The World History Association

The WHA is excited to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference to be held in Incheon, Korea, June 25-27, 2026. Find the full CFP and submission information on our conference website: https://thewha.org/conferences/korea-wha.html.

To accommodate people's schedules, we have decided to implement rolling acceptances for our 2026 conference:
- 1 December, 2025: Early submission deadline with notice of acceptance by mid-December 2025
- 1 March, 2026: Standard submission deadline with notice of acceptance by mid-March 2026
[Image: Incheon Grand Bridge, by Cameron Henderson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0]

Calling all graduate students & early career scholars: The WHA with Bloomsbury are hosting a virtual workshop on revising PhD theses into monographs and writing successful book proposals on April 14, 2025 at 12:30pm EDT/16:30 UTC

Register Here: https://members.thewha.org/event/bloomsbury_monograph_workshop_2025

This workshop was designed in service of our Bloomsbury-WHA Diversity in World History Prize, though participation in the monograph prize is not required for attending the workshop.

Find more information about the prize here: https://www.thewha.org/wha-awards/bloomsbury-wha-monograph-prize/

On January 30, 2025, the WHA Officers and Council considered and affirmed a Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza. The resolution responds to the dire situation facing the teaching, learning, and documentation of history in Gaza.

See full text here: https://members.thewha.org/page/resolution

Following WHA procedure, we submitted the resolution to a vote of the entire membership of the WHA from February 18-25, 2025. The vote passed with 83% of participants in favor of the resolution, 13% opposed, and 4% abstaining.

Therefore, the resolution is affirmed as a measure of the WHA.

In order to ensure that only members participated in the vote and that each member cast only one vote we used ElectionRunner, the same secure online voting software that we've used for our last two Council elections. You can see the results here: https://vote.electionrunner.com/election/HW26l/results