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• 01

  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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• 25

  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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• 27

  May

  2026

  Paris 05 Panthéon

  Call for papers - History

  News from research into history of paper 

  L’Association française pour l’histoire et l’étude du papier et des papeteries (AFHEPP) et l’équipe de codicologie de l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM) organisent conjointement, chaque année, une journée d’étude consacrée au papier, à son histoire, sa fabrication, ses usages, son commerce. 

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• 08

  Nov

  2026

  Florence

  Call for papers - History

  Time to Play

  Playful Participation as an Artistic Methodology: Histories, Curatorial Practices, Museums

  The third issue of the new series of Senzacornice Journal. Studies on the Contemporary Art System takes as its point of departure two seminal experiences centered on spontaneous and self-managed play. These are understood both as models for social and communal construction through audience engagement, and as investigations into the mutually productive relationships between human and machine, and human and object: The Model – A Model for a Qualitative Society (Stockholm, Moderna Museet, 1968, curated by Palle Nielsen) and Play Orbit (London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1969, curated by Jasia Reichhardt). In both cases, the curators conceived play as a voluntary activity—mediated or unmediated—capable of restoring to the participant a freedom of action that is increasingly constrained or denied within institutional contexts.

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• 01

  Sep

  2026

  Call for papers - Representation

  Photography as Inquiry

  Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities

  This thematic issue explores the role of photography in social science research methods from the late 19th century to the present, with an ethnographic focus on the processes of production and co-production of fieldwork data. Whilst the intertwining of the medium with the renewal of modes of scientific observation and gaze in the 19th and 20th centuries is now well established, the past and current development of visual practices at the intersection of the social sciences and photography has, for its part, been explored more recently. Building on these works, this issue aims to follow the long-term evolution of ethnographic research methods involving and/or using photography, as well as the gradual development of its contemporary forms. What constitutes a (photographic) inquiry, and for whom? What roles do fieldworkers, ethnographer-photographers, and the institutions that oversee and commission inquiries play in it?

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• 15

  Jun

  2026

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Journal passés futurs

  A trilingual journal (English, French and Spanish) issued twice a year, passés futurs publishes original articles exploring the social and memorial uses of the past in contemporary contexts, along with political, national or religious issues from previous centuries. The journal welcomes submissions adopting comparative, international and interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and studies in literature, cinema, theatre, music and artistic creation.

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• 31

  May

  2026

  Lomé

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Establishment of an Endogenous Calendar and Celebration of the African New Year: Contemporary Challenges of African Unity, between history and identity

  In a context where Africa aspires to free itself from the vestiges of colonization and all other forms of cultural domination, in order to assert itself as an autonomous and self-referential power, the question arises as to what date could be chosen for the celebration of the African New Year, similar to that of other peoples of the world such as the Chinese, Europeans, Israelis, Iranians, and so on, who celebrate their New Year distinctly. However, this date must necessarily be based on a scientifically developed calendar that withstands the vagaries of time. It is for all these reasons that the Togolese Government proposes to organize an international symposium on the theme: “Establishment of an endogenous calendar and celebration of the African New Year: contemporary challenges of African unity, between history and identity”.

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• 15

  Jun

  2026

  Call for papers - Language

  Patching up. Intermediality. History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologies

  Revue « Intermédialités », n° 50 (Automne 2027)

  Patching up means adding pieces—patches—to maintain, repair, and extend the life of something; at times, it goes beyond simply filling a gap to become a creative act. We start from the premise that objects and infrastructures, like bodies and communities, can be patched up—and that what is patched up is never quite “as it was before.” Its appearance, function, and meaning may shift; the pieces themselves are redefined by what they join. Patching up is therefore less about restoring a previous state than about producing something that did not exist before: a different object, a new reality. This creative, poietic, and performative dimension lies at the heart of this issue, which seeks to explore both the material act of patching up and the political gestures and worldviews that accompany it.

   

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• 31

  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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• 30 Apr 2026

  Manouba

  Call for papers - History

  Mobilités, dynamiques, échanges et transformations dans le bassin méditerranéen de l’Antiquité à nos jours

  The Mediterranean Basin has been a stage where human movement, cultural negotiation, and structural transformations have unfolded in ways unmatched by any other region. More than a mere body of water, the Mediterranean constitutes a living environment in which civilizations have continuously interacted, reshaped one another, and generated new forms of social and cultural expression. Its shores have witnessed repeated cycles of mobility that have not only connected distant communities but also redefined the very meaning of connectivity throughout history.

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• 22

  May

  2026

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bourses Fondation Martine Aublet - niveau master

  The following disciplines are concerned : anthropology, archaeology, ethnolinguistics, ethnomusicology, history, art history, and sociology. Research in other disciplinary fields may be accepted only if a strong dialogue with the above-mentioned disciplines is maintained. Research methodologies may include ethnographic or ethnolinguistic fieldworks, archival research and documentation works (including collections), or archaeological excavations.

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• 22

  May

  2026

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bourses de recherche Fondation Martine Aublet - niveau doctorat

  The Fondation is offering doctoral fellowships (15,000 €) to finance field research for students enrolled in the first or second year of their PhD. Fieldwork may take place in Africa, Asia, Oceania, or America, must last at least six months between October 1st of the current year and September 30th of the following year.

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• 15

  May

  2026

  Dakar

  Call for papers - Modern

  Incarceration and Health

  A Comparative Perspective Between Africa, Europe, and the Americas (19th and 20th Centuries)

  This international conference seeks to explore the links between confinement and health from a comparative and transnational perspective, bringing into dialogue African, European, and American experiences from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It aims to examine the ambivalence of these institutions, situated at the intersection of care and coercion, as well as the social, racial, and gendered hierarchies they helped to produce and maintain.

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• 30 Apr 2026

  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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• 05

  Jun

  2026

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  Practicing the Archival Commons

  Publics, Power and Perspectives

  This workshop seeks to examine refigured archiving work currently undertaken in Africa as well as to learn more about the ways in which this refigures scholarship. Introducing the concept of the ‘archival commons’, it particularly aims at studying diverse forms of archiving as common, communal or communing practices that have significant effects on both preservation and critical historical work.

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• 30

  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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• 26

  Jun

  2026

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Anarchist Spaces: Practices, Ideas, and Networks (c. 1870–Present)

  This conference proposes to examine the spaces that self-avowed anarchists, as well as those who borrow from anarchism but do not identify with the ideology, have invested, produced and contested since the second half of the 19th century. The concept of “space” should be understood capaciously. It can be material and immaterial, ideological or symbolic, permanent or temporary, integrated or liminal, open or closed, real or imagined. Likewise, “anarchism” is to be understood broadly. For the purposes of this conference, anarchist spaces are not only those linked to a self-identified anarchist movement (in all its multiplicities). They also include spaces that may rather be seen (or see themselves) as autonomous, self-managed or anti-authoritarian, but which embody anarchism more or less implicitly through their day-to-day, activist, and revolutionary practices.

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• 01

  Jun

  2026

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Blanche de Castille

  Exercer le pouvoir au féminin (1226-1252)

  Given the exceptional position held by Blanche of Castile, widow of the late Louis VIII and mother of the new king, powerful woman, within Latin Christendom for nearly a quarter of a century, the anniversary of the start of her ‘regency’ seemed to us a fitting occasion to highlight recent advances in the historiography of Blanche of Castile. This conference therefore aims to shed light on his reign – from the scale of his personal domain to that of Latin Christendom – and his life’s journey, from his Castilian origins to his final resting place in the abbeys of Maubuisson and Le Lys, and indeed right up to the present day.

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• 30

  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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• 30 Apr 2026

  Rennes

  Call for papers - History

  Temporalities of the Far Right

  Turning-Points and Perceptions of the Past in Germany, France and Western Europe since 1945

  The conference aims to examine the far right’s relationship with time from a Franco-German and European perspective. It is divided into two parts: the first explores possible periodizations for this political movement after 1945, and the second examines its ideological and discursive relationship with time.

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