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Mar

2026

Paris

Call for papers - Early modern

Crafting Everyday Life. Art Manufactories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

À l’occasion de la réunion de la Cité de la Céramique – Sèvres & Limoges et le Mobilier national sous l’appellation Manufactures nationales – Mobilier national & Sèvres le 1er janvier 2025, le Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art Moderne (GRHAM) a décidé d’orienter son colloque annuel sur les manufactures d’art des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Cette recomposition institutionnelle invite à relire l’histoire des manufactures, non comme un âge d’or figé, mais comme une histoire mouvante, marquée par des ruptures internes et des redéfinitions constantes des liens entre État, artistes et ouvriers.

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Mar

2026

Marseille

Call for papers - History

The Nature of Anarchism

Exploring Complicity and Conflict in the Relations between Anarchists and Environmentalists (19th–21st Centuries)

This multidisciplinary conference aims to explore the relations between anarchism(s) and ecology(ies) from the 19th century to the present day. It seeks to fill a historiographical blind spot by examining the richness of anarchist ‘environmental reflexivity’, from precursors such as Kropotkin and Reclus to their contemporary reconfigurations. Anarchism's historical rejection of centralised power structures and the productivism of the ‘machine age’ makes it one of the political traditions most in tune with current ecological imperatives. By revisiting these affinities and tensions, the conference will offer new insights into understanding social movements fighting for environmental justice.

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Paris | Giverny | Le Havre

Summer School - Representation

Cultivating one’s own garden, expanding horizons

Mapping the personal and the collective through history of art and the humanities, from Impressionism to the present day

The Seine has shaped the history of the Impressionist movement, which, in turn, left a lasting mark on the land. The research framework of this programme places the focus on this influential geographical backdrop, as part of a broader reflection on our regions. Housing traditions, ways of life, social structures, land uses, and the impact of agricultural and industrial development on the landscape are just some of the lines of research that require further study about Impressionism. This summer school aims to open up new perspectives through cross-disciplinary collaboration while experimenting with scales of analysis, to reflect on the experience of land from the most personal to the most universal.

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Mar

2026

Call for papers - History

Self-writing and migration. Ego-documents by researchers in the humanities and social sciences (19th and 20th century)

Revue « Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire »

Privilégiant une approche matérielle et pratique de ces ego-documents, ce numéro de Diasporas se propose de repenser le retour réflexif sur l’expérience de la migration opéré par des chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales tout au long des XIX^eet XX^e siècles, quels que soient leur provenance et leur pays d’accueil.

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Montpellier

Call for papers - Representation

Figures et motifs dans les séries télévisées : images et sons en question

While remaining within the field of aesthetics and drawing on formalist analysis, this conference aims to examine the images and sounds of TV series, their figures and motifs, which are all too often overshadowed by theoretical and especially cultural approaches.

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Apr

2026

Call for papers - Sociology

Artistes et argent. Ressources matérielles, économie morale et styles de vie

Symbolic Goods Journal

Identifié comme caractéristique du rapport des artistes à l’argent, le désintéressement matériel est à la fois significatif de la position qu’ils et elles occupent à la pointe des fractions culturelles de l’espace social et ancré dans le processus d’autonomisation progressif qui a présidé à la constitution du champ de production artistique. La revue de sciences sociales Biens symboliques / Symbolic Goods lance un appel à articles à ce sujet pour un numéro thématique.

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Call for papers - Thought

Arts and Literature in Latin America in the 21st Century: A Crossroads?

Amerika n°32

Following the colloquium held in Rennes, France, on October 9 and 10, to celebrate the magazine's fifteenth anniversary and as we approach the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, we would like to explore how contemporary Latin American imaginaries (primarily through literary and artistic production) contextualize not only belonging to specific territories but also the place these territories occupy in an increasingly globalized cultural universe.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Representation

Calligraphies at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World: Practices, Circulations, and Appropriations

This conference marks the conclusion of the research programme CallFront, dedicated to the study of Arabic-script calligraphy at the frontiers of the Islamic world. It will explore several themes central to the project, including the evolution of styles, the transmission of knowledge and calligraphic practices, as well as the symbolic and spiritual dimensions of certain uses of writing. The event will also highlight the programme’s achievements, with a round table devoted to the contribution of digital tools to the analysis of scripts, a presentation of the publications produced within the framework of the project, and the screening of a film based on fieldwork missions, offering an immersive insight into the practices under study.

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Paris

Summer School - Middle Ages

Rereading, (re)emergence, appropriation: What is to be done with the art of the past?

The writings of art historians, like the works of art themselves, are a place of emergence, return, and incessant reinterpretation. This dialogue between periods at the heart of both artistic creation and the narrative of our discipline will be the subject of the 2026 edition of the Ecole de Printemps. Proposals for papers could present case studies, where a work or body of work quotes, repeats, adopts, or readapts earlier images, objects, or monuments. They might analyse historiographical reinterpretations by considering them as transhistorical interventions and reappropriations – whether textual, visual or museum-based.

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Abomey-Calavi

Call for papers - Africa

The rhythm at the crossroads of music, text and dance

Instituant un partenariat régulier entre la France et le Bénin en matière de musicologie, ce colloque se déroule en 2026 pendant deux jours au Bénin autour de la question du rythme en privilégiant une approche transdisciplinaire. Il s’agit d’étudier dans un premier temps la relation intrinsèque du rythme dans les champs musicaux, artistiques, choréologiques, rituéliques, puis de comprendre son fonctionnement extrinsèque avec l’environnement naturel, les rythmes biologiques, physiologiques, sociologiques et cosmiques en interrogeant la question des épistémicides.

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Call for papers - Science studies

Les changements des habitus culinaires au Cameroun

Culinary habits in Cameroon are now deeply influenced by globalization and urbanization, leading to a revision and sometimes a distortion of traditional recipes. The introduction of foreign products and the adoption of faster food practices have changed the habits of Cameroonians. These changes affect the transmission of culinary heritage to younger generations and jeopardize the preservation of traditional cuisine, considered a valuable intangible heritage. This call for papers explores the impact of globalization on food practices, public health, and the local economy. It also raises the question of how Cameroonian cuisine can adapt to modern realities, taking into account the tension between the modernization of recipes and the preservation of culinary cultural identity.

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Poitiers

Call for papers - Early modern

Rethinking Early Modern Print Today: New Questions & New Approaches

Dedicated to early modern prints, this symposium aims to take stock of the current researches and offer an overview of the diversity of approaches used to deal with this historical object. It seeks to provide a forum for exchange devoted to recent approaches and ongoing projects, whether they focus on the practices and techniques of printmaking, on its networks of production, circulation, and exchange, or on the place of the printed image within visual and material culture.

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Feb

2026

Call for papers - Middle Ages

BUCEMA - Bulletin du Centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre - Varia

vol. 30-1 (2026)

Following the principle of promoting open access research in progress, the Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre (Bucema) emphasizes the interdisciplinarity between human and social sciences, as well as natural sciences and mathematics. It aims to publish contributions offering new methods, reporting on experiences in digital humanities and new technologies, and questioning the epistemological and conceptual implications of research on the Middle-Ages. It also features in-depth studies and reviews in the fields of archaeology, history and history of art, and offers insight on the most recent research.

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Perugia

Call for papers - Language

Politics and Narratives of the Body

The International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body aims to open an interdisciplinary dialogue, considering the multiple ways of thinking, representing, embodying and writing corporeality, particularly in contemporary contexts. The policies created around the body generate diverse, dissenting, irreverent and complex narratives, discourses and poetics. In this way, the congress is expected to convene studies on the body and the policies and narratives built around it, from perspectives that include an interdisciplinary approach. Thus, different disciplines of the human, social and artistic sciences would converge in order to transversally think about corporeality.

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Conference, symposium - Representation

Visual Culture of Gastronomy

Loin de n’être que des élaborations secondaires (illustrations, médiations ou témoignages), les représentations visuelles participent d’emblée à ce que signifie « bien-manger » en offrant des exemples et des modèles d’expérience et de désir. Elles manifestent la nature composée de la gastronomie, dont le discours est indissociable des autres formes de représentation. À rebours de la définition logocentrique de la gastronomie comme culture de l’écrit, nous nous proposons de déplacer la perspective pour étudier celle-ci comme une relation qualitative à l’alimentation à laquelle participe la culture visuelle.

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Call for papers - Middle Ages

Medieval Friendships

Questes Seminar

Le séminaire de Questes, groupe de jeunes chercheurs médiévistes, prend pour thématique cette année les amitiés médiévales. Nous nous intéresserons autant aux théorisations philosophiques et théologiques de l’amitié au Moyen Âge qu'aux façons dont les médiévaux pratiquaient l’amitié et la réprésentaient dans les arts (littératures, arts graphiques, arts textiles, sculpture...).

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Call for papers - Representation

Figures of naturalism

Perspective Journal, no. 2027 – 1

At a time when ecology has become a major preoccupation and a key issue in political, economic and social terms alike, art historians have resolutely taken on the questions it raises through a profound renewal of their approach to nature. The term “figures”, in the geometrical and metaphorical sense of forms, singular historical and cultural configurations, calls for identifying, investigating and understanding the different definitions of naturalism that the history of art has produced, depending on their specific intellectual contexts.

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Call for papers - Representation

Art, matière et environnement (1848-1927)

« 48-14. La nouvelle revue scientifique des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie », 2, 2027

A call for contributions has been issued for the preparation of the second issue of the journal 48-14. La nouvelle revue scientifique des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, to be published in 2027, which will be devoted to the relationships between art, material, and environment at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Researchers are invited to propose studies that, focusing on specific objects, explore the various ways in which artists conceive the relationship between material and environment—whether contributing to the construction of the opposition between nature and culture or, on the contrary, challenging it.

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Sousse

Call for papers - Representation

Marble and sculpture

Dialogue Between Matter and Form: Aesthetic Issues in the Arts and Design

This international symposium explores the aesthetic, technical, and cultural dialogue between marble and sculptural form. By examining marble across art history, contemporary sculpture, architecture, and design, the event aims to understand how matter shapes artistic expression and how creators negotiate between material constraints and formal innovation. The symposium seeks to foster interdisciplinary debate, highlight regional and Mediterranean practices, and propose new perspectives for research, creation, and sustainable development in marble-based artistic practices.

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Paris

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

Post-doctoral prize: research into the arts and cultures of the Mediterranean world

Marc de Montalembert Foundation / École du Louvre

The Marc de Montalembert Foundation and the École du Louvre have formed a partnership to sponsor the Marc de Montalembert Prize, worth 9,000 euros. The prize will be awarded to support a research project whose anticipated results will constitute an original contribution to the knowledge of the arts of the Mediterranean world from Antiquity to our day. The Foundation will also offer the prize holder the possibility of a residency at its headquarters in Rhodes, Greece.

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