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• 30 May 2022

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Nocturnal inequalities: social practices, uses of space, stakeholders and changes of urban spaces at night

  Organised by the members of the ANR SmartNights, this symposium aims to study the social practices and uses of space that take place at night, by paying particular attention to the conditions of access to these practices and to their (un-)equal distribution within society. It is addressed to all researchers working on these issues, including geographers, sociologists, historians, political scientists, planners and others - all disciplines are welcome - as well as to practitioners.

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• 10 Jun 2022

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - Language

  Les français dans un monde multilingue : dynamique sociopolitique, usages et représentations

  French is the 5th most spoken language in the world. Sociolinguistic research on French establishes the existence of various uses of French depending on the context. The terminology on French variation varies between a meaning centered on the appropriation of French and on the different uses of French while integrating the concepts of young speakers. Numerous researches have noted the elements of language contact as well as the willingness of populations to use French for the teaching of local languages in a situation of school and other multilingualism. The present colloquium would like to ensure a continuity of the project and of the research on the variations of French in the classroom as well as in the standardized or endogenous uses. It would also like to update the data on the socio-political dynamics of French in Africa and in countries using languages other than French.

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• 15 Jun 2022

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Zoological observation, experience and experimentation on animals in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

  The Zoomathia research network is organizing an international Conference in Nice on October 21 and 22, 2022, devoted to Zoological observation, experience and experimentation on animals in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This conference will study the ancient testimonies of a practical, programmed, instrumented or interactive investigation on and with animals, as well as the hints revealing experimental protocols.

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• 20 Jul 2022

  Call for papers - History

  The edges of species

  Frontière·s. Revue d’archéologie, histoire et histoire de l’art

  Greek and Roman mythologies are populated by hybrid creatures borrowing physical characteristics from both humans and animals, as illustrated by the well-known examples of the Sphinx, the Faun, or the Minotaur. These imaginary hybridisations cross the permeable boundary that separates humans from animals. The affirmation of human exceptionality progressively allowed Greek philosophy to raise and isolate Man within the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, ancient and medieval literature, ethnography and zoology continued to question the interspecific boundaries not as a radical dissociation but as a porous limit, a grey zone with multiple gradients of humanity and animality, of which mythological hybridity is only one manifestation. For this eighth issue, the authors are invited to question the boun- daries between non-human animal species, but also between the animal and human species.

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• 30 Jun 2022

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Editing, Translating and Interpreting the Greek Fathers in the French-Speaking Regions of Europe (1450-1650)

  En privilégiant une approche à la fois historique, théologique et philologique, les journées d’étude apporteront un éclairage comparatif sur les différents projets éditoriaux et contextes de production qui ont contribué à la diffusion des œuvres patristiques grecques et à leur donner des nouvelles significations. L’accent régional et linguistique se veut un encouragement à combler les lacunes de la littérature actuelle et à mettre en évidence les frontières perméables entre les divers milieux confessionnels qui ont pris forme au cours de la période examinée. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux imprimeurs, éditeurs et traducteurs actifs dans les centres intellectuels francophones, depuis Genève, Lausanne et Neuchâtel jusqu’aux Flandres françaises, en passant par Paris, Lyon et d’autres villes du royaume de France, mais une place sera également faite aux centres situés dans les environs immédiats, comme Anvers, Strasbourg et Bâle.

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• 10 Aug 2022

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - Thought

  Man, space and development in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Collections in honour of Professor Kengne Fodouop

  Tout au long de sa carrière d’enseignant-chercheur, le professeur Kengne Fodouop, s’est investi sur la question des rapports entre l’homme, l’espace et le développement, à l’échelle de l’Afrique subsaharienne. L’utilisation que l’homme y fait de l’espace dans l’optique d’améliorer ses conditions de vie ou d’assouvir sa volonté de puissance, ainsi que les impacts négatifs qui en résultent, ont été au cœur de ses préoccupations de recherche et ont inspiré ses multiples publications scientifiques. À tout bien considérer, les travaux de recherche à l’actif de cette figure emblématique de la science géographique africaine, se rapportent à quatre champs thématiques majeurs : s’accommoder de la ville, les réalités des campagnes, les dynamiques entrepreneuriales et l’équation géopolitique en Afrique subsaharienne. Les mélanges à lui dédiés se proposent de mener les réflexions scientifiques y afférentes.

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• 31 May 2022

  Call for papers - Africa

  Space, Heritage and Sustainable Development

  Pour cette cinquième édition de son colloque international, le Laboratoire de recherche en sciences économiques et sociales (LARSES) de l’université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor n’a pas dérogé à sa tradition scientifique. Comme à son habitude, il a choisi un thème transversal englobant les aspects économiques, managériaux, juridiques, socioculturels et historiques. Cette présente édition qui marque les dix ans du LARSES sera le lieu d’échanges sur différents aspects relatifs à l’espace, au patrimoine et au développement durable.

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• 20 May 2022

  Strasbourg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Post-doctorate on history of syphilis and neverending infectious diseases

  The objective of this project is to identify and investigate the variety of factors that explain the paradox of the non-eradication of some infectious diseases. The post-doctoral researcher will contribute to a history of medical collections, materiality and remediation of artefacts related to the history of syphilis and neverending infectious diseases. He/she will work directly with the inventory and valorisation of the histo-pathological material archives at the historical Institut d’Anatomie Pathologique de Strasbourg and with the 3D-digitalisation of wax moulages in Geneva.

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• 23 Jun 2022

  24 Jun 2022

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Pediatric Cancers and Genomics: a Game Changer?

  Cross Perspectives Between Social Sciences, Medicine and Civil Society

  L’objectif de ce colloque est de présenter des travaux de sciences sociales sur le développement de la médecine génomique en oncologie pédiatrique. Il s’agit plus particulièrement de s’intéresser aux enjeux sociaux, éthiques, juridiques et organisationnels de la prise en charge des cancers de l’enfant au prisme des changements technologiques et thérapeutique récents. Une attention particulière sera également portée autour des approches méthodologies nécessaire au recueil de l’expérience des enfants et adolescents malades et de leurs proches.

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• 05 Sep 2022

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Les usages sociaux et extra-académiques de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales

  Social and non academic uses of research in humanities and social sciences

  Through the interdisciplinary lens of the journal Passerelles SHS, there is an opportunity for quasi-general questioning in SHS, as well as the possibility of enriching the practice repertoires of each discipline. These questions are all the more welcome here as interdisciplinarity is increasingly promoted by funding institutions when it comes to fostering the application of knowledge to practical problems. This issue thus aims to report on the non-academic uses of the current work of researchers in SHS. To do so, it will be organized around three axes: (I) Axis 1: Use by stakeholders involved in the production of research; (II) Uses by stakeholders and institutions in the reception of research; and (III) Reactions and adaptations of the researcher in relation to extra-academic uses.

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• 15 Jun 2022

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  What future for Theater in the Arab World?

  Practices, movements and perspectives in the perpetuation of Theater production in the Arab World

  The ephemeral dimension of Theater is often considered as an obstacle for a pertinent account of past representations, hence the difficulty of writing the history of a practice when we cannot consider every moment of its creative process. We cannot also apprehend clearly its future. However, even if it does not pretend to predict the future, this call for papers wishes to question the long-term effects and the procedures that contribute to the perpetuation of Theatrical currents and productions in the Arab World.

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• 13 Jun 2022

  Nancy

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Respire

  Esthétique de la respiration et culture de la qualité de l’air

  In the vast atmosphere, I breathe the air inside my house, the air in my garden, on my street, in my city. What air does each of us breathe? The whole environment we inhabit: from our objects and our spaces to the products of human activity. Air quality relies on the material reality of our environments. It speaks to the senses, echoes in the development of our perception and requires the ability to acknowledge it. The “Respire” (Breathe) conference aims at exploring new ways of knowing the air we breathe and developing a sensitive culture of various qualities of air; presenting projects which explore ways to reconnect with a sensory perception of the air. Structured around three axes, the conference will question the relation between measuring tools and sensory perception, somatic and artistic research on breathing, research on “breathing” materials, and design and atmospheric architecture projects.

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• 30 Jun 2022

  Call for papers - History

  Book History with Heurist: the challenges and potential of a databasing platform

  Many book history projects are developed in Heurist, an open-source web application that enables researchers to develop relational databases without any prior knowledge of programming. The Heurist Book History User Group is arranging an online workshop for the 20 and 21^st of July 2022. Participants will present their book history projects, discussing their Heurist databases and the challenges they pose. The online workshop has three main aims: (1) to inform the community about the possibilities offered by the platform, (2) to orient future developments of the platform, and (3) to promote Heurist as a tool for book history to new users.

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• 23 May 2022

  Saint-Gilles

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

  Pierre Jeanneret, l’architecte et le constructeur - doctorats en architecture ou en histoire de l’architecture

  Sont recherché·e·s deux deux doctorant·e·s dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Pierre Jeanneret, l'architecte et le constructeur ». Le projet de recherche vise à produire une connaissance nouvelle et originale sur la production et l’œuvre de l’architecte Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967). Remarquable tant par la cohérence de sa démarche, que par l’intelligence des stratégies de matérialisation déployées, l’œuvre de Pierre Jeanneret présente une envergure exceptionnelle, portée par un engagement social sans faille toute échelle confondue, du mobilier à la ville. Les outils de l’histoire matérielle et de l’histoire culturelle seront convoqués pour éclairer la complexité de l’œuvre de Pierre Jeanneret et en reveler la richesse. À ce jour, elle n’a pas fait l’objet d’une investigation exhaustive.

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• 30 May 2022

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Portrait lessons

  « Journal des anthropologues »

  This dossier is an invitation to gather, sometimes twist and distend a series of portraits, of people or things, known or unknown, ordinary or prestigious, and make them speak as much of themselves as beyond themselves, expressing the weight of the social world they carry, of the sorrows and happinesses they have torn away or arranged. Its aim is  both  thinking complexity through looking through the keyhole and revealing an illusion, a lack of, a futility.

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• 30 Jun 2022

  Caen

  Call for papers - Representation

  Nordic minimalism (architecture, art, design and literature)

  « Nordiques », n° 44, 2022

  The interdisciplinary journal Nordiques is issuing a call for papers on the notion of minimalism as an aesthetic often associated with Northern Europe. Proposals are expected to study this notion in its various meanings, in its transmedial and transnational specificities, or in its aesthetic, historical and sociocultural anchorage, in the light of a Nordic delimitation.

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• 25 May 2022

  Call for papers - Geography

  Making with the milieu


  Art, design and the mediality of landscape

  This call for paper deals with the ways of making the landscape in art and design and in the media. A symbolic revolution is currently at work, and we would like to report on it and anticipate its possibilities. The Anthropocene paradigm calls for a new conception of the notion of project, understood as the conduct of valuation in relation to the living. More broadly, it is a question of measuring and thinking about the stakes of the present situation by revising the "project values", that is, the relations between situations, means and ends from an ethical, political and aesthetic point of view.

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• 01 Sep 2022

  Call for papers - History

  Migration Narratives in the Global Mediterranean (1450–1850)

  The H2020 Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency (ITHACA) project focuses on narratives of migration in both past and present, analysing them in a rigorous historical framework, through an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational approach. ITHACA aims to create a digital platform, that brings together migration narratives from the XV^th century to the present, enhancing the historical documentation and the testimonies of past and present migrants’ experiences. In this context, the ITHACA Project Coordination invites scholars to submit essay proposals for a contributory volume on this topic.

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• 10 Jun 2022

  Call for papers - History

  Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History

  The German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome are launching a second online seminar series on Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History in the academic year 2022/2023. The events will take place every two months. They are aimed at both young scholars and established scholars from all medieval disciplines. The aim is to create an international and interdisciplinary forum where diverse topics and methodological approaches can be presented and discussed.

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• 31 May 2022

  Call for papers - Representation

  Poetics of the fictional place in the novel of the Arab peninsula

  Revue « Littérature et culture arabes contemporaines » (LiCArC), N°11

  The next issue of the magazine will focus on the poetics of the place in the novel produced in the Arab peninsula. Since the 1990s, with the appearance of the “spatial turn”, many theoretical studies have renewed ways of analyzing the construction of places in the novelistic text, giving them a new status within the narrative. This issue aims to analyse space in the novel from a particular point of view, that of place, a concept on which theoretical approaches agree, not space because of its multiple definitions and metaphorical uses.

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