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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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• 30

  Jun

  2026

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  The Maghreb of Anthropologists : Actors, Practices and Spaces

  The conference The Maghreb of Anthropologists : Actors, Practices and Spaces will focus on these shifts in the anthropology of the Maghreb. It will investigate the emergence of new actors, practices and spaces within and in relation to Maghreb anthropology, whether these are thematic, methodological, linguistic, bibliographical, conceptual, theoretical or epistemological in nature. It will also raise questions that are more institutional and that relate to issues of training, career trajectories and, more broadly, the power structures that shape higher education.

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• 15

  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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• 01

  Jun

  2026

  Montpellier

  Conference, symposium - Information

  Environnement et écologie sur les réseaux socionumériques : récits, acteurs et dynamiques

  Environment and ecology on social media: narratives, actors and dynamics

  Le colloque propose d’interroger la manière dont les espaces numériques participent à la construction des représentations sociales relatives au changement climatique et aux transitions environnementales. Il s’agira d’examiner à la fois les contenus publiés et les logiques socio-techniques qui structurent leur production, leur circulation et leur hiérarchisation, ainsi que leurs modalités d’appropriation par les communautés en ligne.

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• 15

  Jun

  2026

  Lugano

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Yves Klein Foundation’s First Research Grant

  The Yves Klein Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a new research grant program. Its purpose is to support the renewal of scholarship dedicated to the artist and to encourage deeper exploration of his work, ideas and enduring creative legacy.This programme, held twice a year, includes a residency and a stipend of CHF 6,000. It is intended for emerging researchers of any nationality and aims to foster new narratives, situate the artist’s work within a broader cultural context, shed light on its resonance with contemporary societal and ecological challenges and consider its reception across diverse geographies.

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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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• 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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• 06

  May

  2026

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  Seminar - Middle Ages

  Quo Vadis

  Forum for a German-French Medieval History of Knowledge

  Quo Vadis has provided a discussion space in the form of a German/French-language forum on the Middle Ages. This forum is intended for students and individuals with research experience at all levels of qualification from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. This online workspace presents and discusses innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to medieval research projects, resulting in new syntheses that broaden research perspectives. We aim to openly engage with one another beyond traditional formats.

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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

  May

  2026

  Montreal

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Epistemology and methodology

  Digital classics

  Doctoral Contract within the Research Laboratory on Digital Textualities (Université de Montréal) and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN)

  This doctoral contract is open to Hellenist or digital classicist candidates with a background in Ancient Greek, whose research will be conducted within the Égée partnership development project: Éditions grecques, épistémologies et environnements numériques (Greek Editions, Epistemologies, and Digital Environments). Structured around three complementary axes (epistemological models, digital production tools, and dissemination) the project aims to renew the conception, production, and distribution of ancient Greek texts in order to establish new textual, editorial, and scholarly models suited to the digital age.

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• 15

  May

  2026

  Montreal

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Epistemology and methodology

  Technical Environments and the Emergence of Meaning

  Doctoral Contract within the Research Laboratory on Digital Textualities (Université de Montréal) and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN)

  This doctoral contract is intended for PhD projects that explore the influence of the material forms of writing, transmission, and appropriation of knowledge in the humanities, as well as the relationships between digital environments, writing practices, and the modalities through which meaning emerges.

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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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• 04

  May

  2026

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  06 May 2026

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  The Most Important of All Ages. Children, Childhood(s) and Childlikeness in Soviet Cinema

  The profound symbolic significance of the figure of the child in Soviet cinema has elevated it to a central—if not essential—principle of that cinematic tradition. Such a dimension calls for a sustained and renewed examination of the occurrences and variations of this figure, in order to further map its historical, ideological, mythopoetic, poetic, and philosophical metamorphoses within the Soviet filmic space. Our inquiry will address both the “childlike principle” that permeates characters in Soviet cinema and the representation of childhood itself—its defining features and substance, its cultural plurality, its departure or loss, its mediation through memory, its nostalgia—as well as the historical biases that shape its conception and delimit its perception.

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• 15

  Jun

  2026

  La Rochelle

  Call for papers - Sociology

  “Hallyu” and the Global South: The Impact of the South Korean Cultural Industry in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America

  Ce colloque vise à analyser l’évolution récente de la « vague coréenne » en phénomène culturel global, en mettant l’accent sur son impact sur la circulation et la réception des produits culturels en Asie du Sud, en Asie du Sud-Est et en Amérique latine.

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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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• 30

  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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• 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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• 21

  May

  2026

  Call for papers - Modern

  Westward : Women, Literature, and Human Rights in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries

  Cet appel à chapitres pour un volume collectif publié chez Droz (2027) invite à construire une histoire littéraire européenne transnationale des femmes migrantes d’Europe de l’Est, du XXe siècle à nos jours. Il s’agit d’analyser, à travers le prisme des droits humains comme catégorie critique, les productions littéraires et intellectuelles de ces écrivaines, souvent reléguées aux marges des canons nationaux, comme des formes de résistance cognitive et des archives alternatives de la violence politique, de l’exil et de la précarité. L’ouvrage entend ainsi combler un angle mort des études littéraires et des droits humains en restituant à ces voix leur pleine dimension d’actrices intellectuelles du débat démocratique européen.

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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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