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Strasbourg
Academic Activities of Azerbaijanis in Europe: Scientific Exchanges and Interuniversity Relations
From the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Present Day
This interdisciplinary colloquium aims to analyse the history and evolution of academic exchanges between Azerbaijan and Europe since the late 19th century, with a focus on intellectual mobility, university networks, and the key figures involved. The event will also reflect on the current forms and future prospects of university cooperation, with the aim of promoting these trajectories more effectively and strengthening transnational research and training dynamics.
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Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe 2026
In June 2026, ACLS will convene the fourth Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe, a two-week residency in Bulgaria enabling scholars to dedicate time to research and writing in an interdisciplinary setting. Apply by Dec. 2 2025.
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Berlin
Working Group on ‘Risk, Health, and State Socialism: Central and Eastern Europe, 1950s-1980s’
While much of this historiography has focused on liberal democracies, less attention has been given to how concepts of risk operated in state socialist contexts. Building on recent studies in the history of medicine and health, we invite scholars to join a working group examining risk, health, and medicine under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. To what extent did state socialist regimes recognize certain health and medical issues as ‘governable’ through risk? What kinds of practices and ideas emerged in response? And were there differences or similarities between state socialist and liberal democratic models of risk in healthcare and medicine? Our aim is to take an exploratory approach to discuss whether, and in what contexts, the concept of risk can be applied to state socialism, and to examine the risk-related practices, ideas, and technologies observed in healthcare and medicine in state socialism.
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2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe
The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. In addition to conducting their own research, scholars will also have the opportunity to participate in a series of immersive discussions on a broad topic of shared academic interest. In 2025, discussions will explore “Epistemic Mistrust: Authorship, Credibility, and Knowledge Production.” Whether in times of crisis and war, or times of peace and stability, who do we trust to tell the truth? Whose stories do we listen to? With a growing lack of trust in traditional sources of knowledge—including suspicion of academic institutions—public confidence in the value of research is eroding. Nevertheless, humanistic approaches are essential for fostering critical thinking and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue.
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Nogent-sur-Marne
Energy transitions and economic thinking in German-speaking territories, 1800-2000
ETRANHET explores how economic ideas on energy have developed in various market-economy contexts around the world, since the first waves of industrialization at the turn of the 19th century. It particularly addresses three key questions: (1) How did past economists (broadly defined) conceive the connection between energy, growth, and development? (2) How did they consider innovation and technological change in energy affairs? (3) How did economic discourse on energy influence policymaking, and vice versa? Areas covered by the project include Continental Europe, the British Isles, North and Latin America, South-East Asia, and some areas under colonial control. This workshop will be an opportunity to look more closely at German-speaking territories within Continental Europe.
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Timişoara
Conference, symposium - History
History of the History of Archaeology: between Archaeologists’ and Historians’ Concerns
Figures, Trends, and Perspectives
The 20th Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (IUPPS) will be held in Timişoara (Romania), from the 5th to the 9th September 2023. The IUPPS “History of archaeology” commission is organising a panel entitled “History of the History of Archaeology: between Archaeologists’ and Historians’ Concerns. Figures, Trends, and Perspectives”.
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Prague
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies
Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) offers year-long fellowships at the center to 2nd-year and above PhD students enrolled in a university in France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, or the Czech Republic. Fellows’ research should contribute to one of CEFRES’s research areas. The amount of the fellowship is 300 000 CZK during 12 months. Good command of English is mandatory, command of French is appreciated. The selected PhD fellows will join CEFRES team and take part in the center’s scientific life.
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Budapest
Epidemics and Nation-Building in Interwar East Central Europe
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a quest for historical parallels that help us contextualize this traumatic event. The voices of historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science are vital in this debate. The event, consisting of an expert panel and a seminar, focuses on the experience of interwar East Central Europe to explore these historical parallels.
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Warsaw
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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Nancy
Call for papers - Science studies
Science and literature: reciprocal inspirations
Central and eastern Europe (19th-21st centuries)
Charles Percy Snow (1905-1980), chimiste et romancier britannique, a consacré sa célèbre conférence The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Deux cultures et la révolution scientifique, 1959) à l’incompréhension grandissante entre la culture littéraire et la culture scientifique tout en montrant les dangers de cette scission pour le progrès de la civilisation.
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Paris
Projections of health and welfare on the socialist and post-socialist screen
Bodies and health on television have not been extensively researched, in particular in the socialist and transition to market-economy contexts.The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats –contemporary, similar and yet differing in national broadcast contexts– expressed and staged bodies and health from local, regional, national and international perspectives. The conference seeks to better understand the role that TV, as a modern visual mass media, has played in what may be cast as the transition from a national bio-political public health paradigm at the beginning of the twentieth century, to alternative societal forms of the late twentieth century when (supposedly) “better” and “healthier” lives were increasingly shaped by market forces.
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Social and Human Sciences in the Soviet Union: A laboratory of Modernity in the 20th Century?
This project aims to revisit the history of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the Soviet Union, against the simplistic clichés that have long considered them as an exceptional case, cut-off from the history of modernity in the 20th century. The Soviet SSH were thus thought above all as “impeded”, without real autonomy, victims of censorship and violent repression, when it was not the whole discipline (sociology, psychotechnics, paidology, or psychoanalysis, for example) that was condemned. Intellectual innovations originating among Soviet SSH scholars were very often analyzed only as the result of their strategies of evasion, resistance or smuggling in the face of the Soviet power.
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Moscow
Summer School - Science studies
Autumn schoo at the Centre d'études franco-russe de Moscou (CEFR)
Inscrit dans le cadre de l’année franco-russe des langues et des littératures, cet appel à communication pour une école d’automne en sciences sociales organisée par le Centre d'études franco-russe de Moscou (CEFR) propose d’utiliser la traduction comme point d’entrée d’une réflexion sur les sources, méthodes et théories en sciences sociales. L'ambition de cette école est d’aborder la question de la traduction d’un point de vue non exclusivement linguistique et littéraire. En rassemblant des chercheurs en sciences sociales et des traducteurs, l’enjeu sera d’engager une réflexion et un dialogue sur la traduction comprise tant comme un objet de recherche que comme une pratique.
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Lyon
Medicine and philosophy, 19th-21st century
Cet atelier se situe dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Approches historiques et philosophiques des savoirs anthropologiques en psychiatrie », développé au sein du réseau franco-allemand CIERA en 2018. L’objectif visé est d’engager une discussion entre étudiants et chercheurs autour de leurs travaux respectifs en croisant des perspectives française et allemande. Cette initiative est ouverte à tous les mastérants et doctorants qui souhaitent exposer leur recherche et bénéficier de l’encadrement méthodologique de chercheurs confirmés, sur inscription préalable. De courtes présentations seront suivies de discussions en français, allemand et anglais. Une place particulière sera accordée aux savoirs anthropologiques mobilisés en santé mentale.
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Paris
Les utopies scientifiques en Union soviétique
Fiction, science et pouvoir (1917-1991)
L’objectif de ce colloque est de comprendre comment les utopies scientifiques, en Union soviétique, ont pu avoir une fonction heuristique, participer de la transformation de l’activité scientifique et reconfigurer les rapports entre science et pouvoir. Le questionnement portera d’abord sur les relations entre fiction et sciences, afin d’explorer comment littérature et cinéma se sont appropriés certains des concepts basés sur les découvertes scientifiques et, inversement, comment les sciences se sont servies des imaginaires proposés par les fictions pour étoffer leurs discours, contester les découvertes ou se lancer dans des expérimentations inédites. Ce double mouvement est médiatisé par le pouvoir. Aussi, on sera attentif à la commande sociale et aux mécanismes de censure à l’œuvre.
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Evora
Conference, symposium - History
Peripheral Empires and the Europe of Lights
The circulation of knowledge and parallel dynamics (17th-18th centuries)
La construction des régimes techniques des grands empires aux noyaux situés en marge de l’Europe, comme la Russie, le Portugal et l’Espagne, a fait l’objet de nombreuses études durant les dernières décennies. La mise en comparaison des politiques technoscientifiques d’enseignement et de recherche développées à ces fins par les gouvernements concernés a révélé d’étonnants parallélismes dans les logiques de leur lancement et / ou développement durant le « grand XVIIIe siècle ».
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Amsterdam
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
Three anthropology PhD positions on ERC Chemical Youths program
Chemical Youth: what chemicals do for youths in their everyday lives?
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam are looking for three PhD candidates who will participate in the Chemical Youth Project, which is funded through a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Humanities and social sciences in Russia. The invention of academic languages and translation
Le projet de recherche ANR « Schusocru » du centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien (EHESS-CNRS) et du laboratoire Pays germaniques (ENS-CNRS) sur « La constitution des sciences humaines et sociales en Russie : réseaux et circulation des modèles de savoirs, du XVIIIe siècle aux années 1920 » organise sa troisième manifestation scientifique les 24 et 25 mai 2013 à Paris, cette fois consacrée à l’invention de langages des sciences humaines et sciences sociales en Russie et sur le rôle des traductions dans ce processus.
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Toulouse
The challenges and experiences of Brazilian and French researchers
L’objectif principal de cette table ronde est de créer un espace de discussion et d’échange d’expériences entre brésilien.ne.s qui font des recherches en France et français.e.s qui font des recherches dans l’Amérique Latine, en ouvrant un débat interdisciplinaire qui s’interroge notamment sur la question des frontières. Des frontières géographiques, parce qu’il s'agit de pays et continents différents ; des frontières académiques, en proposant une réflexion sur les obstacles (in)visibles entre les sciences humaines, sociales et exactes (et ainsi entre les différentes disciplines au sein de chaque domaine) et des frontières humaines, en espérant que les expériences interpersonnelles partagées entre les chercheur.e.s les enrichiront individuellement et collectivement.
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Paris
Le programme ERC Futurepol « A political history of the future » coordonné par Jenny Andersson (CNRS, Sciences Po) organise le 7 juin 2012 de 14h30 à 16h30 à Sciences Po (salle du conseil - 13, rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris) un séminaire intitulé « A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold War elites ».À cette occasion, Egle Rindzeviciute (Sciences Po) et Leena Riska-Campbell (Université d'Helsinky) viendront présenter leurs recherches sur l'International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) et son rôle pendant la Guerre Froide. Elles seront discutées par Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC Business School).
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