https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 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/1347461 https://calenda.org/1347461 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 By choosing to focus on South-North circulations, this seminar is dedicated to the deconstruction of the “British Empire” as a homogeneous category to write and think about the intellectual, artistic, and political histories of the people who circulate and inhabit this polity known as the Commonwealth of Nations in the post-Bandung era. Working from the assumption that committed artists, intellectuals and political activists from the Global South have networked and connected within this space, we seek to interrogate the counter-hegemonic nature of the knowledge, theories and artistic practices produced during the post-Bandung era. Seminar Aubervilliers (93) 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/1317405 https://calenda.org/1317405 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 We would like to cordially invite interested scholars to contribute to a volume entitled The Kingdom’s God: The Use and Abuse of Religion in Foreign Policy. We are happy to announce that we have reached a preliminary agreement with Bloomsbury on the publication of the volume. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1317630 https://calenda.org/1317630 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This conference aims to interrogate some of these British visions of rival empires in narrations published between 1783 and 1914. It would be interesting to analyse the practice of imagined colonialism, that is, how the British travellers cast a domineering gaze upon their imperial rivals when travelling in lands that were not colonies of the British crown. Call for papers Strasbourg (67) https://calenda.org/1299183 https://calenda.org/1299183 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We invite scholars to contribute to a Special Issue or Symposium aimed at a top-ranking journal on the topic of opposition to constitutionalism. Constitutionalism is a global phenomenon, yet our understanding of its opposition outside North America is limited. Who if anyone is mobilising against it, and on what grounds? And is it confined to legal and academic circles? Is the opposition unified or fragmented? What precisely is contested, how (e.g. through legal mobilization, advocacy), and to what end and with what impact? We seek contributors who can innovate the theory and empirics of these consequential issues. Of special interest are contributions on opposition to constitutionalism in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Russia, as well as in Europe and the USA. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1295099 https://calenda.org/1295099 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Three postulates substantiate the present colloquium (to be edited by P. Chabal). They further existing research by bringing together scholars from Western/Eastern Eurasia, and from Central/South Asia, covering the whole of ‘the New Eurasia in the making’. Proposed papers are meant to explore specific aspects of the construction of the new Central Asia, following the establishment of a number of innovative organisations in the region : the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Eurasian Economic Union, as the two core such organisations, respectively in 2001 and 2015. Call for papers Astana (010000) https://calenda.org/1297383 https://calenda.org/1297383 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This two-day conference will bring public and private international lawyers together with political and legal philosophers to discuss the complex issues raised by property in outer space, including its relations to the notions of territory, jurisdiction and sovereignty, but also the international legal status of scientific research, data and samples. Conference, symposium Paris 05 Panthéon (75005) https://calenda.org/1291872 https://calenda.org/1291872 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The primary objective of the journal is to disseminate original and credible scholarly contributions within the domains of legal and political sciences. Additionally, the journal endeavors to showcase the outcomes of scholarly gatherings and seminars. Moreover, it facilitates the dissemination of well-translated research pieces, ensuring their accessibility to a broader audience of researchers. This, in turn, furnishes valuable academic material for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners specializing in the journal’s areas of focus, encompassing judges, lawyers, and other experts. 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/1281152 https://calenda.org/1281152 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Corporate actors have played a hidden yet highly influential role in shaping the global order, often securing their interests in international organizations, such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. Extractive industries, which focus on natural resources such as oil, gas, minerals, and metals, including rare earths, were the bedrock of capitalism in the long twentieth century. How did they exert their influence within, through and against international organizations? What tools did they adopt to attain their goals at global metropoles such as Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Geneva, New York, and Santiago? Who challenged their efforts and who supported them and how? What effects did formal decolonization have on the role of extractive enterprise in these global spaces? Call for papers Florence 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/1272473 https://calenda.org/1272473 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This workshop aims to examine the intricate networks and economic practices of monarchical families and courts throughout Europe. In this context, we seek to examine how monarchies attained and preserved revenue and wealth, what practices they employed and if these practices were changed, adapted or abandoned over time. At the same time, we also seek to examine how such practices were perceived and debated by both individuals outside of the royal courts and the general public. The workshop will take place from the 4th to 6th of March 2026 in Darmstadt. Call for papers Darmstadt (64283) https://calenda.org/1271330 https://calenda.org/1271330 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This special issue aims to gather contributions from researchers studying indigenous peoples in international politics. We particularly – though not exclusively – encourage submissions on topics such as: How does the political action of indigenous peoples yield pressure on traditional concepts such as politics, sovereignty, international cooperation, and global governance? To what extent and through what mechanisms do these practices subvert or are co-opted by the hegemonic structures of the international system? In what ways do indigenous philosophies and worldviews challenge the colonial logics of the Anthropocene, extractivism, and the geopolitics of knowledge? Call for papers https://calenda.org/1267648 https://calenda.org/1267648 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This call for papers aims to prepare a collective publication focused on the actors and practices of assistance to migrant populations in Europe and the Middle East between 1945 and 1970. The project adopts an innovative perspective, emphasizing on-the-ground dynamics and the interactions among the various actors involved in migration-related aid, between cooperation, competition and entanglement. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1219293 https://calenda.org/1219293 Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Since its entry into World War 1 in 1917, the United States has played a pivotal international role across political, economic, cultural, and military arenas. This trajectory has been characterized by waves of both Americanization and anti-Americanism, with military interventions increasingly assuming a central role—albeit with notable distinctions. The United States has been consistently engaged in overseas operations. This call for papers seeks to explore the complex relationship between wars, Americanism, and anti-Americanism from the 20th century to the present. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1214891 https://calenda.org/1214891 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100 As AI technologies advance, language departments face questions of relevance, while exophonic writing by authors like Jhumpa Lahiri and Yoko Tawada flourishes. We welcome papers aiming at defining exophony. Call for papers Seoul (04620) https://calenda.org/1209860 https://calenda.org/1209860 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100 The 16th Annual International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies seeks to explore the dynamic interplay between literature, heritage, and diplomacy in the Baltic and Nordic regions. Taking place at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, this conference invites scholars, senior and junior researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners to delve into the profound connections between cultural expression, historical legacies, and diplomatic relations that have shaped the shared and distinct identities of these regions. We invite submissions addressing the intersection of Literature, Heritage, and Diplomacy in the Baltic and Nordic contexts. The conference will explore how these fields intersect and influence one another, shaping the cultural, political, and historical landscapes of the region. Call for papers Sibiu (550024) https://calenda.org/1209902 https://calenda.org/1209902 Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 The conference aims to reflect on the Mediterranean in World War II, combining the work of well-established scholars with that of younger researchers. Therefore, we invite contributions from speakers who seek to take a comprehensive approach that can draw on diplomatic, military, institutional and social perspectives to form a more integrated and comprehensive picture of the Mediterranean during the conflict in all its central aspects. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1208810 https://calenda.org/1208810 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 The aim of this workshop is an interdisciplinary reflection on the changes that have taken place in Russian political language against the backdrop of the trends observed in other political traditions, primarily in France and Germany. Conference, symposium Paris (75007) https://calenda.org/1200523 https://calenda.org/1200523 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 Political Orbits Journal (P.O.J) is now inviting the scholarly community, at both national and international levels, to submit their unpublished papers for publication. The main objective of Political Orbits Journal is to contribute significantly to the body of knowledge by providing an intellectual platform for national and internationnal scholars including postgradute students, professors, and researchers operating in academic circles, government departments or socio-economic institutions. Call for papers Algiers (16000) https://calenda.org/1200220 https://calenda.org/1200220 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100 A conference to present and discuss PolDev's thematic volume entitled Missing Dollars with selected authors and stakeholders. Study days Geneva https://calenda.org/1183835 https://calenda.org/1183835 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples (Italy), invites applications for four 1-year (renewable for up to 3 years) postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance, covering the disciplines of Early Modern History, Modern History, Law and Law History. Scholarship, prize and job offer Naples (80138) https://calenda.org/1183033 https://calenda.org/1183033 Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200 There is no question that Asia has been rising. The question is, what impact does it have on the world? Or, to be more positive-progressive-prospective, what “desirable impacts” should it have on the world?One way to answer the question may be to look back at the Bandung Conference, which represented the common and shared dreams of Asian and African peoples, as formulated formally in the Final Communiqué of the Bandung Conference and informally in the expression “Bandung Spirit”. So, with the rise of Asia 70 years after Bandung, what are the possibilities to build the world anew? Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1182113 https://calenda.org/1182113 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The chronological reading of colonial contexts allows us to identify the “organic” link between translation and the colonial project, before, during and after the military occupation. Translation has acquired several functions; highlighting the role of the translator between the narratives of the colonizer and that of the colonized. Until 2000, seventy percent of the world's population had a “colonial” past, either as a colonizer or as a colonized. (Etemad, 258), which suggests that more than seventy percent of the world's population have been affected, and perhaps still are, through the prism of translation. The Conference will attempt to understand how translation was put at the service of the colonial project? What translation approaches have been adopted by translators and interpreters? How did translational discourse influence the cultures of the occupier and the occupied? Call for papers Oran (31000) https://calenda.org/1178712 https://calenda.org/1178712 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200 This symposium aims to contribute new insights to the long-term history of neutrality, focusing on its "pre modern" dimension broadly understood (ca. 1400-1800). Indeed, the law of neutrality started to emerge in the Early Modern Age through the practices and beliefs of the European state system, but also from its interactions with non-European normative and cultural systems. Different but complementary angles of approach can be used to understand this phenomenon: e.g. diplomatic history, IR history, political history, economic history and legal history. Throughout history, polities as well as private actors have interpreted neutrality in flexible and divergent ways, e.g. proposing a proactive-assertive approach or a more passive and inward looking one. Benefiting from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the symposium takes into consideration both the theory and the practice of neutrality, advancing our knowledge of the often-contested conceptualisation of legal regimes at sea as well as on land. Such a conceptualisation depended on the interaction between situations of peace and diverged across different temporal and spatial coordinates. Call for papers Antwerp (2000) https://calenda.org/1174905 https://calenda.org/1174905 Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200 International organisations had a profound impact on the global architectural culture of the Cold War period. Two of them stood out: UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, an intergovernmental organisation) and UIA (the International Union of Architects, an international association of architectural societies). This workshop places particular emphasis on the relationship between UNESCO and UIA. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1163122 https://calenda.org/1163122 Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200 As part of the 7th Biennial Congress of the Association for African Studies in Italy (ASAI), we are organizing a panel on cross-border communities in Africa. This panel welcomes papers from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, particularly those interested in the individual and collective dimensions of territorialized and individualized relations at international borders, which Amilhat Szary and Giraut (2015) call “borderities.” Call for papers Messina https://calenda.org/1161525 https://calenda.org/1161525 Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200 In both cinemas—that of the “normalizer” and that of the “normalized”—the political and economic stagnation reinforced by stochastic censorship and disillusioned society often leads to peculiar examples of mismatched ideology and aesthetics allowing for viewing them as accidental camp classics today. What structural changes do Czechoslovak studios undergo in the wake of the Warsaw Pact invasion? What thematic and aesthetic choices can be attributed to their moment in film history on both sides of the Iron Curtain? How does the soaring number of light entertainment genre like melodrama, comedy or musical correlate with the current events? Last but not least, the questions of actors’ agency in the face of state repression and censorship, of reevaluation of the immense corpus of films created during the late-Communist era feel relevant in Russian and Central European cinema and culture in general today. Seminar Prague (11000) https://calenda.org/1145840 https://calenda.org/1145840 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100 This international conference wants to reflect on the interaction between local agents and the institutional State Building policies between the 17th and the 19th Centuries. The construction of the Modern State, far from being a top-down vertical process, has consisted of a debate, often tense - if not adverse - between the interests of local communities and the State apparatus or raison d'état. In this way, the aim is to achieve a much more complete knowledge of the construction of the Modern State based on the study of the local sphere. The conference presented here is undoubtedly boldly conceived: to bring together marginal orisolated aspects and intertwine them to revisit specific historiographical hypotheses. Call for papers Barcelona (08193)