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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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Body awareness: therapy, practice, pedagogy
The theme of body awareness has been chosen for this conference, given the marked resurgence of interest in "reconnecting" with the body and sensations in our contemporary societies. We will concentrate on the different areas where body awareness offers new perspectives of practice and research, from healthcare to education, including the arts and sports. However, the increased visibility of this concept has also led to a proliferation of discourses and practices lacking any real conceptual or methodological foundation. These are often driven by the growing popularity of alternative or New Age approaches. The aim of this conference is to clarify the current situation by distinguishing between knowledge and practices that are supported by research and those that are not.
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2025–2026 Call for Research Projects – Scientific Interest Group “Jeu et Sociétés”
The 12th edition of the Scientific Interest Group (GIS) “Jeu et Sociétés” (Game and Societies) research call is open from 30 October to 22 December 2025. As in previous years, all scientific topics related to games, play, or gambling, and to their broader social, cultural, or ethical implications, are eligible for submission.
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Limoges
Conference, symposium - Sociology
La misopédie dans les institutions
Misopedia is hatred of children (similar to misogyny, which refers to hatred of women). It is the feeling of contempt – most often unconscious – that we harbour towards younger people, the rejection we subject them to in the functioning of society. Being or having been a child is the one and only universal experience common to all human beings on the planet. And yet, from generation to generation, there is a recurring inability to empathise with childhood once we have left it behind. This misopedia is not universal, but it is quite widespread and varies, of course, according to time and place.
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Beirut
The Changing Concept of Border in Humanities
Between Fixity and Flux
This conference aims to examine not only the representations of borders but also the acts of their transgression, erasure, or redrawing. The goal is to explore how these borders are inscribed in the body of works, narratives, and languages, and how they shape their reception, transmission, and interpretation.
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Montpellier
Conference, symposium - Thought
Is there no possible consolation?
Paradoxes, limits and failures of a controversial concept from Antiquity to the present day
This conference is part of a research project, one of the outcomes of which is the publication of Bibliothèque idéale de la Consolation de l'Antiquité au XVIIe siècle (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2025). The aim is to cross disciplinary perspectives in order to better understand the phenomenon of consolation, in its historical, social, religious and psychological dimensions.
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Strasbourg
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Information
2026 Call for Researchers by the Bnu : Abraham Moles Collection
In 2013, as part of a donation, the Abraham Moles library was incorporated into the BNU collections. With around 7,000 volumes, this collection reflects the diverse interests of a researcher trained in both the exact sciences and the human sciences. Its books, files, records and objects illustrate Moles’ intellectual and professional journey, from his early work as an engineer specialising in electroacoustics to his research in social psychology, and from his collaboration with the RTF Radio and Television Studies Centre to his work on the subject of kitsch. Its breadth also includes Moles’ areas of special expertise as a pioneer of the information and communication sciences in France, including computing and urban planning, posters and design, semiology and “futurism.” The topic to be pursued during the researcher’s stay must be directly related to the Abraham Moles collection at the National and University Library.
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Porto
Caring and treating: activities and challenges of work in the health field
“Laboreal” - December 2025 issue
With this dossier of Laboreal, we invite authors to contribute with articles that address work in the health field today, considering the diversity of situations in which care and treatment activities are developed and the plurality of protagonists involved. Based on the understanding that such activities are characterized by service relations, cooperation, and the articulation of knowledge, we aim to gather articles that focus on how workers collectively mobilize to provide care and the strategies constructed to meet the demands of clients/users.
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Jameson en France, la France en Jameson : du XIXe siècle à nos jours
Le 22 septembre 2024 est décédé Fredric Jameson, le plus grand penseur marxiste américain de la littérature et de la culture. De nombreux hommages ont été rendus à cet auteur d’une trentaine de livres et de douzaines d’articles, sur la littérature, la psychanalyse, la philosophie, le cinéma… pour ne citer que quelques pôles de sa recherche. Nous souhaiterions marquer l’anniversaire de sa mort par un colloque commémorant son œuvre et se focalisant plus particulièrement sur son rapport aux pensées, aux littératures, et au champ intellectuel français.
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Call for papers - Science studies
This symposium offers an exploration of the many facets of color, intimately linked to diverse conceptions of spatialities/spaces. Through a series of presentations, we aim to highlight the complex relationship between the color studied and the space considered, by examining how these concepts influence and transform each other. The expected contributions define how color shapes our perception of space, and how space influences our experience of color, offering a situated view of color.
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Call for papers - Representation
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Fictions on the Big and Small Screens
Revue « Transcr(é)ation » - Hiver 2026
Transcr(é)ation is a specialty journal dedicated to intermediality and the dialogues between texts and films, without prioritizing either. This term has been borrowed from translation studies in order to shed some light on the benefits of such a dialogue between the media. We welcome any theoretical or analytical works, interviews, and thematic dossiers on the questions of intermediality, transposition between media, dialogue between and through the arts, or any other foray into related subjects. For our 7th dossier, we are calling for papers in either English or French dealing with psychoanalysis and contemporary fictions from cinema and TV series.
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Stockholm
From Polarity to Circumpolarity: The Future of Canadian Studies in Europe
This multidisciplinary conference examines how the deconstruction of the dualisms that have dominated in Western thought since the 17th century takes shape in Canadian studies. Building on the Canadian landscape and scholarship on its nordicity, we hypothesize a move from polarity to circumpolarity in Canadian studies conducted in Europe. This multidisciplinary conference welcomes proposals from all fields of research, in the hope of bringing together complementary perspectives on the (circum)polarities in Canadian studies.
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Borders in all their states: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Revue Passerelles SHS - 4e numéro
Borders were initially studied by the humanities and social sciences as geographical and physical phenomena. More recently, due to “the evolution of transport and communication technologies, the dynamics and scale of economic exchanges and also the political recognition of a greater interdependence of the world system”, revisiting the concept has become necessary. Now regarded as a multifaceted object of study and subject to constant evolution, the concept of the border can be as much spatial as it is symbolic or social, objectively delineated or a subjective metaphor for social space.
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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
In the historical context of the repatriation of stolen African objects preserved in European museums, little attention has been paid to the endogenous spaces and structures of conservation from which African objects have been extracted since the 15th century. However, the museum institution that Europe seeks to impose on African societies as a solution to their current conservation is a recent initiative and not adapted to African realities. Furthermore, the aim of the debate on the spoliation of African cultural property is not to insist essentially on the problem of provenance or documentation of the stolen objects, even less on the “actors of the theft” or “collectors,” but to question the meaning and significance of African cultural productions in time and space. It is a question of proposing a historical-cultural reading of African societies, contradicting the discourses that disfavor the return of looted objects. The authors and promoters of these discourses, denying the African societies that produced and used these stolen cultural objects, the ability to receive and preserve them properly.
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Essachess - Journal for Communication Studies' special issue wants to present the ways and consequences of using artificial intelligence not only in the field of journalism, but also in other communication professions. Focusing on the field of Public Relations: how AI can be used there in crisis communication, reputation management, press analysis, predictive analytics or social media management.
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Paris
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
Methods and pedagogies
For over a century, researchers and clinicians have been interested in using drawings to understand bodily experience. Some of the best known are: Goodenough's drawing of the man (1926) and Palmer's pain charts (1949). Today, there has been a renewal of these techniques through a range of visual materials. Thus, drawing still aims to show what cannot always be said or written. It will also launch a debate on research methodologies.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Representation
The precious object: a total social fact?
Social, political, religious, symbolic, commercial: the multiple functions, roles and representations of precious objects
Over the centuries and across the globe, precious objects – and jewelry in particular – have given rise to a wide range of sometimes contradictory reactions, testifying to their major role in human societies. Rejected through notions of waste and luxury, admired or desired for aesthetic, symbolic, religious or economic reasons, the precious object has many functions: offering, symbol (status, power, loyalty, etc.), social or family heirloom, element of exchange and even economic driving force. If the precious object establishes a cultural and social divide, it is also subjected to imitation or reproduction, making it a fashionable, “mass-market” object. But what properties determine the value of precious objects?
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Nantes
Learning with and through others: epistemic, ethical and political issues
The 7th International Colloquium on Education and Training (CIDEF), will focus on the various facets that characterise the notion of learning with and from others in the field of education and training research. It will focus on the processes of individual transformation and the dynamics of personal and/or collective trajectories.
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Tintinnabula, bells et small bells
News of campanology, from Antiquity to the XXIth century
A flagship object of Western Christian culture and the soundscapes covered by Alain Corbin in his work on 19th century France, the bell has had a multifaceted and complex history, but always very rich. Sound object or musical instrument, it is also a highly identity and symbolic object whose tinkling or ringing echoes a variety of social and political constructions. If this conference proposes to concentrate its attention on the object “bell”, understood in the broadest possible sense in order to grasp this complexity of meaning, it also chooses to see it from a totally diachronic angle, without chronological restriction, geographical or cultural.
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Orléans
International Conference on Constructed Languages, 2024
The International Conference on Constructed Languages (I-CONLANG II, 2024) offers a forum dedicated to multidisciplinary research on constructed languages. The study of constructed languages is the site of a proliferation of ideas and innovations in the linguistic field, which challenge the human ability to provide new forms of linguistic expression, for wide-ranging purposes. This phenomenon is not only relevant in linguistics, but in many other disciplines in the human sciences, as well as in the arts and letters, and this extends far beyond academic circles. The creation of a constructed language may have various purposes, but their study reveals a common set of questions, which the Conference intends to address.
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