https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1389493 https://calenda.org/1389493 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 We are pleased to share with you the programme of the two-day event on May 28–29, 2026, exploring reproductive policies and women’s labor in Soviet Central Asian societies. The event will feature a roundtable, a workshop, and a film screening. Conference, symposium Bishkek https://calenda.org/1389452 https://calenda.org/1389452 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This international conference asks whether the biomedical humanities can intervene in the very constitution of the phenomena they study. We propose to rethink the body as a relational entity shaped by biological, social, environmental, and existential assemblages—moving beyond traditional partitions (body/mind, nature/culture, biological/social) that structure contemporary medicine. Conference, symposium Mons (7000) https://calenda.org/1388439 https://calenda.org/1388439 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Since the 1990s, long-term care (LTC) policies across Western countries have undergone major transformations, notably toward marketization, aging in place, and recognition of informal caregivers. Despite this convergence, the normative and ideational dimensions of these changes remain understudied. Drawing on scholarship about the role of policy ideas in welfare state reform, the workshop invites contributions on three interconnected themes : the influence of international organizations and transnational networks on policy convergence ; the impact of shifting cultural norms around gender, family, and intergenerational solidarity ; and the concept of autonomy as both a normative framework and a practical tool for comparing LTC systems. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1387221 https://calenda.org/1387221 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The issue examines how urban forms emerge and configure possible futures in contexts shaped by partial infrastructures, social and environmental vulnerabilities, and the reconfiguration of public action. The issue welcomes empirically grounded work — fieldwork, case studies, and comparative approaches — on cities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, in dialogue with contemporary debates in urban studies, the sociology of space, and critical geography. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1386829 https://calenda.org/1386829 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 At this conference, we seek to highlight questions around the nature of boundaries in Central Africa and beyond - whether that means physical, political, and communal boundaries or disciplinary boundaries. How do boundaries function in the past and present within the region and in its relationships with the rest of the continent? What might it look like to build more effective bridges across boundaries to address the pressing political, economic, and social issues in Central Africa and its diasporas? Call for papers Kinshasa https://calenda.org/1385758 https://calenda.org/1385758 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 What transnational narrative patterns, thematic or iconographic motifs can be identified in European films that portray ageing and age-related subjects ? What role, if any, is played in this by the ‘silvering of stardom’ and ‘the silvering of audiences’ across the European region ? How can these representations be viewed in light of the specific industrial and institutional dynamics that characterise film production in Europe, including supranational funding schemes and co-production agreements ? We will prioritize contributions that focus on films released after 2010 and incorporate transnational or comparative approaches between European countries. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1385433 https://calenda.org/1385433 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This call for contributions invites proposals to a two-day roundtable (2-3 July 2026, online) from researchers currently working on the arts in the field of ethnomethodology/conversation analysis (EM/CA). Call for papers https://calenda.org/1381002 https://calenda.org/1381002 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The editorial team of On_Culture, would like to draw your attention to the Call for Abstracts for Issue #21 of On_Culture (Spring 2027) on “Embodiment”. This issue foregrounds four interrelated dimensions of embodiment. It thus opens up novel vistas for revisiting the “corporeal turn” of the 1990s, this time from a contemporary cultural studies perspective, asking what relational approaches can offer interdisciplinary analyses of culture today. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1379624 https://calenda.org/1379624 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Maison de la création et de l’innovation (MaCI), UGA’s Center for the Humanities, is launching its annual Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme funded by the France 2030 ANR project GATES (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS). The postdoctoral fellows will be hired on a fixed-term two-year contract. Scholarship, prize and job offer Saint-Martin-d'Hères (38) https://calenda.org/1377488 https://calenda.org/1377488 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This special issue of Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities - book series invites contributions that revisit the concept of khôra, introduced in Plato’s Timaeus as a “third kind” beyond being and becoming, a matrix, a receptacle, and reinterpreted in contemporary philosophy, most notably by Derrida. Situated between presence and absence, intelligibility and materiality, khôra resists stable categorization while remaining indispensable for thinking space, inscription, and receptivity. We seek papers that engage khôra across disciplines, exploring its implications for spatial theory, media, politics, ecology, and aesthetics, as well as its limits and possible reconfigurations today. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1378588 https://calenda.org/1378588 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 While gender equality has been formally recognized as a universal human rights principle, its meanings, applications, and limits have varied across historical, cultural, political, and geographical contexts. Historically, gender has played a central role in defining who could claim rights, on what grounds, and with what limitations. At the same time, claims based on gender difference have functioned both as instruments of emancipation and as mechanisms of exclusion. Call for papers Naples (80100) https://calenda.org/1377300 https://calenda.org/1377300 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Ce colloque sur les humanités numériques en Afrique est un cadre d'échanges qui, au-delà des perspectives interdisciplinaires et pluridisciplinaires, se veut une occasion d'échanges en vue de creuser les limites imposées par le numérique et les sciences sociales. Dans une approche inclusive, il s'agit de montrer en quoi la dématérialisation et la démocratisation de l'information s'érigent en des questions épistémologiques sur le numérique, sur le modèle d’éducation et de culture dans une Afrique en plein essor. Les discussions porteront essentiellement sur le numérique, les lettres, les arts, la pédagogie, la recherche, les sciences sociales et l’émergence de l’Afrique. Call for papers Lomé (---) https://calenda.org/1375487 https://calenda.org/1375487 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 What does it mean to de-centre Europe in historical research? Can we write a global history, a colonial and imperial history that is not centred on European archives and European analytical categories? How might that change our histories of Europe, and the world? This 2026 edition of the EUI Department of History's summer school takes up a range of such questions as we grapple with why such a de-centring is imperative and what the stakes are for distinct kinds of scholarship. Summer School https://calenda.org/1373809 https://calenda.org/1373809 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Department of Communications and Journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš invites scholars and researchers to the fifth international scientific conference Media and Challenges of the Modern Society 2026. The conference will focus on the role of media self-regulation, journalistic ethics and contemporary transformations of media systems in the digital era. The event will bring together researchers from different countries to exchange knowledge on media ethics, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and the future of journalism. Call for papers Niš (18000) https://calenda.org/1372455 https://calenda.org/1372455 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The conference addresses questions raised by the material turn concerning representation of objects, their reception, and their dynamic attributions of meaning to the past and to discourses of memory. What do objects say about decolonisation processes, and how are materiality and memory entangled in this regard? Study days https://calenda.org/1367625 https://calenda.org/1367625 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 In May 2027, the DeCoLa programme at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host the fourth edition of its Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop series in Cameroon. Organised in partnership with the Fondation Afric’Avenir, this edition seeks to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a decolonial comparative legal approach. It also aims to contribute to the consolidation of a decolonial comparative law community across the African continent and beyond. Summer School Douala https://calenda.org/1367815 https://calenda.org/1367815 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The central issue addressed by this volume lies in the tension between the proclaimed “international” character of film festivals and the absence of a binding international legal framework regulating their activities, selection mechanisms, jury appointments, conflict-of-interest management, and transparency procedures. How do festivals construct their legitimacy? On what foundations is the credibility of their outcomes built? Call for papers https://calenda.org/1370260 https://calenda.org/1370260 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 La mission du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac est de mener un travail de recherche sur et autour des collections qu’il abrite, ainsi que sur le passé et le présent des mondes extra-européens et de leurs relations avec l’Europe. Dans cet esprit, le musée attribue tous les ans des contrats postdoctoraux, notamment dans les disciplines suivantes : anthropologie, archéologie, histoire, histoire des arts, sociologie, ethnomusicologie. Cette année, le musée du quai Branly -Jacques Chirac attribue deux contrats postdoctoraux pour une durée de deux ans (2026-2028). Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/1364273 https://calenda.org/1364273 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The 2026 edition of the TOPs’ summer school will take place at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, from 23 to 26 June 2026, and will consist of 30 hours of lectures, seminars, and interactive discussions among participants through working labs. In order to ensure a high-level academic environment, the summer school will host internationally recognised scholars and guest lecturers, who will contribute through keynote lectures and dedicated sessions to foster critical debate and interdisciplinary exchange. Summer School Forlì (47121) https://calenda.org/1362536 https://calenda.org/1362536 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Summer School in Critical Theory and Praxis: Literature and Society is a seven-day intensive programme held on the island of Cres, Croatia. It brings together scholars, students, researchers, artists, educators, activists, cultural workers, and policymakers for interdisciplinary exchange through lectures, workshops, and cultural events. The programme connects theoretical inquiry with literary and artistic practice, addressing pressing social and political issues while exploring creative and innovative responses. Summer School Cres https://calenda.org/1363923 https://calenda.org/1363923 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Journey and journeying shape social practices, forms of knowledge, narrative devices and experiences of the world at large. They can be ordinary yet unsettling processes, thresholds and metamorphoses, movements that open up, dislocate and transform. Crossing different spaces and temporalities introduces discontinuities in ways of perceiving, narrating and thinking. Transformation, however, is not automatic. Journeying may involve waiting, suspension, or blockage, as experienced by migrants or by those living under conditions of forced immobility. Change and the reworking of experience are never linear or immediate. Journeys often produce partial, ambiguous, or reversible transformations, placing identities, interpretive categories and regimes of meaning under tension. Call for papers Tallinn (10120) https://calenda.org/1359464 https://calenda.org/1359464 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The latest call for articles for InMedia, The French Journal of Media Studies is just out. We invite abstracts for contributions to the issue “The Art of Podcasting: experimenting with a new medium” edited by Dr. David Lipson and Ella Waldmann. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1353759 https://calenda.org/1353759 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 We propose this session to bring together researchers examining women’s craft practices and to deepen our understanding of their identities and agency through the materiality of these activities. Materiality is understood here as encompassing artefacts and gestures: thus tools, waste, but also workspaces, as well as traces on objects and traces on human remains (work-related illnesses, for example). The purpose of this session is to review the current state of research on this topic, share questions, difficulties, and advances. Call for papers Athens https://calenda.org/1352690 https://calenda.org/1352690 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The fifth edition of this international conference continues an established scientific and clinical tradition dedicated to exploring vulnerabilities in their various forms. Following previous editions that addressed sexuality and intimate relationships in disability, art in the service of disability, and mental health and new technologies, this 5th edition expands the discussion to a fundamental societal issue: parenthood in contexts of vulnerability. Call for papers Fes (30000) https://calenda.org/1352137 https://calenda.org/1352137 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 In France, as abroad, questions of democracy span multiple social fields. The University appears as a privileged place for observation and reflection. As a space for academic and civic education, for the transmission of knowledge and collective experimentation, it also constitutes a laboratory for democratic practices. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1350570 https://calenda.org/1350570 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 ESPI2R, ESPI’s real estate research division, adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address a wide array of real estate issues. In November 2026, ESPI2R will host its biannual International Conference on Real Estate in Paris, serving as a premier platform for discussions and insights on the evolving real estate landscape at various levels - from global to local. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1347021 https://calenda.org/1347021 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This turn toward the intangible and communal dimensions of heritage exposed deep tensions between preservation and change, expert authority and bottom-up participation, or institutional policies and bodily practices. These frictions are particularly visible in dance and the performing arts, where heritage is literally embodied, enacted, and reimagined through practice. In what this special issue terms the age of (in)tangibility, the performing arts are recognised as intangible heritage precisely as they are rendered tangible through documentation, digitisation, and policy frameworks, revealing a constitutive tension between embodied, relational knowledge that exists only in practice and the material, institutional forms through which heritage is named, governed, and sustained. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1344235 https://calenda.org/1344235 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 ATRAS Journal invites scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French. Call for papers Saïda (2000) https://calenda.org/1342183 https://calenda.org/1342183 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Social Empowerment Journal is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, and open-access academic journal published by the Laboratory of Social Empowerment and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amar Telidji – Laghouat, Algeria. It provides a platform for publishing original research in the humanities, social sciences, and economic studies, with a special focus on interdisciplinary and applied work. Call for papers Laghouat (03000) https://calenda.org/1330837 https://calenda.org/1330837 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Visiting Research Chair in Urban Sustainability at the University of Ottawa supports invited researchers in conducting interdisciplinary research on urban sustainability in the context of climate change. The goal is to foster the creation of innovative solutions and knowledge mobilization to make urban centers more sustainable, resilient, and equitable. Scholarship, prize and job offer Ottawa (K1R 6N5)