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Berlin

Call for papers - Asia

(Re)Thinking the Role of Religion in Social and Humanitarian Action: Preaching in a Transnational Approach

This workshop seeks to explore the links between preaching and socio-humanitarian action in the contemporary Middle East. Contexts of social and humanitarian crises appear as privileged sites for understanding this constitutive device of faith experiences, beyond the sole framework of the sermon or religious discourse. The chosen approach is deliberately cross-cutting: it brings Islam, Judaism, and Christianity into dialogue, while situating the Middle East within a global perspective. How does preaching accompany and shape social and humanitarian action? In what forms and according to which modalities does it unfold? How does it influence the understanding and implementation of aid?

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2026

Call for papers - Geography

Urban Metamorphoses: Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Arab Cities

Revue « EchoGéo »

Since the beginning of the 20^th century, the Arab world has undergone rapid urbanization. Today, global cities in the region such as Doha and Dubai have themselves become exporters of new urban paradigms to the wider Arab world and beyond. This issue of EchoGéo aims to explore these urban metamorphoses through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, connecting dynamics across North Africa and the Middle East, and to bridge three elements: understanding the forces that deeply transform Arab cities, examining how they unfold in concrete places, and giving full attention to the resistances, detours, and inventions that redraw urban life.

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Call for papers - Representation

Arab Theatres’ Archives and Historiographies

This issue aims to question the historiography of theatres in the Arab worlds and to reread it in light of its relationship to the archives of the performing arts. It will focus on the reasons and circumstances that lead to preserve traces of the performing arts, as well as on the assumptions and methods underling the writing of theatre history.

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Paris

Call for papers - Political studies

Les mondes arabes au prisme des émotions

The Arab Worlds Through the Lens of Emotions

This call for papers invites scholars from various disciplines and countries across the region to take stock of ongoing research, at a time when emotional currents are particularly in- tense. It seeks to explore how emotions unfold, circulate, and are regulated or instrumenta- lized, in an era where their digital expression plays a decisive role in shaping the understanding and representation of contemporary conflicts. The symposium aims to bring together researchers who analyze emotions from both theoretical and methodological perspectives, with particular attention to their relational dimension—taking into account the flows and confrontations between individuals, collectives, and institutions—as well as to their material, temporal, and spatial embeddedness.

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Study days - History

Étudier les polices au Moyen-Orient

Penser les formes d’États du VIIIe siècle à nos jours

Le Moyen-Orient est longtemps resté le parent pauvre des travaux de sciences sociales consacrés à la police. Cette marginalisation n’est pas propre au monde arabe. La France a elle-même investi tardivement ce champ de recherche, privilégiant l’analyse de ceux qui subissent la répression plutôt que ses commanditaires et exécutants. Pour saisir les dynamiques de construction de l’ordre public et les relations États-société dans le Proche Orient, nous proposons de décentrer le regard en partant de l’appareil répressif et en privilégiant une perspective diachronique.

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Lyon

Call for papers - History

Attractiveness and mobility networks: seducing, welcoming and integrating

As part of the study day "Attractiveness and Mobility Networks," PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars are invited to explore the dynamics of attractiveness in individual and collective mobilities, from the Bronze Age to the modern era. The event focuses on the legal, political, and social mechanisms implemented to attract, welcome, and integrate individuals into networks. It also examines the formal and informal circulation of information, as well as the processes of community clustering. Particular attention will be given to both the successes and failures of these mechanisms of attractiveness.

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Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - History

A Century of Revolutions

Centennial of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925-2025)

The symposium will explore the 1925-1927 Great Syrian Revolt and its various interpretations throughout a ‘Century of Revolutions’. The actors, initiating factors and dynamics of the movement will be discussed, as will be the relationships between the countryside, cities and the ‘bâdiyya’ (the Syrian desert). Both the thawra itself and its violent repression will be studied, and great attention will be granted to peripheries beyond typical Syrian borders. The new opportunities which could arise from the fall of the al-Assad regime in December 2024, in particular access to new archival documents and data, will be at the centre of our discussions. Finally, this centenary will enable us to analyse the Great Syrian Revolt as a cultural phenomenon, and not solely a political and military struggle.

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Paris

Call for papers - Political studies

The "new clothes" of authoritarianism in the Middle East

Confluences Méditerranée Journal

Authoritarianism in the Middle East has undergone a series of mutations, in various forms, without in many cases fundamentally shaking its traditional patrimonial, military and rentier structures. The "Arab Springs" of 2011 revealed the flaws in these systems. However, recent developments have also illustrated how the notion of political change can actually amount to a veneer of continuity. Many of these regimes have adapted to popular protest and overcome it by adopting a range of measures - from liberalisation to cooperation, from modernisation to coercion. With this in mind, this issue of Confluences Méditerranée will look at this complex issue through a series of interdisciplinary contributions based on existing literature and grounded in field studies.

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Paris

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

From Negotiation to Integration: Hegemony in Hellenistic Times

Ce colloque se propose d'étudier la notion d'hégémonie à l'époque hellénistique, au prisme de quatre grands axes : sa définition concrète, ses mécanismes de mise en fonctionnement, ses applications concrètes, et ses limites. L'objectif de ce colloque est de se questionner sur l'applicabilité de comportements décrits comme ceux d'une puissance hégémonique, dans le monde issu de la désintégration du royaume d'Alexandre.

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Strasbourg

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

The relationship between humans and animals in pre-modern and contemporary Muslim societies

As part of the 6th Congress of Middle Eastern and Muslim Studies of the GIS MOMM, this workshop will examine the relationships between humans and non-human animals in Muslim societies or groups in pre-modern (including medieval) and contemporary times.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - History

On the Roads of Arabia: Itineraries by Land and Sea

From the Bronze Age to the Islamic Period

The aim of the symposium is to study the overland and maritime routes of the Arabian Peninsula and the exchanges they made possible, through archaeology, history, philology, religion and life sciences. This topic will be addressed in the longue durée, from the Bronze Age to the Islamic period. The symposium will also examine the networks of exchanges with border regions such as the Indian subcontinent, the Horn of Africa and Egypt, as well as the empires of the Ancient Near East, and the Greek and Roman empires.

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Beirut

Call for papers - Representation

Music in the Middle East after the digital revolution

Journal “Regards”

This issue of the journal Regards (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth) proposes to investigate the dynamics of musical production and forms of dissemination in the contemporary Near East, particularly through the do it yourself practices that have emerged with the advent of home studios and low-cost listening platforms. The challenge of such a study is thus to confront the different aesthetics of today's music, blending diverse intellectual and cultural heritages, mobilizing the affects of nostalgia and those linked to the historical realities shared by the region's inhabitants. The question of understanding the articulation of musical dynamics with social, political and state boundaries and different contexts of conflict will be explored.

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Lisbon

Call for papers - History

Spaces of Confinement: Memories of Repression and Coloniality

À l’occasion du 88^e anniversaire de l’ouverture du camp de concentration colonial de Tarrafal, dans l’archipel du Cap-Vert (29 Octobre 1936 – 29 Octobre 2024), ce colloque international vise à élargir le débat sur les pratiques anciennes et nouvelles de l’enfermement, dans leurs multiples déclinaisons et modalités. D’une part, il s’agit d’aborder la forme camp dans une perspective historique ainsi que les différentes pratiques de l’incarcération coloniale. D’autre part, l’intention de ce colloque est de réfléchir de manière large et transdisciplinaire sur les espaces, les mémoires, les récits et les expériences de détention, et sur la manière dont leurs héritages marquent la généalogie des pratiques contemporaines d’enfermement.

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Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Religion

Religious Conversions. Believing and Doing on the Move in the Mediterranean Area

This issue looks at religion in terms of its ability to mobilise institutions, groups and individuals around plural dynamics that contribute to the redefinition of the religious field itself. It looks at religious conversion through the prism of multidirectional and communicating trajectories, ’bifurcations’ in which movements of diversions, decentering and return to the self come together. Religious conversion is understood here beyond the dualistic categorisation of rupture and continuity. This leads us to think of it not simply as an opaque process of religious disaffiliation and affiliation, but as a movement from self to self, involving a constant tension of negotiation between reconfiguration of the ways in which people believe and do religion, and the significance of the identities and sensibilities of individuals in a given social environment.

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Lyon

Call for papers - Modern

Italians in the Middle East and North Africa (1861-1950): between migration and the construction of an Italian identity

This symposium proposes to discuss the construction and the recognition of an Italian national identity within the Italian colonies established in the countries of the MENA region. At the same time, t will analyze the reception and definition of Italianness by local societies in a 19th-century colonial context.

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Beirut

Call for papers - Political studies

"It's a rich man's world?"

Financing humanitarian aid and development in the Middle East since the mid-19th century

Cet atelier exploratoire abordera les ressources financières de l’aide transnationale, leur gestion et leur circulation, en examinant les pratiques, les discours et les stratégies mises en œuvre, de l'émergence de l'humanitaire moderne, autour de la crise de 1860 au Liban, jusqu’aux récents bouleversements tels que la guerre en Syrie. L’analyse sera menée à diverses échelles, avec une attention aux réflexions sur le temps long et aux interrelations entre le local et le global. Il s'agit de mettre en dialogue diverses approches des sciences humaines et sociales, ainsi que savoirs académiques et pratiques. Sont particulièrement bienvenues les propositions portant sur un cas d’étude, un corpus de sources, un retour de terrain, des outils techniques et méthodologiques.

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Paris

Call for papers - History

On the Roads of Arabia: Itineraries by Land and Sea

From the Bronze Age to the Islamic Period

The aim of the symposium is to study the overland and maritime routes of the Arabian Peninsula and the exchanges they made possible, through archaeology, history, philology, religion and life sciences. This topic will be addressed in the longue durée, from the Bronze Age to the Islamic period. The symposium will also examine the networks of exchanges with border regions such as the Indian subcontinent, the Horn of Africa and Egypt, as well as the empires of the Ancient Near East, and the Greek and Roman empires.

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Brussels

Call for papers - Asia

Slavery and Post-Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula

At the crossroads of literature and social sciences

Les pays du Golfe sont parmi les derniers pays au monde à avoir aboli l’esclavage légal. Or, malgré la centralité de l’esclavage dans l’histoire sociale de la péninsule Arabique, son étude reste très peu investie par les sciences sociales. Face au vide historiographique et anthropologique, la fiction contemporaine s'est emparée de cette question. Ce colloque a ainsi pour ambition d’explorer les voies d’un dialogue entre littérature et sciences sociales, en confrontant la vision historiographique de l’esclavage dans la péninsule Arabique à la place de celui-ci dans l’imaginaire littéraire. S’inscrivant dans une perspective comparatiste, il souhaite approfondir les débats autour de « l’esclavage oriental » et de ses résurgences contemporaines afin de proposer de nouvelles grilles de lecture au-delà de l’historiographie de l’esclavage aux Amériques ou aux Caraïbes.

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Paris

Call for papers - Political studies

States, institutions and societies in Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan since the 1970s

Organised by the Centre d’histoire du XIX^e siècle (CRHXIX, Sorbonne University) and the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI, Sciences-Po), the graduate conference aims to rethink relations between states and societies in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia since the 1970s, paying attention to transnational trajectories and circulations of political phenomena and groups, and their relationship to the state.

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Beirut

Call for papers - Representation

Uprisings and resistance: contemporary issues of cinema and visual arts in Iran and across the diaspora

How can we look at Iranian cinema and the visual arts in relation to Iran today when the country has been experiencing an important episode of uprising and resistance, since September 16, 2022? Indeed, as in 1979, 1999, and 2009, and as in 2017 and 2018, it is obvious that images play a decisive role in the constitution of events. Iranian artists and filmmakers are indeed demonstrating an exceptional mobilization and effervescence in order to bear witness to the ongoing protests, but also to support them and mobilize international public opinion.

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