In focus

• Call for papers|Language
  Sharing Strangeness
  13/03/2026

  The study day Sharing Strangeness seeks to explore imaginary languages created within works of fiction (film, literature, television series, video games, etc.). Still relatively under-researched, these languages constitute linguistic, aesthetic, and cultural objects in their own right. Used to build fictional worlds, represent otherness, support narrative development, or foster audience engagement, they deserve closer scholarly attention. The event will welcome a wide range of contributions, from linguistic and semiotic analyses to reflections on the creation, reception, and social use of these languages.

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• Call for papers|Epistemology and methodology
  Field practices and epistemological issues, Palestine and Jordan
  04/06/2026

  The workshop “Field practices and epistemological issues, Palestine and Jordan” aims to combine reflections on the ongoing development of Palestinian studies with the recent revival of work on Jordan, in order to examine Jordan's role as a privileged observation point for Palestine, a question that has been relatively unexplored until now. Through three main axes — archives and primary sources preserved in Jordan that enable the study of Palestine, the cross-border circulation of people and knowledge, and intersecting cultural scenes through the notions of identity and authenticity, this workshop aims to lay the groundwork for a transnational and multidisciplinary reflection on Jordan's place in the production of knowledge on Palestine. 

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• Call for papers|Sociology
  Le travail im/mobile : circulations, dépendance et droits des travailleuses et travailleurs subalternes
  01/09/2026

  This special issue of Sociologie du travail examines how subaltern workers are affected by im/mobility, understood as the multiple spatio-temporal assemblages that simultaneously constrain and delimit their movement and mobility practices. The aim is to rethink work as the product of a tension between the mobilisation of labour, the restriction of workers’ movements, and the agency of workers themselves. Mobility and its corollary, immobility, are thus conceived as a battlefield on which logics of coercion, control, mobilisation, and engagement confront and are reconfigured alongside the aspirations to autonomy of the most vulnerable workers.

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• Call for papers|Geography
  The Social Life of Names and Naming Practices in the Context of Migration
  01/03/2026

  Names are not mere labels but powerful tools through which people assert identity, are categorised, and negotiate relationships with states, institutions and communities. Whether they refer to people, places or businesses, names do things : they index belonging and difference, tell stories, record histories of mobility and settlement, and mediate social interaction. This topical collection uses names and naming practices to trace the reconfigurations that accompany migration.

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• Call for papers|History
  Minority Uses of the Past and Dynamics of Power in the Americas (19th–21st Centuries)
  15/04/2026

  This conference follows on from an initial meeting, which focused on the forms of uses of the past, to examine the consequences of these uses and their results, both on national history and on minorities, as well as on disciplines and their methods. Researchers from different disciplines are invited to reflect on the same subjects from the perspective of their methods: anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, specialists in literary studies, cultural studies, art historians, and linguists. The following four themes may guide proposals for papers.

   

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• Call for papers|History
  The Nature of Anarchism
  30/03/2026

  This multidisciplinary conference aims to explore the relations between anarchism(s) and ecology(ies) from the 19th century to the present day. It seeks to fill a historiographical blind spot by examining the richness of anarchist ‘environmental reflexivity’, from precursors such as Kropotkin and Reclus to their contemporary reconfigurations. Anarchism's historical rejection of centralised power structures and the productivism of the ‘machine age’ makes it one of the political traditions most in tune with current ecological imperatives. By revisiting these affinities and tensions, the conference will offer new insights into understanding social movements fighting for environmental justice.

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• Summer School|Representation
  Cultivating one’s own garden, expanding horizons
  15/03/2026

  The Seine has shaped the history of the Impressionist movement, which, in turn, left a lasting mark on the land. The research framework of this programme places the focus on this influential geographical backdrop, as part of a broader reflection on our regions. Housing traditions, ways of life, social structures, land uses, and the impact of agricultural and industrial development on the landscape are just some of the lines of research that require further study about Impressionism. This summer school aims to open up new perspectives through cross-disciplinary collaboration while experimenting with scales of analysis, to reflect on the experience of land from the most personal to the most universal.

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• Call for papers|Sociology
  Development Seen from Africa: Perceptions, Management, and the Challenge of “Better Living”
  15/07/2026

  Ce numéro de la revue Daftari za Ngūgī (ex-Nouvelles Dynamiques Africaines) invite à une rupture épistémique avec les mesures occidentales du développement (IDH). Contre la vision d’une Afrique pathologisée par les classements internationaux, cet appel sollicite des enquêtes empiriques rigoureuses explorant le « développement par le bas » : économie informelle, solidarités villageoises et définitions endogènes du « vivre-mieux ».

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• Summer School|Middle Ages
  Rereading, (re)emergence, appropriation: What is to be done with the art of the past?
  25/01/2026

  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.

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• Scholarship, prize and job offer|Ethnology, anthropology
  Intimate Colonies: Family Memories of Colonial Africa in Belgium and Switzerland - Postdoctoral fellowship in Brussels
  15/01/2026

  Le projet Intimate Colonies (IC) place la dimension intime et familiale de la question coloniale au cœur de son analyse, dans le but d’apporter des éclairages originaux sur les significations et les enjeux des héritages et des mémoires coloniales dans les sociétés européennes contemporaines. Le projet se distingue des travaux existants en réunissant, au sein d’un même cadre analytique, les mémoires coloniales des familles issues des sociétés colonisées et de celles associées aux sociétés colonisatrices, reflétant ainsi la réalité multiculturelle des sociétés européennes partagées par ces populations, plutôt que d’aborder un seul versant de ce système relationnel.

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• Call for papers|Africa
  Savoirs endogènes, territoires et durabilité
  30/03/2026

  Dans un contexte mondial caractérisé par la convergence de crises écologiques, sociales, sécuritaires et épistémiques, les territoires africains se trouvent confrontés à des choix déterminants quant à leurs trajectoires de développement et leurs modes de gouvernance. La valorisation et la réappropriation de ces savoirs endogènes s’imposent donc comme une réponse stratégique à ces défis, en offrant des alternatives ancrées dans les réalités locales et porteuses d’innovations adaptées.

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• Call for papers|History
  Lost in Translation: Historical Perspectives on Language and Student Mobility from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 
  20/01/2026

  This workshop, held at the University of Geneva on 16 June 2026, aims to foster reflection on the languages of student mobility from the nineteenth century to the present, through a historical perspective that has so far been little explored. In order to launch a historical reflection while remaining open to interdisciplinarity, the event will examine the tools and methods of language learning, as well as the actors involved in it, the learning environments, and the diplomatic stakes tied to the language of study.

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• Study days|Geography
  30 years of Cybergeo (1996 - 2026)
  13/03/2026

  Cybergeo will celebrate its 30th year of existence in 2026. The first digital native journal in social sciences in the world, in open access and free of charge, hosted by OpenEdition since 2007 and regarded as a successful example of the diamond model, Cybergeo focuses on geography with an openness to a wide variety of disciplines. To celebrate this milestone we invite you to the meeting and will highlight and discuss the major current and future challenges for the journal and more broadly scientific publishing in geography.

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• Call for papers|Middle Ages
  Medieval Friendships
  26/12/2025

  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...).

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• Conference, symposium|Representation
  Graphic Gastronomy
  05/12/2025

  Ce 15^e colloque de l’Institut européen d’histoire et des cultures de l’alimentation (IEHCA) sera l’occasion d’échanges entre ces deux champs d’études, toutes disciplines confondues, que constituent les food studies et les comics studies. Il se veut une invitation à mieux apprécier l’importance et les conditions de mobilisation du neuvième art dans les travaux consacrés aux food studies mais aussi à confronter les travaux que les comics studies consacrent à ces thèmes aux interrogations et préoccupations propres aux recherches sur les cultures alimentaires. Poursuivant la tradition de large ouverture disciplinaire et d’intérêt pour l’ensemble des aires culturelles et périodes historiques que porte l’IEHCA les communications porteront sur des terrains et des approches les plus divers.

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• Call for papers|Representation
  Misopedia in contemporary arts and literature
  28/03/2026

  Pour ce troisième colloque sur la misopédie, nous aborderons les représentations artistiques des relations d’âge incluant les plus jeunes. Films, téléfilms, romans, pièces de théâtre, musiques populaires, chorégraphies, etc. jouent un rôle fondamental et colossal dans la transmission de repères intersubjectifs et institutionnels misopèdes ou, au contraire, enfantistes. Pour ce troisième colloque, comme pour les deux précédents, on se concentrera sur la période contemporaine. La nécessité d’une approche intersectionnelle enfantiste et éco-enfantiste est patente pour le monde de la recherche.

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• Call for papers|Representation
  Speculative narratives from the margins
  08/01/2026

  Choosing the margins as the main focus of this conference will help to examine how speculative fiction disrupts hegemonic narratives, bringing to light subaltern or minoritised modes of knowledge, temporality, and resistance; how it operates somewhere between the end of the world and the possibility of a new beginning to allow us to imagine other ways of inhabiting the Earth and of projecting ourselves collectively into the future. Proposals exploring these issues through the study of narrative processes, cultural appropriations, andintertextual circulations, will be welcome.

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• Call for papers|History
  African Women Shaping the World
  01/12/2025

  Research on the long-term history of African women’s rights struggles in the 20th century is currently vibrant, however, a gap remains in the scholarship concerning the global engagement and impact of African women activists’ thought, practices and contributions to the emergence of international feminist movements. This workshop, convened by an international group of scholars, aims to foster collaboration on this issue, with a focus on African pioneers of women’s movements and their global connections. 

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• Call for papers|Geography
  Urban Metamorphoses: Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Arab Cities
  15/05/2026

  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
  Re-creating Palestine : Trauma, Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Artistic Production in/on Palestine
  15/01/2026

  This international conference aims to explore the central role of culture and art in the reconstruction and regeneration of the social fabric, through a reinterpretation of trauma as a driver of creation and preservation of cultural memory and as a form of resistance to the politics of erasure. We encourage papers dealing with the interconnections between trauma, memory and resistance in multiple artistic languages to highlight the role of art in reinterpreting trauma, making it a source of memory and thus a basis for social change. The focus will be on the artistic production, especially during the 21st century, created by Palestinian artists about Palestine, including those in the diaspora.

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