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Cambridge
Freedom of Conscience in the Pre-Enlightenment (1000-1650)
Freedom of conscience is considered an unalienable right akin to freedoms of expression and speech, as noted in Articles 18 and 19 of the UN Charter. However, if we turn to the Medieval period, and its great diversity of innovative religious writing, it is clear that the mechanics of external oppression upon an individual’s inner life already existed in clear and comprehensible terms. Therefore, the (broad) question we would like to answer is : if we look beyond the eighteenth century, do we see this idea gradually become concrete ?
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Toulouse
Conference, symposium - Political studies
Imagining a Future (inside/outside) Britain
S’inscrivant dans la perspective du champ interdisciplinaire des études sur le futur, et plus spécifiquement des études critiques sur le futur, ce colloque propose d’étudier la façon dont le futur du Royaume-Uni et des nations qui le composent a été imaginé à travers les périodes, sur des modes fictionnels et non-fictionnels. Nous nous intéresserons à la fois aux représentations du futur du Royaume-Uni dans son ensemble (le futur de l’État, de la société et de l’Union britanniques), et aux représentations du futur des différents territoires constitutifs du Royaume-Uni soit au sein de l’Union et de l’Empire, soit au contraire hors de ceux-ci.
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Call for papers - Political studies
Democracy at University: Voicing Choices
In France, as abroad, questions of democracy span multiple social fields. The University appears as a privileged place for observation and reflection. As a space for academic and civic education, for the transmission of knowledge and collective experimentation, it also constitutes a laboratory for democratic practices.
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Naples
The Left’s Diverging Paths in the Green Transition
Since the 1970s, environmental constraints, shifting social values, and the crisis of post-war productivism have profoundly challenged the Western left. Once grounded in beliefs in scientific progress, technological innovations, and rising material prosperity, left-wing movements have increasingly been forced to confront planetary limits, rising inequality, and growing public ambivalence toward technoscience. These tensions have crystallised in contemporary debates on the Green Transition, where competing visions of abundance (growth-oriented technological optimism) and sufficiency (degrowth, sobriété, post-productivism) shape political and social antagonisms.
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Aubervilliers
By choosing to focus on South-North circulations, this seminar is dedicated to the deconstruction of the “British Empire” as a homogeneous category to write and think about the intellectual, artistic, and political histories of the people who circulate and inhabit this polity known as the Commonwealth of Nations in the post-Bandung era. Working from the assumption that committed artists, intellectuals and political activists from the Global South have networked and connected within this space, we seek to interrogate the counter-hegemonic nature of the knowledge, theories and artistic practices produced during the post-Bandung era.
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Poznań
Call for papers - Political studies
Into the ordinariness of citizenship
Anthropological investigations of citizenship offer a wide range of descriptions of various practices of (de)polarization, making manifest the connection between citizenship and a strange multiplicity of political imaginaries that cannot be reduced to statism or, more generally, to a “political ontology of violence”. As such, anthropology of citizenship invites us not to think of politics beyond (de)polarization but, rather, to look—through descriptive and comparative perspectives—at the variety of its practices, along with their specific political imaginaries, and to understand how they constitute the very “ordinariness” of citizenship.
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Call for papers - Political studies
Constitutionalism Under Scrutiny: New Critical Voices
Workshop at the University of Oxford, Spring 2026
We invite scholars to contribute to a Special Issue or Symposium aimed at a top-ranking journal on the topic of opposition to constitutionalism. Constitutionalism is a global phenomenon, yet our understanding of its opposition outside North America is limited. Who if anyone is mobilising against it, and on what grounds? And is it confined to legal and academic circles? Is the opposition unified or fragmented? What precisely is contested, how (e.g. through legal mobilization, advocacy), and to what end and with what impact? We seek contributors who can innovate the theory and empirics of these consequential issues. Of special interest are contributions on opposition to constitutionalism in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Russia, as well as in Europe and the USA.
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Journal of Law, Society, and Authority - Varia
The primary objective of the journal is to disseminate original and credible scholarly contributions within the domains of legal and political sciences. Additionally, the journal endeavors to showcase the outcomes of scholarly gatherings and seminars. Moreover, it facilitates the dissemination of well-translated research pieces, ensuring their accessibility to a broader audience of researchers. This, in turn, furnishes valuable academic material for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners specializing in the journal’s areas of focus, encompassing judges, lawyers, and other experts.
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Call for papers - Political studies
Indigenous Peoples in Global Politics
Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD
This special issue aims to gather contributions from researchers studying indigenous peoples in international politics. We particularly – though not exclusively – encourage submissions on topics such as: How does the political action of indigenous peoples yield pressure on traditional concepts such as politics, sovereignty, international cooperation, and global governance? To what extent and through what mechanisms do these practices subvert or are co-opted by the hegemonic structures of the international system? In what ways do indigenous philosophies and worldviews challenge the colonial logics of the Anthropocene, extractivism, and the geopolitics of knowledge?
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Law
The Constitutional Overhaul and the War in Gaza
The Puzzle of Civic Mobilization in Israel
Much has been written on the constitutional overhaul in Israel, and the attendant constitutional crisis in the first nine months of 2023. Since October 7, however, with the breakout of the Israel-Gaza war, the overhaul was seemingly shelved. The Article discussed in this seminair seeks to connect both events, by comparing the legal-political response to the overhaul with the legal-political response to the war. It asks why, given the intensity of the protest movement generated by the overhaul, there was a dearth of protest activity after the war, even though both events implicated similar values, namely the rule of law and individual rights, championed by the protest movement.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Law
American Fever - Selecting Supreme Court Justices
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris is pleased to invite you to a seminar with Julien Jeanneney (University of Strasbourg) for his book: Une fièvre américaine. Choisir les juges de la Cour suprême (CNRS Editions, 2024). The presentation will be followed by commentary.
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Call for papers - Political studies
« Suite française », 8/2025
Too often confined in the perimeter of military studies, the concept of débâcle discloses a plurality of dramatic, iridescent, vivid meanings. Facing a defeat means participating in a collective trauma, questioning established certainties, redeeming national identity in the face of a moral and political challenge. Rather than reconstructing the episodes of defeat and rebirth in French history, the eighth call for papers of Suite française invites to reflect on the perception of such episodes and their disruptive psychological and political impact. How were débâcle and similar categories such as décadence, trauma, failure, and renascence used by thinkers witnessing the Terror, Sedan, Vichy, and Dien Bien Phu?
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Halle
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought
Politics of the Enlightenment - 8 positions as Research Associate
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (65 %, 48 months)
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, offers 8 temporary positions as part of the “Politics of the Enlightenment” Research Training Group, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2029 (48 months), as a Research Associate (m-f-d) Part time (65%). The Research Training Group (RTG) examines the politics of the Enlightenment from the 18th century to today. Its approach is twofold: firstly, it asks – in terms of the genitivus subjectivus – how both the historical Enlightenment of the 18th century and also later Enlightenment enterprises think and act in a political sense. Secondly, it questions – in terms of the genitivus objectivus – how the conception of Enlightenment is constructed and perpetually renewed through political aims and decisions: How does the Enlightenment shape politics? And how do politics shape the Enlightenment?
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Evora
Local powers toward central authorities: Decision-making process in medieval urban societies
2nd Lectures on social contract
The scientific summit is dedicated to bringing together different specialists who analyse the discursivities of decision-making developed in medieval towns and other local instances of political governance. The goal of this seminar is centred in exploring the dynamics between the local and the central spheres of power, following an understanding on how those dynamics build their communication strategies from communal institutions side to interact with —or, even though, resist to— their so-called sovereign authorities. These communication channels often operated networks of semantic change between the local spheres, where political decisions were performed, and the higher spheres with jurisdictional power over them.
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Paris
Study days - Political studies
Social Movements and Citizenship
“Anthropology and social movements” - European Association of Social Anthropologists Network Workshop
European Association of Social Anthropologists ''Anthropology and Social Movement'' network workshop is organised in cooperation with the LAP – Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Politique(EHESS- CNRS) at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. This two-days workshop’s theme will be “Social Movements and Citizenship”, and will have a panel discussion devoted to “E. Isin and Political Anthropology”.
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Pisa
Conference, symposium - History
How New Migration Governance Changed the World in the Long 1970s
The conference “The Global Migration Turn: How New Migration Governance Changed the World in the Long 1970s” examines the radical transformation in mobility and migration patterns and policies that occurred between the late 1960s and early 1980s. It focuses on the shift from active immigration policies to more restrictive stances in North America and Western Europe and explores the causes and consequences. Themes include changing immigration policies, refugee issues, and the role of international organisations. By bringing together scholars across disciplines, the conference aims to bring fresh, ground-breaking perspectives to the study of postwar global history. We aim to decipher the transformations that took place during the extensive period of the 1970s, which shaped migration as a globally prominent issue, particularly between an expanding West and the rest of the world.
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Paris
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives
Celebrating the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast
“Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives” is the interdisciplinary subject chosen to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast. The Victorian Conservative Prime Minister is still perceived today as an extraordinary politician who transformed himself, his party and the UK over a long period of time from the 1830’s to his death in 1881. The conference will aim to undercover a number of still unexplored sides of Disraeli and bring him up to date. Both his political and literary talents will be taken into account as well as the long-lasting impact of his heritage (whether mythologised or not).
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A game of states? Sport and international politics
Eracle Call for Papers Vol. 6 (2023)
In recent years, the increasing fragmentation of the international system, linked to rising China-US tensions, the emergence of populist movements, the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, casts further complexity and uncertainty on international sport, calling for renewed scholarly attention and inquiry. Against this backdrop, we invite scholars of sport as a social phenomenon and institution – historians, sociologists, political scientists, International Relations and Media and Communications scholars – to submit proposals addressing the multifaceted nexus between sport and international politics.
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Prague
Careers in politics, politics as a career
Developments in 19th and early 20th century Europe
During the nineteenth century, the field of European politics witnessed a host of significant changes, prominent among them being the increasing tendency towards its professionalization. Against the backdrop of major social and cultural shifts, politics ceased to be exclusively regarded as the traditional elite’s ‘duty of honor’ and opened its doors, first to the middle class and then, with the extension of the franchise, to lower social and professional strata. The aim of our workshop is to follow how politics became not only a stand-alone profession, but also part and parcel of careers in other professional fields during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We are interested in the factors underlying this process, in how it manifested in different European spaces and under different historical conditions, as well as in its outcomes and societal impact.
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Geneva
Conference, symposium - History
Centenary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
The centenary of the creation of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) is an opportunity for historians to step back and examine the achievements but also the limitations of this enterprise, its lack of diversity and cultural representativeness. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in this field of research, in parallel with a renewed interest in the League of Nations as a whole, in a context of doubts about the capacity of multilateral institutions. Without attempting to cover all the areas that remain to be studied in relation to intellectual cooperation and soft power diplomacy in the interwar period, such an event therefore seems to be a useful place of exchange at the crossroads between the archives, teaching and research communities.
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