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Perpignan
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
Pioneering archaeological diving in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
Players, methods, and collections since the 1940’s
This conference honours long-gone pioneers and those whose work ended in the early 2000s. We will explore their contributions to the exchange of knowledge across the Mediterranean. We invite archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, media and communication scholars, heritage curators, and witnesses to discuss these pioneering figures, focusing on their excavation methods, conservation techniques, and efforts to share knowledge about their archaeological finds.
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Paris
Study days - Epistemology and methodology
Epistemologies and methodologies in Britain and in France
At a time when the social sciences are taking an increasing interest in the field of the private sphere and intimacy in relationships, the aim of the symposium is to bring together specialists whose work in France and the UK has enriched our knowledge of young people’s intimacy. Using examples of projects on love, sexual and parental relationships, the aim of this symposium is to examine, in a reflective and comparative way, the different theoretical and methodological approaches underpinning research. Definitions, theories and tools (demographic surveys, qualitative interviews as well as visual, narrative and performative methods) and their cultural and institutional contexts, will be explored in order to discuss the production of knowledge in the two countries.
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Lyon
Call for papers - Representation
This symposium proposes to study how artists have not only observed animals and, in some cases, lived alongside them, but have also sometimes attributed agency to them. The idea of an active relationship between the artist and the animal raises fundamental questions about the role of animals in artistic production. The analysis of artistic practices allows for questioning the nature of the bond between humans and other animals, and examining how, in certain works, the animal can be perceived as a protagonist capable of resisting attempts at reification. Rather than being a mere reflection of power relations between humans and animals, artistic creation thus becomes a site of negotiation, even contestation, of these relationships.
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Fes
The Family as a Model of Social Protection and Health Care
Insights and Experiences from the Countries of the South
This inter-disciplinary congress aims to approach, analyze and discuss the major roles of the family in the production of social protection and health care in the countries of the south in light of the forms of resistance and resilience that the family institution has produced in the light of the effects of néolibéralisme, which pushes a set of values, roles and family ties towards disintegration, disappearance and redefinition. Taking into account the socio-demographic, economic, value and pathological transitions... etc. that have given rise to new family forms and structures, critical scientific thinking within the view of the social sciences becomes a fundamental epistemic requirement, especially when it emerges from the heart of the daily life of families, and questions their problems and aspirations.
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Kaunas
Religious Practices and Political Mobilizations in Africa
We are coordinating the session Religious Practices and Political Mobilizations in Africa at the next Conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (to be held in Kaunas, Lithuania) from 30 June to 04 July 2025.
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Paris
Imaginaries of Shady Connections and the Global Underworld from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Observers of modern life have not always been optimistic about transnational connections. From the nineteenth century to the present day, the cosmopolitan ideal of a united world has been challenged by widespread anxieties about mysterious and dangerous networks. This exploratory conference critically examines the cultural and political significance of these imaginaries of dark networks from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a series of historical case studies, we suggest to take three key features as a point of departure: figures such as traffickers, clandestine migrants, or spies; spaces such as ports, borderlands, or tunnels; and goods such as weapons, counterfeit money, or revolutionary pamphlets.
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Paris | Saint-Denis
Conference, symposium - Language
Utopic Performances: Reimagining the Common
Confronted with the acute crisis of the constitution of the common, from the representation of the citizen to its articulation in the social body, the reconfiguring capacities of utopic imagination will be examined from a variety of contemporary aesthetic reflexions and practices which redefine the relationships between peoples, institutions, and their ecologies.
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Leuven
Canonical Life in Westerne Europe in the Long Tenth Century
Reforms, Identities and Intellectual Networks (Late Nine Century-c. 1050)
The aim of this conference is to shed light on the nature of canonical life in the long tenth century so as to challenge the paradigm of decline still persistent in scholarship on post-Carolingian canons.
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Rennes
ISPEV@L – Interfaces and Spaces in Second Language Acquisition: Teaching and Research
The 2025 International ISPEV@L conference aims to explore the interfaces between physical and virtual spaces and new directions for second language acquisition, teaching, and research which emerge from those interfaces.
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Aubervilliers
Extreme right and democracy in Europe after the Second World War
Coexistences, contrasts, contradictions
It seems urgent to reflect on how democracies have responded to the presence of extreme right-wing movements, both in terms of political practices and rhetoric. Have democracies actively opposed the extreme right, or have they opted for strategies of containment and coexistence? Equally important is to examine the perspective of the extreme right: how has it interpreted and narrated the (supposed) coexistence with the democratic system? How has it dealt with the legacy of fascism and to what extent has it adapted to the culture of democracy?
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Saint-Denis
Study days - Political studies
Articuler les traditions politico-intellectuelles de l’écoféminisme français et allemand dans une perspective globale
In light of the ecological crisis ecofeminist thought that first emerged as political-ethical and theoretical field during the late 1970s and 1980s has flourished in French and German debates during the last decade. The aim of the conference is to examine the ways in which ecofeminist theory is currently discussed in France and Germany, and how – in both national contexts – the respective traditions of ecofeminist thought and politics are re-articulated, criticized and transformed. Thereby the question how post- and neo-colonial power relations that shape the current ecological situation are addressed in ecofeminist thought will be of central importance. The conference seeks to re-evaluate traditions of ecofeminist thought in French and German speaking contexts, their uneven circulation and their present-day re-articulations.
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Paris
After November 5th: The Challenges to U.S. Democracy in the Era of Trumpism
This international conference held in Chicago University in Paris, will gather political scientists, historians, legal scholars, students of international relations, sociologists and American Studies scholars to question the challenges to the state of U.S. democracy in the Era of Trumpism.
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Geneva
Imperial Domesticities, 18th-20th Centuries
In recent decades, the study of imperial domesticities has undergone significant renewal and has attracted increasing attention. Whether servile or not, domestic work, performed daily within the intimate family framework of the home, is a fertile ground for observing the racial, social, and gender dynamics that develop in imperial territories. Numerous studies have shown that the colonial household and the domestic service relationship, far from being anecdotal, are crucial for understanding how relations of domination are forged, reformulated, and contested within colonial societies (Stoler, 2002). This conference aims to build on these studies.
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Agadir
Organizations and communities facing climate change: risks and need for adaptation
This conference aims to engage in global reflection to discuss the risks of climate change for different stakeholders (businesses, administrations, communities, government, etc.). It will bring together scientists and experts, socio-economic actors, elected officials, institutional leaders, representatives of the academic community, students, think tanks, and NGOs to bring the academic world closer to the professional world on this theme. which gains importance and relevance over time. This event is also an opportunity to question more specifically the approaches to mitigating climate change, and the adaptation strategies of companies and organizations in different sectors (agriculture, transport, tourism, energy, commerce, etc.) nationally and internationally.
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Antwerp
The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): Norms, Institutions and Practices
This symposium aims to contribute new insights to the long-term history of neutrality, focusing on its "pre modern" dimension broadly understood (ca. 1400-1800). Indeed, the law of neutrality started to emerge in the Early Modern Age through the practices and beliefs of the European state system, but also from its interactions with non-European normative and cultural systems. Different but complementary angles of approach can be used to understand this phenomenon: e.g. diplomatic history, IR history, political history, economic history and legal history. Throughout history, polities as well as private actors have interpreted neutrality in flexible and divergent ways, e.g. proposing a proactive-assertive approach or a more passive and inward looking one. Benefiting from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the symposium takes into consideration both the theory and the practice of neutrality, advancing our knowledge of the often-contested conceptualisation of legal regimes at sea as well as on land. Such a conceptualisation depended on the interaction between situations of peace and diverged across different temporal and spatial coordinates.
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Dijon
Call for papers - Science studies
Book of Nature, Nature of Books: Practices of Female Botanists
The research centres TIL (Université de Bourgogne) and EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) are organizing a bilingual (French-English) international interdisciplinary conference on the role of women in the development of botany as part of visual, manuscript and print cultures, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. We propose to foster discussions at the intersections of the history of natural sciences, print culture, book history, illustration studies, gender studies, plant studies and ecocriticism.
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Lyon
Conference, symposium - Science studies
A Joint Science and Humanities Conference
Since several decades, Earth sciences have been highlighting the enormity of the metabolic disturbances induced by mass productivism on the global scale. The conference will notably consider the materials of the Anthropocene from a “metabolic” perspective, i.e. one that looks at the cycles of transformation of matter within the planetary ensemble, and also includes the social, political and economic representations shaping them.
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Paris
Knowledge, Ideology and Public Discourse in contemporary China
Savoirs, idéologies et discours publics en Chine contemporaine
The pandemic, travel restrictions, and political ossification in China have all disrupted communications between Chinese scholars in the humanities and social sciences and their counterparts overseas. For this reason, there is a need to reengage with academic and intellectual trends in contemporary China. Taking inspiration from new methods in intellectual history and sociology of knowledge, we propose to focus specifically on the question of public knowledge. The conference will bring together a groups of scholars, including historians, social scientists and independent critics who, from a variety of geographical and disciplinary vantage points, are all engaged in observing and studying academic and intellectual trends in contemporary China.
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Bordeaux
Conference, symposium - Modern
Towards a plurilingual curriculum : fostering pluricultural communication in the digital age
This international conference is part of a multidisciplinary approach to languages and cultures in applied linguistics (didactique des langues), drawing in particular on language sciences, sociolinguistics, education sciences, political sciences and info-com. Participants are invited to (re)think about language teaching/learning, whether formal or informal, as an objective of intercultural communication. The plurilingual and pluricultural perspective calls for a fundamental reconsideration of the language and culture curriculum
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Nanterre
Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world
«Who Cares?» is a newly-formed group of scholars from the Université Paris Nanterre, working specifically on the history of psychiatry in the English-speaking world. We are keen to encourage discussions on this subject and strengthen its international dimension. Our aim is also to foster further discussions on links and comparisons between historical perspectives on psychiatry in the French and the English-speaking worlds. This international conference will welcome all historical approaches to psychiatry and more generally to the treatment of mental illness which reflect on the topic “People and places” from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century in English-speaking countries.
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