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Cambridge
Making sense when the world doesn’t make sense
According to Camus, the world we live in is absurd. While this can become manifest to us in nearly any situation, Camus is adamant that the world’s absurdity is not owing to any specific features. Rather, it is intrinsically relational and results from the unresolvable tension of two elements : the unbridgeable hiatus between a reason that seeks understanding and a world that remains strictly irrational. If it is our understanding that opens up the world for us, at the same time, the world irrevocably resists being fully grasped. The absurdity thus creates a human desire for clarity that will never see its fulfilment.
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Genoa
Call for papers - Urban studies
The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflicts, Life, and Memory
Cities have always been more than merely settings for human events—often marked by conflicts of varying intensity. They are themselves among the most sensitive and enduring outcomes of those events and conflicts. Urban transformations bear the material and symbolic traces of the tensions that have traversed them: wounds produced by armed conflicts, political and social crises, natural disasters, and processes of exploitation or exclusion, as well as by projects of reform, reconstruction, and refoundation. It is within this unresolved tension between trauma and reparation, fracture and recomposition, that the theme of the congress is situated.
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Bordeaux
Miscellaneous information - Information
Call for Collaborators
We are seeking European collaborators and partners interested in contributing to the development of a Horizon Europe project in the fields of cybersecurity, crisis management, and organizational communication. It is designed in response to the Horizon Europe call “Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness (HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-01)” and seeks to provide new insights into how communication among diverse stakeholders influences decision-making and action during crisis situations in the era of AI.
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Lucerne
Global Histories of Hair, c.1500-2026
Matter of Distinction : Early Modern Hair, Race, Trade, and Multispecies History
Hyper-present on almost all heads and bodies, hair is a forceful matter of difference. It signals gender, class, sometimes religion or politics – as well as racialised distinction. As such, hair connects and disconnects humans and other species across the globe and throughout history. The conference “Global Histories of Hair” aims to bring together researchers working on hair as a matter of distinction in the early modern and modern worlds.
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Munich
Informal Communication in Nazi Europe
World War II, Occupation, and the Search for Meaning in Societies at War
Taking a multidisciplinary, transnational approach, this conference explores the role of informal communication under conditions of World War II occupation and Nazi rule. Bringing together specialists on diverse European societies, the conference examines informal communication’s relationship to official state communications on the one hand, and its embeddedness in specific social realities and wartime mentalities on the other.
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Tours
Call for papers - Representation
Representing violence: (meta)narratives – memories – commitments
This international conference aims to provide a space for transdisciplinary and transnational reflection, while promoting training and networking of young researchers (PhD students and PhD holders -3 years) who explore collective violence, its memory and representations across Europe. The call is addressed to PhD candidates in humanities and social sciences : political studies, sociology, psychology, visual arts, history, performative arts, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, anthropology, law, economy. The conference will be followed by a multilingual digital publication.
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Cambridge
Freedom of Conscience in the Pre-Enlightenment (1000-1650)
Freedom of conscience is considered an unalienable right akin to freedoms of expression and speech, as noted in Articles 18 and 19 of the UN Charter. However, if we turn to the Medieval period, and its great diversity of innovative religious writing, it is clear that the mechanics of external oppression upon an individual’s inner life already existed in clear and comprehensible terms. Therefore, the (broad) question we would like to answer is : if we look beyond the eighteenth century, do we see this idea gradually become concrete ?
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Porto
Petrus Hispanus' Tractatus : Logic and Philosophy from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Petrus Hispanus’ Tractatus, or Summulae logicales, composed in the mid-thirteenth century, came to occupy a central place in the study of logic from the late thirteenth century onward. Commented in several studia and then by Buridan at the University of Paris, it was gradually adopted across European universities and remained in use until the seventeenth century, surviving in hundreds of manuscripts and hundreds of printed editions.
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Villers-lès-Nancy
Placebo, Hypnosis, and Functional Disorders
Bridging basic research and clinical innovation
The international conference Placebo, Hypnosis and Functional Disorders aims to articulate three domains that have historically evolved along distinct trajectories: research on placebo and nocebo effects, hypnosis and suggestion, and the broad field of psychosomatic medicine. These domains are increasingly converging toward shared theoretical frameworks, while also exhibiting a diversity of methodological and experimental approaches rooted in their respective disciplinary traditions.
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Saint-Malo
Agrivoltaics: definition, challenge and implementation
A multidisciplinary and international approach
If you would like to learn about agrivoltaics or discover new aspects of it, join the interdisciplinary and international thematic school that will take place in St Malo from 1 to 5 June 2026. It is open to doctoral students, lecturers and researchers. Furthermore, it is not limited to an only one discipline and is open to international researchers.
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Naples
The History of Rights, Equality and Difference(s) from a Gender Perspective
International Graduate Conference in Gender History
While gender equality has been formally recognized as a universal human rights principle, its meanings, applications, and limits have varied across historical, cultural, political, and geographical contexts. Historically, gender has played a central role in defining who could claim rights, on what grounds, and with what limitations. At the same time, claims based on gender difference have functioned both as instruments of emancipation and as mechanisms of exclusion.
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Geneva
Thinking High and Low: Elites, Experts, and the Masses in the Early Reformation
The summer school highlights the dynamic interplay between “high” and “low” forms of thinking and between elite norm-setting and the appropriation, adaptation or contestation of those norms in real-life situations and historical events. By integrating inputs from theology, philosophy and history, along with intellectual, linguistic and social perspectives, the programme presents the transition from the late Middles Ages to the Reformation as a complex reordering of normative structures and cultural hierarchies. It invites the participants to reconsider the period through the lens of how ideas moved between, and were transformed across, different levels of thought, language and society.
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Douala
Decolonial Comparative Law and the Informal/Formal Economy
In May 2027, the DeCoLa programme at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host the fourth edition of its Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop series in Cameroon. Organised in partnership with the Fondation Afric’Avenir, this edition seeks to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a decolonial comparative legal approach. It also aims to contribute to the consolidation of a decolonial comparative law community across the African continent and beyond.
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Aubervilliers
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
Experiencing the Elusive: Understanding Emotions in Social Sciences
Partially inherited from Enlightenment thought, the opposition of emotion to reason, body to mind, and natural sciences to social sciences has resulted in the marginalisation of the study of emotions and affects by devaluing them within the latter. The study of emotions requires a multidisciplinary approach. Our objective is to discuss emotions in a broad sense using diverse media. This call is therefore intended for a wide range of disciplines, regions, and time periods.
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Paris
Artworks and the meaningful connections among their parts
As an increasing number of studies are demonstrating with growing clarity, the analysis of certain aspects - or more precisely, components - of paintings through the lens of their materiality can reveal crucial insights into the artwork itself. These include not only the materials in the strict sense, such as canvas, wood, or nails, but also their composition as a whole, understood as a unified entity, essential to the artwork.
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“Locus Sacratissimus”. From Object to Place
The Eucharistic Reservation between the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent
We are pleased to inform you that next October the III International Conference on Art and Liturgy at the University of Cádiz will take place. This specialised conference, now in its third edition, is entitled “Locus Sacratissimus”. From Object to Place. The Eucharistic Reservation between the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent.
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Vila do Porto
LPAZ Forum International Conference
The theme Space for Islands arises from the urgent need to address humanity’s challenges in the Anthropocene era through an entanglement approach. This conference invites participants to reflect on islands as spaces of knowledge, imagination, power, and projection. The study of relations between islands and the global commons is particularly welcomed, raising the profile of these geographies in our understanding of global phenomena. Islands are not merely peripheral or isolated territories ; they are nodal points of global circulation, and strategic platforms for scientific, technological, cultural, and geopolitical experimentation.
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Cambridge
Making sense when the world doesn’t make sense
The aim of the workshop is to address this question by bringing together different perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry on existentialism and the Absurd. It explores how reflecting on the Absurd may disrupt and challenge contemporary debates on self, world, and others but also significantly inform approaches in social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and psychotherapy.
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Aix-en-Provence
Conference, symposium - Political studies
A provisional assessment of Keir Starmer’s Labour government
The General Election of July 4, 2024 delivered a victory for Labour against a deeply divided and power-weary Conservative party whose reputation for reliability and competence had been substantially damaged. Labour’s return to office after fourteen years in opposition is a sufficiently rare occurrence in British electoral history to warrant the use of the adjective historic in relation to the party’s victory. The coincidence of the formation of the Starmer government with the centenary of the election of the first Labour government ever, albeit a minority and short-lived one, is an invitation to look back on the history of Labour in office and implicitly raises the question of its place in the Labour tradition and of its political inheritance.
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Forlì
Summer School - Political studies
Towards a Social Europe: The Birth of the Pillar of Social Rights
The 2026 edition of the TOPs’ summer school will take place at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, from 23 to 26 June 2026, and will consist of 30 hours of lectures, seminars, and interactive discussions among participants through working labs. In order to ensure a high-level academic environment, the summer school will host internationally recognised scholars and guest lecturers, who will contribute through keynote lectures and dedicated sessions to foster critical debate and interdisciplinary exchange.
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