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2026

Geneva

Summer School - History

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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2026

Call for papers - Europe

“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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2026

Call for papers - Early modern

Emancipation in Early Modern England

This issue will examine theories and practices of emancipation in early modern England, as well as the parallels and transpositions that can be made with our experience in the 21st century in the domestic, educational, socio-economic, political, and religious spheres.

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Paris

Call for papers - Religion

Monde maritime et religion aux époques moderne et contemporaine

Des influences réciproques

Cette journée d’étude se veut ouverte autant pour les espaces géographiques concernés, que pour les périodes qui pourraient faire l’objet d'une intervention. Toutes les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales peuvent être envisagées sont invitées à venir échanger autour du monde maritime et de la religion aux époques moderne et contemporaine.

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Madrid

Conference, symposium - Religion

The Juridical-Political Thought of Alfonso de Castro (1495-1558)

The Construction of Orthodoxy in the Age of the Reformation

Conference dedicated to Alfonso de Castro's heresiographical treatrise “Adversus omnes haereses” (1534, 1546, 1547, 1556), an important milestone in Catholic heresiography that emerged from the interconfesional controversy with Protestantism.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Conference, symposium - History

Sanguis Christi. Culture visuelle/culture visionnaire (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Ce colloque propose d’explorer comment la dévotion au Saint-Sang, sous ses multiples formes et manifestations (reliques, sacrement, miracles), a façonné et nourri l’émergence d’une culture visuelle en Europe depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu’au XVIII^e siècle. Par culture visuelle / visionnaire, ce colloque entend ainsi donner une place à une approche qui sache interroger ce qui se donne à voir du Sang du Christ, en explorant l’articulation voire la tension qui émerge entre ce que le miracle rend perceptible aux sens et ce qui, par essence, échappe à la perception, ouvrant ainsi le fidèle à une dimension spirituelle et sacrée et à de nouvelles modalités de mise en visibilité du divin.

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Call for papers - Thought

La compétition religieuse

Le concept de religious competition (compétition religieuse) joue un rôle central en sociologie des religions et en sciences religieuses dans le monde anglo-saxon. Tel sera l’enjeu de ce dossier thématique qui entend interroger à nouveaux frais ce concept dans une perspective transdisciplinaire, transhistorique et transreligieuse. Ce concept est-il opératoire pour décrire les conflits religieux et l’émergence d’une religion dominante, et ce quelles que soient les époques, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, quelles que soient les religions en jeu, quelle que soit l’aire géographique concernée ?

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Paris

Seminar - History

L’humanisme juridique

Humanisme juridique : penser la nation

Composante essentielle du renouveau intellectuel européen, le courant dit « humanisme juridique » (it. Umanesimo giuridico, angl. Legal Humanism, all. humanistische Jurisprudenz), particulièrement fécond aux XV^e et XVI^e siècles, se définit par une approche des textes hérités du droit romain qui s’oppose et en même temps complète les traditions médiévales de la glose et du commentaire. Des chercheurs travaillant sur l’humanisme juridique ont décidé de créer un groupe de travail qui les rassemble. Il s’agit de faciliter la convergence, l’échange et la mise en commun de ressources entre les spécialistes partenaires, qui ressentent le besoin d’approfondir leurs connaissances de façon complémentaire et souhaitent la mise en place d’une action commune et coordonnée dans le domaine de l’humanisme juridique.

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Paris

Miscellaneous information - Religion

Rencontre autour de « The Patristic Text in the Confessional Age (16th-17th centuries) » de Jean-Louis Quantin

La Revue de l'histoire des religions organise une rencontre autour de l’ouvrage The Patristic Text in the Confessional Age (16th-17th centuries). Erudition, Theology, Censorship, de Jean-Louis Quantin.

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Call for papers - History

Historical approaches to religious reinventions and social change in late modern societies

Special Issue for the journal “European Review of History”

From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, religion played a continuous role in shaping societies worldwide. This period was marked by dramatic historical changes, including imperial expansion, decolonization, the devastation of two world wars, and the ideological tensions of the Cold War. Religious institutions, communities, and individuals actively engaged with all these phenomena, proving themselves to be co-creators of profound social, cultural, and political shifts. Currently seeking contributions from historians focusing on selected examples of religious transformation and social change in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism of the Greek rite, Judaism and Islam.

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Paris

Seminar - Europe

Summerschool: Marriage in Premodern Imagination

Art, Gender & Cultural History of an Institution and a Sacrament

The interdisciplinary summer school Marriage in Premodern Europe (1400–1800), jointly organized by Viadrina and Sorbonne University (Paris 1), investigates marriage as a theological, legal, and socio-political institution. Combining perspectives from literary studies, theology, religious and art history, and gender studies, the program examines how confessionalisation and legal regulation shaped norms, rituals, and power relations across Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed traditions. Particular attention is given to the interaction between doctrine, institutional authority, and lived experience in the formation of premodern matrimonial cultures.

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Call for papers - History

Le Déluge et ses représentations en Europe entre optimum climatique médiéval et petit âge glaciaire européen (XI-XVIe siècles)

Autour du XIV^e siècle, l’optimum climatique médiéval laisse la place au petit âge glaciaire européen. Les inondations et autres phénomènes climatiques se multiplient. En parallèle, le regard porté sur ces inondations semble engendrer de nouvelles représentations mentales et figurées de l’épisode biblique du Déluge, désormais perçu comme un désastre. Dans quelle mesure l’observation répétée de phénomènes météorologiques diluviens a-t-elle pu modifier la perception par l’homme de son environnement et impacter sa lecture du récit biblique du Déluge ? Ces deux journées ambitionnent de faire dialoguer l’histoire du climat et de l’environnement avec l’histoire des images.

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Call for papers - Modern

Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy, 1861–1915 (Romance Studies)

This special issue examines the intersections of literature, spirituality, and politics in Italian culture between 1861, the year of Italian unification, and 1915, a symbolic threshold that, for Italy, marked both the onset of the war and the collapse of its liberal order. This period witnessed a profound epistemological crisis, as traditional structures of knowledge and belief were increasingly destabilized by the pressures of modernization, secularization, and rapid ideological and social change.

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Cairo

Call for papers - History

Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant

1939-1958

this conference examines the Catholic Church’s engagement with decolonization in North Africa and the Levant during the pontificate of Pius XII (1939–1958). This conference seeks to explore key questions: What role did the Catholic Church – both as an institution and as a diverse religious community – play in decolonization? How did Vatican diplomacy interact with local clergy, indigenous populations, and political movements? To what extent were these interactions shaped by competition, hybridization, and exchange? How did decolonization influence doctrinal transformations in the 1940s and 1950s, paving the way for the Second Vatican Council? The conference aims to critically engage with newly available sources, prioritizing transnational perspectives and highlighting the agency of marginalized actors. In addition to the recently declassified archives of Pius XII, scholars employing diverse methodologies and archival materials are welcomed.

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Call for papers - History

Italian catholic culture through the periodical press between reconstruction and the “Economic miracle”

"Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea" Journal (December 2026)

After the World War II in Italy there was a proliferation of periodical publications differing in orientation, field of interest and groups of pression, which in the framework of the new democratic and republican order came to constitute a fundamental vehicle of ideas and cultural models, as well as an instrument employable in the political struggle. This development also affected the Catholic world. This call aims to investigate publishing “products” produced by ecclesiastical or secular entities for a wide or targeted audience, aimed at instructing, educating, outlining models, awakening devotions and other religious practices, as well as directing social and political behavior.

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Salerno

Call for papers - History

Greeks and Local Historiography

Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography.

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Porto

Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises

From the Western Schism to the V Lateran Council (1378-1517)

The history of the cardinalate, which stretches from the 11th century to the present day, went through one of the most volatile phases of its development between the beginning of the Western Schism (1378) and the close of the Fifth Lateran Council (1517). This congress aims to work and reflect on these cardinals, both as a group, gathered in the Sacred College, and in their individual dimensions, as lords, members of lineages, pastors, reformers, conciliarists, centres of courts, families and networks, diplomats and representatives of nations, patrons of the arts, among others. The cross-sectional interest of this congress stems from the desire to feed the historiographical renewal that has been taking place over the last two decades on the medieval cardinalate, seeking to bring together researchers who are dedicated to its study, regardless of the angle of approach they may take.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Thought

Christianisme et discours global sur la modernité

Comment penser la modernité à l’heure de la mondialisation ? Organisé avec l’université de Strabsourg et l’université de Vienne, ce colloque explore le rôle du christianisme dans le dialogue entre civilisations et les configurations de la modernité sous les angles de la philosophie, la théologie et la science politique.

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Nancy

Call for papers - Europe

Des jeunes filles puissantes

Statuts et agentivité des jeunes filles dans les mondes antiques et médiévaux

Le laboratoire SAMA (Sciences de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge) de l’université de Lorraine organise une deuxième journée d’étude consacrée cette année aux jeunes filles puissantes de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge. Cette rencontre sera l’occasion de questionner leur statut, leur vulnérabilité et leur capacité d’agir en vertu même de leur état d’individu en transition.

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Mendrisio

Call for papers - Europe

Monasteries and religious communities in the Alps from the Middle Ages to the present day

History, landscape, architecture and enhancement of cultural heritage

Volume 31/2026 of Histoire des Alpes – Storia delle Alpi – Geschichte der Alpen wishes to dedicate its Dossier to the theme of monasteries and religious communities in the Alpine region. While the history of regular communities was largely investigated from the second half of the 19^th century until the first years of the 20^th century, in particular thanks to the impetus of members of the clergy who devoted themselves to collecting, transcribing and translating archives, as well as publishing monographs, there has been a revival of interest in this subject over the last few decades in the Alps and Pre-Alps, driven in particular by archaeologists, by the diversification of issues concerning the religious world and, locally, by the desire of the public authorities to broaden the range of the tourism offer by promoting local heritage.

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