Calenda

This issue of RILEA journal wishes to focus on socio-ecological and territorial transition (SETT), its design and institutional framework, its links with applied language research, and with vocational teaching in applied foreign languages.

Call for papers - Urban studies

Emergent Urbanism and Urban Futures in the Global South

“City Development : Issues and Best Practices” Journal

The issue examines how urban forms emerge and configure possible futures in contexts shaped by partial infrastructures, social and environmental vulnerabilities, and the reconfiguration of public action. The issue welcomes empirically grounded work — fieldwork, case studies, and comparative approaches — on cities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, in dialogue with contemporary debates in urban studies, the sociology of space, and critical geography.

Call for papers - Urban studies

Island Ambiances

For an experiential and sensorial approach to spaces

This international colloquium explores how ambiances—light, wind, humidity, sound, temperature—shape the experience of island spaces and the relationships between communities, territories, and built environments. It is structured around five themes : sensorial architectures, digital sensing, geo-sensitive approaches, knowledge and skills, and arts and ambiances.

Call for papers - Sociology

Governance of International Film Festivals: From Rules to Legitimacy

The central issue addressed by this volume lies in the tension between the proclaimed “international” character of film festivals and the absence of a binding international legal framework regulating their activities, selection mechanisms, jury appointments, conflict-of-interest management, and transparency procedures. How do festivals construct their legitimacy? On what foundations is the credibility of their outcomes built?

Bamako

Call for papers - Education

« Revue de la chaire UNESCO Éducation et développement durable » / ENSUP - Varia

La Revue internationale de la chaire UNESCO Éducation et développement durable (EDD) est une collection scientifique multidisciplinaire dédiée à l’exploration critique et à la diffusion des savoirs, des pratiques pédagogiques innovantes et des expériences de terrain en lien avec les défis contemporains du développement durable. Son premier numéro inaugure une série de publications scientifiques dédiées à la réflexion critique, interdisciplinaire et prospective sur les grands enjeux contemporains de l’éducation au service du développement durable.

Cambridge

Call for papers - History

The Refugee-Migrant Distinction: Toward a Global History

The aim of this international conference is to more fully elucidate the relational nature of the distinction between refugees and migrants, its function in the wider field of migration, and its genealogy. While chiefly historical in focus, the conference will also foster interdisciplinary approaches and reflections.

Paris

Call for papers - Urban studies

ESPI International Real Estate Conference (ESPI-IREC) 2026

ESPI2R, ESPI’s real estate research division, adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address a wide array of real estate issues. In November 2026, ESPI2R will host its biannual International Conference on Real Estate in Paris, serving as a premier platform for discussions and insights on the evolving real estate landscape at various levels - from global to local.

Saint-Étienne

Study days - Geography

Cultural Heritage and digital tools

In 2022, Jean Monnet University - Saint-Étienne, its Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Environment - City - Society Laboratory (UMR 5600 - CNRS) launched a series of annual international seminars on the use of digital tools (geomatics, 3D, sound reconstruction, etc.) for the study and management of cultural heritage. Given the success of previous editions, both among Master's students and colleagues and professionals, the seminar series will continue, with a new edition to be held on February 4, 2026

Aubervilliers

Political, cultural and intellectual South-North circulations in the post-Bandung era: towards a connected history of the Commonwealth

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.

Tours

Call for papers - Representation

Mémoires et agentivités aquatiques dans la littérature et les arts panhispaniques

Partiendo de la constatación de que el elemento acuático conlleva significados variados y a veces opuestos, mientras cristaliza retos memorísticos, políticos, éticos o estéticos, este congreso pretende suscitar una reflexión sobre la forma en que, en los discursos literarios y artísticos, el agua ofrece la posibilidad de repensar la relación del ser humano con el otro y con su entorno. Entre memoria y agentivida, ¿cómo refleja el agua la capacidad de los individuos y las comunidades humanas para articular discursos o actos de resistencia a través del arte ? ¿Las representaciones del agua —elemento dual— funcionan como símbolos de violencia o permiten imaginar otras formas de habitar el mundo ?

Ottawa

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

Visiting Research Chair in Urban Sustainability

The Visiting Research Chair in Urban Sustainability at the University of Ottawa supports invited researchers in conducting interdisciplinary research on urban sustainability in the context of climate change. The goal is to foster the creation of innovative solutions and knowledge mobilization to make urban centers more sustainable, resilient, and equitable.

Call for papers - Geography

Nature

“Woman Journal” Vol. 8

After examining our “fast life” and the rampant consumerism of our capitalist society, we would like to return to the subject of nature and its culture. What defines nature? Is it solely a resource to be consumed?

Call for papers - Representation

Towards new alliances: ecological struggles and territorial projets in contemporary ruralities

2026 meeting of the Perspectives Rurales network

The Perspectives Rurales scientific and pedagogical network meetings aim to bring together a wide range of participants: researchers from various disciplines, as well as local territorial actors and members of civil society. The event will be organized into several thematic sessions. This call for contributions is open to individuals, institutions, associations, and collectives who share these concerns.

Turin

Call for papers - History

“Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya

The trilingual conference “Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya seeks to address a still relatively unexplored topic: the study of Italian communities abroad, with particular attention to the Mediterranean world in the period between national unification (1861) and the occupation of Libya (1911). At the core of this reflection lies the close, and not merely chronological, relationship between the migratory dynamics that characterized the early decades of unified Italy and the rise of colonial expansionism. The seminar therefore aims to investigate this connection through the specific lens offered by the Italian presence in North Africa and in the Ottoman Empire before the occupation of Libya.

Paris

Study days - Language

The social life of names and naming practices in migration contexts

This workshop aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies. It is convened as part of the multidisciplinary research project DIASCO-TIB project (ANR 23 CE41 0017) that examines various processes of linguistic and social convergence and divergence at play in the Tibetan diaspora, mainly in France but also in other geographical spaces.

Lyon

Call for papers - Geography

An ecological transition under strain: country, landscape, and uses in contemporary Germany

The starting point for this conference is the observation that the ecological transition in Germany, which one might have thought would be easier or at least more harmonious than in other countries due to the importance that environmental issues have had in German culture, society, and politics from very early on, is in fact encountering numerous obstacles and is even being called into question. This is evidenced, among other things, by the setbacks which the energy transition encounters and by the success of the party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) despite—or perhaps because of—its stance in favour of climate change denial.

Barcelona

Call for papers - Urban studies

Crossing urban Planning cultures in time of conflict and reconciliation

Views on continental Europe, 1937-1945. Session 69 – EAUH 2026

The aim of this approach is to consider how national urban planning traditions are shaped by conflict-related constraints during periods of escalation towards war and of occupation. National historiographies have long considered this period as a parenthesis in the circulation of ideas and models. In contrast to this approach, the perspective of the session involves an in-depth investigation of urban planning theories on a European scale, as well as an analysis of personal and institutional exchanges, technical transfers and expertises before and during World War II.

Call for papers - Africa

Transitions

“Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays” journal

This is a call for articles or essays on historical, social or political issues in Commonwealth societies for issue no.4 of Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays. This issue will follow the SAES 2025 theme of “Transitions”. Articles are invited that consider political, social, economic, cultural or ecological transitions. This could include discussing transition to a greener future (for example in India, Australia, Canada…) or the climate crisis in particular countries. The theme could also cover political re-imaginings and desired transitions to a more postcolonial or decolonial standpoint as well as resistance to them. For instance, can the process of ‘transitional justice’ after the well-documented case of South Africa be observed in other countries?

Call for papers - Urban studies

Understanding and reconverting tertiary vacancy

The vacancy of tertiary buildings is a growing issue in urban and regional dynamics. While vacant offices are a visible symptom of economic, social and environmental mutations, they also represent an opportunity to rethink the role of business districts and the uses of the city as a whole. The aim is to analyse tertiary vacancy in France and Europe for identifying the potential for converting unoccupied buildings, whether into housing or other functions: coliving, hotels, industrial or commercial activities, data centres, living labs, collaborative spaces, etc.

Barcelona

Call for papers - History

Sexual Metropolitans? Intercity Networks and Shared Cultures of Sexuality in Modern Cities

Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EUAH 2026)

This panel offers to bring together historians and social scientists studying modern urban sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the following theme: is there a common sexual culture in large cities of the late modern and contemporary eras, and what role do inter-urban circulations and networks play in its development?

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