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• 15

  Mar

  2026

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Swiss Mobility Conference 2026

  La neuvième édition de la Swiss Mobility Conference (SMC) se tiendra les 10 et 11 septembre 2026, à l’Université de Lausanne. La SMC propose un lieu de discussion et de débat pour les chercheur·euses en sciences humaines et sociales travaillant sur les différentes formes de mobilité.

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• 01

  Mar

  2026

  Pau

  Call for papers - History

  Water Heritage in Mountainous Areas

  Le projet « Water Heritage : Traditional Irrigation Systems and Uses of Water in the Mountains » (Starting Grants UNITA) vise à explorer les relations entre sociétés et milieux hydriques en région montagneuse, où l’eau est une ressource écologique essentielle, mais aussi un objet économique, social, culturel et politique de premier plan. Cette journée d’étude entend interroger ces relations à partir des cas des Pyrénées, des Alpes, des Carpates et de la Serra de Estrada, en croisant les regards pluridisciplinaires, dans une perspective transnationale. Cet appel à communications ne s’adresse qu'aux universités membres du réseau UNITA

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• 30

  Mar

  2026

  Darnétal

  Call for papers - Representation

  Goddness and beauty of contemporary architecture

  This scientific event focuses on buildings that can be considered both good and beautiful today. By looking more specifically at how those involved in architectural projects negotiate between external constraints and their own opportunities, the conference will examine design processes in contemporary practices.

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• 15

  Mar

  2026

  Cayenne

  Call for papers - America

  The Guianas (15th–21st Centuries)

  Territories, historical, anthropological, and cultural dynamics

  Les organisateurs du colloque « Les Guyanes (XV^e-XXI^e siècle). Territoires, dynamiques historiques, anthropologiques et culturelles » cherchent à encourager les propositions de communication qui épouseraient les approches pluri, trans et interdisciplinaires, à visée comparatiste, contribuant à révéler toutes les arcanes de l’objet d’étude choisi. En d’autres termes, les textes proposés doivent adopter une approche comparative entre au moins deux, voire trois territoires de Guyanes. 

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• 01 Feb 2026

  Tours

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Age of Trauma and Memory: Literature’s Role in Shaping (Post)Conflict Narratives and Meanings

  The international conference responds to the need to rethink how literature shapes memory and figures trauma in (post)conflict situations by focusing on active, unresolved or ongoing, antagonisms. It aims to investigate both the analysis of narrative forms that evoke trauma and their deciphering, interpretation and reception, striving to grasp not only the expressive but also the performative dimension of writing.

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• 11 Jan 2026

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Gendered work and working gender

  Identifiée comme un angle mort par Benoît Dedieu lors du deuxième symposium international du travail en agriculture, la place des femmes n’est plus à négliger dans l’analyse du travail au sein des mondes agricoles. Bien que la première étape indispensable soit de lutter contre l’invisibilisation des femmes, ce working group propose de mobiliser le concept de genre pour dépasser l’approche centrée sur la seule « spécificité du travail des femmes ». 

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• 09 Feb 2026

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Social Production of Death and Necropolitics in Turkey: Framing, Regulating, Invisibilizing

  This volume examines the ways in which death is framed, regulated, and politicized in Turkey, and questions the relevance of the concept of necropolitics in the Turkish context. Across multiple scales of analysis, it explores the role of the state in ritual practices, the management of bodies, and the organization of funerary spaces—whether concerning individual or collective deaths—as well as in the production of hierarchies between deaths deemed worthy of mourning and those relegated to invisibility, while shedding light on the emergence of a new regime of death: civil death.

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• 09 Feb 2026

  Call for papers - History

  Policing the Mobility of 'Undesirables' (1870-1923)

  Powder, People, Papers

  This study day aims to facilitate conversations across borders. Specifically, we hope to bring together various fields – Border Studies, Refugee Studies, Mobility and Surveillance Studies – in order to investigate border control processes and experiences during the period (1870–1923) and to facilitate meaningful conversations with those studying the present. Taking onboard the statement by French anthropologist Michel Agier in La Condition cosmopolite that ‘seen from the border, the world also looks different’, organisers would like to advance an encompassing view of border experiences.

   

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• 30

  Mar

  2026

  Call for papers - Africa

  Savoirs endogènes, territoires et durabilité

  African Journal of Social Responsibility and Sustainable Management - volume 3, issue 2, 2026

  Dans un contexte mondial caractérisé par la convergence de crises écologiques, sociales, sécuritaires et épistémiques, les territoires africains se trouvent confrontés à des choix déterminants quant à leurs trajectoires de développement et leurs modes de gouvernance. La valorisation et la réappropriation de ces savoirs endogènes s’imposent donc comme une réponse stratégique à ces défis, en offrant des alternatives ancrées dans les réalités locales et porteuses d’innovations adaptées.

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• 13

  Mar

  2026

  Paris

  Study days - Geography

  30 years of Cybergeo (1996 - 2026)

  Cybergeo will celebrate its 30th year of existence in 2026. The first digital native journal in social sciences in the world, in open access and free of charge, hosted by OpenEdition since 2007 and regarded as a successful example of the diamond model, Cybergeo focuses on geography with an openness to a wide variety of disciplines. To celebrate this milestone we invite you to the meeting and will highlight and discuss the major current and future challenges for the journal and more broadly scientific publishing in geography.

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• 20 Dec 2025

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - Geography

  Smart cities: technological innovation and sustainable urban development 

  Le concept de ville intelligente s’impose progressivement comme un paradigme essentiel dans la réflexion et la planification urbaines contemporaines. Comment les concepts de ville intelligente peuvent-ils être adaptés aux réalités socio-économiques, culturelles et infrastructurelles des villes camerounaises et africaines, y compris les établissements informels et les économies mixtes formelles-informelles ? Quels sont les risques d'exclusion numérique et de renforcement des inégalités socio-spatiales ? Voilà les dimensions non exhaustives qui pourraient meubler les communications attendues dans le cadre de cette journée scientifique.

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• 30 Jan 2026

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Architecture has a Soil Problem

  Clara Journal, thematic issue, no. 13

  From the digging of foundations to the sealing of surfaces, architectural practice typically treats soil as ‘dirt’—as matter out of place — an interchangeable substance devoid of specificity, meaning, or vitality. Soils are too often reduced to a passive background for human activity, an empty canvas to build upon rather than a living milieu to design with, within or through. This ignorance indirectly contributes to their depletion and demise. What would it mean to resist this thanatological path and instead reconceptualize both soil and architecture through their entanglements, in relation to the pedogenetic processes they co-produce ?

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• 01 Jan 2026

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Palestine : disqualification, invisibilisation, négation

  L’ambition de ce numéro est de proposer une théorie de la disqualification des revendications politiques historiques des Palestinien·nes. Par cela, nous entendons le dévoilement des mécanismes qui permettent de discréditer, d’invisibiliser ou nier l’acteur palestinien ou de marginaliser ses revendications politiques. L’objectif est de déconstruire l’idée d’une prétendue complexité du « conflit » qui opposerait deux acteurs aux prétentions symétriques pour restituer l’asymétrie, la contrainte et le travestissement propre à cette situation coloniale. En restituant les formes de la domination, ce numéro espère aussi rendre compte des formes de résistance qu’elles produisent. Cet appel à contributions invite les spécialistes de différentes disciplines à entreprendre cette révision critique autour de trois domaines spécifiques – mais non exclusifs – des médias, du droit et du politique à travers des analyses historiques aussi bien que sur des processus en cours.

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• 15 Dec 2025

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Specters of Architecture: The Negative Voices of the Project

  Architecture and infrastructures are inhabited by specters, which are traces of what has been, but also of what could have been, or what may one day come to be. We propose to read them through the lens of these specters, by paying as much attention to absences as to presences. This symptomatic approach encourages a focus on manifestations of projects, narratives, buildings, and infrastructures that have been imperfectly forgotten.

   

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• 19 Nov 2025

  Avignon

  Study days - Europe

  Art to raise awareness about waste : cross perspectives

  Regards croisés

  Scheduled at the beginning of the residency, this study day offers a new perspective on everyday waste. Rubbish bins, leftovers, scraps and garbage can be transformed,recycled, reused and revived to serve other purposes. Art can be a powerful vehiclefor raising awareness and transforming our practices. This day brings together different typesof stakeholders involved in this issue: researchers, elected officials, artists and cultural actors.

   

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• 15

  May

  2026

  Call for papers - Geography

  Urban Metamorphoses: Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Arab Cities

  Revue « EchoGéo »

  Since the beginning of the 20^th century, the Arab world has undergone rapid urbanization. Today, global cities in the region such as Doha and Dubai have themselves become exporters of new urban paradigms to the wider Arab world and beyond. This issue of EchoGéo aims to explore these urban metamorphoses through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, connecting dynamics across North Africa and the Middle East, and to bridge three elements: understanding the forces that deeply transform Arab cities, examining how they unfold in concrete places, and giving full attention to the resistances, detours, and inventions that redraw urban life.

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• 30 Nov 2025

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Geography

  An ecological transition under strain: country, landscape, and uses in contemporary Germany

  The starting point for this conference is the observation that the ecological transition in Germany, which one might have thought would be easier or at least more harmonious than in other countries due to the importance that environmental issues have had in German culture, society, and politics from very early on, is in fact encountering numerous obstacles and is even being called into question. This is evidenced, among other things, by the setbacks which the energy transition encounters and by the success of the party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) despite—or perhaps because of—its stance in favour of climate change denial.

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• 17 Nov 2025

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Maintaining public goods in an era of austerity

  Journal Espaces et Sociétés No. 200

  Local government service budgets have continued to be cut, exacerbating the social and environmental vulnerabilities that municipalities now have to manage with limited resources. The purpose of this dossier is to focus on the spatial dimension of the continuance and evolution of public goods in a context of austerity. In particular, we encourage ethnographic and situated perspectives that consider top-down political experiments and bottom-up urban practices and their convergence in the protection, maintenance and regeneration of public goods. The goal is to give space to studies that investigate the relationship between austerity, public goods and care practices.

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• 21

  Mar

  2026

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  « Turâb’26 » : Expériences de la matérialité de la construction en terre

  Every handful of earth holds a story of "de-materiality," where the sensory philosophy of earth coexists with innovations and new technologies that push its technical limits in a desire to destigmatize it. Although durable and ecological, earth as a material faces cultural resistance tied to an image of precariousness, a perception fostered by modernity. Thus, in the context of alarming climate change, reinventing earthen construction has become urgent, if not necessary. This conference approaches research on earthen construction at the crossroads of poetics, engineering, and innovation. By highlighting earth architecture in Tunisia and around the world, it offers a transdisciplinary and resilient perspective on a universal material, putting its inextricably linked material and immaterial dimensions in tension.

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• 01 Dec 2025

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Precarious housing in the Global South

  Public interventions and residents' expériences

  This call for abstracts aims to highlight the growth and complexity of precarious housing in a context of increasing urban inequality. Far from being reduced to marginality or poverty, these spaces represent a third of the world's population and play an active role in urban dynamics, combining vulnerability, inventiveness and collective capacities. In the face of often repressive or insufficiently coordinated policies, it calls for recognition of their diversity, their essential function in the urban fabric, and the importance of interdisciplinary reflection based on field surveys, via the following thematic areas: theme 1 - Ambivalent effects of urban public action, theme 2 - Residents' practices, mobilisation and daily resistance, theme 3 - Institutional, symbolic and criminal violence: forms, effects and social responses.

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