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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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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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Jul

2026

Lisbon

Call for papers - History

Associationism: history, practices and legacies (19th–21st centuries)

Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal Nº 27

This dossier aims to bring together original scholarly contributions that deepen our understanding of associationism in its multiple dimensions, privileging approaches that combine methodological rigour with empirical and analytical breadth. Proposals may be based on specific case studies or comparative analyses and should critically engage with the nature of associationism and its impact on contemporary societies. Contributions drawing on unpublished primary sources or offering innovative reinterpretations of well-known documentary corpora are particularly welcome.

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Call for papers - History

Self-writing and migration. Ego-documents by researchers in the humanities and social sciences (19th and 20th century)

Revue « Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire »

Privilégiant une approche matérielle et pratique de ces ego-documents, ce numéro de Diasporas se propose de repenser le retour réflexif sur l’expérience de la migration opéré par des chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales tout au long des XIX^eet XX^e siècles, quels que soient leur provenance et leur pays d’accueil.

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Paris

Call for papers - History

Books and manuscripts in exile since the 19th century

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, books and manuscripts found themselves in forced exile in Europe. Requisitioned during military occupations, such as the books looted by the Nazis during the Second World War, they were also pillaged in the context of colonisation. These cultural objects also went into exile, accompanying exiles fleeing authoritarian, totalitarian regimes or war zones. In this conference, we would like to study the historical phenomenon of books and manuscripts in exile, both from a historiographical perspective and in terms of their heritage value.

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Lausanne

Call for papers - History

Diplomacies, Diplomats, and Sports, 19th–21st Century

Unlike the often-speculative analyses of many experts, this conference aims to examine the relationship between diplomats, diplomacies, and sport by analyzing sources (archives, interviews, etc.), with a focus on its forms, practices, and the actors who shape them. The theme of sport and international relations has remained a largely overlooked area in scholarly research within history, international relations, and organizational sociology.

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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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Call for papers - Representation

Art, matière et environnement (1848-1927)

« 48-14. La nouvelle revue scientifique des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie », 2, 2027

A call for contributions has been issued for the preparation of the second issue of the journal 48-14. La nouvelle revue scientifique des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, to be published in 2027, which will be devoted to the relationships between art, material, and environment at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Researchers are invited to propose studies that, focusing on specific objects, explore the various ways in which artists conceive the relationship between material and environment—whether contributing to the construction of the opposition between nature and culture or, on the contrary, challenging it.

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May

2026

Call for papers - Science studies

The Incarnate Secret: The Human Body Between Medicine and Secret Sciences

Revue Arcana Naturae, n°8 (2027)

From the Renaissance up to the thresholds of the 20th century, the human body was never a simple biological object, but a genuine “incarnate secret” and a conceptual nexus at the crossroads of scientific knowledge and occult lore. The body has often been perceived as the greatest of Nature’s secrets. For centuries, the inquiry into the body represented a battlefield and a point of collaboration between disciplines. Particular attention will be paid to the body-as-sign (between manifestation and dissimulation), the body-as-medium (a laboratory for occult forces), and the body-as-science (corporeal epistemology and knowledge

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Paris

Call for papers - History

Solidarities and Shifting Alliances

The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies international symposium invites participants to reflect on the political, social and cultural reconfigurations of the period between 1750 and 1914.

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Paris

Call for papers - History

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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Call for papers - Language

Methodology and Applications of Language Industries in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Issues, Reflections, and Prospects

The international conference “Methodology and Uses of Language Industries in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Issues, Reflections, and Prospects” explores the growing impact of artificial intelligence and language technologies (machine translation, NLP, speech recognition, etc.) on research practices and methodologies in the humanities and social sciences. Discussions will focus on four main areas: sharing methodological approaches, examining applications in various fields (education, health, public services), debating ethical issues related to language automation, and promoting interdisciplinarity for the responsible development of language industries.

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Miscellaneous information - Science studies

Fun, rest and recreation from a historical perspective

Between work and leisure. Reflections on the history of leisure

On 29 October, the international debate “Fun, rest and recreation from a historical perspective. Between work and leisure. Reflections on the history of leisure” will take place, organised by the magazine Historia y Memoria (HyM).

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Intérieurs photographiques, entre mise en scène et documentation

Photographic interiors, between staging and documentation

From family pictures to police photographs and social surveys, the photographic documentation of private interiors often finds pictures in front of the lens. This conference aims to think through this mirror effect of photographed photographs, by consid- ering together images of domestic worlds and everyday image practices anchored in the dwelling.

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Paris

Study days - Modern

Tele-Phonies: Listening at a Distance in the Arts and Auditory Cultures

Drawing from the hypothesis of an entanglement between auditory cultures, regimes of perception, and techniques of listening, the study day Tele-Phonies proposes to analyze the arts and cultures of listening through the plural notion of distance. The aim is to consider not only telephone and radio networks, but also a broader set of mediated practices of listening at a distance—within or on the margins of these networks—in order to grasp their impact on the sonic arts and auditory cultures.

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Call for papers - Language

Describing Creole Languages in the 19th Century: Ideology, Sociology, and Intertextuality

How do beliefs about Creole languages influence the their descriptions by 19^th-century creolists? This issue of Archipélies seeks to answer this question, focusing on the beliefs, representations, and, more broadly, ideologies that permeate descriptions of Creole languages from the documentation of Haitian Creole by Ducœurjoly in 1802 to the naturalistic portrayal of Creoles around the turn of the century1. Far from being reduced to simple nomenclatures, descriptions of Creole languages reproduce an ideological background that must be examined in order to better understand the gradual development of a linguistic discourse on the genesis and structures of Creole languages. As linguistic practices born out of colonial situations, forced contact, and historical ruptures, Creoles and their descriptions crystallize the ideological and conceptual divisions of coloniality, threatening its coherence and uniformity.

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Call for papers - Europe

The Environment at the Summit

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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Paris

Call for papers - Europe

Aïno Ackté and Paris

This symposium, devoted to “Aïno Ackté and Paris” on the 150^th anniversary in 2026 of this great artist’s birth, will explore the many facets of her life and career, while focusing in particular on the part she played in the opera world in Paris.

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Aïn Temouchent

Call for papers - Modern

Specialised translation and intercultural mediation: how do they fit together in the age of artificial intelligence?

Cette thématique de recherche vise à explorer les tensions, les complémentarités et les synergies entre compétences humaines et technologies émergentes dans le champ de la traduction spécialisée à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle ; elle propose de réfléchir à la manière dont les compétences interculturelles et les technologies de l’intelligence artifiielle modifient en profondeur les modalités de production, d’interprétation et de réception de la traduction spécialisée. Elle s’adresse aux traducteurs, chercheurs, linguistes, enseignants, professionnels du numérique, spécialistes de la médiation interculturelle ainsi qu’aux développeurs d’outils de traduction.

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Montreal

Call for papers - Sociology

Centring the conductor in 19th- and 20th-century francophone musical life: roles, influence, identity

L’Équipe Musique en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles : Discours et idéologies (ÉMF) et la chaire de recherche du Canada en musique et politique (CRCMP) de l'Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM) organisent la journée d’étude internationale Le chef d’orchestre au centre du paysage musical francophone aux XIX^e et XX^e siècles : rôles, influences, identités qui se tiendra le 7 novembre 2025, à l’université de Montréal.

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