Calenda - The calendar for arts, humanities and social sciences

All	61,481
Call for papers	27,174
Conference, symposium	12,507
Study days	9,424
Seminar	4,947
Scholarship, prize and job offer	3,016
Miscellaneous information	2,511
Lecture series	1,014
Summer School	528
Call for tender	360

1,313 Events

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
>>

Sort

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.

Read announcement

20 May 2026	03 Jun 2026	17 Jun 2026
01 Jul 2026	15 Jul 2026

Seminar - Middle Ages

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.

Read announcement

15

Jun

2026

Paris

Call for papers - History

Journal passés futurs

A trilingual journal (English, French and Spanish) issued twice a year, passés futurs publishes original articles exploring the social and memorial uses of the past in contemporary contexts, along with political, national or religious issues from previous centuries. The journal welcomes submissions adopting comparative, international and interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and studies in literature, cinema, theatre, music and artistic creation.

Read announcement

Seminar - History

Beauvoir Webinar Series

The Beauvoir Webinar Series were originally conceived by their first coordinators (Gina and Marine) as an open space for expression accessible to all, while also serving as a site of resistance to the multiple hegemonic dynamics that permeate the academic sphere and, more broadly, the social field.

Read announcement

Call for papers - History

“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.

Read announcement

Call for papers - Thought

Thinking from the Dual – Ontology, Theology and the Humanities through the Lens of the “Muthannā”

This international conference explores the philosophical and theological implications of the Arabic grammatical dual (al-muthannā). Situated between the paradigms of unity and multiplicity that have long structured philosophical thought, the dual offers a distinctive relational structure in which two terms are held together without fusion or hierarchy. Taking this linguistic form as a conceptual starting point, the conference investigates the possibility of thinking relation itself as originary. Particular attention will be given to the concept of ʿahd (covenant, pact, commitment) as a relational event in Islamic theology and beyond. Bringing together philosophers, theologians, and scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the conference seeks to open a field of inquiry devoted to the ontological, theological, and anthropological significance of the dual in contemporary thought.

Read announcement

04

May

2026

Strasbourg

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Religion

Call for Researcher on the religious studies collections of the National and University Library of Strasbourg

Bourse d'aide à la mobilité

L’étude des religions occupe depuis plus d’un siècle une place relativement marginale dans l’enseignement et la recherche en France, non seulement en tant que domaine spécialisé ou disciplinaire, mais aussi, plus largement, en tant qu’objet d’étude au sein des sciences humaines et sociales au sens large, voire au-delà dans le domaine des sciences expérimentales (notamment la médecine). “Structuration de la recherche” met en œuvre différents dispositifs pour renforcer les synergies au sein de la recherche nationale dans le domaine de l’étude des faits religieux et propose, dans ce cadre, des mobilités.

Read announcement

Lyon

Lecture series - America

Cycle of conferences on post-colonial studies from Latin America

This first edition of the Conference Series on Postcolonial Studies from Latin America — conducted in collaboration with the Department of Languages — arose from a particular concern: what does it mean to engage with Latin American thought from France? In an article that also serves as a statement of position, historian Serge Gruzinski attempts to answer this question: France is a place where it is possible to seek a new conception of the relationship between Europe and America, far from the reductions that certain intellectual traditions—notably American postcolonial studies—have made of Latin America.

Read announcement

Trier

Study days - Early modern

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 ».

Read announcement

Call for papers - History

Living Books about History

Collection d'anthologies numériques

La collection publie des recherches qui s’inscrivent en priorité dans le domaine des sciences historiques, mais accueille volontiers diverses perspectives issues d’autres champs disciplinaires. Les Living Books peuvent avoir différents objectifs, comme proposer un bilan historiographique d’un courant de recherche, circonscrire les contours d’un nouvel objet d’étude, offrir une introduction à une thématique, illustrer différentes manières d’interpréter un corpus spécifique de sources ou encore analyser les enjeux d’un changement de paradigme.

Read announcement

Dakar

Call for papers - Thought

Les agents de la sphère publique au Sénégal

Pouvoir ou créativité ?

Ce colloque international et interdisciplinaire, co-organisé les 3 et 4 juin 2026 par le Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherches sur les cultures et les identités (GIRCI) de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de l’université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar et l’université de Aarhus (Danemark), travaillera la question suivante : comment appréhender l’importance de la sphère publique, des débats et des formes d’interventions créatives au Sénégal, de même que dans d’autres pays africains multilingues, caractérisés par des dynamiques entre les ethnies, mais aussi entre la vie urbaine et les structures locales comme le village ?

Read announcement

Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Thought

Gérard Lebrun ou l’envers de la philosophie

Histoire et critique du discours philosophique

Le colloque « Gérard Lebrun ou l’envers de la philosophie » met à l’honneur une figure française de l’histoire de la philosophie de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle : Gérard Lebrun (1930-1999), Professeur d’histoire de la philosophie moderne à l’Université de Provence du début des années 1960 à la fin des années 1990, spécialiste de philosophie allemande classique et fin connaisseur de l’ensemble de l’histoire de la philosophie des Grecs aux contemporains. Pendant trente ans, Lebrun partagea son activité d’enseignant et de chercheur entre l’Université de Provence à Aix-en-Provence, l’Université de São Paulo au Brésil, et plus occasionnellement l’École Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, où il forma des générations d’étudiants. Son influence fut puissante et durable au Brésil, même si, en France, Lebrun est moins connu que d’autres « habitués » de l’USP des années soixante, tels Michel Foucault ou même Gilles Gaston Granger.

Read announcement

Paris

Summer School - Middle Ages

Rereading, (re)emergence, appropriation: What is to be done with the art of the past?

The writings of art historians, like the works of art themselves, are a place of emergence, return, and incessant reinterpretation. This dialogue between periods at the heart of both artistic creation and the narrative of our discipline will be the subject of the 2026 edition of the Ecole de Printemps. Proposals for papers could present case studies, where a work or body of work quotes, repeats, adopts, or readapts earlier images, objects, or monuments. They might analyse historiographical reinterpretations by considering them as transhistorical interventions and reappropriations – whether textual, visual or museum-based.

Read announcement

Rennes

Call for papers - History

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 XVIII^e 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.

Read announcement

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Medieval Friendships

Questes Seminar

Le séminaire de Questes, groupe de jeunes chercheurs médiévistes, prend pour thématique cette année les amitiés médiévales. Nous nous intéresserons autant aux théorisations philosophiques et théologiques de l’amitié au Moyen Âge qu'aux façons dont les médiévaux pratiquaient l’amitié et la réprésentaient dans les arts (littératures, arts graphiques, arts textiles, sculpture...).

Read announcement

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Call for papers - Representation

Revue « In Vivo Arts » No. 3

The In Vivo Arts team proposes an exploration of the concept of virtualities, and therefore invite artists, researchers, playwrights, performers, theorists, technicians, educators, and thinkers in the performing arts and cinema to submit reflections, texts, experiments, critiques, archives, works, or testimonies that interrogate this concept beyond its broad association with the world of digital technology, Artificial Intelligence, or new technologies.

Read announcement

30

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

Read announcement

Paris

Call for papers - Thought

From phenomenological to stereoscopic listening

Günther Anders and music

Anders’s work is rooted in a phenomenological approach that explores how human beings simultaneously inhabit both the world and music. For Anders, listening to music is not merely a sensory or aesthetic activity, but an ontological transformation of existence. This conference investigates Günther Anders’s musical thought, focusing on his phenomenology of listening and critique of technical media. It aims to reassess the relevance of his musicological writings through contemporary philosophical, aesthetic, and political lenses, bridging musicology, critical theory, translation studies, and intellectual history.

Read announcement

Call for papers - Thought

Education and pedagogy in Bayle's work

Online Bayle Seminar 2026

Online Bayle Seminar est un groupe d’étude et de recherche consacré à la figure de Pierre Bayle. Dans l’esprit même de la « République de Lettres » chère à Bayle, il se veut à la fois international et interdisciplinaire, et ambitionne de dépasser les cloisonnements entre écoles et approches qui ont parfois marqué les études bayliennes. Le sujet pour cette seconde année est « Éducation et pédagogie chez Bayle ». Que ce soit dans une perspective biographique ou philosophique, la question a touché de près la vie et la production de Bayle.

Read announcement

Liège

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

How do children engage in ritualised daily practices and rituals?

Ce colloque interdisciplinaire a pour thème les processus et expériences de transmission et d’apprentissage des savoirs et des compétences aux et par les enfants, sans présumer a priori des limites de l’enfance. Le questionnement central qui orientera les discussions concerne la façon dont, au sein de divers cadres socialisateurs, des contextes ritualisés – séculiers ou religieux – constituent le support d’intégration et de transformation de connaissances, modes de pensée, normes et valeurs, savoir-faire et attitudes.

Read announcement

1,313 Events

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
>>

Selected filters

English
Intellectual history