

The Annual Board Meeting will follow at 12.00-13.30. Room to be announced. Representatives who will not be able to come in person, can join the meeting online (LINK WILL FOLLOW HERE).

Past Annual General Meetings & Conferences

2025, June 30/July 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“Total devotion: Extreme beliefs among Christians from past to present”)
2024, June 3-5, Riga, Latvia (“Gender and Sexuality in Christian History”)
2023, June 12-14, Prague, Czechia (“Religion and change: Religious impulses for societal change and societal impulses for religious reform”)
2022, August 21-27, Poznań, Poland
2021, November 29-30, Zagreb, Croatia (“From Words to Acts: Written Sources fort he Reconstruction and Understanding of Diplomatic Negotiations”)
2020
2019, June 11-13, Lyon, France (“Histoire religieuse et autres types d’histoire”)
2018, June 12-14, Rome, Vatican (“Religion, Diplomacy and Peace”)
2017, June 13-14, Salzburg, Austria (“The World of Reformations – The Reformation of the World”)
2016, June 16-17, Lisbon, Portugal (“To Reform: Religious Reforms and Social Reformism”)
2015, June 11-12, Stockholm, Sweden (“Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies – research, results, and reading“)
2014, June 5-7, Trogir, Croatia (“Bishop and Religious community”)
2013, June 6-8, Vilnius, Lithuania (“Christian and the non-Christian other”)
2012, June 11-13, Tartu, Estonia (“Religion and resistance in Europe from the Middle Ages to 21st century”)
2011, May 30-June 1, Tel Aviv, Israel (“Religion and peace: peace in monotheistic traditions”)
2010, June 3-5, Helsinki, Finland (“Religion in Finland: historical, archaeological and art historical perspectives”)
2009, June 5-6, Ljubljana, Slovenia (general meeting with lecture and excursions)
2008, June 12-14, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (“Pilgrims and Politics”)
2007, September 6-10, Lublin, Poland (“Religious space of East-Central Europe – open to the East and the West”)