2026 Meeting
- 2026 submission form
- 2026 program (to come)
- More about the 2026 meeting
News and Notes
- Submissions for the 2026 Book Prize due December 31, 2025
- 2025 Young Scholar Award: Catriel Fierro
- 2025 Cheiron Book Prize: Two books were given top honors: William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens and Michael Pettit, Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War Psychology.
58th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: Call for Papers
The 58th Annual Meeting of Cheiron – The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences – will be held virtually from Thursday, June 25th through Saturday, June 27th, 2026. The theme of the meeting will be “Cheiron without Borders.” Mike Pettit is the program chair for the 2026 meeting.
Due to the many increased challenges facing us (such as concerns about safe border crossings and diminished travel support from universities), we have decided an online meeting is the most feasible and accessible option for 2026. This is not a permanent change to the annual meeting. As part of our virtual gathering, we plan on hosting a dedicated session where the membership can exchange ideas about how best to sustain in person meetings long term.
Call for Papers
Cheiron invites submissions of papers, thematic symposia, panels, roundtables, workshops and posters that deal with an aspect of the history of the human, behavioral or social sciences or related historiographical and methodological issues.
Submissions must be received no later than February 13th, 2026, 5 pm EST. Guidelines and submission form available under Meetings.

2026 Elizabeth Scarborough Lecturer
Cheiron is pleased to announce that Peter Hegarty of The Open University will present the 2026 Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture.