https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1420769 https://calenda.org/1420769 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the space sector and the emergence of new private actors. The space sector has therefore undergone a number of changes, which this conference aims to examine. The aim of this event is to shed light on the various changes currently taking place in the space sector from the perspective of the humanities. Call for papers Toulouse (31) https://calenda.org/1417459 https://calenda.org/1417459 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The Dipartimento of Studi Linguistici e Letterari (DiSLL) of the Università di Padova, together with the research group on travel writing of the European Society of Comparative Literature and the Centro Studi ‘Arti della Modernità’, is organising an International Conference on Borderscapes: Figures of Crossing in Contemporary Travel Writing to be held in Padua on 27-29 January 2027. The conference will address, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the forms and codes of borders, exploring their cultural, historical and social meanings. The discussion will focus on the symbolic uses that have made this literary motif a tool for reflecting both on the power dynamics implicit in intercultural relations and on the thresholds (between truth and fiction, verbal and visual, representation and place) specific to a complex genre such as travel writing. Call for papers Padua (35137) https://calenda.org/1415585 https://calenda.org/1415585 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This special issue of Regards Journal is to attract attention to the diverse approaches to studying Iraqi theatre. Therefore, we invite Arabic theatre scholars, cultural historians, literary translators, theatre practitioners and theatremakers to contribute to it. Call for papers Beirut (1104 2020) https://calenda.org/1416632 https://calenda.org/1416632 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 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. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1414960 https://calenda.org/1414960 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Durng the first edition of Undisciplined Anthropologies, we asked whether anthropology and the social sciences might be reimagined as practices capable of challenging the limits imposed by traditional organizations of knowledge. With this second edition, we wish to continue and deepen that reflection. Above all, we are interested in exploring what might emerge from the openings created by undisciplinarity. What forms of knowledge become possible when disciplinary boundaries and hierarchies are subjected to critical scrutiny? How can anthropology, the social sciences, the arts and political practices contribute to the production of plural futures, the emergence of new sensibilities and experimentation with alternative ways of knowing and living? Call for papers Rome (00153) https://calenda.org/1413048 https://calenda.org/1413048 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Taking a transnational, intercultural, multilingual, and interdisciplinary stance, this symposium intends to examine and compare the politics of child disappearance practiced on an international scale in the 20th and 21st centuries. These politics have been implemented in several contexts, including colonial oppression as well as political and social forms of repression. Instances of these political measures abound in various geopolitical areas. Call for papers Lyon (69) https://calenda.org/1411921 https://calenda.org/1411921 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Building on Jack Goody’s (2007) highly influential thesis of The Theft of History, this workshop aims to address an “institution” that this critique of the Eurocentric historiographical model imposed on “the rest of the world” left largely unaddressed: the institution of art. Call for papers Strasbourg (67) https://calenda.org/1411329 https://calenda.org/1411329 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Papers may examine how ritual practices contribute to experiences of belonging, self-transformation, well-being and social connection. By bringing together comparative perspectives on contemporary ritualization, the session aims to foster dialogue on how collective practices generate meaningful experiences and how ritual forms continue to evolve within changing cultural and religious landscapes. Call for papers Buenos Aires https://calenda.org/1408753 https://calenda.org/1408753 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The workshop (11-13 November, 2026) explores tensions between different forms of representation and focuses on changes in the nature of representational relationships emerging from struggles between them. Rather than presuming a clear distinction between democratic and non-democratic forms of representation, the workshop explores transitions and hybrid forms between parliamentary and non-parliamentary representative modes as well as between democratic and authoritarian regimes in Europe. Call for papers Hamburg (20149) https://calenda.org/1407925 https://calenda.org/1407925 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The word 'heirloom' evokes objects tucked away in wardrobes, imbued with woody, musty fragrance, aged with patina and eerie silence – rescued, retained, preserved, and remembered. Their fate remains unpredictable: second-hand stores, antique shops, auction houses, museum collections. Heirlooms chart different trajectories with different owners, soaked in different personalities, carrying a panoply of histories imposed by each owner. As objects moving between generations, heirlooms accrue, embody, and elicit multiple meanings, holding both personal and cultural relevance and developing their own life histories. Around this central object, scholars have explored postmemory, kinship, hidden heirlooms, space and homes, memorial samples, family archives, home cultures and migration, and industrial heritage. Not restricted to physical objects alone – what about the intangible? What if the heirloom no longer exists, resulting in 'oral heirlooms' (Ajit, 2015) or the passing of skill as inheritance? Call for papers Brighton (BN2 4AT) https://calenda.org/1405197 https://calenda.org/1405197 Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Walls built for protection often become permanent. Rather than ending conflict, they institutionalise it. This co-authored presentation asks why barriers erected as temporary measures so often outlast the emergencies that justified them, and what this reveals about how security actually works. Miscellaneous information https://calenda.org/1402955 https://calenda.org/1402955 Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The world’s only contemporary art collection dedicated to childbirth invites you to a programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. This Year’s theme : Reproduction and the State. Summer School https://calenda.org/1404600 https://calenda.org/1404600 Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This international conference has two major objectives. The first aims to revisit and renew historical approaches. Since 2000, notable attempts to synthesize the history of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa include Levtzion & Powell’s History of Islam in Africa and Robinson’s Muslim Societies in African History. One can also point to important case studies on early modern and modern Africa, as well as scholarship documenting and analyzing Africa’s Islamic textual traditions. More recently, many scholars have recognized the need for a greater synthesis that will show the state of the field and the achievements of this now established subfield. Conference, symposium Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1402185 https://calenda.org/1402185 Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This congress aims to examine the relationships between environment, health, and social inequalities through interdisciplinary approaches involving social sciences, public health, anthropology, and environmental policy. Discussions will focus on health risks, environmental inequalities, social justice, mental health, ecological transition, and digital challenges. Call for papers Fes (30000) https://calenda.org/1402033 https://calenda.org/1402033 Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The Symposium aims to advance the understanding of the state of young people’s social rights in wider Europe. It examines the situation of access to rights and the circumstances that enable or limit young people’s engagement with social rights.We welcome contributions from diverse disciplines, including, but not limited to Sociology, Political Sciences, Gender Studies, European Studies, Economics and Psychology. We also appreciate submissions from practitioners (including activists), and policymakers who have carried out research-based analyses of their work. These may include studies that go beyond traditional academic conventions. Call for papers Strasbourg (67) https://calenda.org/1399385 https://calenda.org/1399385 Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This symposium invites contributions that explore the many dimensions of risk in processes of personal and collective transformation. By bringing perspectives from across different academic disciplines into dialogue, the symposium aims to deepen our understanding of how risk shapes, constrains, and enables the processes through which individuals and societies undergo profound change. Call for papers Issy-les-Moulineaux (92) https://calenda.org/1400206 https://calenda.org/1400206 Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The FIAS Fellowhip Programme is open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all other research fields interfacing with the SSH. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult the webpages of the host Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) to learn more about their specific scientific priorities, areas of focus, and institutional partners, as these should be carefully considered before applying. Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/1397649 https://calenda.org/1397649 Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This conference seeks to explore whether resolving this issue necessarily depends on linguistic analysis—and therefore on decipherment itself—or whether, in some cases, a deeper understanding of graphic variation can in fact inform or facilitate the process of decipherment. Conference, symposium Liège (4000, Liège) https://calenda.org/1396963 https://calenda.org/1396963 Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The Musicology research group “Music and Society” at the Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (IMF), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), invites expressions of interest from outstanding postdoctoral researchers wishing to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF 2026) with our group as host institution in Barcelona. Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/1395884 https://calenda.org/1395884 Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 We are pleased to share a call for papers for the edited volume Archaeology, Oral Tradition and Place Names – New Perspectives, to be submitted to Springer. The volume aims to explore how oral traditions and toponymy can provide key insights into the interpretation of archaeological landscapes, bridging material evidence with memory, narrative, ritual practices, and place-names. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1395969 https://calenda.org/1395969 Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This conference aims to bring into focus the contribution of the concept of social class to the study of various hierarchies, inequalities and conflicts. We are seeking theoretical contributions and studies on past and present phenomena and situations that use the social class as a central concept, highlighting its capacity to renew or enrich analytical perspectives (see the full CFP attached). Call for papers Montreal (H3T 1J4) https://calenda.org/1394394 https://calenda.org/1394394 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 For the better part of a century, international film festivals have been essential to the global circulation of Middle Eastern cinema. Entanglements between festivals and cinema from the region date back to at least 1946, when the Egyptian film Dunia (dir. Mohammad Karim, 1946) screened at the first full edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, films from the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey have been mainstays on the festival circuit, premiering and screening at the Big Five (Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, and Venice), as well as smaller festivals around the world. Call for papers Beirut (1104 2020) https://calenda.org/1393322 https://calenda.org/1393322 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This panel, part of the 2027 conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), explores the relationships between visual cultures, audiovisual approaches, religions and contemporary spiritualities. It brings together contributions examining images not only as research tools but as performative practices that shape religious communities and imaginaries. Proposals incorporating image corpora are welcome. Call for papers Buenos Aires https://calenda.org/1392168 https://calenda.org/1392168 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The doctoral conference Silence(d): Illusory Absences and Denied Presences aims to stimulate reflection on silence not only as the absence of voice or sound, but as a device that structures narratives, archives, memories, and processes of knowledge production. Call for papers Florence https://calenda.org/1390180 https://calenda.org/1390180 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Consacrée à l’art méconnu des peintres d’offrandes dans la Grèce antique, la rencontre programmée à l’Ecole française d’Athènes le 6 mai permettra de présenter, durant la session du matin, les recherches menées sous l’égide du Louvre et du C2RMF sur la polychromie des statuettes de terre cuite. La seconde session sera consacrée à une ouverture vers l’Egypte ptolémaïque et romaine, en examinant la question de la transmission et des adaptations de la technè grecque au contexte multiculturel de l’Egypte gréco-romaine. Study days Athens https://calenda.org/1388695 https://calenda.org/1388695 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 We invite submissions for the edited volume The Handbook of Religion and Transmedia Storytelling: From Antiquity to the Digital Age. We invite scholars across disciplines, including religious studies, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, narrative studies, anthropology, and political science. We particularly welcome proposals that focus on a wide range of traditions and cultural contexts, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Indigenous traditions, Afro-diasporic religions, and esotericism. We also encourage contributions that examine phenomena at the intersections of religion and broader cultural domains, for example conspiracy theories, speculative fiction, nonfiction paranormal narratives, and apocalyptic narratives. Call for papers 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/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/1383644 https://calenda.org/1383644 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This international conference aims to provide a space for transdisciplinary and transnational reflection, while promoting training and networking of young researchers (PhD students and PhD holders -3 years) who explore collective violence, its memory and representations across Europe. The call is addressed to PhD candidates in humanities and social sciences : political studies, sociology, psychology, visual arts, history, performative arts, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, anthropology, law, economy. The conference will be followed by a multilingual digital publication. Call for papers Tours (37)