The next annual conference of the International Society for Cultural History will be held in Hum-huset, Umeå university, Sweden, 26-29 June, 2017.

The general theme this year is ‘Senses, Emotions and the Affective Turn - Recent Perspectives and New Challenges in Cultural History

Illustration is showing details from two works of Gian  Lorenzo Bernini: Rape of Proserpina (1622), Villa Borghese in Rome, and Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (1652), church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome)