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Conference, symposium - History
This international conference examines the history of confinements through the lens of their materiality. Indeed, confinement is defined by walls that separate individuals from society. Beyond the mere walls, daily interactions between confined individuals, institutional authorities, and staff are largely paved and defined by a variety of things : food, water, books, graffiti, clothes, money, letters, official registers, medicine, punishment objects, etc. In this regard, and drawing on the material turn in history since the early 2000s, things – whether “tangible” things physically available to historians or “textual” things described in written sources – might offer an additional perspective on the history of confinements more broadly, especially when addressing forms of “prison before the prison”.
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Surviving in and Through Arab World Art and Literature
Body, Memory and Affective Regimes
This volume explores the concept of survivance in contemporary Arab art and literature, focusing on how artistic and literary practices embody, sustain, and transmit memory, emotion, and affective experience. Survivance is approached here not merely as biological or material survival, but as the ongoing persistence, transformation, and circulation of cultural, emotional, and collective traces across generations—through practices that engage bodies, perception, and affective registers.
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Fes
Vulnerability in Parenthood: Disability, Processes, and Prevention
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The fifth edition of this international conference continues an established scientific and clinical tradition dedicated to exploring vulnerabilities in their various forms. Following previous editions that addressed sexuality and intimate relationships in disability, art in the service of disability, and mental health and new technologies, this 5th edition expands the discussion to a fundamental societal issue: parenthood in contexts of vulnerability.
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Italians in/and the Maghreb: Between Integration and Isolation
This special issue examines the presence of Italians in the Maghreb in relation to broader questions of colonialism, race, decolonization as well as contemporary conversations surrounding migration, diaspora, and postcolonial inclusion and belonging. It aims to illuminate the varying tensions and exchanges between Italy and French North Africa, from large-scale migrations to intellectual dialogues between the two regions.
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Turin
“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.
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“Iḥālāt Journal”, Linguistic, Literary, and Critical Studies
No. 7 (December 2025)
The editorial board of Iḥālāt Journal, published by the Institute of Arts and Languages at the University Center of Maghnia, invites submissions of original research and scholarly articles in Arabic, English, and French. This international, peer-reviewed, semi-annual academic journal focuses on linguistic, literary, and critical studies.
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Tozeur
The 1st International Forum on Design, Desert, and Sustainable Development (4D) offers a transdisciplinary reflection on the desert as a space for creation, innovation, and resilience. Held in Tozeur from February 4 to 7, 2026, the forum brings together researchers, artists, designers, engineers, and local stakeholders to explore ecological, social, and aesthetic challenges related to arid environments. It examines the role of design in the sustainable transformation of the desert through three key approaches: the desert as an in situ creative laboratory, an in vitro catalyst for innovation, and an in vivo space for learning.
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Cairo
Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant
1939-1958
this conference examines the Catholic Church’s engagement with decolonization in North Africa and the Levant during the pontificate of Pius XII (1939–1958). This conference seeks to explore key questions: What role did the Catholic Church – both as an institution and as a diverse religious community – play in decolonization? How did Vatican diplomacy interact with local clergy, indigenous populations, and political movements? To what extent were these interactions shaped by competition, hybridization, and exchange? How did decolonization influence doctrinal transformations in the 1940s and 1950s, paving the way for the Second Vatican Council? The conference aims to critically engage with newly available sources, prioritizing transnational perspectives and highlighting the agency of marginalized actors. In addition to the recently declassified archives of Pius XII, scholars employing diverse methodologies and archival materials are welcomed.
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Kinshasa
Pan-Africanism, Democracy, and Lasting Peace in Africa
This conference seeks to examine the democratic crisis in Africa and its contemporary geopolitical dimensions in the pursuit of sustainable peace. What frameworks and approaches can both facilitate peacebuilding processes and free democracy from authoritarianism? What new perspectives emerge from the democratic debates to restore peace amidst current geopolitical and geostrategic challenges in Africa?
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Perpignan
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
Pioneering archaeological diving in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
Players, methods, and collections since the 1940’s
This conference honours long-gone pioneers and those whose work ended in the early 2000s. We will explore their contributions to the exchange of knowledge across the Mediterranean. We invite archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, media and communication scholars, heritage curators, and witnesses to discuss these pioneering figures, focusing on their excavation methods, conservation techniques, and efforts to share knowledge about their archaeological finds.
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Quebec City
Call for papers - Political studies
Women, Leadership and Armed Groups in Africa and the Middle East
Journal of Gender Studies
This special issue of Journal of Gender Studies focuses on the role of women in leadership positions in militias and defense groups, paying special attention on Africa and the Middle East to measure the empirical variation between different terrains of inquiry to be analysed through two different theorical frameworks: the Gendered Theory of Rebellion and the Donminant/Power Theory. The rationale for the special issue is the attempt to analyse and evaluate the experience of women in leadership positions, their motivations for violence and the degree to which their decision-making and influence in the perpetration of violence impacts their definition of feminity.
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Brno
Conference, symposium - Europe
The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts
From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries)
This conference wishes to expand and collectively rethink the “cumulative aesthetics” of the long late antiquity ranging from the 4th to the 9th century offering a shared interdisciplinary platform to study late antique aesthetic developments across different media and territories by bringing together specialists from different disciplines: art history, aesthetics, classical philology, and archaeology.
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Uurban governance and spatial planning in Africa
The Session explores recent developments and innovations in spatial planning in African countries. It includes theoretical and empirical contributions.
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Lausanne
Cities, Migrations, and Urban Integration
Symposium
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the International University of Rabat (UIR) are pleased to announce the organization of an international online symposium on the theme of "Cities, Migrations, and Urban Integration," This symposium aims to present the results of the research project "Moroccan Cities and Migrations" and to put them into perspective alongside other studies on this topic at an international level.
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Basel
The Ottoman Governance of Diversity
12th Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late and Post-Ottoman Studies
The Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies is a two-day workshop in Basel, Switzerland, designed for international doctoral students conducting research on the Near and Middle East. The workshop consists of a two-day, intensive program in which select students work closely with invited experts. Successful completion of the workshop entitles students to 3 ECTS credits. This year, we are thrilled to host Dr. habil. Nora Lafi of the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, to lead our 12th annual workshop on the topic of “The Ottoman Governance of Diversity.”
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Messina
Cross border communities and blurred citizenships in Africa: stakes and challenges
As part of the 7th Biennial Congress of the Association for African Studies in Italy (ASAI), we are organizing a panel on cross-border communities in Africa. This panel welcomes papers from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, particularly those interested in the individual and collective dimensions of territorialized and individualized relations at international borders, which Amilhat Szary and Giraut (2015) call “borderities.”
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Aix-en-Provence
Conference, symposium - History
Directions, sources & perspectives
How can we write the history of deserts? As "Desert Studies" are only beginning to attract the attention of scholarly communities across the English-speaking world, this conference examines the crucial issue of sources, and its articulation with key research questions relating to arid spaces around the world, with a particular interest in, but not limited to, the Sahara. Research engaging with the history of the Sahara Desert has taken new directions in recent years, notably around previously neglected issues such as mobility, networks, the emergence of new identities in Saharan countries following decolonization, or as part of new explorations of the relationships between colonised and colonisers. Drawing upon this growing historiography, ‘Writing the Desert’ aims to create a space for reflection around the fundamental material of all academic research: on the one hand, the archives which inform the work of the researcher, and on the other the questions around which their investigation is structured.
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The role of Start-ups and Business Incubators in Achieving Economic Development in Algeria
’الدور الاقتصادي لمؤسسات الناشئة و حاضنات الاعمال في تحقيق أهداف التنمية الاقتصادية في الجزائر’’
Algeria, like other countries in the world, is full of many creative and innovative entrepreneurs, and at the same time they are eager to create institutions in which they embody their new ideas with the aim of creating various products and services that contribute to the diversification of the Algerian economy. Especially if they have financial support from experts and supporting financial institutions, as well as technical and administrative support from business incubators. The conference aims to answer the following question: To what extant can Start-ups and business Incubators contribute in economy diversity and economic development success in Algeria?
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Hamburg
Towards a History of European Developmentalism
Development, Modernization and Europeanization from the 19th to the 21st century
As historical narratives on international politics of development and modernization are now consolidate, a genuinely European perspective, that considers the multiplicity of governmental and non-governmental actors, still seems to be missing. This conference aims to understand to what extent a politically integrated Europe might be understood as the result of practices of development policies within Europe and its (semi-)colonial periphery during the past two centuries.
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Tangier
Conference, symposium - Africa
The Tangier Zone Statute Centenary
Bringing together scholars from both sides of the Mediterranean, this conference aims to renew interest in the International Zone of Tangier (1925–56). It will take place 100 years to the day after France, Spain, and the United Kingdom signed the Zone’s constitutive treaty, known as the “Tangier Zone Statute”. The agreement, which was later joined by Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Italy, subjected Tangier to a special regime: although nominally an integral part of Morocco, the city and its surroundings were to a large extent subject to the joint administration of Western powers.
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