https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1362222 https://calenda.org/1362222 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This event, the second in a series of three international conferences (2025–2026–2027), aims to explore the history of psychiatry in English-speaking countries. This year’s central theme, Theories & Policies, seeks to assess the relationship between theories and policies at different periods in history and across various geographical areas in the English-speaking world (US, Canada, South Africa, the UK etc). Conference, symposium Nanterre (92) https://calenda.org/1359988 https://calenda.org/1359988 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 S’inscrivant dans la perspective du champ interdisciplinaire des études sur le futur, et plus spécifiquement des études critiques sur le futur, ce colloque propose d’étudier la façon dont le futur du Royaume-Uni et des nations qui le composent a été imaginé à travers les périodes, sur des modes fictionnels et non-fictionnels. Nous nous intéresserons à la fois aux représentations du futur du Royaume-Uni dans son ensemble (le futur de l’État, de la société et de l’Union britanniques), et aux représentations du futur des différents territoires constitutifs du Royaume-Uni soit au sein de l’Union et de l’Empire, soit au contraire hors de ceux-ci. Conference, symposium Toulouse (31) 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/1357048 https://calenda.org/1357048 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This conference aims to explore the emergence, from the second half of the seventeenth century onward in France, of a new market for eroticism, linked to the development of the galanterie, understood here as an ideal of sociability grounded in values such as refinement, playfulness, and equality between the sexes. Drawing on a wide range of media – whether texts, images, engravings, or music – participants will be invited not only to question the renewed representations that characterize this new eroticism, but also to examine its conditions of production, circulation, and reception, in France and, more broadly, on a European scale. Call for papers Fribourg 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/1348336 https://calenda.org/1348336 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 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. Call for papers Cambridge (CB3 9EU) https://calenda.org/1336299 https://calenda.org/1336299 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. Call for papers Coventry (CV4 7EQ) https://calenda.org/1328046 https://calenda.org/1328046 Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This special issue of History of Communism in Europe seeks to explore these paradoxes of marginality under socialist regimes. We invite contributions that examine how marginal, liminal, and unfit groups or individuals were constructed, controlled, resisted, and reimagined across different socialist contexts. By focusing on the outskirts of socialist societies, we aim to advance comparative insights into the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, domination and resistance, conformity and transgression. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1320710 https://calenda.org/1320710 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Section on Business Archives (SBA) of the International Council on Archives (ICA) invites submissions for its 2026 conference, titled “The Company We Keep: Navigating Brands, Borders and Boundaries”. This conference gathers leading professionals to explore the evolving landscape of corporate memory in a complex, globalized environment. In a world where companies constantly change in structure and in ownership, the history and stories they hold – and how they keep them – have never been more important. Call for papers Brussels (1000) https://calenda.org/1322803 https://calenda.org/1322803 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This online seminar is interested in representations of communism in various media, with the primary focus on – understood very broadly – historical fiction. Thus, we invite scholars working in various disciplines and fields of study to participate in the III International H/Story Seminar, Communism in Historical Fiction. The seminar is free of charge and is held online. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1319593 https://calenda.org/1319593 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This conference aims to explore the history of students through their regional, religious, national and international organisations in the second half of the twentieth century. The aim is to examine the student agency through the analysis of their social profile, the forms of material or symbolic compensation for their commitment, and the circulation of knowledge about the economic and social situation of the students. Conference, symposium Fribourg (1700) https://calenda.org/1316905 https://calenda.org/1316905 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The trilingual conference “Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya seeks to address a still relatively unexplored topic: the study of Italian communities abroad, with particular attention to the Mediterranean world in the period between national unification (1861) and the occupation of Libya (1911). At the core of this reflection lies the close, and not merely chronological, relationship between the migratory dynamics that characterized the early decades of unified Italy and the rise of colonial expansionism. The seminar therefore aims to investigate this connection through the specific lens offered by the Italian presence in North Africa and in the Ottoman Empire before the occupation of Libya. Call for papers Turin 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/1316142 https://calenda.org/1316142 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – including individuals, groups, and institutions as well as non-human agents – and their contributions to the practices, interpretations, and applications of international law. How did they establish or challenge norms, customs, and institutions? How were their practices, actions, and ideas shaped into law? The event aims to historicise the making of international law by bringing together junior scholars of history and law and to provide a forum for the exploration of new ideas and alternative perspectives, combining and building upon historical and social scientific approaches. Conference, symposium Paris (75007) 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/1309064 https://calenda.org/1309064 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Islamic studies in Portuguese lands. Archaeological campaigns and documentation-based research have brought to light valueable information about the Andalusian occupation in this area and the Muslim permanence under Christian rule, both as slaves and as mouros forros. The aim of this monographic issue is to serve as a compilation and new impetus for this research into the Muslim presence in Portuguese lands, both under the sphere of Andalusian influence (Garb al-Andalus) and under Christian rule (Portugal). Call for papers https://calenda.org/1307363 https://calenda.org/1307363 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This event will bring together scholars exploring the history of global women’s activism around working motherhood, state support for families, and reproductive autonomy during the interwar period. Call for papers Glasgow (G12 8QH) https://calenda.org/1300459 https://calenda.org/1300459 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The Call for Papers for the international conference A social question before the Social Question. Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century, organized by Damiano Bardelli (EHESS, CRH-GEHM/University of Oxford, Visiting Researcher at the Voltaire Foundation) with the support of the Voltaire Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation, aims to shed light on the innovations introduced by Enlightenment reformers in the way of understanding and addressing poverty, and thus to highlight their role in the emergence of the conceptual framework of the social question in the 19th century. Call for papers Oxford (OX1 2JD) https://calenda.org/1288029 https://calenda.org/1288029 Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This is a call for articles or essays on historical, social or political issues in Commonwealth societies for issue no.4 of Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays. This issue will follow the SAES 2025 theme of “Transitions”. Articles are invited that consider political, social, economic, cultural or ecological transitions. This could include discussing transition to a greener future (for example in India, Australia, Canada…) or the climate crisis in particular countries. The theme could also cover political re-imaginings and desired transitions to a more postcolonial or decolonial standpoint as well as resistance to them. For instance, can the process of ‘transitional justice’ after the well-documented case of South Africa be observed in other countries? Call for papers https://calenda.org/1297212 https://calenda.org/1297212 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This conference seeks to move beyond existing paradigms and explore new approaches to the study of the Arab world and South Asia while uncovering understudied histories of exchange. The conference’s focus is on the period between the years following the First World War and the height of the Cold War. Call for papers Cairo 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/1288232 https://calenda.org/1288232 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 From the early 1800s, the formation, consolidation, and maintenance of empires were increasingly bound to new logics of state power, technological advancements, and legal rationalisation and justification. Despite narratives of civilising missions and administrative modernisation, violence remained a central practice of imperial rule, both as an instrument of conquest and a mechanism for governing already established colonial regimes. This conference invites historians and scholars of related disciplines to consider the various ways in which violence operated within imperial systems, how it was implemented, codified and justified legally and culturally, along with its contemporary perception in the imperial metropolis and its remembrance and subsequent legacies that continuously remain influential until the present day. Call for papers Naples https://calenda.org/1278962 https://calenda.org/1278962 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This interdisciplinary conference invites papers with a focus on the interaction between the material and the immaterial aspects of the craft of weaving, approached from various angles, in the early modern period. The aim is to explore aspects of the interactions between textile manufacturing and its products and the individual or collective imagination, intellectual life as well as the ‘world picture’ and mental representations in the early modern period. Conference, symposium Mulhouse (68100) 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/1272207 https://calenda.org/1272207 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Who Cares? De la psychiatrie dans l’aire anglophone is a group of scholars from the Université Paris Nanterre and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle formed in 2023 and dedicated to the history of psychiatry in the English-speaking world. A central ambition of the Who Cares project has been the organization of a series of international conferences on the history of psychiatry in the English-speaking world. The first event took place on 6-8 February 2025 at Université Paris Nanterre and gathered scholars around the topic “People and Places”. This Call for Papers invites contributions that critically engage with the theme of our second event: “Theories and Policies” Call for papers 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/1272247 https://calenda.org/1272247 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – including individuals, groups, and institutions as well as non-human agents – and their contributions to the practices, interpretations, and applications of international law. How did they establish or challenge norms, customs, and institutions? How were their practices, actions, and ideas shaped into law? The event aims to historicise the making of international law by bringing together junior scholars of history and law and to provide a forum for the exploration of new ideas and alternative perspectives, combining and building upon historical and social scientific approaches. Call for papers Paris (75007) 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/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/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)