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Vizille | Saint-Martin-d'Hères
From America to France: Beaumarchais and the experience of Revolution
In 2026, as the United States celebrates 250 years of independence and takes an increasing aggressive stance toward Europe, the Museum of the French Revolution – Domaine de Vizille and the LUHCIE laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University are organizing an international symposium aimed at rethinking the revolutionary origins of Franco-American relations through the figure and writings of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799). This reinterpretation has been made possible by the recent acquisition by the Bibliothèque nationale de France of Beaumarchais' voluminous personal archives, as well as by the unprecedented digital publication of his entire surviving correspondence and manuscripts, undertaken as part of the collective and interdisciplinary program @rchibeau (2024-2029).
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Paris
Call for papers - Early modern
Crafting Everyday Life. Art Manufactories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
À l’occasion de la réunion de la Cité de la Céramique – Sèvres & Limoges et le Mobilier national sous l’appellation Manufactures nationales – Mobilier national & Sèvres le 1er janvier 2025, le Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art Moderne (GRHAM) a décidé d’orienter son colloque annuel sur les manufactures d’art des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Cette recomposition institutionnelle invite à relire l’histoire des manufactures, non comme un âge d’or figé, mais comme une histoire mouvante, marquée par des ruptures internes et des redéfinitions constantes des liens entre État, artistes et ouvriers.
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Trier
Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution
Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons
Cette journée d’étude hybride permettra à l’équipe de recherche PaPa (Université de Trèves) de présenter les résultats et les conclusions du projet ERC « Pamphlets and Patrons: how courtiers shaped the public sphere in Ancien Régime France ».
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Rennes
Sociability, Progress and Innovation (1650-1850)
Cet appel à contribution se propose d’interroger les usages et significations des idées de « progrès » et d’« innovation » - qu’elles soient en rapport avec la technologie, l’économie, la politique, la religion ou la culture - au cours du long XVIIIe siècle et leurs impacts sur les pratiques sociales. Il s’attachera à mesurer les effets de l’innovation sous toutes ses formes (technique, politique, économique, artistique, littéraire, etc.) sur les sociabilités dans les sociétés européennes et coloniales. Il sera également intéressant d’envisager la sociabilité elle-même comme une innovation conceptuelle et sociale.
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Antiracisms and the Social Sciences, 2025-2066
This seminar examines the history and sociology of antiracism—or antiracisms—in the Atlantic region since the end of the 18th century. We will be looking at how what we now call “racism” has been thought about and combated over the long term. Few studies are explicitly devoted to antiracism. We will, therefore, propose a genealogy of antiracist strategies. This seminar is committed to articulating a transdisciplinary and transnational perspective on the dynamics of anti-racist thought and practice.
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Paris
Experiencing Contact in Native North America (17th-19th centuries)
Far from being limited to specific places and times, contacts between Native Americans and Euro-American settlers should be studied as long-term phenomena. These encounters took various forms: they could be contentious, diplomatic, cultural, religious, or economic in nature. Our goal is to study the nature of these encounters, their different occurrences, their spatial dimensions, as well as their consequences, for both Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans. By stressing the role played by long-standing Indigenous traditions in these encounters, we seek to testify to the ways in which Native Americans were able to control their interactions with Euro-Americans while situating these encounters in relationship to well-established Indigenous practices. To do so, we are looking for proposals which rely on Indigenous archives, both material and immaterial, and/or use new methods to analyze colonial records.
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Paris
Cultural Histories of the Atlantic World, 18th–21st
Émanation du programme ANR Transatlantic Cultures (2015-2023), ce séminaire initié en 2017 interroge l’espace atlantique sous le biais des échanges culturels, depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Accueilli par Thalim à l’INHA, il permet notamment un travail de réflexion collective, à la fois thématique et méthodologique, en vue de publications sur le site de recherche en histoire culturelle Transatlantic Cultures.
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Actors and representations of the safeguard of nature in mountain areas: a global perspective (late 18th – early 21st century)
The aim of this international scientific conference is to examine the progressive integration of the environmental protection theme into the several mountain ranges of the Earth, between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 21st century, concluding in 2022, the International Year of Mountains. By selecting a global perspective, it encourages a decentring of observation points, which in turn brings to light not only the diversity of trajectories but also the possible (direct or indirect) circulation of knowledge, materials, practices and individuals in the different mountain ranges.
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Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe
The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg is offering 5 part time (65%) positions as part of the “Politics of the Enlightenment” Research Training Group (RTG 2999) as a Research Associate (m-f-d) for a fixed term of up to 4 years, starting from 01.04.2026. The Resarch Training Group explores the politics of the Enlightenment from the 18th to the 21st century in two respects: On the one hand, it examines the political claims and interpretations that have been and are being developed in the name of the Enlightenment. On the other hand, it focuses on the political discussions and measures that shape the understanding of Enlightenment in a global context to this day.
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Aubervilliers
Searching for Homosexuality in Judicial Archives
Epistemological, Methodological and Political Challenges (18 th-20 th centuries)
This workshop aims to explore the epistemological, methodological and political challenges of using judicial archives to conduct historical research on homosexuality. It will be held on 7 and 8 November 2025 at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France (Paris area). It is open to all early career researchers (master's, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers) conducting investigations into the history of homosexuality using court records and/or other judicial documents, whatever their discipline. This edition focuses specifically on the issue of framing the object of research and on categories of analysis in the history of homosexuality, and how these are put to the test by confrontation with this material.
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Lyon
Doctoriales internationales d’études malebranchistes
International Doctoral Workshop on Malebranchian Studies
Ce colloque international, destiné aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses, portera sur l’œuvre de Nicolas Malebranche.
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Shipping Pandemics – A Global Approach to the History of Maritime Health (18th-20th)
First SHIPPAN workshop
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of transport in times of health crisis, and the need for trained, responsive professionals. This workshop focuses on sanitary prevention and the practices of health professionals at sea, on board ships or in port environments. Over three centuries, the transnational approach covers military and merchant navies, both sailing and steam-powered, in ports on three continents.
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Paris
Trade and its representations. commercial activity in art and architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the many transformations and significant expansion of commercial activities led to the diversification of consumption and the expansion of commercial areas. These phenomena reflected improvements in transport conditions, better organisation of trade networks and the resources of capitalism. The images and literature related to the world of commerce diversified and transformed society’s perception of this practice and its players (pedlars, itinerant merchants, manufacturers, wholesalers, entrepreneurs, etc.). How do the representations of these places of professional sociability reflect these societal changes?
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Paris
Call for papers - Early modern
“Teaching the Manner of Performing all Steps…” The Technical Dance Treatises (1700-1750)
International conference Celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of “Le Maître à danser” by Pierre Rameau (1725)
The year 2025 will mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of a major work for the understanding of the dance of the 18th century: The Dancing-Master which Teaches the Manner of Performing all the Different Steps in Dancing in All Regularity of the Art and How to Move the Arms with Each Step by Pierre Rameau (1674-1748). On the anniversary of this publication, we wish to review the history and the content of the Maître à danser, but also the circumstances of its creation, situating it more generally in the history of treatises on dance technique during the first half of the 18th century. The conference will also cover practices of which the treatise merely bears traces of, which have only been revealed in recent research. The objective of this colloquium will thus be twofold: To gain a fuller picture of the role of this work in the 18th century and its effects on current practices in the reconstruction of Early Dance.
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Boulogne
At the crossroads of literary, ethical and political issues, this conference aims to examine the depiction of mobility in European prison literature: because the prison space is the place of prevented mobility, prison literature confers a central and paradoxical part on movement, whether concrete or metaphorical.
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Revue « Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire »
In this issue, we wish to focus on historical approaches - in the broadest sense of the term - which aim to understand economic mechanisms in relation to political, cultural and social phenomena within African societies and in the context of their times, without necessarily addressing their potential links with the present. We wish authors to focus on economic processes that were internal to societies, including interactions with external institutions (and especially imperial institutions), provided that these interactions shed light on the workings of African societies. Our goal is also to consider the documentary challenges facing historians.
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Paris
The suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 marks the last step of the Order’s progressive dissolution initiated fifteen years earlier, in Europe and in its colonies. This act of suppression was the culmination of a broader secularisation movement concerning religious congregations across Europe, from the 1760s to the French Revolution. Several studies have already investigated the dispersal of abolished congregations’ assets in different parts of Enlightened Europe, but a broader overview is yet to be drawn. Furthermore, it is necessary to define common characteristics of confiscation procedures and real properties’ functional transformations during the three decades before the nationalisation of Church property undertaken in France in 1789.
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Paris
The face in 18th and 19th century public sculpture in France and in the German sphere
This study day devoted to sculpture will focus on one element in particular: the face. As an essential part of the sculpted figure, the face has the dual role of enabling identification and expression. This dual role became more apparent in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the rise of portraiture, as well as the interest in the inner self and more broadly, the intimate. The aim of this exhibition is to draw a parallel between two contradictory concepts : the intimate and the public. As sculpture is the art par excellence of the public space, the aim is to confront the face, which is intimate, with the imperatives of public sculpture. The aim of this study day is to examine the representation of the face in Franco-German public sculpture in the 18th and 19th centuries, analysing its theories, practices, techniques, possible typologies and the way it is perceived by the viewer.
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Asnières-sur-Oise
Women artists in the Atlantic Space: Migrations, Creation, Emancipation
This international conference aims to explore the effects of transatlantic cultural circulations over the individual and collective experiences of women artists (18th-21st c.), in the various fields of creation (cinema, literature, visual arts, performing arts, music, architecture…).
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Nice
Conference, symposium - Representation
Ecocriticism and Race Theory in the Humanities 16-18th centuries (EARTH 16-18)
Le projet de recherche EARTH 16-18 se situe au croisement de la théorie critique de la race, qui repose sur l’étude de la façon dont les corps sont définis par des rapports de pouvoir, et de l’écocritique, qui se concentre sur le lien entre environnement, nature, animaux et êtres humains.
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