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/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/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/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/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/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/1322156 https://calenda.org/1322156 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Department of History at the European University Institute offers a distinctive, fully funded four-year Ph.D. programme of transnational and comparative history supported by a uniquely international and multicultural faculty. The Department offers exceptional opportunities to study the history of Europe in the World from the 15th century to the present, in the inspiring city of Florence, Italy. Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/1314316 https://calenda.org/1314316 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Research on the long-term history of African women’s rights struggles in the 20th century is currently vibrant, however, a gap remains in the scholarship concerning the global engagement and impact of African women activists’ thought, practices and contributions to the emergence of international feminist movements. This workshop, convened by an international group of scholars, aims to foster collaboration on this issue, with a focus on African pioneers of women’s movements and their global connections. Call for papers Dakar https://calenda.org/1306173 https://calenda.org/1306173 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Women have long contributed to the development of theology and philosophy, yet their voices have often been marginalized, mediated through restrictive frameworks, or silenced altogether. This seminar approaches communication not only as a neutral means of expression, but also as a form of power: the choice of medium, style, and platform can grant authority, negotiate legitimacy, or challenge dominant structures. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1292868 https://calenda.org/1292868 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This panel offers to bring together historians and social scientists studying modern urban sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the following theme: is there a common sexual culture in large cities of the late modern and contemporary eras, and what role do inter-urban circulations and networks play in its development? Call for papers Barcelona https://calenda.org/1292089 https://calenda.org/1292089 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This special issue of H-France Salon aims to broaden our understanding of the intricate patterns of interconnection and mutual exchange between the arts of dance and sculpture. The “Degas dilemma,” is whereby the (female) dancer passively serves as the (male) sculptor’s “muse.” Rather than reducing the relationship between these arts to mere illustration or representation, interventions should consider the range of ways that each responded to the other, and address how such encounters between artistic media illuminate, inform, or amplify hierarchies of gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, and culture. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1292473 https://calenda.org/1292473 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, religion played a continuous role in shaping societies worldwide. This period was marked by dramatic historical changes, including imperial expansion, decolonization, the devastation of two world wars, and the ideological tensions of the Cold War. Religious institutions, communities, and individuals actively engaged with all these phenomena, proving themselves to be co-creators of profound social, cultural, and political shifts. Currently seeking contributions from historians focusing on selected examples of religious transformation and social change in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism of the Greek rite, Judaism and Islam. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1290080 https://calenda.org/1290080 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The aim of the IDES Online New Book Discussion Series is to provide authors with a platform to present their new books to a diverse audience of socio-legal scholars at UNIL and beyond. Seminar https://calenda.org/1283938 https://calenda.org/1283938 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The ERC SOLROUTES project invites contributions to its 2025 Intermediate Conference with a view to critically rethinking the multifaceted nexus between solidarity and unauthorized migration. This discussion will take place along three interrelated analytical axes: emic languages and naming, gendered solidarities, and (counter)infrastructural processes enacting freedom of movement.In recent decades, academic research on migration has increasingly moved beyond methodological nationalism. Call for papers Genoa https://calenda.org/1276316 https://calenda.org/1276316 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The conference “Women and Europe – Interdisciplinary approaches, innovative prospects, new sources” seeks to explore these multifarious challenges. While the role of women in Europe, considered from multiple perspectives, has begun to be studied more systematically by researchers, leading to a growing volume of scholarly literature since the mid-1970s, the subject nevertheless remains largely underexplored. Call for papers Florence (50139) https://calenda.org/1277127 https://calenda.org/1277127 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of Warwick, themed on solidarity. The conference seeks to ask what it means to stand in solidarity, how is it built & what are the challenges involved, and analyses/perspectives on historical & contemporary solidarity campaigns in support of emancipatory struggles. Call for papers Coventry (CV4 7AL) https://calenda.org/1270280 https://calenda.org/1270280 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The last decade has witnessed an explosion of scholarship on religious and semi-religious women’s participation in the liturgy of the medieval Catholic church. Thirteen international scholars across disciplines – history, musicology, liturgy, theology, and literature – will present new research on the ritual cultures of medieval religious women in Europe, defining both “ritual” and “religious” in broad terms to include the communal and individual ritual practices of enclosed nuns, beguines, tertiaries, anchoresses, and the communities with whom they interacted. Conference, symposium Rome (00184) https://calenda.org/1268460 https://calenda.org/1268460 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The call for papers is now open for the I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual Arts, which will take place on October 23 and 24, 2025, at the Lusófona University – Porto University Centre. This conference is a space for critical reflection and debate dedicated to gender studies and feminist film theories. The conference will address topics such as representativity, representation, feminisms in cinema, intersectionality, and the role of women and other marginalized identities in film creation and exhibition. Call for papers Porto (4200-198) https://calenda.org/1274531 https://calenda.org/1274531 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of Warwick, themed on solidarity. The conference seeks to ask what it means to stand in solidarity, how is it built & what are the challenges involved, and analyses/perspectives on historical & contemporary solidarity campaigns in support of emancipatory struggles. Call for papers Coventry (CV4 7AL) https://calenda.org/1259247 https://calenda.org/1259247 Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Bringing together scholars, care providers, activists, and artists from around the world, the scientific conference “Birthing, Mothering and Othering” aims to foster a global, cross-disciplinary dialogue on reproductive care and justice. The event will be held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from October 20 to 24, 2025. Call for papers Lausanne (1015) https://calenda.org/1255861 https://calenda.org/1255861 Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference "Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th–20th centuries." The event will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library’s which serves as a partner in hosting the conference. This gathering aims to examine the historical dimensions of family violence within imperial contexts.By exploring legal practices, social perceptions, and criminological approaches across different empires, the conference seeks to analyze how state policies, legal transformations, and cultural norms shaped responses to violence in the family. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the event fosters a comparative discussion on the intersection of law, crime, history, and family dynamics in imperial settings. Call for papers Vilnius (01109) https://calenda.org/1255949 https://calenda.org/1255949 Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We are organising a series of three annual summer schools to offer PhD and post-doctoral scientists working on pressing livelihood issues in different social-ecological systems contexts the opportunity to deepen their theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in transdisciplinary research that can have tangible impacts on society. The present summer school in Parakou, Benin, focuses on the study of transformations and innovations in African agro-pastoral systems in a context of multi-dimensional turbulence. The summer school aims to help PhD students and post-docs establish and build conceptual and theoretical foundations, develop methodological and analytical skills, and improve the communication of their results and ideas in the transdisciplinary study of social-ecological systems in general, and on agro-pastoral systems in particular. Summer School Parakou https://calenda.org/1248905 https://calenda.org/1248905 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Liberas, UGent, the Laboratoire des pratiques et des identités journalistiques (ReSIC-ULB) and CAMille (ULB/KBR) are organizing between 5 and 7 June a three-day international colloquium on the life stories and careers of "forgotten journalists". The history of journalism has often focused on a limited number of famous individuals. Behind these big names are many journalists whose names and work have not made it into the canon. But to capture the full diversity of the journalistic field, these careers and lives need to be recovered. Conference, symposium Ghent (9000) https://calenda.org/1245837 https://calenda.org/1245837 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Although feminist utopias have been the object of an important body of work especially in the literary field, the specific paradigm of labour within these experiments and imaginaries has received only limited attention. The purpose of this conference is to explore to what extent and in what ways labour (both as a site of oppression and emancipation) serves as a paradigm in feminist utopia-building. We will use the concept of utopia both as a reflexive tool for critique and as a heuristic tool for transformation. Call for papers Strasbourg (67) https://calenda.org/1240466 https://calenda.org/1240466 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The seminar aims to focus on mediated masculinities in Europe, as the American context has been discussed and described in much detail (McGlashan, Koller, Heritage, 2023). Contributions that cover masculinity performance and how masculinity is understood in varied European contexts are most welcome. We also invite papers that present a comparative approach to masculinity, investigating the similarities and differences between varying manifestations of Western (or European) masculinities. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1228732 https://calenda.org/1228732 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100 In this issue of AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images, we invite contributions that critically engage with the intersections of immersion, technology, and sexuality through various methodologies. While VR is a primary focus, we welcome papers that explore other immersive technologies, including AR (augmented reality), XR (extended reality), AI-driven environments, and social VR, to expand the discussion on how digital environments shape and redefine sexual experiences, pornographies and identities. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1227653 https://calenda.org/1227653 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100 For its sixth year of activity, the SARTORIA research association is pleased to announce that the programme of cultural and scientific activities, based on the theme of “Fashion(s) and Censorship(s)”, will take place as part of the INHALab 2025 residency. Lecture series Paris (75002)