https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 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/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/1381317 https://calenda.org/1381317 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The international conference Placebo, Hypnosis and Functional Disorders aims to articulate three domains that have historically evolved along distinct trajectories: research on placebo and nocebo effects, hypnosis and suggestion, and the broad field of psychosomatic medicine. These domains are increasingly converging toward shared theoretical frameworks, while also exhibiting a diversity of methodological and experimental approaches rooted in their respective disciplinary traditions. Call for papers Villers-lès-Nancy (54) 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/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/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/1346594 https://calenda.org/1346594 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This is fourth of a series of study days dedicated to the history of precious ornaments in Europe since the Middle Ages. Favoring an interdisciplinary approach inspired by Aby Warburg, specialists, historians, philologists, philosophers and gemologist, will share their groundbreaking research on the history of precious arts, gemstones, craftsmanship and finery, between neoclassicism and industrial revolution periods. Study days Paris (75005) https://calenda.org/1340527 https://calenda.org/1340527 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Le projet Intimate Colonies (IC) place la dimension intime et familiale de la question coloniale au cœur de son analyse, dans le but d’apporter des éclairages originaux sur les significations et les enjeux des héritages et des mémoires coloniales dans les sociétés européennes contemporaines. Le projet se distingue des travaux existants en réunissant, au sein d’un même cadre analytique, les mémoires coloniales des familles issues des sociétés colonisées et de celles associées aux sociétés colonisatrices, reflétant ainsi la réalité multiculturelle des sociétés européennes partagées par ces populations, plutôt que d’aborder un seul versant de ce système relationnel. Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/1340111 https://calenda.org/1340111 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and researchers to engage in critical discussions on Sikhs, and Sikhism, encompassing a variety of historical, social, cultural, political, and religious perspectives. This call for papers aims to explore the multifacted dimensions of Sikh identity, history, politics and religion. Scholars are invited to engage with themese such as Sikh resilience and adaptation, the impact of political upheavals on their global presence, the challenges posed by rleigious ignorance, and the implications of their stateless nationhood. By fostering academic discource on these pressing issues, we aim to deepen our collective understanding of the Sikh experience and its relevance in contemporary societies. Call for papers Pessac (33) https://calenda.org/1334885 https://calenda.org/1334885 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This event aims to assess the current state of research on the identification of individuals in prehistoric archaeology, exploring methods to identify individuals from archaeological remains, whether lithic materials or other types of artifacts. It will also discuss the advantages, limitations, and future potential of these approaches, while considering what insights they can provide about the social and economic organization of past societies. Conference, symposium Paris (75002) https://calenda.org/1333014 https://calenda.org/1333014 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Studies on animals in the Byzantine world are gaining considerable momentum. An increasing number of scholars are exploring and reconstructing zoobiographies through the lens of Byzantine literature. Yet a significant corpus of texts—often unjustly relegated to the category of minora—remains underexplored, despite teeming with animal life. In fables, popular tales, proverb collections, school manuals, rhetorical treatises, and dreambooks, animals play important roles : they drive narrative plots, embody moral and social agency, and serve as crucial vehicles for cultural meaning. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1316922 https://calenda.org/1316922 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 We invite early career researchers to explore the intricate relations between religion, conflict, and reconciliation through an interdisciplinary lens. Combining online sessions and an intensive in-person week, participants will investigate how faith traditions, taboos, and collective memory shape both division and healing in contemporary societies. Call for papers Louvain-la-Neuve https://calenda.org/1307572 https://calenda.org/1307572 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The history and structure of gardens hold endless surprises and fascinating connections with other disciplines. Originally created as a natural but immutable place offering protection and shelter, gardens have evolved from the hortus conclusus to a place of fantastic architecture, celebrations and wonder. Despite the aesthetic development that was added to the symbolic one of the medieval tradition, the garden never completely lost its medicinal and practical function, featuring areas dedicated to fruit trees, greenhouses reserved for exotic crops or plants whose medicinal or dyeing properties were well known. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1304971 https://calenda.org/1304971 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites applications for Fall 2026 admission. We are seeking candidates with a strong interest in Linguistic Anthropology. Successful applicants typically receive a five-year funding package that includes a full tuition waiver and a stipend. Scholarship, prize and job offer New York (10016) https://calenda.org/1291356 https://calenda.org/1291356 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Although social justice is still a desire in most global communities, it is a more serious concern in Africa where multiple social, economic and political obstacles wrapped in ideological realities undermine the right for social justice. Thus, a pragmatic approach, with a multidisciplinary dimension, enhances the understanding of social justice, and its interfaces with issues of identities, ethnicity, sociality, culture, ecology and power dynamics. This 4th conference of the African Pragmatics Association seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and critical thinking on the intricate and multidimensional relationship between pragmatics and social justice in Africa. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1289376 https://calenda.org/1289376 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The School of Information Sciences organizes the second edition of The International Conference on Cultural Engineering and Heritage Development. Already anchored in the interdisciplinary scientific line of this manifestation, the theme of this second edition focuses on the development and the circulation of cultural and heritage property and products while facing the digital technologies and artificial intelligence. It questions the framework and the issues of this dynamic and movement as well as the issues raised by the use of digitalization, technologies and artificial intelligence tools in the fields of culture, art and cultural heritage. Call for papers Rabat (10000) https://calenda.org/1284652 https://calenda.org/1284652 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This conference aims to explore what happens to color when objects, images, and what used to be called style circulate across space and time, across cultures, traditions, and diverse conceptions of color and its symbolism, but also across media. The event serves as a celebratory conclusion to the research project Visual Contagions (Swiss National Fund for research, 2021–2025), conducted at the University of Geneva and focused on the global circulation of images, in collaboration with the Artl@s project. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1281811 https://calenda.org/1281811 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The 1st International Forum on Design, Desert, and Sustainable Development (4D) offers a transdisciplinary reflection on the desert as a space for creation, innovation, and resilience. Held in Tozeur from February 4 to 7, 2026, the forum brings together researchers, artists, designers, engineers, and local stakeholders to explore ecological, social, and aesthetic challenges related to arid environments. It examines the role of design in the sustainable transformation of the desert through three key approaches: the desert as an in situ creative laboratory, an in vitro catalyst for innovation, and an in vivo space for learning. Call for papers Tozeur (2200) https://calenda.org/1274482 https://calenda.org/1274482 Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The overarching theme for the 10th ITRA World Conference is The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games is designed to decipher and understand the many ways toys and games have shaped and reflected who we are, and have changed throughout history. Looking at the past, present, and future of playthings, the question is not so much what the zeitgeist in toys and games should be – but rather how and what they contribute to the multiple and potentially conflicting constellations of ideas, values and norms that come to characterize particular epochs. Call for papers Augsburg (86159) https://calenda.org/1272230 https://calenda.org/1272230 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This Call for Papers invites contributions for Volume 9 (2026) of Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, focusing on “Sport and Disability: Bodies, Practices and Inclusion Policies.” The issue aims to explore the complex and often contradictory relationship between sport and disability, addressing both inclusive potentials and structural exclusions. Topics include media representations, ableism, intersectionality, public policies, prosthetics, activism, and everyday sporting practices. Contributions from sociology, anthropology, disability studies, education, and related disciplines are welcome. Submissions are accepted in English, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1268856 https://calenda.org/1268856 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Founded in 1993, the International Toy Research Association (ITRA) is the longest standing professional research association dedicated specifically to the trans-disciplinary scientific study of toys, games, and other types of playthings. ITRA's 10th World Conference will be held in Augusburg, Germany from 5-7 August, 2026. The conference provides opportunities to exchange, reflect on, and discuss the zeitgeist in toys and games. We invite proposals from many different disciplines and professions that examine any type of toys, games, and playthings–physical, digital or hybrid. Call for papers Augsburg https://calenda.org/1267526 https://calenda.org/1267526 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This two-day event will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to examine clothing and fashion as non-linguistic systems of communication. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1259554 https://calenda.org/1259554 Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Doctoral and postdoctoral workshop Bridging History, Archaeology, and Natural Sciences: New Perspectives on Identity, Mobility, and Social Organization in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, taking place on 13–14 November 2025 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), aims to critically examine the methodological and epistemological challenges and possibilities of interdisciplinary research in Late Antiquity and early medieval studies — particularly the integration of written, material, genetic, and isotopic data. Call for papers Ljubljana (1000) https://calenda.org/1257904 https://calenda.org/1257904 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The aim of this colloquium is to highlight the histories of photography generated during the processes of decolonization, while rethinking methodological and aesthetic approaches to the medium that are still too Western-centric. What has happened to the production and circulation of photographers and their images since the independence struggles? How did new iconographies, new aesthetics and, with them, new networks of visual exchange develop, complicating the one-sided visibilities and photographic circulations from the “South” to the “North” established during the colonial periods? Conference, symposium Paris (75002) https://calenda.org/1243811 https://calenda.org/1243811 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This interdisciplinary workshop explores the revival of ancient religions in Europe, examining their resurgence, dissemination, institutional recognition, and sociopolitical impact. As non-monotheistic beliefs—polytheism, paganism, and animism—gain renewed interest and are increasingly leveraged in identity debates, this initiative brings together researchers from across Europe for a cross-disciplinary investigation of these evolving dynamics. Conference, symposium Strasbourg (67) https://calenda.org/1240647 https://calenda.org/1240647 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100 In ancient Greece, the Strait of Gibraltar marked the end of the civilized world and human exploration evinced by its name Non plus ultra (nothing further beyond). With the strait as vantage point, the workshop The sea ends here explores ends and endings connected to movements in and across the Mediterranean and oceans. Where does a sea, a maritime route, a refugee’s journey, a political uprising, or toxic waste end? Can we draw lines in the water? What constitutes an end: a dream or a destination, a physical or man-made barrier, a closure or a new beginning? How do people set, enforce, and cross political and disciplinary boundaries in three-dimensional spaces? Where, when and how futures begin and end? And who grabs futures? Call for papers Algeciras https://calenda.org/1233723 https://calenda.org/1233723 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This year, the Canadian University Music Society (MusCan) will hold its annual conference in conjunction with Canadian Network for Musicians’ Health and Wellness, hosted by the Department of Music at Conrad Grebel University College, The University of Waterloo from May 22 to 25, 2025. Call for papers Waterloo (N2L 3G6) https://calenda.org/1228953 https://calenda.org/1228953 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This workshop seeks to explore the radical strategies employed by contemporary artists as they navigate the Urbanocene, transforming urban public spaces into dynamic arenas for introspection, advocacy, and resilience. It aims to question whether these artistic interventions, with their catalytic potential, can effectively mobilize urban communities and foster a sense of symbiosis with the broader environment. It will critically analyze the various modalities through which artistic forms function as channels for ecological discourse. The discussion will focus on their role in advocating for radical ecological thinking, fostering multispecies coexistence, promoting biodiversity preservation, and advancing the pursuit of climate justice. Call for papers Rennes (35) 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)