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Turin
Encounters with Death: Macabre Imagery and Symbolism across the Arts, Texts, and Cultural Traditions
22nd International Congress of the Danses macabres d’Europe (DME)
The congress invites scholars to reflect on the representation of death in art, literature, and history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Taking the iconic theme of the Dance of Death as its starting point, contributions may explore both the iconographic and literary traditions associated with it, including the Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead, the Triumph of Death, the Ars moriendi, the Memento mori, the Vanitas, and eschatological themes connected with the Last Judgement. Papers may also address funerary monuments and monumental sepulchral art, including gisants, tombs, and cemeteries, as well as the social practices surrounding death, such as funeral rites, the commemoration of the dead, and obituary traditions.
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Perugia | Brest
Ce colloque propose d’explorer, dans une perspective diachronique, la manière dont l’épistolaire ne reflète pas simplement le politique mais contribue à le produire. Il réunira des spécialistes et des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses afin de mettre en lumière la place de la lettre comme genre discursif majeur dans l’histoire des idées et des luttes politiques.
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Venice
Summer School - Representation
La fabrique de l’histoire dans les arts à Venise : récits, propagande et contre-récits
XXIXe séminaire d’histoire de l’art vénitien
Qui écrit, dans les arts, l’histoire, selon quelles sélections et omissions, pour qui et à quelle fin ? Comment la production artistique dans l’espace public a-t-elle célébré les grands hommes et les femmes illustres, les génies artistiques, ou bien parfois effacé volontairement les mémoires ? Comment enfin s’élaborent dans les arts les contre-récits à Venise ?
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Work, Health, and Environment between Knowledge and Power (19th–21st Centuries)
This conference seeks to be a multidisciplinary forum (history, sociology, geography, medicine, anthropology, etc.) devoted to analysing the knowledge, practices, and repertoires of action arising from these mobilisations. It welcomes diverse historical and geographical contexts, especially beyond countries of early industrialisation, to document and map past and present struggles against harmfulness.
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Fribourg
Telling and Thinking Marginality in the Middle Ages
The annual study days organized by the Jeunes Chercheur·euses Médiévistes (JCM) will be held this year on the 12th and 13th of March 2026 at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, the conference will be devoted to the theme of marginality in the Middle Ages.
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Paris
Les phénomènes d’autodéfense et plus largement les pratiques de sécurité privée ont fait l’objet d’un regain d’intérêt au sein des sciences sociales durant ces dernières décennies. Cette journée d’étude propose un dialogue entre les historiographies française et italienne, qui ont toutes deux longtemps éclipsé l’importance des formes privées de sécurité au sein de pays réputés pour leur modèle étatique centralisé par rapport à la littérature anglophone, plus familière de l’histoire de l’autodéfense.
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Milan
This call for proposals invites scholars and researchers to submit original contributions focusing on the Castello Sforzesco or the artworks preserved in its collections.
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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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Plurilingualism and the circulation of knowledge, imaginations, and skills
What are the dynamics and vulnerabilities?
In L’économie du XXe siècle (The Economy of the 20th Century), François Perroux stated that “we do not have a comprehensive, coherent and usable theory of what I propose to call the ’domination effect’” Why talk about relations of domination when we are dealing with the circulation of knowledge, imaginaries, and skills in relation to linguistic diversity? When there is circulation, movement, transfer, there are differences in level, which means that knowledge, imaginations and skills do not emerge everywhere at the same time and in the same way, giving rise to differences, imbalances and potential conflicts.
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Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
IAAH “Jean-François Bergier” Prize for research in Alpine History (2026)
The Prix Bergier is promoted and awarded by the International Association for Alpine History (IAAH), in memory of Jean-François Bergier, the scholar who promoted and co-founded the Association. It is awarded every two years and aims to promote research by young scholars on the history of the Alps - and European mountain areas in general.
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Rome
Diplomatic Gifts in the Modern and Contemporary Eras
Definitions, Changes, and Patrimonialisation on a Global Scale
Considering the long history of diplomatic relations, the conference aims above all to fully analyse the evolving agency of gifts, from the strengthening of princely dynastic alliances to the consolidation of nation states, as well as the way in which the objects offered construct and potentially reconfigure links. How do these objects fit into a policy of gift-giving, whether serial or renewed over time? According to what rituals must these witnesses, which seal the agreement, themselves reactivate the alliance (counter-gift, reconnection journey, etc.)? How are they perceived and understood a few years after they were offered, and when they become part of discourses on patrimonialisation, especially in places dedicated to their collective conservation, which are themselves, in turn, active tools?
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Call for papers - Urban studies
La volontà di sapere | The Will to Knowledge
“Vesper. Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory” No. 14,
Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the threshold of a biopolitical modernity. Here, the ‘will to knowledge’ is not the subject’s drive for research, but the injunction to bring into the field of knowledge-power those borderline domains of life that had been previously excluded from it: death, birth, sexuality. This process of the adherence of knowledge to bodies entirely invests our time and urges us to reflect on the figures of the ‘will to knowledge’ in the new millennium.
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Grenoble
The aim of this conference is to examine the modalities and consequences of terrorist action, as well as the interweaving of anti-terrorist practices (public policies, legal frameworks, prevention) and counter-terrorist practices (operational, military or police actions) aimed at containing terrorism in societies which are not engaged in international warfare. The aim of this conference is to analyse the ways in which anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism have mutually redefined each other, while constantly reconfiguring the boundaries of political, military, police and legal interventions across the European continent from the second half of the 20th century onwards.In addition to this political and institutional approach, the conference will also look into the representations, as well as the social and media effects of these phenomena.
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Pisa
Ordre et désordre dans la presse
Nouveaux métiers, matérialité des imaginaires et duels de plume et d’épée au cours du long XIXe siècle
L’objectif de ce colloque international, organisé par le Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere dell’Università di Pisa et le Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine (CMMC) de l’Université Côte d’Azur, est d’approfondir la connaissance des formes de l’essor inédit de la presse à partir de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, et jusqu’à la Première Guerre mondiale. Il s’inscrit dans la lignée d’un renouvellement historiographique en cours. Pour cette nouvelle manifestation, il s’agit d’appréhender de nouveaux pans de la grande transformation médiatique à travers trois axes : le rôle de la presse dans la mise en ordre ou en désordre du monde social, suscitant, confortant ou renversant des imaginaires sociaux, y compris ceux qui concernent les actrices et acteurs du champ médiatique ; l’importance des producteurs/productrices et des productions d’iconographie journalistique (caricatures et illustrations) ; et les formes des violences générées par la presse, qu’elles émanent du public, des autorités, ou bien qu’elles aient lieu entre journalistes.
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Nice
Femmes en voix-Voix de femmes. L’héritage social, politique et culturel d’Anna Kuliscioff
À l’occasion du centenaire de la mort de la dirigeante socialiste Anna Kuliscioff (1855-1925), le Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, dans le cadre du projet Femmes en voix-Voix de femmes, organise une journée d’étude consacrée à cette figure majeure du socialisme italien et international.
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Rende
Pendant et après la conquête : gouverner la pluralité
Durante e dopo la conquista: governare la pluralità
Après avoir considéré les modalités et raisons multiples et croisées des mouvements de départ et des conditions d’implantation des conquérants au sein des « Mondes normands médiévaux », les journées d’études accueillies à l’Université de Calabre (Rende-Cosenza) veulent considérer ce qui est une réalité variable, mais constante des mouvements de conquête suivies de construction politique dans les mondes normands médiévaux : le gouvernement de la pluralité (et de l’altérité) par les conquérants, leur entourage et leurs inévitables auxiliaires locaux.
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Bologna
Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity
Exploring ancient pharmacology: drugs, words, and practices
Our conference aims to investigate those aspects of the history of ancient and late-antique pharmacology that remain unexplored, not only by examining the substances used for healing but also by exploring the linguistic, cultural, and material contexts in which ancient remedies were acquired, prepared and administered.
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Grenoble
Roman Youth(s) from Octavian to Nero
Neronia XII, SIEN International Congress
Le thème retenu cette année est celui de la jeunesse, sa place dans la société, ses expériences et ses représentations d'Octave à Néron (44 av. J.-C. à 68 apr. J.-C.). Les communications attendues seront centrées sur la jeunesse, possiblement en relation avec d’autres âges (l’enfance et l’âge mûr). On peut prendre en compte toutes les sources, dans toutes les langues vernaculaires de l’empire romain, et de toute nature, épigraphiques, numismatiques, papyrologiques, littéraires, juridiques et bien sûr iconographiques.
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“Venezia Arti”, Ca' Foscari Journal of Art History - 2025
Historiennes et historiens de l’art et du visuel, répondez au tout récent appel à abstract de la revue de Ca' Foscari Venezia Arti qui s’est donné, pour 2025, comme thématique transversale le seuil.
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Fribourg
From vegetables to the Hortus Conclusus. The medieval garden in all its forms
14e study days by the Young Medievalist Researchers (JCM)
From an interdisciplinary and multilingual perspective, these study days will be devoted to the theme of the medieval garden. Whether they were for food or pleasure, courtly or philosophical, for love or medicine, Hortus Conclusus or Deliciarum, medieval gardens were a world to be explored and cultivated in all their aspects.
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