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• 15 May 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Failing

  Agôn journal (no.9)

  The ongoing global health crisis, rather than overtaking the strike action in France and the UK, has instead highlighted social discriminations even further – exacerbated by its accompanying economical and existential difficulties. Indeed, public funding both for the health system in particular and research in general appears crucial to guarantee fair social policies. However, during the past decade, in research and teaching, as well as in the arts, circumstances have become very stringent: project funding, performance agreements, management via evaluation and performance indicators are more common than anytime before. The right to fail is thus obviously threatened by an ideology of success built by the neoliberal economy.

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• 01 Sep 2020

  Call for papers - History

  Music and French History

  French Historical Studies (Special Issue)

  The history of the music of France has traditionally been studied as a separate category without the same robust interest as other cultural artifacts such as film and literature. More recent scholarship illuminates the place of music in French society and suggests that more work should be done to sketch out the particular place of music in all its forms in French history. This special issue of French Historical Studies proposes to take stock of and advance this historiographical renewal. What can the production and consumption of music tell us about the shifting nature of French identity and the relationships among various constituencies in French history?

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• 20 Apr 2020

  Toulouse

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Postdoc position ERC "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms"

  The ERC Advanced Grant Project 741182 MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Inteface between Religious Systems and Human Agency), led by Corinne Bonnet, is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position (100%) from the 01/10/2020 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. The research may require scientific missions in France and/or abroad.

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• 18 May 2020

  Call for papers - Modern

  Scholarly cinema. Places, history, experimentation and productions circa 1945

  Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines journal (theme issue)

  Ce dossier thématique pour la Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines vise à interroger les conditions par lesquelles se sont forgés les savoirs disciplinaires sur le film et le cinéma (en sociologie, psychologie, histoire, géographie, philosophie, esthétique, médecine, etc.) en réunissant des contributions qui pourraient adopter plusieurs points de vue, non exclusifs : des itinéraires de personnalités (célèbres ou méconnues), des lieux ouvertement dédiés à la diffusion, à la pratique et à l’étude du cinéma, ou développant des activités en lien avec le cinéma sans y être totalement dédiés, des expérimentations techniques, des films.

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• 16 Jun 2020

  Orléans

  Call for papers - Thought

  Living and writing insularity

  The challenge of changing cultural heritage

  Ce colloque, ouvert à des communications portant sur les cinq continents, part de deux hypothèses : l'île est un territoire à faire émerger davantage pour renouveler la cartographie culturelle du monde et l'île est un espace à interroger pour appréhender les mutations et dynamiques interculturelles du monde contemporain. Nous envisageons dès lors les îles comme des terrains extrêmement riches pour les expressions littéraires et artistiques ainsi que pour leur questionnement des liens entre le local et le global.

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• 10 May 2020

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Economy

  Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri: Art and Culture

  We are encouraging academic researchers and independent scholars to present their paper proposals for the international conference Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri: Art & Culture, to debate on Oratorian art (architecture, painting, sculpture, music, etc.) through all periods and geographical areas.

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• 30 Jun 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  TV series in the age of the 19th century

  SERD workshop in partnership with the Musée d'Orsay and the PLH / ELH team

  Réservoir d’images, d’intrigues, de décors ou de personnages, le XIX^e siècle est une source intarissable pour la série télé, un format dont succès commercial est exponentiel de nos jours. Le petit écran exploite à loisir la fascination que continue d’exercer sur le public actuel un XIXe siècle de ruptures sociales et politiques que les saisons ou épisodes épousent, parfois jusqu’au stéréotype. Média culture ou sous-culture ?

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• 01 Jun 2020

  Tartu

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Response Events

  This conference is part of a transdisciplinary research project about response events led jointly at the University of Tartu, Aix-Marseille University and University of Côte d’Azur. It aims to study responses to representations (literary, artistic, media, historical, etc.) and how these representations can produce an event for given readers/spectators. Leaving aside the events that certain representations can provoke and that are similar to historical facts (as for literary scandals caused by the publication of condemned works), it focuses on representations from the point of view of their response, where the singular experiences of reading/spectating (that are eventually shared) are identified as events. In the current context of representations’ and their media’s–notably screens–proliferation, it appears relevant to re-interrogate the response experience through the events that it can trigger.

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• 01 Jun 2020

  Call for papers - History

  The "Annales" ad regional history, regional history and the "Annales"

  Cet appel à contributions est destiné à un numéro thématique des Annales de Normandie sur l'histoire de l'historiographie régionale, à paraître au second semestre 2021. Il s'agit d'une réflexion sur les rapports entre les revues d'histoire régionale et les Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, fondées en 1929 et devenues en 1946 Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. Deux axes principaux de recherche sont proposés : l'analyse de la place et de la fonction de l'histoire régionale et la réception des travaux publiés par les revues d'histoire régionale dans les Annales de 1929 aux années 1970; l'analyse des modalités de la réception et de la diffusion du paradigme des Annales dans les revues d'histoire régionale sur la même période. 

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• 30 Sep 2020

  Call for papers - Representation

  Artificial Intelligence and Fictions

  This is the first conference ever organized on the theme of Artificial Intelligence in fiction (literature, series, films, comics, video games): the focus will be on representations of AI and their meanings, as well as the creative uses of AI to produce and understand fiction.

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• 25 Apr 2020

  Call for papers - Asia

  Oman over Times: A Nation from the Nahda to the Oman Vision 2040

  Arabian Humanities Thematic Issue No. 15 (Spring 2021)

  This issue of Arabian Humanities proposes to offer a multidisciplinary overview of the Sultanate of Oman contemporary period by bringing together old and recent works. It will focus as much on its history as on the major social and cultural changes that have taken place in its society. The aim is to explore the different aspects that can be observed today and which contribute to a better understanding of this country over time.

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• 20 Apr 2020

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The Regency and festitivities (1715-1723)

  Appraisals and perspectives

  Les 12 et 13 juin 2020, l'équipe du séminaire « Régence en fête (1715-1723) » (Sorbonne Université) organise des journées d'études afin de dresser un bilan scientifique et aristique des travaux menés sur les pratiques festives sous la Régence de Philippe d'Orléans, et des perspectives qu'ils ouvrent en vue d'une véritable étude culturelle de cette période dont bien des aspects restent encore méconnus.

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• 15 May 2020

  Warsaw

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe

  International conference for heritage scholars and practitioners

  This conference brings together curators, artists, scholars, and other intellectuals and cultural activists working on East-Central European heritage, to reflect on how the main trends of decolonial debate are intersecting in practical and theoretical terms with the heritage sector, with a particular focus on museums in the region. The conference will place special emphasis on mapping both the range of colonial histories embedded in, as well as decolonial approaches to, museum collections and practices in East-Central Europe.

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• 01 Jun 2020

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Masters research grant in art history and gemology

  L’École des arts joailliers, avec le soutien de Van Cleef & Arpels, a créé en 2019 cinq bourses annuelles d’études destinées à des étudiants inscrits à l’université en master recherche, sur un sujet en lien avec la joaillerie. Les étudiants doivent être inscrits en histoire de l’art ou en gemmologie.

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• 31 Mar 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Tilting

  Urgent issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

  This special issue, Tilting, seeks to take up themes that have animated the Blackwood’s program and mandate throughout the last several years: questions of connectivity, the challenges of public and private space, community and/in isolation; imperatives to re-structure modes and methodologies of care, including revaluing care work, confronting collective care responsibilities within colonial and capitalist structures, and engaging with the infrastructures, aesthetics, contestations, and radical possibilities of mutual aid; responses to the precarization of art, labour, and life; interest in what modes of knowledge production, circulation, and re-distribution are vital to us now, and how these networks might take new form. These urgencies continue to drive Blackwood programming (and this forthcoming publication), supporting and activating artists, curators, and writers who incite us to be responsive, critical, and answerable.

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• 05 May 2020

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Investigation, exploration, documentation: creation in research

  En raison de la situation actuelle et de l’annulation de Camping, événement du Centre national de la danse, l’Atelier des doctorants propose d’ouvrir les deux journées d’étude initialement prévues au format d’un colloque numérique, toujours consacré à la thématique suivante : « Enquêter, explorer, documenter : la création en recherche ». Ce colloque numérique permettra de proposer quelques pistes pour redéfinir la notion de « recherche » et de penser ses diverses représentations – en termes d’attitude méthodologique et de relation aux savoirs et à leur constitution –, afin de saisir les multiples manières dont elles infléchissent les pratiques qui entourent les processus de création.

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• 15 Apr 2020

  Guyancourt | Paris

  Call for papers - Information

  The book, the museum and the child

  L’objectif de ce colloque interdisciplinaire est d’explorer les relations entre le livre pour enfants sur l’art et le musée. Il ne s’agit pas d’étudier la représentation littéraire du musée, mais de s’attacher au livre d’art pour enfants dans la mesure où celui-ci se donne, dans un héritage malrucien plus ou moins explicite, comme un « musée imaginaire », afin de penser l’articulation de ces musées de papier avec le musée réel, ses collections, son activité éditoriale, ses actions envers les publics jeunesse et familiaux.

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• 05 Jul 2020

  Besançon

  Call for papers - Modern

  Sports, popular culture and material culture

  At a time when sport is increasingly anchored in our everyday lives and objects, as well as in popular culture, this symposium intends to study these sports and/or playful practices which produce – or derive from – this culture, focusing on material goods, which are both products and reflections of a given society. This event will focus on the production, consumption and use of these objects – from toys to mobile apps and media productions), but also on the behaviors, norms and rituals they create. Favoring pluri- and transdisciplinary approaches, this symposium will explore several themes, including education, identity, sociability, media, heritage, imagination, as well as innovation, and both technical and technological progress.

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• 06 Apr 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  "This thing of darkness": the night in anglophone arts and literature

  Night is often seen as the other side of the day, meaning darkness, and potential disorders. But these presumably negative connotations also bear witness to the metaphoric richness of the night, explored relentlessly in literature, the visual arts, and on film. The night is the locus of an ambiguity and indeterminacy, which should not be viewed merely as factors of disorder, but as possibilities for different lives and identities, which seem to radically elude the norms governing diurnal practices. Nonetheless, is it merely a form of transgression or does it inaugurate a mode of existence of its own? Furthermore, to what extent do technical, social, and cultural changes influence those perceptions by blurring the line between day and night? With the inexorable generalisation of lighting and the ubiquity of screens, is the night a thing of the past?

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• 01 May 2020

  Leuven

  Call for papers - History

  Christian-Muslim Missionary Encounters, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  Mission and Modernity Research Academy (MiMoRA#3)

  The study of missionary work occupies a central place in the interdisciplinary body of scholarship on relations and exchanges between Christianity and Islam in pre-modern as well as modern times. Most notably from the nineteenth century onwards, missions became an essential aspect of the globalization and modernization of these two ‘world religions’. Scholars from various disciplines have discovered the missionary encounter as a ‘space’ par excellence to observe and analyze Christian-Muslim interactions, which range from rejection and conflict to dialogue and mutual exchange. This research requires the breaching of the boundaries between disciplines, languages, scripts, archival heuristics, geographical and chronological specialisms; and the creation of an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue. The aim of this international and multidisciplinary week-long research academy is to stimulate further critical study of the multilateral research on Christian-Muslim contacts and relationships in missionary contexts.

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