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• Call for papers|History
  Ukrainian Art History: Working Through Uncertainties
  08/11/2026

  Ukrainian art history has been shaped by successive waves of political disruption, which affected both the objects available for study and the infrastructures and institutions through which knowledge was produced. Taking the Ukrainian context as a starting point, this conference asks how art history can engage with fragmented archives, contested cultural memory, under-documented artistic practices, and forms of knowledge that exceed institutional frameworks.

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• Call for papers|Representation
  La violence sous conditions
  27/11/2026

  This symposium aims at examining violence in relation to the visual field in the 20th and 21th centuries - where conflicts, forms of oppression, and processes of colonization reached unprecedented proportions - through the notion of “condition”. The term’s transversal uses across the humanities invite us to draw on a diversity of methodological approaches to apprehend this fluid phenomenon (aesthetics, visual studies, history, art history, information and communication studies, semiotics, sociology, etc.), in order to renew our understanding of the violence of images.

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• Call for papers|Sociology
  Erving Goffman and Play
  15/11/2026

  “To be on the wire is life; the rest is waiting.” Placed at the opening of his chapter “Where the Action Is” (1967), this epigraph encapsulates Erving Goffman’s interest in play, risk and uncertainty. From 12 to 14 March 2027, an international conference held in La Chaux-de-Fonds, at the heart of Ludesco, a festival of games and playful experiences, will examine what his work can still help us understand about contemporary games and gaming encounters.

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• Call for papers|Thought
  The Iconographies of Death in Cinema: Personae, Representations, and Imaginaries
  30/11/2026

  Cinema has developed an extensive repertoire of visual forms and aesthetic strategies whereby the inevitable, the invisible, and the unrepresentable acquire shape and visibility. Death has assumed an extraordinary variety of forms and representations : skeleton, Grim Reaper, psychopomp, ghost, invisible presence, and cosmic force. At times, it appears as a fully embodied character endowed with agency, speech, and intention ; at others, it remains an abstract principle, perceptible only through its effects, rendering visible that which, by definition, escapes representation.

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• Call for papers|Representation
  Irish Pop Culture from the 1990s to Today: A Green Wave Taking the World by Storm
  15/10/2026

  From The Banshees of Inisherin and Derry Girls to Fontaines D.C., CMAT and Kneecap, Irish popular culture is enjoying remarkable global visibility. This conference explores how it blends local authenticity with universal appeal, and combines humour and glamour whilst tackling serious social and political questions. We welcome papers on TV series, film, popular music, popular fiction, celebrity, sport, fashion, the cultural economy, and popular culture in relation to identity, activism and spirituality.

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• Call for papers|Language
  Esperanto – 140 years: this is no longer a project
  31/10/2026

  Marking the 140th anniversary of the publication of Esperanto, this international conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to examine this distinctive experiment, which originated as a primarily linguistic and local project before gradually developing broader social and cultural dimensions on a global scale.

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• Conference, symposium|History
  The Refugee-Migrant Distinction: Toward a Global History
  16/10/2026

  The aim of this international conference is to more fully elucidate the relational nature of the distinction between refugees and migrants, its function in the wider field of migration, and its genealogy. While chiefly historical in focus, the conference will also foster interdisciplinary approaches and reflections.

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• Call for papers|History
  Capturing iridescence in Early Modern Europe (16th -19th century)
  15/10/2026

  “Iridescence” a term evoking Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, was first coined in most European languages in the early 19th century. Its first recorded instances in print point to the English language, via the work of mineralogists and geologists. That the word should have first appeared in the natural sciences comes as no surprise, given that nature has retained a “monopoly on this metallic-like, colored effect” (Parker 2016, 58) until the 21st century, when nanoscience allowed the advent of iridescence-inducing technologies such as pearlescent flakes (Schenk et al. 2013). Our conference will look into the work of artists, scientists & authors as they experimented with iridescence before it was even understood or named.

   

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• Conference, symposium|History
  Arts and Crafts in the Late Ottoman Empire
  26/09/2026

  The conference “Arts and Crafts in the Late Ottoman Empire” examines the production, circulation, and transformation of material culture during a period of profound social, economic, and technological change. Focusing on Syria and extending to the broader Ottoman world, the conference brings together scholars working across art and architectural history, material culture, heritage, and social and economic history.

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• Call for papers|Sociology
  Languages and Trajectories in Migration
  01/11/2026

  Going beyond questions of identity and intergenerational transmission that have often dominated research on languages in migration, this topical collection examines the symbolic and material dimensions of language in relation to immigrants’ trajectories across multiple dimensions of their migratory, social, professional, and administrative lives. Focusing on individual trajectories, it explores the interplay between national origin, social position, local space, political context, forms of categorization, and linguistic resources, language practices and strategies. This topical collection brings together empirical studies from various social science disciplines, conducted in France and abroad.

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• Call for papers|Representation
  Creating, Narrating, Documenting, and Archiving Violence from Exile 
  15/11/2026

  Cette journée d’étude interroge les pratiques de documentation, de transmission et d’archivage des violences contemporaines — guerres, génocides, massacres politiques ou conflits liés à l’extraction des ressources — lorsque l’accès aux terrains est empêché et que les archives et témoignages sont détruits, confisqués ou indisponibles. Elle s’intéresse aux pratiques développées depuis l’exil et les espaces diasporiques, notamment à travers les images produites par les smartphones, les archives numériques et les réseaux sociaux. Ces pratiques soulèvent des enjeux éthiques et politiques liés à la circulation, à la conservation et à l’effacement des traces.

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• Call for papers|Political studies
  Fascist songs?
  01/11/2026

  Cet appel à contributions pour la revue Volume ! Le revue des musiques populaires propose de faire participer les études sur les musiques populaires, et plus particulièrement celles qui concernent leur création et leurs usages par des mouvements et des régimes fascistes, au travail de définition toujours en cours du fascisme comme objet politique et historique.

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• Call for papers|Sociology
  A Mechanism-Based Sociology of Illegal Markets and Criminal Organizations
  28/09/2026

  L’Année sociologique, a French academic journal publishing in French and in English and available on CAIRN.info, is launching a call for papers to prepare a special issue on “illegal markets and criminal organizations. It examines how illegal markets and criminal organizations work through the lens of mechanism-based explanation. We invite empirically grounded papers that identify the social mechanism, or chain of mechanisms, at play in a given case.

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• Call for papers|Thought
  Silenced Knowledge: Epistemic Censorship, Invisibilisation and the Production of Ignorance in Europe (16th–21st Centuries)
  01/10/2026

  The history of censorship in Europe has long been studied through its institutions, legal frameworks and repressive practices : indexes of banned books, royal censorship, ecclesiastical and inquisitorial controls, monitoring of printed matter, media regulation, and the monitoring and selection of artistic works. In recent decades, however, research has shifted its focus, exploring, for example, the contours of self-censorship and addressing more diffuse and less visible forms of restriction on expression and the circulation of ideas.

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• Call for papers|History
  Border communities
  30/04/2027

  The next issue of Frontière·s will focuses on ‘border communities’ that have emerged from this unique milieu of interactivity. Border communities – which have a tendency to settle in border zones rather than along border lines – originate from negotiations, hybridization and melting pots just as much as from conflicts, domination and violent situations. Depending on the context and level of analysis, they can therefore be regarded either as ‘in between’ societies shaped by the exchanges, agreements and accommodations specific to interface zones or as face-to-face societies based on mutual violence, anchored on opposite sides of a somewhat arbitrary dividing line defined by discourses and practices.

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• Call for papers|Urban studies
  Mass-Media Architectures of Africa and the Colonial Worlds of the Twentieth Century
  20/09/2026

  With a multidisciplinary team combining architecture and history, we decided to shed light on the relationships between audiovisual media and architectural works created as part of their rise to prominence in the colonized and decolonized spaces of the 20th century. As with other colonial institutions, the architecture of radio stations and transmitters was a means of reinforcing the visibility of the colonial presence. After the Second World War, the contexts of the Cold War and decolonisation gave rise to other instrumental uses : displays of power, cultural imperialism, and the assertion of identity and national sovereignty.

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• Call for papers|Africa
  Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Food Insecurity
  30/10/2026

  NGABAN-DIBOLEL journal launches a call for interdisciplinary scientific contributions aimed at fostering critical reflection on farmers’ adaptation strategies to climate change, with particular attention to food security, sustainable rural development, and territorial resilience. This call also seeks to encourage dialogue among researchers, policy-makers, development practitioners, farmers’ organisations, jurists, environmentalists, economists, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and agricultural scientists on the ongoing transformations of agricultural and food systems.

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• Call for papers|America
  Canada and the logics of the extractive economy: aesthetic, political, legal, historical, economic, and environmental perspectives
  01/09/2026

  The socioeconomic impacts of Canada’s extractive industries, their international ramifications, and the challenges they pose in terms of climate change as well as local and global governance have led the French Association for Canadian Studies (AFEC) to dedicate its 50^th annual conference to this theme. This conference seeks to explore the logics of extraction from various perspectives, thus encouraging dialogue between the disciplines represented within the AFEC. We will examine how the logics of extraction, from forestry to fossil fuels, has reshaped not only material ways of life but also the expectations and preoccupations of contemporary Canadian society. Questions surrounding the effects of the extractive economy, its perceived benefits, its limitations, and the harms it inflicts on environments and communities, resonate across the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts.

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• Call for papers|Thought
  Arab Comics: Creation, Circulation, and Reception
  30/09/2026

  This study day aims to fill a notable academic gap: despite the growing body of comics produced from or about the Arab world — particularly in the wake of the Arab uprisings of the 2000s — this corpus remains largely absent from French-speaking academic research. The event seeks to establish a first scholarly overview of this production by bringing together researchers from various disciplines, along with artists, publishers, and archivists, around four thematic axes: the conditions of creation in Arab countries and their diasporas, representations of Arab political and social realities, the transnational dynamics of works' circulation, and finally their reception and patrimonialization.

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• Call for papers|Political studies
  The Enemy Within
  10/07/2026

  In a context of intense polarisation and radicalisation, this event (October 23, 2026, University of Angers) aims to examine how the concept of the ‘enemy within’, though long-standing, has re-emerged with renewed vigour following Donald Trump’s re-election on the one hand and the rise of the far right in the UK on the other. It has now become one of the favourite discursive tools to stigmatise, demonise and marginalise any community or individual that does not fit into the national narrative as shaped by representatives of the US or British far right, thereby contributing to blurring the boundaries between dissent, legitimate opposition and national threat.

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