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• 05 Jun 2023

  06 Jun 2023

  Saint-Martin-d'Hères

  Seminar - Information

  IT in Heritage

  Digital for Heritage and Heritage of Digital

  The new digital devices that heritage has gradually taken hold of are numerous. The possibilities offered by artificial intelligence aided by open data, semantic web, virtual reality, retro engineering, etc. are vast. They give rise to exciting research projects. But digital technologies are not only at the service of heritage, they are themselves a heritage. In this context, we propose the first edition of the IT in Heritage seminar. Beyond a state of the art of relations between heritage and digital technologies, it will bring together researchers from the Humanities and Computer Sciences working on these themes to offer them a space and time for exchange.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Drawing from Memories

  The memorization of space, explored individually or collectively, is often studied through drawings. The act of drawing is an externalization process that involves cognitive and heuristic aspects of the mental map. More generally, it requires specific thinking skills and creativity. Everyone, to varying degrees, is likely to use drawings, not only for the purpose of recollection, but also for exploration and communication. Spatial cognition and geography have long used this simple process which is widely shared and easy to set up. If individual memorization processes are investigated in numerous studies, only few of them focused on the processes and strategies that underlie the act of drawing, especially with several people.

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• 16 Jul 2023

  Douai

  Call for papers - Law

  Legal Discourses, Gender and History

  This international and multidisciplinary colloquium welcomes contributions that link legal discourses and gender studies, from the legal disciplines as well as from the humanities and social sciences. It is structured around three axes: (1) critical epistemology of law in the light of gender and intersectionality; (2) methods of gender and intersectional analysis and heuristic tools developed for discourse analysis; (3) research results of gender and intersectional analysis of legal texts, primary or secondary.

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• 20 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  In the name of nature: Activists, experts, and the law

  Civilisations journal (vol.73, 2024)

  In recent decades, debates over the protection of animals and nature have become more prominent worldwide and are increasingly having an impact on legal proceedings. This special issue will approach these disputes from an anthropological perspective by considering the relevant debates and court decisions, and by examining the role of scientific expertise and the interplay between local situations and the global discourse. The aim of this issue is to explore how activists, scientists, and the legal community approach the environmental damage caused by human activity and the threats it poses to different animal species. In particular, this issue considers how any potential tensions or conflicts arising from these threats end up being arbitrated by courts.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Paris | Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - Africa

  In the notebooks of a scholar travelling in Ethiopia

  Transcribing and editing the notebooks of Antoine d’Abbadie (mid-19th century)

  During the decade of 1840, a French scientist, Antoine d'Abbadie, traveled to the Horn of Africa. Self-funded, he made numerous scientific observations that he recorded in some twenty notebooks. The MSS-Abbadie project, part of the BnF's four-year research program (2020-23), has been working to make this profusion of notes accessible by digitizing the originals, depositing them on Gallica, describing the manuscripts, and offering them for collaborative transcription on the Transcrire platform. This call for participation invites the contributors who took part in this crowdsourcing adventure to return some of the knowledge acquired during this transcription work, as well as to testify about it and the working methods that were experienced. It remains wide open to researchers from outside the project who can provide a fresh look at both the historical context and the new approaches currently being applied to this type of corpus and situations.

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• 15 Sep 2023

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Conversation rediscovered. Conversational variations from the XVIth to the XXIst century in the western world

  This edition of Savoirs en Prisme review proposes some reflexions on how their manner of conversing defines human societies. Nowadays the word conversation can refer to interactions without voice or body using predictive text and artificial intelligence. Can this type of communication meet the needs of human beings? Is not face-to-face conversation a necessity, almost an urgency at the moment? Literature and all forms of representations have bequeathed to us this principle present at the very core of societies.

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• 04 Sep 2023

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Participation: trick of neo-liberal capitalism or true perspective for the social sciences ?

  Journal des anthropologues n°178-179

  Anthropology, like the social sciences as a whole and a good number of academic disciplines, seems to be experiencing a “participatory turn”. How can we analyse the injunction to radically transform our ways of doing not only in the field but also outside it? Can applied anthropology, as it has been developing for many years in Quebec and in the Anglo-Saxon world, inform us about the real consequences of this evolution? These are some of the questions we wish to address in this issue. Simultaneously with the constitution of this file, we will open a research notebook that we hope will constitute the basis of a collaborative platform that will allow us to preserve the international contacts established during its production.

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• 15 Jul 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  States, institutions and societies in Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan since the 1970s

  Organised by the Centre d’histoire du XIX^e siècle (CRHXIX, Sorbonne University) and the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI, Sciences-Po), the graduate conference aims to rethink relations between states and societies in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia since the 1970s, paying attention to transnational trajectories and circulations of political phenomena and groups, and their relationship to the state.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Peasantries and Violent Conflicts

  In this call for papers, we wish to address the relationship between the peasantry and conflicts with all the necessary analytical finesse and empiricism, by exploring the plurality of repertoires and modes of action to identify the contextual markers of the trajectories of violent crises involving the peasantry to varying degrees and in various forms. What we mean by violent conflict is any form of confrontation mobilizing a diversified arsenal, with a destructive effect on the agricultural, economic, and social systems in place, and with at times the aim of reconfiguring them to the advantage of certain actors. Such conflicts may be internal to certain peasantries, or may occur at their contact when they are exploited by external actors. Others may take shape and develop outside the rural world before reaching it. These violent conflicts are often found at the crossroads of a range of factors and processes: power dynamics linked to land access, the crystallization of identity and ethno-community differences, and governance problems.

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• 30 Jul 2023

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - History

  Les attaques de Boko Haram à l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun

  Regards croisés sur les dix années de guerre anti-terroriste (2013-2023)

  The study invites to evaluate the anti-terrorist fightback lead since 2013 by the Cameroon state in the Far North region against Boko Haram. The project intends to analyse the issue ten years after the attack. It ambitions to  bring a new perspective on the causes of this security crisis, the method of fight against the Boko Haram terrorist group and the implication of this new context. Articles involving proposals of new solutions in terms of State reaction and mechanisms of adaptation are welcomed. An interdisciplinary perspective is expected in this project. Historians, philosophers, sociologists, jurists, anthropologists, linguists and others are invited to propose their vision of the topic.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Contestation sociale et ses futurs

  Social protest and its futures

  What are the future temporalities of contemporary mobilizations ? In social protests, the hopeful future and the conviction that a better future is within reach have long marked revolutionary rhetoric and progressive political fervor. However, is this enthusiastic “jusqu’auboutisme” a temporality that still belongs to contemporary imaginaries of struggle ?

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• 23 May 2023	24 May 2023	25 May 2023
  26 May 2023

  Rome

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Ethiopians abroad in the Middle Ages

  Ce colloque est organisé dans le cadre du projet ERC COG HornEast* (Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages). Le projet ERC HornEast a pour objectif de documenter les relations entre les sociétés chrétiennes de la Corne de l’Afrique (Éthiopie, Nubie) et leur environnement islamique aux échelles locale et régionale (Égypte, Palestine, péninsule Arabique), afin de mieux comprendre les modalités du processus d’islamisation à l’œuvre dans la région au cours du millénaire médiéval (VII^e - XV^e siècle).

   

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• 15 Dec 2023

  Korhogo

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Health, gender and sustainable development in schools and universities

  This Conference on “Health, gender and sustainable development in schools and universities” questions the school and university environment as a space for learning, training, socialisation and production of the elite, and also appears to be the theatre par excellence for the expression of various types of social problems. Faced with this social reality, it is essential for researchers in Africa and the world to reflect on this issue in order to propose sustainable solutions.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Representation

  Dreams of the Future

  As the research training group “European Dream Cultures” at Saarland University enters its ninth and final year, we would like our concluding conference to look not only back but also ahead, in focussing on future content of dreaming in literature, art, theatre, film, and music. Key questions include: What types of futures do artistic dreams of the future envision? Are they utopian or dystopian? Are they marked as dreams experienced during sleep, or are they imaginings of the future that are dreamlike in nature but anchored in the waking world? How do they connect to the present or the past, and to which version of these temporalities? What function do they assume within different works? To what extent do religious, political, or epistemological discourses influence these artistic dreams of the future?

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• 01 Jul 2023

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Migration in Belgium: Epistemological issues, History, Public action and Mobilisations

  This study day aims to bring together researchers from different social science disciplines (anthropology, law, economics, geography, history, philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, etc.) working on migration issues in Belgium. In a context where migration phenomena are regularly at the forefront of political and media news (“reception crisis”, border management and control, citizen mobilisations, etc.), the aim of this study day is, on the one hand, to review the progress of research in the various social science disciplines in this field, and, on the other hand, to refine academic analyses through a multidisciplinary dialogue. This meeting thus intends to contribute to a better understanding of the migration phenomenon in Belgium. 

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• 01 Jun 2023

  02 Jun 2023

  Le Bourget-du-Lac

  Conference, symposium - Information

  Terminologie et ontologie : théories et applications

  The TOTh Conferences – Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications – bring together researchers, professionals and, more generally, all persons interested in issues related to language and knowledge engineering. The program will include accepted communications, an opening talk, and a poster session.

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• 15 Jul 2023

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Image on the Page

  A Study Day Around Illustrated Print Culture

  This study day aims to gather researchers around the subject of the printed image since the 1880s. With particular attention to material bibliography and production techniques, we seek to better understand how illustrations contribute to the formation of meaning and discourses within different contexts from illustrated newspapers to etiquette manuals, from scientific journals to children’s books.

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• 22 May 2023	23 May 2023	24 May 2023
  25 May 2023	26 May 2023	...

  Yaoundé |

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Le retour des choses : objets, archives et création en temps de restitution

  This workshops in Cameroon propose to approach restitution through the prism of returns, i.e. to decentralize: from the countries where the objects were held to the countries and communities of origin; from Western viewpoints to African opinions; from the “works” exhibited in European museums to the resocialization of the returned “things”, recharged with multiple meanings; from the materiality of the objects to archival images and to contemporary creations. How is the possible return of objects perceived? What imaginations and expectations does it awaken? What would be the values of the returned things?  

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• 07 Jul 2023

  Saint-Martin-d'Hères

  Call for papers - Thought

  Artificial intelligence and transformations of work

  Through this conference, we aim to provide a social philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and work, grounded in an ethical framework. Focusing on three axes of research, we’ll consider the history of the technological replacement debate, the conditions of work with AI, and the transformations of fairness and justice to highlight AI’s specificities. We aim to address developing questions within an emerging literature on AI’s impact on work. 

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• 02 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Geography

  Action in research and research in action: what intertwining?

  Young researchers day at the Institut de Géographie, 2023

  L’édition 2023 de la Journée des jeunes chercheurs de l’Institut de Géographie de Paris se tiendra le 13 octobre 2023 et aura pour thème : « L’action dans la recherche et la recherche dans l’action : quelles imbrications ? ». Les questionnements s’adressent à toutes les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales mobilisant une dimension spatiale dans leurs travaux. Des propositions de jeunes chercheur·euses (doctorant·es, étudiant·es de Master, jeunes docteur·es) sont particulièrement attendues.

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