Prof. Dr. Carlotta Sorba is professor in Contemporary European History within the Department of History, Geography and the Ancient world at the University of Padua, Italy.

Since 2012 Sorba is director of the CSC (Interuniversity Center of Cultural History), founded by a convention between the University of Padua, Bologna, Venice, Pisa and Verona.

Her research interests include the cultural history of 19th century Europe, especially the relationship between cultural productions (music, theatre, proto-mass culture), society and politics.

Recent publications are ‘Où en est l’histoire culturelle de l’Italie contemporaine ?’ Revue d’histoire culturelle (2023) 1-26, with F. Archambault and V. Cirefice; Il melodramma della nazione. Politica e sentimenti nell’eta del Risorgimento (Rome: Laterza 2015), which focused on the relationship between melodramatic imagination and national movement in the Italian Risorgimento. The book was awarded the Senior Prize 2016 from the Italian Society of studies on contemporary history.

Pasi Ihalainen | University of Jyväskylä has been leading JYU Research Group on the Comparative Study of Political Cultures Research at the Department of History and Ethnology | University of Jyväskylä since 2012, developing it through his Academy of Finland Professor project Political Representation: Tensions between Parliament and the People from the Age of Revolutions to the 21st Century | University of Jyväskylä into an internationally recognised JYU Quantitative Conceptual History Research Group.

The group renews ways in which comparative history of political cultures is written in the 2020s, combining digital humanities, conceptual history and political theory to analyse transnational conceptual transformations. To write the long-term comparative history of representative democracy, it has collected data from ten countries and the European Parliament, building together with Utrecht University Research Software Lab the People & Parliament (P&P), an innovative, partly open interface for comparative historical text-mining. The metadata of the interface is available at JYX – People & Parliament: A Comparative Interface on Parliamentary Debates in Northwest Europe since the Nineteenth Century (jyu.fi) and an exemplary Dutch corpus at People & Parliament (uu.nl). The project aims to publish more corpora in the coming years. This work has attracted leading experts to visit the team.

The methodological textbook Writing Conceptual Histories, merging quantitative analysis to the theory of conceptual history, is under production by Bloomsbury Academic, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-conceptual-histories-9781350287198/.

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Recent publications are Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State (New York: Berghahn Books 2022) edited with Antero Holmila and ‘A Model Country or a Peripheral Anomaly? The Finnish Women’s Suffrage and Female MPs in Transnational Debates, 1906-19’, in: T. Kaiser, & A. Schulz (eds.), Vorhang auf! – Frauen in Parlament und Politik . Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteienrliament and Parliamentarism: a comparative history of a European concept 185 (Droste Verlag 2022) 55-72, with T. Kinnunen.

Supervision areas: history of political discourse, quantitative conceptual history, history of democracy and parliamentarism, history of nationalism and internationalism.

Prof. Dr. Norbert Götz is Professor of Contemporary History at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden.

His current research focuses on humanitarianism, moral economy, global civil society, and civil society–state relations. His interests also include populism and nationalism, political culture, peace and international relations, democracy and the welfare state, and conceptual history. The larger Baltic Sea region, including the Nordic countries and Central and Eastern Europe, are special target regions, although his research includes the British Isles, global history, and the UN.

He is currently directing the following research projects: Civil Society without Boundaries: Nordic Humanitarianism Facing the Biafra Crisis and Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region.

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Recent publications include: ‘Towards Expressive Humanitarianism: The Formative Experience of Biafra’, in: Fiammetta Balestracci, Christina von Hodenberg, and Isabel Richter (eds.), An Era of Value Change: The Long 1970s in Europe (Oxford University Press 2024) 207–32; Biafra and the Nordic media: Witness Seminar with Uno Grönkvist, Lasse Jensen, Pierre Mens, and Pekka Peltola (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2024) and ‘History: The Moral Economy Perspective’, in: Yannis Stavrakakis et al. (ed.) Research Handbook on Populism (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) 239-250.

Supervision areas: global civil society, international organisations, humanitarian efforts.

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Orsina is Professor of History at Luiss-Guido Carli University, Italy.

His research interests include the relationship between ideologies, institutions and political struggle, with a particular focus on liberalism.

At Luiss-Guido Carli University Giovanni Orsina is deputy director of the School of Government and director of the Master in European Studies. He is also research fellow of IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, where he is the coordinator of the PhD in Political History.

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His latest publications include ‘Political Science as a Modernist Project’, in: C. Domper Lasús and G. Priorelli (ed.), Combining Political History and Political Science. Towards a New Understanding of the Political (London: Routledge 2022); ‘Party democracy and its enemies: Italy, 1945–1992′ Journal of Modern European History 17:2 (2019) 220–233, with T.B. Müller and J. Nevers; ‘Genealogy of a Populist Uprising. Italy, 1979-2019′ The International Spectator 54:2 (2019) 50–66.

Supervision areas: Italian political history, or topics that can be related to Italian political history, since 1945. Late XXth century European political history: processes of depoliticisation since the 1970s, so-called neoliberalism, emergence of so-called populism.

Prof. Dr. Irène Herrmann is Professor in Transnational History of Switzerland at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. She is Vice President of the APH.

Her research interests include humanitarianism, conceptual history, conflict management and the political uses of the past in Switzerland and in Post-soviet Russia. She was co-founder of the research network European Conceptual History and has been a board member of the Concepta-International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought.

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Her latest publications include L’humanitaire en questions. Réflexions autour de l’histoire de la Croix-Rouge (Paris: Editions du Cerf 2018) and 12 septembre 1814. La Restauration. La Confédération réinventée (Lausanne, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes 2016).

Supervision areas: humanitarianism, Solidarity, Swiss history, (post) Soviet history.

Dr. Hagen Schulz-Forberg is associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

His research interests focus on transnational history, global history, intellectual history, European history, European integration, travel and tourism, historiography, and cultural history.

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Recent publications include ‘Constitutionalism as practice’ European Journal of Legal Studies 15:2 (2024) 109-126; ‘The inequalities of progress: Jean-Baptiste Say’s theory of capitalism and the entrepreneur’, in: E. Nokkala and J. Gerlings (ed.), The Process of Enlightenment: Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Bödeker (Liverpool University Press 2024).

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political History.