The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of fields, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.

We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.

This year’s special conference theme is Shifting Cultures of Knowledge in the History of the Humanities. In 2024, we encourage papers that address the history of the humanities in relation to broader, multidisciplinary studies on knowledge and scholarship. In what ways can the role of knowledge in the history of the humanities be understood and analyzed? To what extent have the humanities fostered specific cultures of knowledge? Is it time to rethink the history of the humanities in relation to other epistemic formations? Has the relationship between the history of the humanities and the history of the human/social sciences been sufficiently explored? How should the history of the humanities be understood in light of longstanding debates on the so-called two (or three) cultures and their respective functions and values?