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• 16 May 2023

  17 May 2023

  Paris 04 Hôtel-de-Ville

  Study days - Psyche

  Memory, Place, and Material Culture

  If remembering and feeling, designing and decision-making are situated as well as embodied processes, then cognition can have material and ecological components. Our mental lives may be partly constituted by places – landscapes, built environments, neighbourhoods – and by artifacts. This workshop examines relations between memory, place, and material culture. Our topics include maps and spatial cognition, tools and devices in wayfinding and memory, mental health and the city, difficult places and historically burdened heritage, and spatial disruptions of memory. Speakers draw on evidence from archaeology, architecture, art, neuroscience, performance, philosophy, and sociology, opening up new questions about the nature of bodily and affective orientation as people navigate places and the past together.

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• 28 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Middle Ages

  Directeur/trice du département d’histoire médiévale de l’Institut historique allemand

  L’Institut historique allemand recrute pour le 1^er octobre 2023 ou une date fixée d’un commun accord un chercheur ou une chercheuse comme directeur ou directrice du département d’histoire médiévale. Il s’agit d’un poste à visée de qualification, qui permet l’achèvement d’un projet de recherche, d’une durée de trois ans avec la possibilité de prolonger jusqu’à un maximum de cinq ans.

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• 31 May 2023

  Trois-Rivières

  Miscellaneous information - Sociology

  Lifelogging research project

  Participants wanted

  For a research project on lifelogging conducted at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) by Emmanuelle Caccamo (Professor, Department of Letters and Social Communication, UQTR) and Karine Bellerive (Postdoctoral researcher), participants are wanted for an academic study about lifelogging.

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• 31 Jul 2023

  Cape Town

  Call for papers - Africa

  Tinabantu - Journal of Advanced Studies of African Society - Varia

  The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) was established in 1997 by its founding director, professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah, and incorporated to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in 2018 within the University’s Department of Linguistics, Arts and Humanities Faculty. This call for papers comes within the resurrection of the journal, which will remain “Africanist in orientation” and a “forum for the consideration of diverse views, ideas and opinions reflecting differing philosophical and political dispositions, but committed to the maintenance of high intellectual standards and a recognition of the historical and cultural unity of Africa and its diaspora”.

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• 08 May 2023

  Call for papers - Economy

  Integrating Intelligence and Sustainability in Supply Chains

  This book offers a research guide to sustainable and smart supply chains. It is useful for graduate studies in business, management, industrial engineering and industrial ecology. It should also unite researchers in the broader field of sustainable and smart supply chains, whether from the operations management side or from the industrial ecology, industrial strategy, operations management, risk management, and life cycle assessment side. Finding effective solutions for a sustainable and intelligent supply chain is increasingly important for managers. This book aims to provide students and practitioners with an overview of such issues, based on the latest academic research.

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• 12 May 2023

  Bologna

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Geografia e storia di un mito. Traiettorie romanze della Historia de Preliis di Alessandro Magno tra XIII e XV secolo

  Cette journée d’étude internationale est consacrée à l’Historia de preelis Alexandri Magni et à sa fortune dans les littératures européennes. L’Historia de preliis est un texte de première importance pour la littérature européenne du Moyen Âge et de l’époque moderne. Les présentations de la journée d’étude dresseront le profil de la diffusion et de la fortune de ce texte capital en Europe (notamment en Italie, en France et en Espagne) entre le XIII^e et le XV^e siècles.

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• 12 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  New Approaches to Sculpture

  10th Symposium for Young Researchers in Sculpture

  Considered more challenging than painting or transversal themes of study, sculpture has nevertheless undergone a revival within the realm of research (notably monographic studies), often thanks to the dynamism of museums. For the past decade, the Musée Rodin has sought to encourage young researchers to explore modern-era sculpture (particularly from the 19^th and the first half of the 20^th centuries), in collaboration with professors specialised in this realm of research. To this end, the museum hosts an annual symposium, allowing PhD students, young doctorate holders and young curators to contrast and compare their subjects and perspectives.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Representation

  Comics and ecopolitics

  “Comicalités” journal

  As awareness of climate emergency and the sixth mass extinction has permeated the mainstream in recent years, there has been an explosion of environmentally themed comics, in the context of a broader trend in cultural productions and debates. This special issue invites considerations of comics’ ecopolitical potential.

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• 31 Jul 2023

  Call for papers - Language

  Afro Literature Conference

  Cuando decidimos abordar el estudio de la “literatura africana”, nos enfrentamos a una serie de problemas, en tanto campo complejo de tensiones, de núcleos constitutivos, de perspectivas, inherentes a toda etiqueta formada por la palabra literatura y un gentilicio. Una dificultad no menor la encontramos en los planes de estudios de las carreras de Letras en Argentina cuyo “patrón cognitivo” (Quijano 2017) aún persiste dentro de los rasgos de un patrón de poder fundado en la colonialidad: el centro no ha sido del todo desplazado, para decirlo con wa Thiong’o (2014).  El eurocentrismo académico en nuestro país perdura en el escaso interés que el pensamiento africano y afrodiaspórico ocupa en las carreras de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, con destacadas excepciones siempre individuales o colectivas pero rara vez institucionale.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Cape Town

  Call for papers - Language

  The Choice/Voice of Cooperation in the Post-pandemic World

  8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses

  The successes of the past seven rounds of the International Conference on Multicultural Discourses held in China, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Romania, respectively, have consolidated the position of Cultural Discourse Studies in the social sciences. Mankind is witnessing yet again the centennial moment of global transformation and the world is ridden with grave challenges and great opportunities. To answer to these uncertain winds of change, scholars from diverse fields such as communication, media, language, literature, culture, history, international relations, etc. are invited to offer their insights during the 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Zaragoza

  Call for papers - History

  Religion in movement. New perspectives in the study of religious History

  While the role of the Catholic Church under the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the Dictatorship (1939-1975) remain one of the most bitterly contested aspects in public and academic debates, in recent years, the study of religious history has become an increasingly respected as an expanding field of research in Spanish historiography. The foundation of the Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea (AEHRC - Spanish Association of Contemporary Religious History) in 2016 has greatly contributed to this development. The present conference aims to celebrate and continue these efforts. For this reason, the AEHRC would like to invite researchers to join us in the prospect of advancing the state of the art in our field by a) critically evaluating the successes and limitations of current and new perspectives in the study of contemporary religious history; and, in particular, b) by reassessing the processes of secularisation and religious reconfiguration that have shaped the Spanish and Hispanic cases.

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• 12 May 2023

  Mainz

  Call for papers - Representation

  Parties - Corps

  Microformes de l’organique dans la littérature, l’art et le cinéma de l’époque moderne à nos jours

  L’objectif du colloque, en tant que lieu de rencontre d’approches théoriques et pratiques, est de retracer la naissance et l’évolution des représentations corporelles contemporaines à l’échelle du microscopique, et d’interroger les microformes de l’organique dans une perspective interdisciplinaire et spécifique aux médias. Dans la déconstruction du corps en tant que totalité, ses composantes visibles et invisibles, internes et externes, matérielles et immatérielles, sont explorées, spécifique à la forme médiale, en tant qu’espaces de signification. D’autre part, l’intégration ciblée de contributions artistiques, non seulement dans le sens d’un travail artistique autonome, mais aussi en tant que recherche artistique, permet aux participants de faire l’expérience sensorielle du corps en tant que matérialité.

   

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• 05 Apr 2023

  La Plaine-Saint-Denis

  Study days - History

  Moguls, Go-betweens and Smugglers: Film Distributors and their Networks during the Twentieth Century

  This workshop aims at revisiting the history of film importers/exporters and distributors throughout the 20^th century by examining the social inscription of their trade. Moguls, go-betweens and/or smugglers, film traders were main actors in determining the value of films, building film markets, bringing out audiences by giving them (or not) access to the films. Yet, the history of cinema has long ignored the figure of the distributor, too bland to obscure the ethereal figure of the author, too close to the limelight to interest those, less numerous, researching “those wonderful people out there in the dark,” the audience.

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• 09 Jun 2023

  10 Jun 2023

  Toulouse

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Empirical Legal Research: a state of knowledge across Europe

  The objective of this conference is to produce a state of knowledge on the development of empirical legal research at the European level. First, it will trace the first elements of the development of these methods, highlight the main trends and elucidate the possible theoretical foundations. The conference will then map the use of empirical methods in the different legal disciplines across Europe before deepening this analysis in the field of environmental law.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Madrid

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  En femenino. Arte y mujeres en la Edad Media

  XVI Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval

  In its sixteenth edition, the Conference will be devoted to highlighting the role of Women in medieval artistic creation. This role will be understood in the broadest possible way: from patronage to creation and reception, as a channel for power strategies, a transmitter of science or a generator of specific iconographic types, regardless of their active or passive role in all this creative dynamic. Women and Gender will serve as the priority vectors to articulate the scientific content of Conference sessions.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Castelo de Vide

  Call for papers - History

  Religions in Medieval Urban Europe

  The subject of religiosity in the medieval urban world encompasses a great multiplicity of themes which readily mingle the Christian, Islamic and Jewish worlds in seeking to understand how religion shaped the way in which the civic space was constructed and understood, the powers that converged in it, and the rituals and practices that guided the daily lives of inhabitants. Accordingly, this year (2023), the Institute of Medieval Studies (FCSH; Nova University, Lisbon) and the City Council of Castelo de Vide will host the VIII International Conference on the Middle Ages, entitled: Religions in Medieval Urban Europe. With a focus on Christian, Islamic and Jewish Europe, researchers from any scientific discipline (History, Archaeology, History of the Art, Literature, among others) are invited to present proposals for sessions and/or individual presentations.

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• 31 May 2023

  Maroua

  Call for papers - Modern

  Languages, literatures and peace building

  Guaranteeing a peaceful climate in a restricted or relatively large space is a challenge, which is why it is almost impossible to list in an exhaustive manner the mechanisms likely to maintain harmony between humans and/or between Nations, as these means are sometimes beyond suspicion. At the same time, it would be tedious to want to list the factors likely to break the tranquility, the state of cohesion, and to generate misunderstandings, conflicts of various kinds and, finally, war. So, how can linguistics and linguistic dynamics (in all forms and manifestations, including literature) be at the origin of social/interhuman, inter-intra-community, inter-State, inter-religious tensions...? And, how could they resolve the said crises and conflict situations? Which linguistic dynamics emerge from these? This is the challenge of this project. 

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Basel

  Call for papers - Representation

  Tasting Funny?

  Jokes can be tasty, cheesy, crusty, corny, sour, saucy, stale, canned, elaborate. Moreover, humour can demonstrate good or bad taste. What is there to understand from this affinity between humour and food metaphors? The international conference “Tasting Funny?” will examine this question. We welcome papers on any humorous cultural production (literature, music, film, graphic arts, sculpture, architecture, design, fashion, advertisement, etc.), from any time period or language area. We also welcome papers on the translatability of jokes, whether food-related jokes or ones that would be unequally tasteful in different cultures.

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• 01 Apr 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The musicians’ activity - work, training and health

  “Laboreal” Journal

  The characteristics of the activities that fall under the economic sector of music show a huge variety of places, schedules and work conditions, in addition to the informality of work contracts for a vast majority of musicians. Obviously, these factors interfere with the activity of preparation for music performance, with study habits, and most likely with public performance. In spite of that, the attention given to research and intervention regarding this category of workers is clearly scarce and there is not enough research to investigate the various aspects linked to performing music activities -- training, teaching and study practices, professional performance. Laboreal makes room for papers interested in the musicians’ activity, and invites researchers involved in these issues to contribute to the publication of this number.

   

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Sigerist Prize for the History of Medicine and Science, 2023

  The Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science invites applications for the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the promotion of young scholars in the history of medicine and science.

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