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• 15 Jan 2024

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Africa

  The New Political Powers of Cinema. Comparative Approaches and The Historicity of Contemporary Practices

  “L’Année du Maghreb” Journal, research dossier 33, 2025

  The aim of this special issue is to bring together different perspectives and approaches, in order to understand how contemporary films produced in Maghreb reflect or anticipate the social changes underway. It also looks at the extent to which the filmmakers of this new generation are breaking with classical Maghreb cinema, while at the same time taking part in a continuous line of avant-garde practices in Maghreb, from explorations of popular traditions, to the porosity between fiction and documentary, or the introduction of new techniques (editing, light camera, etc.). The purpose of this issue is to highlight this continuity, both diachronically within the region and synchronically, through a comparative approach with practices and films from the rest of the world.

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• 01 Apr 2024

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Disasters, sociological questions

  Revue « L'Année sociologique » numéro 75-2

  This call for papers aims to contribute to the updating and renewal of sociological reflections on Disasters, as sociological questions. By inviting the presentation of cutting-edge research in the journal founded by Emile Durkheim, this special issue of L’Année sociologique aims to contribute to an effort to structure sociological research on disasters: disasters have become a common social experience; what can the sociology of disasters tell us today? Proposals for contributions may relate to contemporary or past events. In all cases, they should be based on solid empirical material, whatever the methodology chosen (qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods). Particular attention will be paid to their ability to operationalize contemporary issues in the sociology of disasters, articulating empirical elements with theoretical reflection.

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• 29 Jan 2024

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Un/doing Masculinity

  Wet dreams: from the18th Century to the Present

  Dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Nuits polluantes : masculinité et médecine en Suisse et en France (XVIIIe -XXe siècle) » financé par le FNS et le CMCSS de l’université de Genève nous organisons deux journées d’étude. À la croisée de l’histoire de la médecine, du genre, de la sexualité et du sommeil, ces journées proposent une exploration historique des « pollutions nocturnes » entre le XVIII^e siècle et le XXI^e siècle.

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• 10 Jan 2024

  Toulouse

  Call for papers - Psyche

  Empathy for the Evil

  Social Science and the Empathy Dilemma

  Attempts to understand actions we consider appalling raise many issues. Are we supposed to identify with perpetrators in order to provide an account of their behavior? By so doing, aren’t we exposed to the risk of undermining our deepest moral commitments? And what exactly does this identification consists in? Does it require that we empathize? Or must we find a way of exploiting our imaginative resources? These are major concerns, especially for social scientists investigating topics such as extremism, terrorism, domination etc. The aim of the conference is to examine these moral and epistemic issues and to scrutinize them in light of current theories of understanding. Accordingly, all papers addressing empathy, broadly construed, and questioning the endeavours to explain, in a way or another, acts we consider especially evil and despicable will be welcome.

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• 31 Dec 2023

  Paris 05 Panthéon

  Call for papers - History

  The Territorialisation of Maritime Spaces: Actors, Forms and Temporalities, from Antiquity to the Present Day

  Maritime areas - seas and oceans - cover 70% of the Earth's surface, but remain relatively unknown and scarcely studied by social sciences, despite their importance today. This conference will aim at studying examine the role played by maritime areas in the exercise of political and military authority, the forms of legal control over the seas, the use and economic exploitation of the seas, as well as their territorialisation.

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• 15 Dec 2023

  Call for papers - Political studies

  « L’Année du Maghreb », rubrique « Enjeux et débats », 2024

  The historical section “chroniques annuelles” of the “L’Année du Maghreb” journal has become the “issues and debates” section. Within this framework, a call for contributions will be published each year. The proposed themes, which are merely indicative, address current events and recent developments in the Maghreb countries. Contributors may also propose articles on other themes insofar as they deal with issues related to the socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics of the region.

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• 19 Jan 2024

  Liège

  Call for papers - History

  The sum of its parts? (Un)making and (re)thinking collections and compilations from the Middle Ages and Early Modernity

  From 6-7 May 2024, the seventh edition of the International PhD Conference of the Transitions Research Unit will be held at the University of Liège, Belgium. This event is being organised in partnership with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CeMaRS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and the Institute for Reformation History (IHR, University of Geneva). This edition focuses on collection and compilation practices. The chronological boundaries for this Call for Papers are those explored by Transitions (i.e. the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period).

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• 02 Apr 2024

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Asia

  Revue « Moussons. Recherches en sciences humaines sur l’Asie du Sud-Est » – Varia 2024

  Academic journal Moussons focuses on Southeast Asia (island and mainland) and its Indian and Chinese margins. As comparative and interdisciplinary journal, it covers all the human and social sciences, with a particular focus on anthropology, sociology and contemporary history. Moussons is published twice yearly, in French and English, and includes articles, research notes and book reviews.

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• 15 Mar 2024

  Paris

  Call for tender - Sociology

  “Observatoire national de la protection de l’enfance” (ONPE) - call for research projects in child protection 2024

  L’Observatoire national de la protection de l’enfance (ONPE) propose comme chaque année un appel à projets de recherche ouvert aux équipes de recherche de toutes les disciplines concernées par les phénomènes de maltraitance et/ou de mise en danger des mineurs ainsi que les effets des mesures de protection et d’éducation mises en œuvre. Cet appel à projets ouvert 2024 a pour objectif de développer l’étude de questions émergentes dès lors que leur approfondissement peut contribuer à éclairer l’action des intervenants ou responsables techniques et politiques exerçant dans le champ de la protection de l’enfance, de l'adoption et de l'accès aux origines personnelles.

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• 31 Mar 2024

  Oran

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Memory of the heritage in evolving and changing context and future challenges

  The last several decades have witnessed that memory of heritage has been on top of scientific research, reflection and interpretation and has marked increase in research in relation to cultural heritage, memory and change, and to transformation within the field of heritage studies. It is considered to be the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations, which has been reconstructed in present to make it accessible and beneficial to new generations. Therefore, memory of heritage is an interdisciplinary instrument that plays a significant role in shaping a sense of identity and a source of inspiration for creativity and innovation, but it is also can be a reason of exclusion, or even hostage to political conflicts and ideological debates.

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• 15 Jan 2024

  Lille | Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  The new lives of Greek divinities in Western Europe: Textual and visual figurations from the 14th to the 16th century

  In his famous work, La survivance des dieux antiques, published in 1939, Jean Seznec demonstrated that knowledge of the Greek gods did not disappear during the Middle Ages, and thus challenged the opposition often drawn between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: “Pagan antiquity, far from being ‘reborn’ in 15th-century Italy, survived in medieval culture and art; the gods themselves were not resurrected, for they had never disappeared from the memory and imagination of men. Based on case studies on one or more divinities, the workshops will be devoted to analyses of the multiplicity of representations, interpretations, and uses of these ancient divinities over the three centuries under consideration, by combining permanence and renewal, repetition and variation, continuity and innovation.

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• 15 Dec 2023

  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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• 31 Jan 2024

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Africa

  Writing history in the Maghreb (7th-20th centuries)

  Authors, texts, manuscripts

  Studies in Arab historiography generally focus on the Middle-East marginalizing the North African contribution, with the exception of Ibn Khaldūn. The aim is therefore to highlight the Maghreb intellectual production in offering researchers the opportunity to showcase authors and works of all kinds to renew the history of the Maghreb. The vast chronological framework aims to bring together medievalists, modernists and contemporaneists, all too often separated: while focusing on the intense medieval production, the symposium will be an opportunity to emphasize the continuities of these genres for the modern period and the colonial period, sources which are either understudied or only through French-language sources.

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• 10 Jan 2024

  Aubervilliers | Créteil

  Call for papers - Modern

  Expressing extreme violence: Translations, Verbalisations and Figures of Silence

  The aim of this conference is to shed new light on the study of extreme violence in the 20th century, particularly from a gender perspective, and to discuss our conceptual tools collectively. The conference will study testimonies of extreme violence (colonial violence, gender-based violence, disappearances, torture, mass deaths and genocide) from a multidisciplinary and multilingual perspective. The aim is to examine the conditions which allow words to emerge as well as their corollary, a framework for listening, so that they become audible in a given period and social sphere. The paradox of experiences that are both intimate and collective, unspeakable and yet spoken, taboo and widely documented, is at the core of such reflections.

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• 12 Jan 2024

  Call for papers - Sociology

  In first person

  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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• 08 Jan 2024

  Call for papers - Representation

  Wheat, vines, and olive trees: transformations in the practice and representations of a Mediterranean triad

  Journal “Mutations en Méditerranée” (MeM) issue 2 - 2024

  Imagine Herodotus travelling around the Mediterranean today, more than 2400 years after his voyages. Would he be surprised to see citrus fruits dotting the horizon? Would he be astonished to be served tomatoes? In 1940, Lucien Febvre retraced the evolution of Mediterranean agriculture from this multi-secular perspective. At the time, he may have been dreaming of an ancient Medi- terranean world made up of nothing but wheat, vines and olive trees, even though it was already a hub of global agricultural trade. The Mediterranean has witnessed the evolution of this agricultural and alimentary triad and how it is depicted, alongside the transformation of related practices. The dialectical relationship between the practices and depictions of this triad changed as a result of the climatic, demographic, political and technical upheavals that have marked and continue to trans- form this area. Wheat, vines and olive trees are thus seen as the first step in the study of transfor- mations of social practices and representations in the Mediterranean, at different spatial and tem- poral scales of analysis.

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• 15 Apr 2024

  Call for papers - Language

  Artificial Intelligence and Language and Culture Teaching and Learning

  The democratization of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (from now on AI) software that generates images (Stable Diffusion, Imagen, MidJourney and Dall-E 2), videos (Renderforest, Lumen5 and Moovly), music (MusicLM, Moises) and translations (DeepL) raises questions, in the field of language and culture pedagogy, about teaching and learning practices that have already been transformed by digital technology (design of language teaching material, automation of assessments, digital literacies, etc.). Specific tools for teaching practices and resources are also designed based on AI (Magicschool.ai). This call for papers aims to question such uses both for teaching and learning language, and for pedagogical design and training in the field of language pedagogy.

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• 01 Dec 2023

  Rome

  Study days - History

  Research libraries in Rome (1860-1930): the origins of an exceptional documentary collection

  Comment se sont constituées les collections documentaires exceptionnelles à l’étranger ? Quelle place cette histoire reflète-t-elle de la recherche en histoire, art et histoire de l’art dans l’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle de chacun des pays représentés, entre 1860 et 1930 ? Cette journée d’étude permet de poser le contexte des bibliothèques de recherche installées sur un territoire étranger et de s’intéresser en particulier aux premières décennies de leur fonctionnement, dans un arc chronologique assez large, des années 1830 aux lendemains de la Première Guerre mondiale.

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• 15 Jan 2024

  Mons

  Call for papers - Education

  Theater Practices for Foreign Language Learning in higher education

  Feedback and Theoretical Perspectives, between Body and Text

  This One-Day Conference will bring together feedback from projects and presentations of research about the use of theatrical practices in the teaching and learning of a foreign language (in particular English EFL, French and Spanish) in higher and university education. The focus will be on the link with the bodily dimensions of expression in a foreign language, and on the choice of texts and verbal materials.

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• 15 Apr 2024

  Call for papers - Geography

  The globalized routes of second-hand artefacts. Qualification, valorization, circulation and regulation

  "Géocarrefour" Journal

  Cet appel vise à prolonger les observations de Mathieu Quet à partir de l’étude des circulations des objets de seconde main à des échelles internationales et transnationales, qui soulèvent plusieurs enjeux. Ces objets connaissent, acquièrent ou perdent différents statuts (importation légale, contrebande, contrefaçon), formes (déchets, marchandises…) et valeurs tout le long de leur parcours, et des routes empruntés. Les circulations sont la condition même d’une requalification et valorisation de l’objet, qui ne passe pas seulement d’un marché à un autre mais aussi d’un système normatif et d’évaluation à un autre.

   

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