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Year of CISH 2026

To celebrate its centenary, the CISH Board has declared 2026 the Year of the CISH. Members will be involved in a number of activities:

  1. The website of the CISH Centennial Conference in Leipzig (26–30 August 2026) is online! More information here.
  2. The CISH-Board has drafted a new Constitution for CISH to be enacted in 2026. Read the draft here. More details here.
  3. To celebrate its centenary, the CISH Board is supporting events and activities around the world commemorating CISH. More information on this and how to apply is available here.

Sacha Zala appointed as CISH President

The General Assembly elected Sacha Zala as President.
Zala is Director of the research centre Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland) and Professor of History at the University of Bern. He joined the CISH Board as Treasurer in 2017 and served as President of the Swiss Society for History (SSH) from 2012 to 2026. He succeeds Catherine Horel of France, who was elected President of CISH in 2022.

In his acceptance speech, Zala outlined four priorities for his term:

1. Complete CISH’s institutional reform, professionalise its structures and secure the financial resources required for its long-term sustainability.

2. Strengthen cooperation among CISH members, particularly by forging closer ties with National Organisations and deepening collaboration with Affiliated International Organisations.

3. Further develop CISH’s international congresses, making them more dynamic, financially sustainable and attractive to historians worldwide.

4. Defend academic freedom and strengthen CISH’s role as the world organisation representing historians and promoting international scholarly cooperation.

Hundred Years CISH

CISH turns 100 today!

One hundred years ago today, on 14 May 1926, the Comité international des sciences historiques was founded in Geneva. A century on, CISH unites 54 national committees and 27 international associations dedicated to historical research across the globe.

For a hundred years, CISH has championed the historical sciences and fostered international scholarly cooperation. To mark this milestone, the CISH Board has declared 2026 the Year of the CISH, culminating in the Centennial Conference in Leipzig, 26–30 August 2026.


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Prix Sternhell

À l’occasion du centième anniversaire de la fondation du CISH et de son congrès qui se tiendra à Leipzig, à la fin du mois d’août 2026, la Commission internationale d’histoire de la Révolution française (CIHRF) a proposé de fonder le prix Zeev Sternhell, afin de récompenser le meilleur ouvrage d’histoire transnationale des Révolutions de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et du début du XIXe siècle.

Le prix est doté de 2000 euros.

Les ouvrages ont été sélectionnés par un jury composé de 16 experts internationaux, parmi une liste établie de 17 ouvrages, après une première consultation, puis réduite à 10 ouvrages.

Le prix sera remis le jeudi 27 août à Leipzig, lors d’une cérémonie spéciale, en présence du lauréat et de tous les membres de la CIHRF présent·e·s, où la CIHRF organise deux panels dans le cadre du congrès du centenaire du CISH.

L’ouvrage récompensé comme la meilleure monographie parue ces 5 dernières années renouvelant par ses recherches inédites, ses problématiques nouvelles, notre connaissance des Révolutions de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et du début du XIXe siècle de par le monde est :

– Micah Alpaugh, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021.

l’Acessit est décerné à  :

– Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Les huit autres finalistes sont :

-Ian Coller, Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020).

-Manuel Covo, Entrepôt of Revolutions. Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

-Marlene L. Daut, Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution,UNC/Press,2023.


-Alan Forrest, The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

-Patrick Griffin, The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2023.

-Maurizio Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023.

-Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It, New York, Basic Books, 2024.

-Pernille, Røge Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Le jury entend bien faire savoir que les succès des deux premiers ouvrages n’a de sens que par rapport à la liste globale dont ils font partie. Tous ces ouvrages sont désormais fondamentaux et plus que des classiques, des références. Ainsi la CIHRF tend à associer les dix œuvres à ce succès.