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• 27 Nov 2023

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  François Hotman

  Un homme d’action, entre droit, histoire et théologie

  François Hotman (1524-1590) was born five hundred years ago. To mark the occasion, we thought it a good idea to dedicate to him an international conference in Geneva on November 21-22, 2024. A famous Calvinist jurisconsult, a virulent pamphleteer and a political thinker who is now part of the European philosophical tradition, Hotman remains a figure whom research only embraces through a few major works that receive recurring scrutiny. In reality, his writings as a humanist and jurist, his international correspondence, his connections with the most important Protestant theologians of the century, and his family of Ligue and royal officers are all objects of study that call for a re-problematisation of our interpretation of this dominant figure in Calvinist legal thought.

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• 15 Nov 2023

  Liège

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Migrant work in the age of capitalism: insertions, daily life and professional sociability

  Panel - Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD) Conference 2024

  This panel examines the meanings of work for migrants and people in mobility in a capitalist context. On the one hand, it will analyse the insertion processes and experiences of mobile people in the worlds of work (and labour markets), On the other hand, it will look at the mechanisms and actors involved in migrants’ professional integration, particularly in the South. How do migrants generate income in transit places or destinations, how do they live their daily work lives, and what are the social and power relations they are confronted with?

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• 10 Nov 2023

  Reims

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Thinking and acting with time in urban planning: what developments?

  Urbatime Conference

  The aim of this symposium is to examine contemporary temporal evolutions in the fields of urban planning and development. It is part of the “UrbaTime. Les temps de l’urbanisme durable” research program (2018-2024), which offers a cross-disciplinary analysis of various contemporary urban planning concepts based on the short-term and the temporary, proposing a new way of thinking about the relationship between planning and time, and whose main results will be presented during the conference.

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• 19 Oct 2023

  20 Oct 2023

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - History

  Emotions, masculinities, and violence from the Middle Ages to the present

  This conference proposes to question the evolution of violence over the long term. The articulation between masculinities, violence and emotions adopts different forms and stakes according to the historical context in which it occurred. Thus, the symposium will seeks to highlight the cultural stakes and the specific imaginary, as violence is defined in variable ways depending on historical, geographical, and discursive contexts. Therefore, the first objective will be to address the problem of sources: their production varied according to the aeras, which impacts the representation of the relationship between violence, gender and emotions.

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• 15 Nov 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  The precious object: a total social fact?

  The international symposium “The precious object: a total social fact? [L'objet précieux: un fait social total?]” (INHA, April 25 and 26, 2024) invites researchers from all fields of the social sciences, from anthropology to economics, from philosophy to sociology, from the history of the arts to that of the techniques and work, to examine the precious object, and jewelry in particular, especially through the prism of value and creation. This initiative, part of a wider EHESS-Cartier collaboration, aims to stimulate a wide-ranging reflection on this interdisciplinary theme par excellence.

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• 12 Feb 2024

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Documenting and Conserving Postmodern Heritage

  “Les Cahiers : Journal for the Study of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape”

  Les Cahiers: Journal for the Study of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape (Craup) launches its 21^st thematic dossier “Documenting and Conserving Postmodern Heritage”. This call for papers invites exploration of postmodern design —whether architectural, urban or landscape— produced anywhere in the world between 1966 and 1989, and currently undergoing processes of identification, heritagization or transformation. Some questions that may be explored are methods for identifying and promoting heritage, the specific features of these projects and the (new) heritage values associated with them, as well as their material and symbolic sustainability. International comparisons or overviews of ongoing heritage projects in specific political and cultural contexts are welcomed.

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• 15 Nov 2023

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Doctoral school : Political anthropology of gender relations

  The Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Prospective (UCLouvain) organizes an international symposium entitled “Political anthropology of gender relations”. Based on a variety of ethnographic works, the conference aims to highlight contemporary research dealing with gender-related issues, particularly within the perspective of feminist theories and epistemologies. It will be organized around three thematic axes: Feminist and decolonial anthropology of capitalism, Feminist anthropology of and by bodies and anthropology of feminist, queer and anti-gender struggles.

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• 01 Dec 2023

  Toulouse

  Call for papers - History

  Sweat and Dust

  An environmental history of work and labour

  The Réseau universitaire de chercheurs et chercheuses en histoire environnementale (RUCHE, French-speaking network in environmental history, founded in 2009) and the Association française pour l’histoire des mondes du travail (AFHMT, French network for work and labour history, founded in 2013), organize this international joint conference, which aims to put this interdependence into historical perspective. Its ambition is, on the one hand, to contribute to a stronger dialogue between these two major historiographical fields (work/labour and the environment) and, on the other hand, to bring back on the agenda the long-standing but yet unachieved project of an environmental history of work.

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• 01 Dec 2023

  Saint-Étienne

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Methodological approaches to gender and heteronormativity in sources

  This seminar and its upcoming publication under different formats aim at questioning the role played by gender studies in the analysis of the sources used by researchers, while also interrogating the scientific methods used to comprehend the said sources (whether they be archival, legal, literary, iconographic or ethnographic sources). The goal of this seminar is to confront the different methodological approaches of gender that researchers may have in the sources they use, through the lens of heteronormativity.

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• 20 Oct 2023

  Call for papers - Modern

  Stage and Plate: Eating and Starving in European Drama and Theatres (16th-19th century)

  Revue « European Drama and Performance Studies »

  Évoquer la nourriture et son pendant, la faim, nécessite une approche plurielle pour comprendre le rôle, la consommation et l’envie de nourriture sur scène et hors scène, de la Renaissance à la Belle-Époque. Il s’agit d’examiner sa préparation et sa présence dans les théâtres, sa représentation et son idéalisation, les rituels et l’étiquette qui lui sont associés, et d’explorer des sujets interdépendants tels que les habitudes alimentaires, le poids et le corps. Comment la nourriture ou la faim sont-elles représentées sur scène ? Dans quelle mesure la nourriture reflète-t-elle les habitudes sociales et les activités de loisirs, met-elle en avant les plats à la mode ou les nouveaux produits sur le marché ? Comment les dramaturges et les acteurs utilisent-ils la nourriture ou son absence à travers des expressions verbales, des personnages ou des actions scéniques ?

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• 15 Nov 2023

  Liège

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Consultants seen through the lens of employment, market and production

  More and more “international” and “national” consultants are involved in the production of public policy under “aid regime”. However, there is still little research on this broad and heterogeneous category of professionals. At the crossroads of the sociology of work, of professions and professional groups, the sociology of markets and the sociology of public action, this panel seeks to analyse how the marketing of development expertise is transforming the market for skilled labour, government services and the production of public action in aid societies.

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• 15 Oct 2023

  Sousse

  Call for papers - Education

  Les défis de la formation des enseignants et de leur insertion professionnelle : approches comparatives

  International Citizen Forum for Education

  La quatrième édition du Forum citoyen international de l’éducation s’intéresse particulièrement à l’un des acteurs clés des systèmes éducatifs, l’enseignant. Étant donné le rôle complexe des enseignants et les répercussions majeures de leur travail sur l’avenir de la société, une formation adéquate est indispensable. Il paraît judicieux et nécessaire de réfléchir aux défis de la formation initiale et continue dans le but d’assurer aux apprenants une éducation qui tient compte de la diversité et des inégalités ainsi que des avancées numériques. Le forum s’attarde aussi sur les pratiques enseignantes, l’insertion professionnelle et les conditions d’exercice du travail enseignant, de même que sur les enjeux de gouvernance et leurs impacts sur la réussite éducative.

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• 30 Oct 2023

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The sacred, the spiritual and the religious in contemporary global societies

  Nakan, a learned society, is organising an international online Study day on Thursday 14 December 2023 at the Université des Antilles, entitled Le sacré, le spirituel et le religieux dans les sociétés globales contemporaines (The sacred, the spiritual and the religious in contemporary global societies). The aim is to examine the relationship that the Western man has today with the notions of the sacred, the spiritual and the religious, and to reassess the scope of the terms in question, in the light of literature, art, philosophy, anthropology, the sciences, the arts and cultural practices, etc. What status do these concepts hold in collective representations and imaginations? What is their semantic and semiological significance? What is their relationship with the notions of syncretism and supersyncretism? All these questions deserve to be rethought and discussed at a time of major paradigm shifts in Western societies.

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• 24 Oct 2023

  25 Oct 2023

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - History

  Time and Justice, Timing Justice

  Early modern and contemporary times, Europe and Americas

  Recent sociological research has emphasised the centrality of time as a key issue in the legitimacy and functioning of the judicial establishment. However, little research has been conducted by historians regarding the connection between justice and time. The purpose of this conference is to provide a comprehensive overview of the relationship between justice and time over the course of several centuries, in order to contextualise the current acceleration of justice. The aim is to examine how justice shapes its temporalities and their connection to other social temporalities. This questioning takes as its framework Europe and the Americas in the modern and contemporary periods, in order to compare different spaces, contexts and legal cultures.

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• 20 Sep 2023

  Agadir

  Conference, symposium - Economy

  Sustainable transition of organizations and communities: challenges and perspectives

  Transitioning towards sustainability concerns all organisations, private and public, large and small. For businesses, climate change represents a cost. The growing pressure on natural resources is likely to exacerbate supply difficulties, as is the case with the issue of access to water, which is threatening farming activities in the Mediterranean region, particularly in Morocco. The aim of this symposium is to launch a global debate on how to better understand sustainable transition, based on a participatory approach involving a range of stakeholders : businesses, local authorities, governments, institutions, associations, scientists and experts, right down to ordinary citizens. It is also an opportunity to look more closely at the challenges and prospects of sustainable transition in different sectors (transport, tourism, energy, agriculture, etc.).

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• 31 Oct 2023

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Housing: Global Crisis, Seeking justice

  The aim of this international conference orgnanised by the Collectif de recherche et d’action sur l’habitat (CRACH) is to think about the housing crisis in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, using a variety of case studies to share knowledge and strategies for mobilization and struggle. Addressed as much to academic circles as to activist groups, this call aims to contribute to a collective reflection on the housing crisis and the capitalist logics that fuel it, resulting in an unprecedented increase in evictions and housing costs.

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• 05 Oct 2023

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  “Voces”. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words

  Expressing and Performing Emotions

  Medieval society is inextricably linked to the words that shaped the existence at that time, both spoken and written. It was through these words that the men and women of the Middle Ages shared their beliefs, ideas and experiences. Words were used to share knowledge and preach the Gospel, but also to stigmatise the Other, exclude heterodoxy or call for war. Mastering the meaning of words was one of the main ways of retaining power, appropriating wealth or controlling access to knowledge. This could lead to verbal jousting, or even real conflict. The conference "Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words" aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important rolein the medieval culture. Every two years we propose to focus on a different major medieval concept and its linguistic expressions.

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• 30 Sep 2023

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Language

  Language memoirs and linguistic autobiographies: the multilingual subject’s self-narrative in comparative literature today

  This seminar seeks to explore whether self-narratives dealing with multilingualism are likely to challenge the heuristic foundations of comparative studies. If ‘multilingual subjects’ (Kramsch 2006) are capable of negotiating their own literary identity beyond any attachment to a specific national literature and language, what does this imply for the representation of multiculturalism in the arts and what is left to compare at the individual level ? To what extent do multilingual autobiographers, by embracing several linguistic and cultural areas in their own life narrative, contribute to the reflective, transcultural stance comparative studies often seek to adopt ?

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• 01 Jan 2024

  Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Vengeance: Mediterranean Perspectives

  “Confluences Méditerranée” Journal

  The theme of revenge, despite its spectacular and fascinating echoes, as well as its omnipresence throughout history, literature and the socio-political and economic trajectory of the entire Mediterranean region, has often only been the subject of fragmented and relatively scattered studies. In the collective unconscious, this lack of interest no doubt reflects a form of resistance to tackling a subject that is synonymous with the darkest and most negative facets of humanity. This issue of Confluences Méditerranée aims to explore this key and under-researched issue, drawing on a wide range of multidisciplinary contributions.

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• 28 Sep 2023

  29 Sep 2023

  Tours

  Conference, symposium - History

  Living through the Revolution

  Housing, property and citizenship (18th-21th centuries)

  L’objectif de ces journées est d’étudier la citadinité révolutionnaire, afin de nourrir la réflexion sur une série de notions connexes : habitat / logement / propriété. Chacune de ces notions renvoie à des rapports sociaux structurés par une série d’oppositions (sédentaires et nomades, propriétaires et locataires, résidence recensée et logement clandestin, logés et mal-logés) et à un spectre large de pratiques plus ou moins normées ou alternatives. Intégrer ces différents termes, étudier leurs variations, permettra non seulement de revenir sur les apports de différentes disciplines des sciences sociales, mais aussi d’être attentif aux variations des sources en fonction des contextes révolutionnaires.

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