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Work, Health, and Environment between Knowledge and Power (19th–21st Centuries)
This conference seeks to be a multidisciplinary forum (history, sociology, geography, medicine, anthropology, etc.) devoted to analysing the knowledge, practices, and repertoires of action arising from these mobilisations. It welcomes diverse historical and geographical contexts, especially beyond countries of early industrialisation, to document and map past and present struggles against harmfulness.
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Body awareness: therapy, practice, pedagogy
The theme of body awareness has been chosen for this conference, given the marked resurgence of interest in "reconnecting" with the body and sensations in our contemporary societies. We will concentrate on the different areas where body awareness offers new perspectives of practice and research, from healthcare to education, including the arts and sports. However, the increased visibility of this concept has also led to a proliferation of discourses and practices lacking any real conceptual or methodological foundation. These are often driven by the growing popularity of alternative or New Age approaches. The aim of this conference is to clarify the current situation by distinguishing between knowledge and practices that are supported by research and those that are not.
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Conference, symposium - Sociology
Le colloque international sur le tabagisme en Afrique se propose d’explorer les enjeux sanitaires, sociaux, économiques et réglementaires liés au tabac et aux nouveaux produits de nicotine sur le continent. Il vise à analyser l’exposition au tabagisme passif, les stratégies de l’industrie pour étendre ses marchés et les défis de gouvernance et de justice sociale associés. Cet événement pluridisciplinaire réunira chercheurs, professionnels de santé, décideurs et acteurs de la société civile pour favoriser un dialogue scientifique et stratégique, partager des expériences et identifier des solutions innovantes et durables pour renforcer la lutte contre le tabagisme en Afrique.
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Social Control and Health Issues: The Role of «Sanitary Policing»
« Amnis », revue d’études des sociétés et cultures contemporaines Europe-Amérique
This call for papers for Amnis Journal invites researchers to reflect specifically on social control – in its broadest interpretation – with regard to health issues. The focus for this call for papers is on the period between the 19th and the 21st centuries on the European and American continents. Comparisons with colonial areas, which are often true laboratories for social and health control policies, and with previous situations will also be accepted.
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Geneva
How to teach gender in medicine and health?
Methodological issues and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
In the second half of the 20th century, the introduction of the concept of gender into the social sciences and humanities and into medical sciences restored complexity to the concept of sex, while producing ambivalent effects, notably thecreation of a sex/gender dyad and a divide between the biological and the social. The epistemological heterogeneity of concepts makes dialogue between health careprofessionals and between scientific disciplines difficult, reinforcing newstereotypes in research, clinical practice, and teaching. Interdisciplinary dialogue is necessary in order to teach healthcare professionals about gender and social inequalities in health. How can teaching practices be harmonized without establishing a truth regime about gender?
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Porto
Laboreal, July 2026
Since the 19th century, the cyclical crises of our industrial societies have fuelled multiple initiatives aimed at envisioning another possible world. Yet recent decades have revealed a state of profound crisis that leads us to doubt, more radically than ever, the validity and sustainability of our ways of thinking and acting. Our futures are at stake, our models of society are being strained under the pressure of climate change, social and societal upheavals, public health crises, and political instability. In this context, human labour is an undeniable issue. In these times of transition, ways of thinking about and acting on work increasingly integrate the utopian dimension, which underlies the evolution of both the worlds of work and communities of life. This issue will therefore be an opportunity to take stock of the state of the art.
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Terrains criminologiques africains
The African continent remains "marginal" on the international stage of criminological research. Despite the development of academic programs, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Côte d’Ivoire, and the existence of specialized journals, African publications enjoy limited visibility. This lack of visibility can be explained by the standardization of international research, the weakness of research funding, linguistic boundaries, and the scarcity of exchanges between paradigmatic traditions. While anglophone research mostly adopts an etiological or institutional approach (prisons, violence, corruption), francophone work, influenced by interactionism, explores more diversified topics: green criminology, economic criminology, extreme violence, land conflicts, problematic practices of public agents... Numerous studies, although not identified as “criminological,” also contribute to the discipline due to the relevance of their theoretical frameworks. This issue therefore aims to make these African research contexts visible, to go beyond disciplinary boundaries, and to contribute to the conceptual and methodological renewal of a criminology in the making.
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Clermont-Ferrand
Disability issues in French and European Overseas Territories
The situation of people with disabilities is specific in French or European overseas areas (the Azores, Aruba, Bermuda...). Several phenomena characterize them (marginality on several scales, insularity possibly, particular legislation, economic situation). Moreover, each territory has specificities of the same order. And it can itself show strong internal variations (French Polynesia, Guyana, Bermuda) depending on the distance from the local center, isolation or different forms of marginality (which do not include only isolation or remoteness, but a social margin). In these conditions, people live situations very different from those of the metropolitan areas, with care, views on otherness, solidarities... sometimes far removed from the metropolitan realities. However, on this subject, knowledge is often lacking.
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Políticas Migratorias e Integración en las Américas
4to CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE MOVILIDADES HUMANAS COLOMBO-VENEZOLANAS “
The 4th International Congress on Colombian-Venezuelan Human Mobilities, to be held in 2025 at the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios – UNIMINUTO, Bello Campus, and the University of Antioquia (UdeA), aims to create a space for analysis and discussion around international migration policies and the social, cultural, and political impacts generated by migratory movements in the Americas. These dynamics highlight the need to promote interdisciplinary dialogues to address the challenges associated with human mobility and its impacts across the continent.
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The realities of perpetrators, victims, loved ones and those working in the field of sexual offending have changed, if not been overturned. What do we currently know about these new realities and the issues surrounding prevention, detection, assessment and intervention regarding sexual offences? How are social, legal and clinical perspectives and practices evolving? This thematic issue aims to review current scientific knowledge on sexual delinquency from various perspectives and disciplines, as well as identify the issues inherent in the evolution of these perspectives.
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Call for papers - Urban studies
This international, interdisciplinary and intercultural gathering aims at bringing together researchers, lecturers, political and economic actors and African civil society organizations, to share experiences and reflections, in order to co-create innovative global models of responsible waste management adapted to the wide variety of African contexts; while actively involving all actors in the society, coordinated by the authorities of decentralized local entities, and developing models, methods and strategies for social entrepreneurship, as well as social marketing for behavioral change in waste management and for a more sustainable future.
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Porto
Caring and treating: activities and challenges of work in the health field
“Laboreal” - December 2025 issue
With this dossier of Laboreal, we invite authors to contribute with articles that address work in the health field today, considering the diversity of situations in which care and treatment activities are developed and the plurality of protagonists involved. Based on the understanding that such activities are characterized by service relations, cooperation, and the articulation of knowledge, we aim to gather articles that focus on how workers collectively mobilize to provide care and the strategies constructed to meet the demands of clients/users.
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Shipping Pandemics – A Global Approach to the History of Maritime Health (18th-20th)
First SHIPPAN workshop
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of transport in times of health crisis, and the need for trained, responsive professionals. This workshop focuses on sanitary prevention and the practices of health professionals at sea, on board ships or in port environments. Over three centuries, the transnational approach covers military and merchant navies, both sailing and steam-powered, in ports on three continents.
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Nanterre
Conference, symposium - History
Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world
#1 People and Places
For this international conference on the social history of psychiatry, we are pleased to welcome our keynote speakers, Rory DuPlessis (University of Pretoria) and Susan Hogan (University of Derby & Institute of Mental Health), as well as about 30 researchers in the history of psychiatry.
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Grenoble
Residue and Oblivion: Manufacturing Toxic Legacies
Cross-reflections based on the exemplary case of asbestos. 20th - 21st centuries
Several studies in environmental history and the sociology of science have already shown how, regarding asbestos as other toxic substances, the narrative of the sudden “awareness” of their harmful effects was a fiction, actually and that a number of stakeholders were well aware of asbestos pathogenic effects as early as the early 20th century. The circulation and appropriation of this knowledge did not take place in linear fashion. Now, what are the possible trajectories of a toxic substance after it has been banned? This is the question this conference aims to answer.
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Perception and practice of health among the Akan people
This transdisciplinary conference aims to analyse traditional and modern health perceptions, practices and knowledge among the Akan. Each contribution, whether the fruit of in-depth analysis, personal experience of health, or an academic perspective, will contribute to the 'glocalization' of understanding of the health system and practices in the Akan world.
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Béja
Épidémies et maladies transmissibles. Des fléaux à travers l’Histoire
Epidemics and Transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has spread worldwide since 2019, originating from China, draws attention to a recurrent phenomenon over the centuries, that of epidemics and transmissible diseases. Firstly, it is important to define the terms of the subject. An endemic disease is one that persists permanently in a given region, such as malaria. An epidemic occurs when a contagious disease affects a large number of people at a specific time. A pandemic occurs when the disease rapidly spreads to a significant portion of the planet.
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Health and well-being of the elderly in africa: challenges and prospects for solution
Revue « Espace Territoires Sociétés et Santé » n°12 – 2024
La population Africaine est certes jeune (plus de 50 % de la population est âgée de moins de 18 ans), mais elle compte une part non moins négligeable de personnes du troisième âge (60 ans ou plus) qui représente environ 5 % de la population. L’intérêt du présent numéro thématique est de questionner l’interaction entre la santé et le bien-être des populations du troisième âge dans les pays d’Afrique enclins depuis ces dernières décennies à cette problématique. Il serait réducteur d’étudier la santé et le bien-être des personnes du troisième âge sous le prisme d’une seule discipline; la transdisciplinarité est nécessaire avec une réflexion globale intégrant l’impact de l’environnement et du parcours de vie sur la santé des individus.
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Saint-Étienne | Lyon
Call for papers - Representation
Arts and crafts & Design : Dialogues and Prospects
Art and crafts in discussion with design provide food for thought on the challenges facing these sectors today. Design can be a lever for thinking about the adaptation of arts and crafts in a changing ecosystem. It is then confronted with the problems faced by the crafts in terms of sustainability, durability, digitalisation and education, among others.This conference “Dialogues & Prospects, arts and crafts & design” aims to examine these two disciplines on the principle of convergence around the notion of creation, and based on the principle of cross-fertilisation of unique methods and our own thinking tools.
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Bringing suffering into the narrative(s)
Since the “narrative turn” of the 1980s and the “affective turn” of the 1990s, contemporary human and social sciences, as well as writing practices, have given increasing prominence to individual narratives seen as enriching viewpoints to better understand human experience and social reality. The “subject”, long viewed with suspicion in a positivist conception of knowledge, is taking center stage in a context of weakening “metanarratives” and growing social struggles – for civil rights, for the self-determination of peoples, etc. (Grard 2017). These changes also emerge in the healthcare field : this slogan of the Disability rights movement, “Nothing about us without us”, reflects a yearning to place the subject at the heart of the discourse. This new issue of the Revue des sciences sociales will explore how human and social sciences contribute to the production and analysis of individual narratives that shed new light on experiences of illness and suffering.
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