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2026

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Scandal in Italian Society (1350-1530): norms, transgressions, and representations

Cahiers d’études italiennes

This thematic issue of Cahiers d’études italiennes aims to examine both the polysemy and social functions of scandal in Italy in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance (1350-1530), combining approaches from history, literature, art history, political philosophy, and law. Contributions will focus primarily on Italian society, but contributions addressing cases of scandal related to Italy or Italian personalities are also welcome.

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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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Montpellier

Call for papers - Sociology

Auteur hybride et poétiques de l’algorithme

Écritures et créativité dans l’Italie contemporaine

L’évolution des technologies numériques et de l’intelligence artificielle générative transforme profondément l’écosystème culturel italien, où les pratiques artistiques et littéraires intègrent de plus en plus des logiques transmédiales, algorithmiques et réticulaires. Cette convergence entre humain, machine et plateformes fait émerger de nouvelles figures comme « l’auteur hybride » et le « lecteur hybride », remettant en question la créativité, l’intentionnalité et la responsabilité dans l’acte artistique. La technologie n’est plus seulement un support, mais un véritable agent qui modifie des catégories fondamentales telles que auteur, œuvre et lecture, ouvrant ainsi des scénarios inédits pour la critique et la production contemporaines.

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Milan

Call for papers - History

Rassegna di Studi e Notizie

This call for proposals invites scholars and researchers to submit original contributions focusing on the Castello Sforzesco or the artworks preserved in its collections.

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Nice

Call for papers - Language

Pia Pera: An Archipelago of Writings

Ten years after the death of the writer Pia Pera (1956–2016), the aim of this full-day workshop is to explore her entire body of work in depth for the first time. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, we aim to restore the diversity of her writing and highlight its place in the Italian literary landscape. Her work anticipated issues that we consider essential today, and she was a complex, protean and unique figure.

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Florence

Call for papers - Religion

François et la France

Au cours de l’histoire, la figure de saint François d’Assise a connu en France des fortunes diverses. Au XIIIᵉ siècle, lors de la querelle entre réguliers et séculiers, les frères mineurs surent s’imposer dans les universités et occupèrent d’importantes chaires de théologie à la Faculté de Paris. Si saint François est, en Italie, à l’origine d’une nouvelle langue poétique et d’un nouveau langage figuratif, quel est son héritage linguistique et poétique, mais aussi spirituel et philosophique, en France ?

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Turin

Call for papers - History

“Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya

The trilingual conference “Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya seeks to address a still relatively unexplored topic: the study of Italian communities abroad, with particular attention to the Mediterranean world in the period between national unification (1861) and the occupation of Libya (1911). At the core of this reflection lies the close, and not merely chronological, relationship between the migratory dynamics that characterized the early decades of unified Italy and the rise of colonial expansionism. The seminar therefore aims to investigate this connection through the specific lens offered by the Italian presence in North Africa and in the Ottoman Empire before the occupation of Libya.

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Call for papers - Language

Plurilingualism and the circulation of knowledge, imaginations, and skills

What are the dynamics and vulnerabilities?

In L’économie du XX^e siècle (The Economy of the 20th Century), François Perroux stated that “we do not have a comprehensive, coherent and usable theory of what I propose to call the ’domination effect’” Why talk about relations of domination when we are dealing with the circulation of knowledge, imaginaries, and skills in relation to linguistic diversity? When there is circulation, movement, transfer, there are differences in level, which means that knowledge, imaginations and skills do not emerge everywhere at the same time and in the same way, giving rise to differences, imbalances and potential conflicts.

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Naples

Call for papers - Religion

Gastronomie, langage et marketing : discours de marque et communication sociale dans l’agroalimentaire

La journée d'étude « Gastronomie, langage et marketing : discours de marque et communication sociale dans l’agroalimentaire » vise à explorer les interactions entre la linguistique, le marketing et la communication sociale pour analyser comment le discours gastronomique façonne les identités, influence les comportements des consommateurs et se laisse façonner par ces derniers. Le colloque part du principe que les pratiques culinaires sont devenues une forme de communication complexe, porteuse de significations culturelles, économiques et identitaires.

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Bergamo

Call for papers - Representation

Re-creating Palestine : Trauma, Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Artistic Production in/on Palestine

This international conference aims to explore the central role of culture and art in the reconstruction and regeneration of the social fabric, through a reinterpretation of trauma as a driver of creation and preservation of cultural memory and as a form of resistance to the politics of erasure. We encourage papers dealing with the interconnections between trauma, memory and resistance in multiple artistic languages to highlight the role of art in reinterpreting trauma, making it a source of memory and thus a basis for social change. The focus will be on the artistic production, especially during the 21st century, created by Palestinian artists about Palestine, including those in the diaspora.

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Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Prix Bergier 2026

IAAH “Jean-François Bergier” Prize for research in Alpine History (2026)

The Prix Bergier is promoted and awarded by the International Association for Alpine History (IAAH), in memory of Jean-François Bergier, the scholar who promoted and co-founded the Association. It is awarded every two years and aims to promote research by young scholars on the history of the Alps - and European mountain areas in general.

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Fribourg

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Telling and Thinking Marginality in the Middle Ages

Jeunes Chercheur·euses Médiévistes (JCM)

The annual Study Days organized by the Jeunes Chercheur·euses Médiévistes (JCM) will be held this year on the 12th and 13th of March 2026 at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, the conference will be devoted to the theme of marginality in the Middle Ages.

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Rome

Call for papers - History

Diplomatic Gifts in the Modern and Contemporary Eras

Definitions, Changes, and Patrimonialisation on a Global Scale

Considering the long history of diplomatic relations, the conference aims above all to fully analyse the evolving agency of gifts, from the strengthening of princely dynastic alliances to the consolidation of nation states, as well as the way in which the objects offered construct and potentially reconfigure links. How do these objects fit into a policy of gift-giving, whether serial or renewed over time? According to what rituals must these witnesses, which seal the agreement, themselves reactivate the alliance (counter-gift, reconnection journey, etc.)? How are they perceived and understood a few years after they were offered, and when they become part of discourses on patrimonialisation, especially in places dedicated to their collective conservation, which are themselves, in turn, active tools?

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Call for papers - Modern

We don’t need no education. The Education of the Artist and for the Artist from 1900 to the Present

“Senzacornice Journal. Studies on the Contemporary Art System”

We are pleased to announce the new call for papers for the second issue of the new series of Senzacornice Journal. Studies on the Contemporary Art System, on the theme We don't need no education. The Education of the Artist and for the Artist from 1900 to the Present, edited by Raffaele Bedarida. This issue explores the histories, theories, and practices related to the formation of the artist's role in the contemporary context, both nationally and internationally. It investigates the spaces, methods, and networks of relationships and knowledge shaped through official and unofficial channels of artistic practice transmission.

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Call for papers - Europe

The Environment at the Summit

Actors and representations of the safeguard of nature in mountain areas: a global perspective (late 18th – early 21st century)

The aim of this international scientific conference is to examine the progressive integration of the environmental protection theme into the several mountain ranges of the Earth, between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 21st century, concluding in 2022, the International Year of Mountains. By selecting a global perspective, it encourages a decentring of observation points, which in turn brings to light not only the diversity of trajectories but also the possible (direct or indirect) circulation of knowledge, materials, practices and individuals in the different mountain ranges.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

La volontà di sapere | The Will to Knowledge

“Vesper. Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory” No. 14,

Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the threshold of a biopolitical modernity. Here, the ‘will to knowledge’ is not the subject’s drive for research, but the injunction to bring into the field of knowledge-power those borderline domains of life that had been previously excluded from it: death, birth, sexuality. This process of the adherence of knowledge to bodies entirely invests our time and urges us to reflect on the figures of the ‘will to knowledge’ in the new millennium.

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Grenoble

Call for papers - History

Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (1960s to the Present): Internationalisation, Circulation and Representations

The aim of this conference is to examine the modalities and consequences of terrorist action, as well as the interweaving of anti-terrorist practices (public policies, legal frameworks, prevention) and counter-terrorist practices (operational, military or police actions) aimed at containing terrorism in societies which are not engaged in international warfare. The aim of this conference is to analyse the ways in which anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism have mutually redefined each other, while constantly reconfiguring the boundaries of political, military, police and legal interventions across the European continent from the second half of the 20th century onwards.In addition to this political and institutional approach, the conference will also look into the representations, as well as the social and media effects of these phenomena.

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

“Condition humaine / conditions politiques” Journal - Call for Special Issues and Papers

Revue internationale d’anthropologie du politique

Condition humaine / conditions politiques invites submissions for special issues within the field of political anthropology. For its Varia section, the journal is open to receiving substantial articles (ranging from 25,000 to 40,000 characters) covering a diverse array of topics, issues, or themes pertinent to political anthropology.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

La commedia dell’arte, entre individus et fraternal compagnie

Le colloque propose d’interroger cette dynamique fondatrice, en portant une attention particulière à la manière dont elle a contribué à façonner l’évolution du théâtre professionnel, ses formes organisationnelles, ses langages et sa réception culturelle. L’objectif est d’utiliser cette thématique comme une lentille d’observation pour éclairer différents phénomènes liés à l’univers de la commedia dell’arte, depuis sa naissance, au milieu du XVI^e siècle, jusqu’à la fin du XVII^e, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire (études italiennes, linguistique, études théâtrales).

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Poitiers

Call for papers - Political studies

Democracy at the University

Principles, Practices, and Challenges in a Globalized World

This conference aims to explore democracy in the university as a principle, a value, and a practice, both in France and internationally. It is structured around two parts – national and then comparative – and two thematic axes: on the one hand, the exercise of democracy within institutional structures (governance, elections, widened access, reforms); on the other hand, non-institutional forms (student mobilizations, participatory democracy, academic freedoms). The goal is to analyze the issues, actors, and democratic dynamics in a globalized university context.

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