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Call for papers - Urban studies

Contextual Physics of Ambiances

International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space

Architectural ambiances encompass a complex interplay of sensory, emotional and cultural perceptions that shape how a space is experienced. Regarding their physical dimensions, ambiances include elements such as light, sound, textures, temperature and odours, which are shaped through social and spatial configurations to create a unique experience. The physical metrology of ambiance phenomena, relying on precise measurement tools and protocols, allows for an analysis of the objectifiable dimensions of sensory phenomena.

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2026

Call for papers - Urban studies

Uncertainties

Revue « Clara » #14

Clara journal and guest editors Eliyahu Keller and Uri Wegman are launching a new call for papers on the theme Uncertainties for the thematic section of issue 14, to be published in early 2028. Clara #14 seeks to explore the architectural manifestations of uncertainty, probability, and chance around four distinct yet interrelated themes: measurement and tools, negotiation, representation, and narratives.

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Le Havre

Call for papers - Law

Croisières : itinéraires juridiques et escales interdisciplinaires

Cruises: Legal itineraries and interdisciplinary stopovers

Depuis plusieurs décennies, le secteur des croisières connaît une expansion soutenue, soulevant des enjeux complexes qui dépassent largement le champ du seul droit maritime. L’essor du tourisme de croisière pose ainsi la question de la capacité du droit à encadrer un phénomène mondialisé, marqué par le gigantisme des navires, la multiplicité des acteurs, la densité des réglementations internationales et européennes, et qui suscite des tensions croissantes dans les territoires portuaires.

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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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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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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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Dakar

Call for papers - Geography

Playing with uncertainty, gambling with crises

The rise of Gambling, mechanisms and consequences

This session aims to analyse the rise of gambling in Africa as a major social, economic, and territorial phenomenon. It will examine the reconfiguration of gambling spaces linked to digitalisation, as well as the role of betting in a context shaped by precarity and uncertainty as experienced by urban youth. Through several papers and a roundtable discussion devoted to the Senegalese case, the session will highlight the global circulations and North–South asymmetries that structure this rapidly expanding industry.

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Call for papers - Modern

On the Profession of Historian. Transforming practices and horizons

« Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère », n° 27

Les Cahiers: Journal for the Study of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape (Craup) are launching its 27th thematic issue “On the profession of historian. Practices and territories in transition,”Architectural history calls for a major overhaul paying particular attention to issues such as gender, the environmental crisis and decolonization. Today, this context has prompted an examination of the profession of architectural historians, whose primary role is to distance themselves from events and reflect critically upon them. How has this profession been shaped in recent decades? What can architectural historians contribute to the ongoing vicissitudes of our times?

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Paris

Call for papers - Geography

Les données en question : enjeux méthodologiques, réglementaires et éthiques en géographie

Les prochaines doctoriales du Comité national français de géographie (CNFG) auront lieu le 2 juillet 2026 dans les locaux de l’université Paris Cité. Ce sera l’occasion d’inviter les doctorants et doctorantes en géographie à réfléchir aux enjeux que représentent la collecte, l’usage, et la diffusion des données dans un contexte de recherche doctorale.

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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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Aubervilliers

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

How do former industrial towns and border towns welcome refugees?

Dans quelles mesures l’histoire de ces territoires intrinsèquement liée à la question de la migration peut-elle ou non avoir un impact sur les manières de percevoir et de vivre l’installation d’exilé·es, voire de campements d’exilé·es en leur sein ? Le passé migratoire conduit-il à s’identifier à ces nouveaux-elles venus-es, à éprouver pour eux-elles de l’empathie voire à leur venir en aide ?

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Paris

Call for papers - History

Solidarities and Shifting Alliances

The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies international symposium invites participants to reflect on the political, social and cultural reconfigurations of the period between 1750 and 1914.

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Call for papers - Africa

Navigating Displacement

Sustainable Solutions and Governance for Internally Displaced Persons Amidst Conflict in Africa

This special edition of European Scientific Journal aims to delve deeply into the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs) by exploring not only the root causes of their displacement but also the complex landscape of humanitarian response and governance frameworks that are crucial for their protection and integration. We invite scholars, policymakers, and practitioners from various fields – including Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights Law, Peace and Conflict Studies, Development Studies, and Migration Studies – to contribute their insights and research. Through this special edition, we aspire to foster a comprehensive dialogue on the sustainable management of conflicts, the protection of IDPs, and the development of inclusive policies that ensure their rights are respected and upheld.

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Paris

Call for papers - Urban studies

Spectres de l'architecture

L’architecture et l’infrastructure sont habitées par des spectres qui sont autant de traces de ce qu’elles ont été, mais aussi de ce qu’elles auraient pu être, ou de ce qu’elles seront peut-être un jour. Nous proposons de considérer l’architecture et l’infrastructure sous l’angle de leurs spectres, en portant l’attention sur les absences autant que sur les présences. Selon cette approche symptomale de l’architecture, il s’agirait de nous intéresser aux manifestations spectrales qui débordent de la place qu’on a donnée aux projets, imaginaires, bâtiments, infrastructures qui ont été mal oubliés.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Sections “Archives” and “Position(s)”

Revue « Clara », numéro 13

Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods and tools specific to the field. Each issue comprises a main thematic section with its own call for papers, and two additional sections with Archives and Position(s) articles. Journal is published by the Université libre de Bruxelles and is funded by the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta at Université libre de Bruxelles. Clara launches a call for papers for its Archives and Position(s) sections, to be published in issue 13.

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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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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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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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Aubervilliers

Call for papers - Geography

Market gardening and fruit trees in urban and peri-urban areas

Socio-environmental issues and planning challenges

The evolution of market gardening and fruit trees is a rapidly expanding field of research, hence the need for in-depth studies to identify and maximize their positive impacts in disparate urban contexts (geographical and climatic) marked by often difficult conditions and particularly strong competition between different possible uses of resources. They play an essential socio-cultural role by reflecting important heritage, symbolic, and identity values. Finally, they bring local communities together around participatory and innovative projects involving citizens, public decision-makers, associations, and researchers.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Feeding urban territories in North Africa

Crossed perspectives from Algeria and Egypt

This collective volume explores urban food supply systems in North Africa, with a particular focus on Algeria and Egypt, where rapid processes of metropolization and megalopolization intensify pressures on food resources. Through a territorially grounded approach, the book aims to examine the challenges of food security in cities facing urban sprawl, loss of agricultural land, rising food demand, and increasing dependence on imports. The objective is to provide a cross-cutting analysis of territorial dynamics, supply chains, urban–rural reconfigurations, and the limitations of public policies in addressing urban food systems. Contributions are expected to adopt empirical, comparative, or modelling approaches, addressing themes such as urban planning, multi-level governance, food justice, short supply chains, and the regulation of informal economies, all within a broader perspective of strengthening the resilience of urban food systems.

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