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Jun

2026

Call for papers - History

Mapping Aristocratic Spaces. Estates, Forests, and Gardens (Europe, 16th–19th Centuries)

Whether used to map or describe a territory, to develop, exploit, or promote it, the map gradually emerged as one of the primary tools for the appropriation of aristocratic spaces in modern Europe. This cartography, widely utilized by historians of parks, gardens, forests, and estates, has however rarely been studied for its own sake. This conference therefore aims to examine the methods of its production, uses, and dissemination, while exploring its role in the transformation of the environment and in the reconfiguration of an aristocracy that considered land ownership as a foundation of its social identity.

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Jun

2026

Tours

Call for papers - Psyche

Caring for Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Approaches, Practices, and Representations

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this conference seeks to examine the perception, treatment, and representation of individuals affected by madness in the medieval and early modern periods, whether madness took the diverse forms of melancholy, possession, wandering, or unreason. To this end, it proposes to engage with the contemporary notion of care, understood as an ethics of care, and to historicize it beyond its modern conceptual framework, in order to reassess the relationship to vulnerability and dependency (and interdependency), as well as the dialectic between assistance and marginalization in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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Aug

2026

Lyon | Grenoble | Arras

Call for papers - History

The Bible in the Managment of Material Life in Christian Societies (4th-16th Centuries)

The BibGes workshop and congress aim to highlight the embeddedness of sociopolitical mechanisms in beliefs from the 4th to the 16th century, across the various structures of Christian communities (Byzantine, Latin, Coptic, and Ethiopian). Historians, legal historians, and art historians are invited to submit papers for investigations into what may be considered an interface between pragmatic writings—those serving administration and the transmission of goods and individuals—and the Sacred Scriptures, both as text and as the Book.

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May

2026

Neuchâtel

Call for papers - History

La trace des dieux : empreintes surnaturelles dans le christianisme, l’islam et le bouddhisme (Moyen Âge – époque contemporaine)

Many cultures express devotion toward objects that appear remarkably similar: footprints in stone said to have been left by celestial figures. This workshop, organized at the University of Neuchâtel on October 22–23, 2026, aims to move beyond this impression of déjà vu and to highlight the specific characteristics of devotional practices associated with such traces in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Lille

Summer School - Early modern

A Place in Time

A Summer School for the Study of Women and Temporalities in Early Modern Europe

The goal of this summer school is to help doctoral students develop an interdisciplinary reflection on the intersection between gender and time in the early-modern period. With the help of invited keynote speakers, workshops around secondary literature, primary written and visual sources (notably from the Palais des Beaux-Arts’s collections), and discussions around the candidates’ research, we aim to foster interest in this framework and complexify approaches to gender studies and key themes such as the question of agency or the inscription of women in history.

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May

2026

Rome

Call for papers - Early modern

Telling the World in Images during the Renaissance

Organisées sous les auspices du CNRS/Centre André Chastel, de l’université Grenoble Alpes / LARHRA et de la Villa Médicis, ces journées constituent un pivot du projet Spectacles célestes, déployé au sein de la chaire de professeur junior ARVIGRAPH. Nous y sonderons les modalités par lesquelles les images édifient et énoncent le cosmos dans ses dimensions symboliques, sociales et esthétiques.

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May

2026

Call for papers - History

Living and Dwelling in the Mediterranean Space: Practices, Representations, and Environment

Les sociétés méditerranéennes d’aujourd'hui ne peuvent être comprises sans le poids des configurations héritées, ni sans la radicalité des ruptures en cours. Ce dialogue entre les temps est en lui-même un objet de recherche. Par la richesse de ses axes thématiques et l’ambition de son programme scientifique, ce colloque international est une invitation à transgresser les frontières disciplinaires sans les effacer, à articuler les temporalités sans les confondre, et à penser la Méditerranée non comme un simple arrière-plan géographique, mais comme un espace vécu, construit et perpétuellement réinventé par ses habitants. Ce colloque ambitionne de rassembler des chercheurs (historiens, archéologues, anthropologues, géographes, sociologues, urbanistes) afin de croiser les regards sur une même réalité complexe.

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May

2026

Call for papers - History

Les formes de résistances culturelles et sociales en Algérie. De l’antiquité à l’indépendance

Forms of cultural and social resistance in Algeria. From Antiquity to Independence

La Revue d’Histoire Méditerranéenne, indexée dans plusieurs bases de données dont Scopus Elsevier et Erih+, lance un appel à contributions pour un numéro thématique consacré aux formes de résistances culturelles et sociales en Algérie depuis l’antiquité jusqu’au recouvrement de la souveraineté en 1962. L’opposition militaire aux puissances étrangères fut toujours complétée par différentes autres formes de résistances.

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Sep

2026

Liège

Call for papers - Early modern

The Palace of the Prince-Bishops of Liège in the Sixteenth Century: Power, Culture and Architecture in the Renaissance

This conference offers a fresh perspective on the Palace of the Prince-Bishops of Liège in the 16th century, examining it as a place of power, representation, and artistic creation. Drawing on a critical re-examination of the archives and a material analysis of the monument, the conference will explore the political, cultural, and architectural ambitions that shaped the palace. Structured around three themes—historical and diplomatic context, artistic and intellectual dynamics, and a study of construction sites, materials, and techniques—it aims to convey the full complexity of this iconic site in the history of the Principality of Liège.

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May

2026

Call for papers - History

The Diplomatic World in Paris, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Cultures and Networks

Sources held outside France

This one-day online research workshop is part of a program led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles (CRCV) devoted to the social, material, and cultural history of foreign diplomats in Paris during the early modern period (from the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648 to the end of the French Ancien Régime in 1792). The program aims to shift the focus toward the individuals who keep diplomacy running day to day, from ambassadors to secretaries, from nuncios to residents, without neglecting their entourages, wives, families, and domestic staff. Its objective is to examine their sociability, material and symbolic cultures, and the networks they weave within urban and courtly environments.

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Nanterre

Study days - Early modern

Interpréter les crimes et les expériences de guerre : le TPIY et la poésie tchéchène

Interpreting War crimes and expériences: the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and poetry from Chechnya

Comment interpréter et traduire les crimes et les expériences de guerre ? Cette rencontre du projet PROFIL (« Faire à plusieurs 2024 ») propose d’explorer ces questions à partir du Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie et de la poésie tchétchène, à travers une présentation d’ouvrage, une projection et des échanges.

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Vizille | Saint-Martin-d'Hères

Call for papers - History

From America to France: Beaumarchais and the experience of Revolution

In 2026, as the United States celebrates 250 years of independence and takes an increasing aggressive stance toward Europe, the Museum of the French Revolution – Domaine de Vizille and the LUHCIE laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University are organizing an international symposium aimed at rethinking the revolutionary origins of Franco-American relations through the figure and writings of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799). This reinterpretation has been made possible by the recent acquisition by the Bibliothèque nationale de France of Beaumarchais' voluminous personal archives, as well as by the unprecedented digital publication of his entire surviving correspondence and manuscripts, undertaken as part of the collective and interdisciplinary program @rchibeau (2024-2029).

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Paris

Call for papers - Early modern

Crafting Everyday Life. Art Manufactories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

À l’occasion de la réunion de la Cité de la Céramique – Sèvres & Limoges et le Mobilier national sous l’appellation Manufactures nationales – Mobilier national & Sèvres le 1er janvier 2025, le Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art Moderne (GRHAM) a décidé d’orienter son colloque annuel sur les manufactures d’art des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Cette recomposition institutionnelle invite à relire l’histoire des manufactures, non comme un âge d’or figé, mais comme une histoire mouvante, marquée par des ruptures internes et des redéfinitions constantes des liens entre État, artistes et ouvriers.

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Trier

Study days - Early modern

Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution

Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons

Cette journée d’étude hybride permettra à l’équipe de recherche PaPa (Université de Trèves) de présenter les résultats et les conclusions du projet ERC « Pamphlets and Patrons: how courtiers shaped the public sphere in Ancien Régime France ».

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Call for papers - History

Where is medievalism (at)?

This conference aims to map medievalism (the field relating to the scholarly and creative reception of the “Middle Ages”) in Europe and around the world. In recent years, which subjects have been the focus of medievalist studies ? In which institutions (universities, research centers)?

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Call for papers - History

Before the Last Straw

Omens, Thresholds, and Signs of Crisis in the Historiographical Construction of the Event

In a historical moment marked by political upheavals, social crises, environmental catastrophes, wars, and new forms of collective mobilization, reflecting on the conscious choices — and the conscious non-choices — that precede moments of historical rupture becomes a useful and necessary tool for understanding the deep connection between decision and transformation.The 2026 Student Conference seeks to shift the focus away from the final event to investigate the acts that immediately precede it and to ask whether it is possible to explore, with historical awareness, the suspended moment before rupture : the moment before the last straw.

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Poitiers

Call for papers - Early modern

Rethinking Early Modern Print Today: New Questions & New Approaches

Dedicated to early modern prints, this symposium aims to take stock of the current researches and offer an overview of the diversity of approaches used to deal with this historical object. It seeks to provide a forum for exchange devoted to recent approaches and ongoing projects, whether they focus on the practices and techniques of printmaking, on its networks of production, circulation, and exchange, or on the place of the printed image within visual and material culture.

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Call for papers - Africa

Sound Recordings

Journal Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies

This special issue brings together analyses from various disciplines focusing on one or more sound sources produced in Africa. The dossier aims to contribute to the development of dialogue between African studies and recent social science research on sound and listening, and thus to present the specific challenges posed by sound sources in the history of Africa.

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Liège

Call for papers - History

Absence and its Interpretations

Questioning the Incomplete and the Fragmentary in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

From 11-12 May 2026, the University of Liege will host the eighth edition of the International Doctoral Days of the Transitions Research Unit. Organized in partnership with the Centre d’Études supérieures de la Civilisation médiévale (Université de Poitiers), this conference will focus on the theme of absence. The chronological boundaries for this call correspond to those explored by Transitions (the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period).

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Rennes

Call for papers - History

Sociability, Progress and Innovation (1650-1850)

Cet appel à contribution se propose d’interroger les usages et significations des idées de « progrès » et d’« innovation » - qu’elles soient en rapport avec la technologie, l’économie, la politique, la religion ou la culture - au cours du long XVIII^e siècle et leurs impacts sur les pratiques sociales. Il s’attachera à mesurer les effets de l’innovation sous toutes ses formes (technique, politique, économique, artistique, littéraire, etc.) sur les sociabilités dans les sociétés européennes et coloniales. Il sera également intéressant d’envisager la sociabilité elle-même comme une innovation conceptuelle et sociale.

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