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• 02 May 2023

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

  Call to researchers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2023-2024)

  La Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) lance la nouvelle édition de son appel à chercheur·es, afin de s’associer le concours de jeunes chercheur·es intéressé·es par l’étude de ses collections et de son histoire. La richesse exceptionnelle autant que l’ampleur de ces collections permettent d’explorer des sources inédites ou méconnues dans toutes les disciplines. Le statut de chercheur·e associé·e BnF offre une relation privilégiée à la bibliothèque, à travers un accueil au cœur de ses départements et de ses collections. En plus des avantages offerts à l’ensemble des chercheur·es associé·es, la BnF propose cette année trois bourses de recherche sur des domaines spécifiques : la photographie, les humanités numériques et l’histoire de la Bibliothèque et de ses collections.

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• 15 Apr 2023

  Reims

  Call for papers - Language

  Hieros, Hierophania, Hieroglossia

  Visions, Voices, Signs, Signification

  The organisers of the HHH-2023 conference invite paper proposals from their colleagues in the Human Sciences who can elucidate for their peers the hermeneutical and semiotic principles which were operative in the ideas that peoples in earlier times and in non-Western cultures entertained about the languages they spoke. We are particularly interested in proposals which investigate the belief that, in one guise or another, language is “a gift from the Gods to men”.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Europe

  Europe’s devices, European devices?

  Observatoire des discours de/sur l’Europe

  After five successful international conferences (Besançon 2013, Brussels 2015, Turin 2017, Bucharest 2019 and Cyprus 2021), the Observatory of Discourses of/about Europe launches its sixth call for papers. This year, the conference aims to explore the discursive construction of Europe through the devices that make it exist, whether they tend to promote it or, on the contrary, seek to distance themselves from it or even to question it. The main aim is to continue to forge an international and interdisciplinary space for discussion on the ways in which the link between discourses on/in Europe and the approach(es) in terms of device(s) can be theoretically addressed and empirically analysed.

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• 17 Mar 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Religion and political scientists

  A socio-historical look on “inconvenient” objects in the discipline

  The purpose of this workshop is to revisit the question of “religion” in political science, by assessing the ways in which the discipline has dealt with it (separately from debates about its definitions) over the past forty years. We wish to further discussions that were initiated in sociology (Lambert, Michelat, and Piette 1997; Béraud, Duriez, and Gasquet 2018) and developed more recently in political science (Jouanneau and Raison du Cleuziou 2012; Frégosi and Silhol 2017), towards a simultaneously epistemological and empirical work on the legitimacy and blind spots with such objects (Altglas and Wood 2018).

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• 10 Mar 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Studying Demands for State

  From Practical Tensions to Generalised Crises

  This study day intends to interrogate the notion of “demand for state” in different fields and from different social sciences disciplines such as sociology, history and political sciences. By “demand for State” we mean the process by which social groups come to invoke a certain ideal of the state through criticism, demands and reflexive practices. We will pay attention to the different levels at which these demands for state manifest themselves: in the practical tensions and daily affairs of social groups, in the formulation of a critique of the State in intergroup conflict, in the formation of public controversies leading to state reforms, and finally in political crises related to struggles for the state.

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• 15 May 2023

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Visionary Drawing and its Knowledge: Orients

  As the “Orient” became a central object of Western knowledge and representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the workshop will examine the way in which visionary drawing took hold of it. It aspires to open up the approach to the visionary drawing in order to comprehend its participation in epistemological and philosophical changes of modern times. It seeks to renew the methods of art history by opening up to the intersecting history of artistic, scientific and political knowledge, which will encourage - beyond the definition of a visual culture - a reflection on their convergences and divergences in terms of images and graphic processes. It will thus focus on the way in which the visionary drawing of the 19th and 20th centuries participates in, or differs from, forms of visual orientalism already well studied in art history.

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• 20 Feb 2023

  Dakar

  Call for papers - History

  Hommage et reconnaissance au professeur Ibrahima Thioub

  Professor Thioub’s rich career has earned him several awards. In recognition of Professor Thioub’s huge service to education, teaching, and research, his former students (some of whom are now his colleagues in Senegal, Africa, Europe, and the United States, while others serve in senior-level positions in the Senegalese administration or in other areas of activity) have decided to organize an international conference to pay tribute to their mentor and honor his influential career as a teacher, a scholar, and a higher education administrator.

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The landscape at its margins

  The recognition of landscape is prepared or accompanied by artistic and scientific initiatives that define landscape differently from the brief definition given by the Dictionary of the French Academy in 1762. Indeed, for the latter, the landscape is an "Extent of country that one sees from a single aspect". However, “extent” cannot sum up landscape painting and this call for papers wishes to investigate the notion of landscape in the 17th and 18th centuries in a different way.

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• 15 Apr 2023

  Tlemcen

  Call for papers - History

  Wars, Carcerality and Colonial Prisons

  (Hi)Story, Testimonies and Representations

  Ce colloque s’inscrit dans la lignée des événements scientifiques organisés en 2015 autour de la thématique des guerres. Cette année, le laboratoire LLC lance une troisième édition qui portera sur « Guerres, carcéralité et prisons coloniales ». Le colloque sera centré sur l’expérience mémorielle / testimoniale et sur les représentations de l’univers pénitentiaire dans le contexte des guerres coloniales et leur impact sur l’incarcération, l’internement, la déportation, l’isolement et les camps de regroupement. Cet événement scientifique a pour ambition d’entrecroiser les réflexions et les recherches sur cette période de l’histoire (fin XIX^e et XX^e siècle) dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire : histoire, sociologie, psychologie, sciences politiques, droit, médias, littérature, sociolinguistique, arts plastiques… s’articulant autour des guerres et l’incarcération coloniale.

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• 07 Apr 2023

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Thought

  Matters of death

  Le colloque « Matières de la mort » souhaite rassembler des chercheur·euses, principalement issu·es des sciences humaines et sociales, mais aussi des pratiques médicales et juridiques, pour interroger les liens contemporains entre la mort et la matérialité. Les cadavres et les charognes, les pratiques mortuaires et les techniques d’embaumement, les aspects matériels du deuil ou de la mort périnatale sont autant d’exemples qui cristallisent l’importance et la complexité de ces liens. Cette rencontre vise ainsi à mettre en lumière ce que le prisme de la matière donne à penser de la mort et des mort·es, et, à rebours, comment la mort et les mort·es rejouent et étoffent la compréhension de la matérialité. Il s’agira en somme de questionner l’inscription des matières de la mort dans la vie des vivant·es.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Information

  Le monde post covid et la communication : état des lieux et perspectives

  Cette première édition du colloque international des sciences de la communication, organisé sous le thème du monde post covid et de la communication se fixe l’objectif d’être un rendez-vous pour les chercheurs afin d’échanger des réflexions scientifiques susceptibles d’apporter des éclaircissements sur l’état des lieux de la communication depuis l’apparition de la pandémie et quelques années auparavant et sur ce qui devrait advenir dans les années qui suivent. L’intérêt sera porté sur la pluralité des visions engagées par les différentes disciplines ayant trait à la communication, notamment les sciences sociales et les sciences humaines et ce pour permettre une lecture diversifiée du vécu.

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• 28 Feb 2023

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Thought

  Configurations of war and resistance in philosophy, literature and other arts

  Até que um dia já não terá sentido o amanhã

  Está aberta a chamada de comunicações para colóquio internacional “Até que um dia já não terá sentido o amanhã”. Configurações da guerra e da resistência em filosofia, na literatura e noutras artes.

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Arras

  Call for papers - History

  Missionary strategies and practices, slavery and forced labour (early 19th-mid 20th century)

  Another discussion on the institutional position of the churches in relation to slavery will be resolutely avoided. What will be analysed is the concrete confrontation —or cohabitation— with slavery. What did missionaries know about their slave environment? How did they learn about it? How did they take a stand? How did they act–or not? Same questions as far as indentured labour and the colonial forms of forced labour were concerned. Were there confrontations, mediations and misunderstandings?

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• 01 Mar 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The Sociology of Consumption: Bonding beyond boundaries

  ESA Consumption network Mini Midterm Meetings

  These mini-midterm meetings come together around the theme “Bonding beyond boundaries” to illustrate the geographic dynamics of our community but also to explore how the sociology of consumption community exemplifies and benefits from crossing disciplinary boundaries. As a community, we can draw inspiration from literature and the arts, from environmental as well as medical sciences.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Caen

  Call for papers - Representation

  Musical Tale and Children’s Opera in the English-speaking World

  This conference’s main argument lies at the crossroads of these two somewhat similar yet different traditions, offering specialists an opportunity to discuss a vast array of topics in relation to the musical tale and the opera for children, with a particular focus on the role of young audiences and young musicians in the field of musical entertainment and musical productions intended for young audiences in the contemporary world.

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• 28 Feb 2023

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - History

  Reading, describing, interpreting: Louis Marin between text and image

  This conference would like to explore the manifestations and transformations of the interplay between text and image in the writings and thought of the philosopher and theoretician of representation Louis Marin (1931-1992), and their resurgence in other disciplines, but also to situate them in a multiplicity of contemporary attempts to reconfigure the links between image and text, work (of art) and discourse, art and literature.

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• 15 Mar 2023

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

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

  Ce colloque propose d′investiguer les liens entre émotions, violences et masculinités à partir d’une perspective d’histoire du genre sur la longue durée.

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• 18 Feb 2023

  20 May 2023

  03 Jun 2023

  Kyoto | Tokyo

  Seminar - Representation

  Architectural photography

  “Architectural photography (kenchiku shashin 建築写真)” is an expansive and multifaceted notion, approached differently by architects, urban planners, interior designers, developers, publishers, amateur photographers, commissioned professional photographers, or artists. This confrontation of meanings and uses is what interests us. Indeed, while architectural photography has been widely and regularly displayed since the 19^th century, through albums, dedicated magazines, serial publications, photobooks, and exhibitions, there is currently no in-depth study that allows for a global understanding. Therefore, we have decided to initiate a seminar that aims to formulate a definition of this notion that encompasses all of its complexity.

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• 30 Mar 2023

  31 Mar 2023

  Lyon

  Study days - Information

  Publishing another way: the epic of Episciences and overlay journals

  In the context of the profound digital transformation of scientific research, and in particular in enhanced knowledge dissemination, the epic of Episciences finds its roots in the beginning of the years 2000, when scientists want to take back in hand the whole process of publication. Nowadays, the platform contains close to 30 journals, covering a wide range of disciplines, from mathematics and computer science to the humanities and social sciences, among which diverse subjects like environmental studies and mechanical engineering. Throughout the presentations, the experience reports and a round table bringing together the journals that have made the choice to join the platform Episciences, these days aim to focus on the status of open access scientific publication, to consider the perspectives of the model of overlay journals and to place Episciences in the landscape of open science, on a national, European and international scale.

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• 30 Sep 2023

  Nice

  Call for papers - History

  The “Portfolio” from Every Angle

  Archiving and Preserving Working Documents (1680s-1820s)

  The preservation of digital data is a current societal issue. The eighteenth century saw a similar awareness due to an unprecedented increase in the quantity of documents preserved and therefore available. One of its manifestations was the portfolio (or “porte-feuille”): “cardboard folded in two, covered with skin or some cloth, & used to carry papers” (Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française, 1718). The aim of this conference is to examine this medium for storing and classifying personal documents, whether or not they were known to his contemporaries, published or not: drafts, reading notes, letters, printed matter and other “living writings”. The entire literate society can then be considered, let us think of the portfolios of a minister, an artist, a merchant, a craftsman, a man of letters, a scholar, etc. The French term “portefeuille” itself suggests tracking its progressive use throughout Europe and its colonial extensions.

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