International Society for Intellectual History · Annual Conference
The 2026 Annual Conference of the ISIH
The Theme
The 2026 conference invites scholars to examine how historical actors — political thinkers, jurists, reformers, revolutionaries, literati, and religious scholars — imagined, contested, and redefined order in moments of rupture and transformation.
Bringing together perspectives from across global intellectual history, the conference asks how ideas of order and disorder have travelled, clashed, and been reworked across regions, languages, and traditions — from early modern political thought to the contested orders of the modern world.
Keynote Lectures
Planning
Academic Process
ISIH 2026 is a peer-reviewed international academic conference. All individual paper and panel proposals submitted to the conference undergo a formal academic peer-review process conducted by members of the conference’s academic committees. Acceptance decisions are made only after the completion of this evaluation process and are based on the proposals’ academic quality, originality, relevance to the conference theme, and contribution to the field of intellectual history.
The People
Getting there
Sabancı University · Istanbul Policy Center
Bankalar Caddesi No: 2, Minerva Han
34420 Karaköy, İstanbul, Türkiye
Set in the historic Minerva Han in Karaköy, the venue sits at the heart of İstanbul, within easy reach of the city's museums, the Golden Horn, and the Bosphorus.
Organised & hosted by
ISIH