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• 30 Jun 2023

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  A Time after a Setback: Persistent Reverberations of the Carnation Revolution

  Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal Nº 21

  At a time when there will be multiple proposals for perspectives on the fiftieth anniversary of April 25, 1974, a revolution marked by a euphoria that surpassed the day before and that surprised the day after, in an unlocking of the future, we suggest a look at the threshold of several disciplines in this cross-sectional issue of Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, between the social and human sciences, the arts, literature and other forms of intervention in reality, through four areas.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Body Counts: The Administration of Military Losses and Casualties in East & South-east Asian Wars, 1930s – 1970s

  This conference examines war losses and casualties during the East and South-east Asian conflicts from the 1930s (e.g. Manchurian Crisis) to the 1970s, including the Second World War and the Chinese Civil War, with a focus on military (and prisoner) casualties rather than those of civilians. These conflicts were marked by the juxtaposition of hybrid military strategies and tactical configurations; a variety of local, regional, and international actors (including non-state groups); and a high degree of violence within fluid categories of imperial/anti-imperial, civil, and global warfare. The conference seeks to draw connections between these conflicts and regions by examining the administration of war losses and casualties, including the transfer of skills, knowledge, material, and personnel associated with these practices

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• 15 May 2023

  Timişoara

  Call for papers - Science studies

  History of the History of Archaeology: between Archaeologists’ and Historians’ Concerns

  Figures, Trends, and Perspectives (International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences - IUPPS 2023 conference)

  Since several decades, historians and sociologists of science scrutinize the history of science as a practice. References demonstrate, first, the relevance of investigating who are the writers of disciplinary histories and what are the uses of these histories and, second, archaeologists’ concern to this regard. This session organised by the “History of Archaeology” commission is intended to strengthen these studies from the case of archaeology.

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• 17 Mar 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Science, Technology and Nationalism in India

  Although the question of nationalism in India has been of interest to many social science scholars, the relationship between science and nationalism has seldom been discussed in an in-depth manner. STS perspectives and debates allow a framework that investigates the pivotal role and position of science and technology in the realization of state policies in India through several technoscientific projects and illustrates how deeply it is enmeshed within the larger political and social goals of national growth and development. Therefore, we would like to investigate the role science and technology play in these imbrications, the challenges they pose, and how these new assemblages reconfigure power relations between the Global North and the Global South within India, between States and markets. 

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - Representation

  Patterns of Miscommunication in Contemporary East-Central European Cinema

  We would like to invite scholars from the fields of film, media and communication studies, but also of linguistics, literary studies, political studies, anthropology, etc., to a joint reflection on East-Central European contemporary cinema. Much of East-Central European cinema after 1989 seems to thematize the issue of communicational barriers. If we posit, with Casetti, that films are sites of production and circulation of discourses, which can be interpreted as symbolic constructions referring to a cluster of meanings conveyed by a specific society at a moment of its existence, then what are the meanings transmitted by this cinematic reflection on communication blockage? What are the main cinematic discourses developed around miscommunication issues? To what extent do they create a common imaginary for this part of Europe? 

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• 13 Mar 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Inhabiting Collectivity

  Guest editors Nele Aernouts (VUB), Emmanuelle Lenel (USL-B) and Christine Schaut (ULB) invite contributions for the themed issue of Clara 10 “Inhabiting Collectivity”. This issue of Clara pursues a twofold objective. At a larger scale, it aims at shedding light on the context within which collective housing is produced, on their underpinning architectural and spatial models, and on the interplay among the involved actors. At a smaller scale, it questions the intentions underlying this production by investigating its architectural and social mechanisms, and how these can foster or instead hinder certain uses and forms of sociability.

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• 01 Apr 2023

  Call for papers - History

  Public History in European Historical Perspectives

  According to international literature, public history emerged as a subfield of history in the United States in the 1970s. University programs, conferences, journals, grants, and networks of public history indeed flourished in North America in the last 50 years. However, some public historical practices have existed in Europe - without bearing the name of public history - long before the institutionalization of the field in the 1970s. It is this long history of public historical practices in Europe that this international conference aims to uncover. Proposals covering a wide range of public historical practices from different time periods (including Antiquity, Middle-Ages, and pre-Modern times) are welcome. 

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• 06 Mar 2023

  Leipzig

  Summer School - Science studies

  History of Space in Mathematics and Physics

  The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig organizes a Summer School on the History of Space in Mathematics and Physics. The School deals with the history of the notion of space and its uses in the sciences.

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  Issy-les-Moulineaux | Amsterdam

  Lecture series - Law

  New Perspectives on Normativity: Joint Lecture Series on International Law and Technology

  This lecture series we bring together leading scholars in international law, international relations and legal theory to present their work and discuss the implications of an ever increasing digitization of socio-economic life. The lecture series is held on Mondays from 15.30-17.00 every three weeks alternating between the University of Amsterdam and the université catholique de Lille Paris-Issy Campus. All lectures will also be accessible in a hybrid format via Zoom.

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• 28 Feb 2023

  Los Angeles

  Call for papers - Africa

  Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

  Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. Indeed, although Imazighen have one of the oldest writing systems in North Africa, known as Tifinagh, the latter is not associated with a body of written literature, an Amazigh literary canon. On the other hand, the Amazigh peoples have an extensive and rich oral literature that includes poetry, myths, fables, songs, proverbs, sacred rituals, and tales, which are excluded from a simple textualist notion of culture and communal identity. 

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• 01 Mar 2023

  Call for papers - Modern

  Aids before Aids

  This issue of Quaderni storici aims to focus on the transitional phase, so to speak, the one in which contagion emerges, manifests itself, and acts, causing sickness and death, but without yet being understood, nor known in its pathological characters, etiologies, and therapies. What are the social practices - including institutional practices in their contextual genesis - acting at this historical juncture in which the concrete experience of illness collides with the absence of terms and interpretations to counter it? What cultural and social processes are activated to deal with something that is both concretely active and culturally incomprehensible? How do these processes involve sexuality and the history of the way in which it has been thought of, signified, and governed?

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• 01 Mar 2023

  Esch-sur-Alzette

  Call for papers - History

  Women’s narratives and European integration history

  The history of European integration and Europeanisation has developed into a varied field that has moved on from an initial focus on the vision and achievements of the founding fathers. However, even though women played a vital part in the European project launched after the Second World War, their role has yet to be fully explored. Women tended to remain in the background until they began to be more readily accepted as political leaders, particularly following the first European elections by direct universal suffrage in 1979 and the appointment of the first female European Commissioner in 1989. Against this backdrop, “adding a gender perspective to European memory” and history seems essential.

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• 20 Jan 2024

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Mediaeval Latin Mathematics

  Methodos issue 25/2025, “Mediaeval Latin Mathematics”, welcomes studies and editions of mathematical texts from the Latin Middle Ages, a field which has received comparatively less scholarly attention than its Arabic counterpart or, for that matter, other disciplines within the Latin traditions (such as logic and dialectic, for instance). Insofar as Mediaeval mathematics encompassed not only arithmetics and geometry but also astronomy, music, optics and mechanics, the call for papers is open to studies which concern themselves with all mediaeval texts which, while they belong to other disciplines as well (natural and moral philosophy, theology, logic, etc.), rely heavily on mathematical lore and practice.

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• 18 Mar 2023

  Call for papers - Education

  Transversal Skills for Work and Life: Strengthening Guidance and Validation

  Transval-EU Research Conference

  Both in work settings and in daily life, there is a growing need for individuals to develop high-level competences to address complex challenges. Transversal competences set the foundation for personal development, resilience, the ability to communicate and work constructively with others, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage one’s learning and career. Yet transversal competences are. not always valued or made visible in guidance and validation processes for adult learners. TRANSVAL-EU, one of the largest policy experimentations in Europe, has aimed to bridge this gap in guidance and assessment in the area of validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL).

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Call for papers - Thought

  Ecotourism and Ecotravel in the Anthropocene

  Green Marble 2023. International Meeting on Anthropocene Studies and Ecocriticism

  Green Marble 2023 is an international scientific meeting focused on the theme “Ecotourism and Ecotravel in the Anthropocene”. We specifically seek to address and discuss how ecotourism, understood as a form of tourism that involves responsible travel (using sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment and improving the well-being of the local population, can contribute to a good Anthropocene, the one where we become able to use the unprecedented collective power to act in/on the planet we acquire in a balanced and fair way.

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• 15 Apr 2023

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Landscapes and sanctuaries

  The rediscovery of cult places in the Aegean Basin and in Southern Italy

  The international interdisciplinary conference “Landscapes and Sanctuaries. The rediscovery of sanctuaries in the Aegean basin and in southern Italy” is aimed at researchers working on the rediscovery of ancient sanctuaries, on the relationship between landscapes and places of worship, as well as on the archaeology, history and anthropology of ancient religions. The study area is limited to southern Italy and Sicily on the one hand, and continental Greece and the Aegean basin on the other.

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• 15 Sep 2023

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Representation

  Black Lives Matter: Political and artistic mobilization against systemic racism in the US and the UK

  Within the context of the Black Lives Matter movements in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 2010s and 2020s, this conference will examine antiracist mobilizations and their historical continuities, their transatlantic circulations, their political resonance, as well as the many responses they have elicited, particularly in the arts.

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• 13 Feb 2023

  14 Feb 2023

  Bologna

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Studies on Ancient Plants



  Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Perspectives

  The aim of the workshop Studies on Ancient Plants: Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Perspectives is to offer an overview of the state of the art in the study of ancient plants by combining different methodologies related to various cultural settings (Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Syriac and Arabic world) and disciplines (medicine, botany, history of art and technology, experimental archaeology, etc.). 

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Ljubljana

  Summer School - Europe

  Eastern Mediterranean coastal and island environments

  Natural resources, their uses and perceptions (15th-18th centuries)

  The workshop invites mainly, but non-exclusively, Master’s, PhD students and early career researchers of history, archival studies, archaeology, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, palynology, and palaeoclimatology. Three main themes will be examined: Primary sources, be they written documents, paleodata, or archeological material; Environmental transformations in periods of political, social and economic change; Connections between regional and local environmental transformations.

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• 30 Mar 2023

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Resonance

  The concept's political uses and potentials

  In this workshop, we seek to explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the potential political uses of the concept of resonance. This effort seems even more important given that very little literature has been dedicated to the topic.

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