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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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Politique et mystique dans la parole féminine
Anthropology & Materialism, n° 5
Anthropology & Materialism. A Journal of Social Research, revue internationale et interdisciplinaire dédiée aux pensées critiques, lance un appel à publication pour son cinquième numéro sur « Politique et mystique dans la parole féminine », à paraître en 2026. Ce numéro propose d’explorer la tension entre engagement politique et intériorité mystique dans les écrits de femmes, de l’époque médiévale à nos jours. Partant du manifeste Ma loi d’avenir (1833) de Claire Démar, où surgit la figure de la « femme-messie », il s’agira d’interroger la manière dont la parole féminine articule utopie sociale, expérience mystique et volonté de transformation politique.
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Female Voices, Media, and Modes of Communication in Theology and Philosophy
Women have long contributed to the development of theology and philosophy, yet their voices have often been marginalized, mediated through restrictive frameworks, or silenced altogether. This seminar approaches communication not only as a neutral means of expression, but also as a form of power: the choice of medium, style, and platform can grant authority, negotiate legitimacy, or challenge dominant structures.
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Louvain-la-Neuve | Brussels | Montreal
Polymorphism and polycentrism in women’s religious engagement
Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1400–1900
This conference is intended as an opportunity to examine the manifestations of religiosity of women who were not fully considered by the Catholic Church as members of its body, such as beatas, consecrated virgins, beguines, bizzoche, penitents, tertiaries, puellae, as well as sisters of religious congregations, from 1400 to 1900.
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Rome
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
Ritual Cultures of Medieval Religious Women
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of scholarship on religious and semi-religious women’s participation in the liturgy of the medieval Catholic church. Thirteen international scholars across disciplines – history, musicology, liturgy, theology, and literature – will present new research on the ritual cultures of medieval religious women in Europe, defining both “ritual” and “religious” in broad terms to include the communal and individual ritual practices of enclosed nuns, beguines, tertiaries, anchoresses, and the communities with whom they interacted.
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Lausanne
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Bringing together scholars, care providers, activists, and artists from around the world, the scientific conference “Birthing, Mothering and Othering” aims to foster a global, cross-disciplinary dialogue on reproductive care and justice. The event will be held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from October 20 to 24, 2025.
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Bien-être et santé des femmes entre religions, spiritualités et cultures
« RELIER, Revue interdisciplinaire d’études religieuses » (2027)
Comment les traditions religieuses influencent-elles la santé et le bien-être des femmes ? Alors que les recherches sur les femmes et les religions se multiplient, la convergence entre genre, spiritualité et santé reste un champ peu exploré. Cet appel à propositions invite à interroger ces liens, en contextes historiques et contemporains, afin de mieux comprendre les dynamiques en jeu.
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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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Saint-Étienne
Ecole d'été du CERCOR - Femmes et vie religieuse du Moyen Age à nos jours
Sources, enjeux, méthode
Le Centre européen de recherche sur les communautés, congrégations et ordres religieux (CERCOR) organise sa 10e école d’été à Saint-Etienne du 26 au 28 août 2025 sur le thème « Femmes et vie religieuse, du Moyen Âge à nos jours ; : sources, enjeux, méthode ». Rassemblant des historiennes et historiens médiévistes, modernistes et contemporanéistes, il permettra à de jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs d’avoir un bon aperçu des nouvelles tendances historiographiques sur un objet d’étude ancien, mais profondément renouvelé depuis quelques décennies par le croisement entre l’histoire religieuse et l’histoire des femmes et du genre. Il sera aussi l’occasion pour eux de participer de façon active, au travers d’ateliers, mais aussi d’exposés de leurs travaux de recherche.
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Paris
Le programme « Humanités dans le texte », porté par l’ENS-PSL, en collaboration avec le ministère de l’Éducation nationale, la plateforme Odysseum et les associations CNARELA et APLAES a pour but de constituer une bibliothèque de modules pédagogiques transdisciplinaires, composés de textes, d’images et de vidéos, destinés à venir en appui à l’enseignement des langues et cultures de l’Antiquité. Ces modules sont créés par des enseignants, des chercheurs, des spécialistes de différents domaines à partir d’un texte latin et grec, reproduit en original, traduit et commenté selon différentes perspectives d’intérêt scientifique et sociétal.
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Double call for papers and chapters on Religions and Motherhood
This double sessions and book chapter's call will focus on religion and motherhood (as an institution), mothering (as the specific experience of mothers and others who engage in mother work), maternal figures (divinities and other-than-human figures), and actual mothers, past and present.
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Poitiers
Disunions. Church-initiated separation of couples in the Catholic world (12th c. - 21st c.)
"What God has joined together, let no one separate" (Mk 10:2-16). In certain circumstances, the Catholic Church may however exercise this right, usually at the request of one of the spouses, but sometimes on its own initiative. Although canon law does not recognize divorce, since the Middle Ages representatives of the Church have endeavored to bring about the separation of certain couples. All these unions have been considered by the Church to be in contradiction to canon law, ecclesiastical discipline, the definition of Christian marriage or Christian morality. Recent scholarship has enabled us to gain a better understanding of matrimonial separations initiated by the spouses in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. The objective of this workshop is to tackle a rarer case, one that has scarcely been addressed by historians to date: that of separations initiated by the Church.
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Lisbon
História das Mulheres: Vozes de uma Polifonia
Envolta em silêncios, a história das mulheres tem sido pautada pela escassez de fontes, pela inexpressividade de discursos autógrafos, pela inaudibilidade, enfim, da atualmente tão glosada “agência feminina”. Concitando, em tempos recentes, o interesse de muitos e instituindo-se como campo de estudos autónomo, harmoniza-se hoje numa diversidade de vozes cuja riqueza urge revelar, nos múltiplos aspetos pelos quais o “feminino” se tonaliza, na multiplicidade de leituras, formações e sensibilidade daqueles que os evocam.
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Saint-Étienne
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Postdoctorat sur la question de l’arrivée des femmes dans les facultés de théologie au XXe siècle
À l'intersection entre l’histoire religieuse, l’histoire des femmes et l’histoire de l’enseignement
Ce contrat de recherche s’inscrit dans un projet qui vise à interroger la façon dont les institutions religieuses ont réagi et ont accompagné la mutation socio-culturelle fondamentale qu’a été l’accès des femmes à l’enseignement secondaire puis supérieur, à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle. Le projet cherche ainsi à éclairer les conséquences de l’arrivée des femmes à l’Université sur les rapports de genre, de savoir et de pouvoir dans un univers religieux où le clergé a longtemps été dépositaire du savoir intellectuel. Au croisement de l’histoire religieuse, de l’histoire des femmes et du genre et de l’histoire de l’enseignement, il cherche à comprendre comment, ultimement, la théologie universitaire – domaine traditionnellement masculin réservé à la formation des clercs, s’ouvre aux femmes.
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Rome
Despite their numerical preponderance among the missionary workforce exercising a Christian apotolate at the end of the Ottoman Empire, women have long attracted less work than men. A rebalancing is in progress, spurred on by the gender studies and extended to the whole Muslim world. We will focus on real encounter and conflict situations, avoiding an essentialist approach to Islam and considering the extreme diversity of the field strategies and practices. This approach will be carried out in equal parts, in a decentering and critical way, far from denominational approaches.
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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Trans, queer and “third gender” people in Muslim countries
Journal “Anthropology of the Middle East” (AME) – Issue 20.1 (Summer 2025)
Today, despite some prohibitions, more and more trans and queer people are asserting their gender identity in Muslim societies. Over and above the importance of gender binarity and spatial separation in Muslim countries, there are many historical figures of "third gender", to use the concept introduced by the anthropologist Gilbert Herdt. In the Muslim world, the term "third gender" generally refers to the eunuch of Ottoman harems, but there are many other figures in the Islamic context, varying from countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Egypt, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Albania...) and times. As the vocabulary and realities are plural, depending on the country and the period, the specificities of these figures and their names will be analyzed, as well as the ways in which these groups or individuals designate themselves. This issue will examine these figures collectively as a group (hijra, trans, queer...), and their role and social status, but will also look at them as individuals.
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Washington
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern
Long-term, short-term and artistic Fellowships (2024-2025)
Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create a high-powered, multidisciplinary community of inquiry. This community of researchers may come from different fields, and their projects may find different kinds of expression. But our researchers share cognate interests in the history and literature, art and performance, philosophy, religion, and politics of the early modern world. The Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library offers long-term fellowships for scholarly research and short-term fellowships for both scholarly and artistic research. For the 2024-25 year, applicants may request virtual, onsite, or hybrid residencies.
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Lisbon
Género e Sexualidade na Mitologia Grega
O Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, através do Grupo de Investigação Usos do Passado, promove o II Ciclo de Conferências: Género e Sexualidade na Mitologia Grega, que terá lugar online nos dias 2, 9, e 16 de Maio de 2023. Esta segunda edição, novamente coordenada por Nuno Simões Rodrigues e Joana Pinto Salvador Costa, contará com a participação Katia Teonia (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Airton Pollini (Université de Haute-Alsace) e Carmen Morenilla (Universitat de València).
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Arras
Missionary strategies and practices, slavery and forced labour (early 19th-mid 20th century)
Another discussion on the institutional position of the churches in relation to slavery will be resolutely avoided. What will be analysed is the concrete confrontation —or cohabitation— with slavery. What did missionaries know about their slave environment? How did they learn about it? How did they take a stand? How did they act–or not? Same questions as far as indentured labour and the colonial forms of forced labour were concerned. Were there confrontations, mediations and misunderstandings?
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Paris
Atelier du Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris I - Sorbonne Université)
Le thème retenu – « d’autres ordres possibles » – est à même de fédérer et de faire dialoguer les différents axes. Il participe évidemment de l’axe 3 « Citoyennetés, sûretés, sécurités, souverainetés », en invitant à interroger comment, face à l’emprise étatique croissante, pour s’y opposer ou par la renforcer, des acteurs et des groupes sociaux entendent garantir eux-mêmes le droit à la sûreté et donc exercer des prérogatives régaliennes, sinon un ordre alternatif. Il s’agira d’interroger le fait que le développement du monopole de la violence légitime étatique ne va pas de soi au cours d’un long XIXe siècle.
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