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• 09 Jun 2023

  10 Jun 2023

  Toulouse

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Empirical Legal Research: a state of knowledge across Europe

  The objective of this conference is to produce a state of knowledge on the development of empirical legal research at the European level. First, it will trace the first elements of the development of these methods, highlight the main trends and elucidate the possible theoretical foundations. The conference will then map the use of empirical methods in the different legal disciplines across Europe before deepening this analysis in the field of environmental law.

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• 01 May 2023

  Liège

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Trusting the State? Law, Bureaucracies and Politics

  From uncertain relationships with frontline workers, public servants and even judges, trust in the state emerges as a central issue in the relations between the state and citizens and users of public policies. This workshop aims to explore the place of trust and mistrust in interactions with, or perceptions of the state in various contexts, and to further explore how trust in the state and its institutions is constructed, enacted or contested. To do that, we connect and combine three entry points through which state-citizen interactions have been considered so far: politics, bureaucracies, and the law.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Call for papers - History

  UrbanMetaMapping Semester Talks

  Academic Year 2023/24

  The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites applications from scholars interested in presenting their research at our online, midday academic seminar. We are open for projects dealing with mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, issues of heritage and urban planning in the context of such disasters, as well as digital tools used for researching these themes. We are interested in research projects without any geographical and temporal limitations. The call for application is open to all scholars (from PhD students upwards). The language of the seminar is English. Further information, includingprograms and abstracts of previous Talks can be found at our website.

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• 16 Apr 2023

  Summer School - Urban studies

  Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories

  2023 IRS Summer School

  The focus of the summer school is to examine how historical strata have been understood, constructed, and interpreted in different European cities from the post-war period to the present day. On the one hand, the participants will learn how historic buildings were integrated into the post-war reconstruction plans on both sides of the “Iron Curtain”. On the other hand, we will discuss how historical authenticity has been established in the preservation of monuments and what might have been overlooked in the process. Finally, participants will debate how people (individually and in groups) remember and what this means for our understanding of the past. The students should also investigate how digital methods can help to understand today’s memory landscapes.

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• 11 Apr 2023

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Heritages Cities and Destruction

  JADH | Journal of Architectural Design and History

  The second issue of the journal JADH is dedicated to the theme of “destruction”, its perceptions, as well as its implications that can be perceived in several fields of architectural heritage as positive and negative at the same time (destruction/construction, absence/loss, memory/oblivion, etc.). Destruction refers to the process and outcome of an event: every destruction, regardless of whether being voluntary or involuntary in nature, imposes a reflection on losses, things that have existed but ceased to exist, and forces us to make a value judgment about what we recognized as being part of our history and identity. 

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• 20 Apr 2023

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Language

  Translation and the Periodical

  This conference seeks to investigate whether periodical translation has particular qualities that differentiate the practice from other forms of translation, notably for print books. The discursive techniques of periodical translation, and its key role in the mediation of culture and the dynamic exploration of the present -long argued to be at the core of periodicals’ specificity-, are likely to be touchstones for answering this question. Therefore the international conference “Translation and the Periodical” aims to push forward decisively the developing conversations on cultural translation in periodicals. The conference will start with a postgraduate workshop on 13 September, followed by the main conference on 14 and 15 September.

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• 15 Nov 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Urban Neoliberalism in the 21st Century: Exclusion and Struggles for the Right to the City

  Journal “Forum Sociológico”

  Journal Forum Sociológico has an open call for papers on the scope of a special issue about urban neoliberalism to be published in the 1^st semester of 2024. The issue aims to question and document the urban transformation experienced today, based on focused research - conceptually and empirically - on the urban margins of contemporary metropolises and taking into account the way in which three planes intersect, in concrete terms - like the elements of an experience chemistry - react together in the urban space: the question of class and the ethnic-racial question, to which, crucially, the question of gender is added. How do these three plans complicate and problematize the contradictions of the new contemporary neoliberal urban model? We invite the presentation of articles with an interdisciplinary approach, crossing all disciplines with a focus on critical urban studies.

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• 14 Apr 2023

  Aubervilliers

  Summer School - Ethnology, anthropology

  Mapping violences

  EHESS Summer School 2023

  By crossing different disciplinary, thematic and cultural approaches, the aim is to endeavor to map violence, to study practices, situations, experiences of violence and their arrangement in topographic, social and mental spaces. The objective is to favour the dialogue between different perspectives of research on violence and more particularly on extreme violence. Be it political violence, state violence, wars, guerrilla wars, revolutions, oppression, massacres, and domestic violence, since it is often -in these contexts- amplified, will also be broached. How are we to observe, define and analyse these violent phenomena? What are the methodological, epistemological and ethical questions specific to these particularly sensitive and fluid objects?

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Oran

  Call for papers - Language

  “Altralang” Journal vol.5 n°1 - varia

  Altralang Journal is now inviting the scholarly community - at both national and international levels - to submit their papers. It is an international peer reviewed and open access journal. It aims to publish high quality theoretical and practical papers that donate genuine knowledge and research in a variety of fields.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Castelo de Vide

  Call for papers - History

  Religions in Medieval Urban Europe

  The subject of religiosity in the medieval urban world encompasses a great multiplicity of themes which readily mingle the Christian, Islamic and Jewish worlds in seeking to understand how religion shaped the way in which the civic space was constructed and understood, the powers that converged in it, and the rituals and practices that guided the daily lives of inhabitants. Accordingly, this year (2023), the Institute of Medieval Studies (FCSH; Nova University, Lisbon) and the City Council of Castelo de Vide will host the VIII International Conference on the Middle Ages, entitled: Religions in Medieval Urban Europe. With a focus on Christian, Islamic and Jewish Europe, researchers from any scientific discipline (History, Archaeology, History of the Art, Literature, among others) are invited to present proposals for sessions and/or individual presentations.

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• 16 Apr 2023

  Milan

  Call for papers - History

  The European space. Geo-economic balances and State powers in the long run

  In the construction of the European space(s) a crucial role has been played by economic actors and relations, which often overpass national borders and intertwin with the nature and roles of political powers and national States. Even well before the last globalization (or re-globalization), traditional government systems were pressed by the internationalization of economies: by centrifugal pushes, the need for external resources, or the emergence of new actors on the international stage in economic, technical, and social fields, that have increasingly influenced both the private and the public life. In more recent times, then, a new institutional framework developed at the supranational, European, level getting new functions and involving actors, such as trade unions, charities, business interests, scientific institutions, and churches, reinforcing the dynamics of cooperation, integration, and convergence beyond national borders.

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• 31 May 2023

  Maroua

  Call for papers - Modern

  Languages, literatures and peace building

  Guaranteeing a peaceful climate in a restricted or relatively large space is a challenge, which is why it is almost impossible to list in an exhaustive manner the mechanisms likely to maintain harmony between humans and/or between Nations, as these means are sometimes beyond suspicion. At the same time, it would be tedious to want to list the factors likely to break the tranquility, the state of cohesion, and to generate misunderstandings, conflicts of various kinds and, finally, war. So, how can linguistics and linguistic dynamics (in all forms and manifestations, including literature) be at the origin of social/interhuman, inter-intra-community, inter-State, inter-religious tensions...? And, how could they resolve the said crises and conflict situations? Which linguistic dynamics emerge from these? This is the challenge of this project. 

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• 07 Jul 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - America

  Patriarcal-Pact

  Coloniality and the Left-Wing Sexism

  In this book-project we propose an exploratory/reflective decolonial investigation to locate the intersubjective structural/hegemonic, capitalist-historical, socio-economic, cultural and political relational process that caracterises a Patriarcal-Pact solidly operational throughout women and men’s lived experiences. That is, we propose to scrutinise the enduring and reiterative operational “colonialities of power/political; of knowledge/epistemic; of being/ontological; together with coloniality of gender, of doing, of nature, of sensibility/aesthetic.” (Perrier et al., 2022, 3). Through this we intend to deploy a new-decolonial-ethic-programme to tackle the way these colonialities continue to oppress and annihilate the cultural, intellectual/academic, artistic, social and political production of the subalternised and oppressed subjects here positionned as the racialised and gendered Black, white, “mixed-race” women, trans-women/men and TBN-transgender/non-binary from the Global South/Global North.

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• 21 May 2023

  Call for papers - History

  Plastic

  tba journal

  tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, is pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for our upcoming issue, PLASTIC. tba is an annual peer-reviewed journal organized by graduate students of the Visual Arts Department at Western University in London, Ontario (CA). It provides an interdisciplinary forum for emerging and independent artists and scholars by bringing together studio, art history, cultural studies, theory and criticism, creative writing, and related fields. Academic articles, poetry, short fiction, and artworks are all welcome! Experimentation and risk is encouraged.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Basel

  Call for papers - Representation

  Tasting Funny?

  Jokes can be tasty, cheesy, crusty, corny, sour, saucy, stale, canned, elaborate. Moreover, humour can demonstrate good or bad taste. What is there to understand from this affinity between humour and food metaphors? The international conference “Tasting Funny?” will examine this question. We welcome papers on any humorous cultural production (literature, music, film, graphic arts, sculpture, architecture, design, fashion, advertisement, etc.), from any time period or language area. We also welcome papers on the translatability of jokes, whether food-related jokes or ones that would be unequally tasteful in different cultures.

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• 30 Mar 2023

  Pisa

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought

  PhD positions in Philosophy - Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa

  Five Full-time PhD positions (4 years) in Philosophy are available at Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa (IT). The positions are fully-funded and exclusively focused on research (no mandatory teaching).

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• 25 Apr 2023

  Perugia

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language

  Poesiæuropa 2023 - fellowship applications

  Poesiæuropa aims to discuss the features of contemporary humanistic culture, especially from the perspective of poets, to reflect on the value of our cultural and spiritual roots, and to develop – together – a vision for the future. The fifth edition of Poesiæuropa will take place in 2023 and gather authors and scholars from many countries in a special school on the Polvese Island (Lake Trasimeno, Umbria, Italy) from May 30 to June 3, 2023. There are 20 fellowships available, and applications for them are free: There are no limits of age, job, or nationality. Each fellowship covers accomodation costs, but not travel costs.

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• 16 Mar 2023

  12 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Seminar - Urban studies

  Penser l’action civique en relation avec les politiques urbaines et la planification

  In this seminar, Dr Iolanda Bianchi will present her recent work on the democratisation of local public services by way of the paradigm of the common. The presentation will focus on two urban contexts, Naples and Barcelona, and examines the common-inspired transformation of their local public services, respectively, water services (Acqua Bene Comune A.S.) and sociocultural facilities (Citizens Asset Programme). The seminar will reflect on the capacity of public-common institutions to represent an alternative and more democratic management modality for local public services.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Sigerist Prize for the History of Medicine and Science, 2023

  The Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science invites applications for the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the promotion of young scholars in the history of medicine and science.

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Prague

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  2023 PhD Fellowships at Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) - France and Visegrad Countries

  Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) offers year-long fellowships at the center to 2^nd-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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