https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1410206 https://calenda.org/1410206 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM) in Naples, in partnership with the Università di Napoli Federico II, invites applications for five fully funded scholarships in the PhD program in Global History and Governance for the academic year 2026-2027. The PhD Programme offers an advanced interdisciplinary course of study and research culminating in an original doctoral dissertation. The Ph.D. program in Global History and Governance is aimed at highly motivated students with a solid personal background and multiple language skills. The program focuses on the comparisons, connections, and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the planet between the 16th and 20th centuries. Scholarship, prize and job offer Naples (80134) 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/1397354 https://calenda.org/1397354 Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The conference addresses a question of growing significance in contemporary legal scholarship, namely the conditions under which legal decisions may claim authority when adopted in contexts that exceed established frameworks of cognition. Thus, radical uncertainties designates a particularly acute form of uncertainty, in which it becomes impossible to predict future events, to measure their effects, or even to identify with certainty the relevant parameters of a given situation. Such conditions typically emerge in sanitary, climatic, geopolitical or technological crises, in which decision-makers are required to act under temporal pressure, often without the customary procedural and substantive guarantees that established legal principles afford. Conference, symposium Lille (59000) https://calenda.org/1376054 https://calenda.org/1376054 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a book and conference on the theme of decoloniality and legal methodology in Europe, given the political importance of methodology. This subject requires Europeans to draw inspiration from the knowledge and experience of the regions they colonised. Legal scholars must also learn from civil society and studies carried out in the social sciences. Call for papers Antwerp https://calenda.org/1373809 https://calenda.org/1373809 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Department of Communications and Journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš invites scholars and researchers to the fifth international scientific conference Media and Challenges of the Modern Society 2026. The conference will focus on the role of media self-regulation, journalistic ethics and contemporary transformations of media systems in the digital era. The event will bring together researchers from different countries to exchange knowledge on media ethics, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and the future of journalism. Call for papers Niš (18000) https://calenda.org/1367625 https://calenda.org/1367625 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 In May 2027, the DeCoLa programme at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host the fourth edition of its Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop series in Cameroon. Organised in partnership with the Fondation Afric’Avenir, this edition seeks to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a decolonial comparative legal approach. It also aims to contribute to the consolidation of a decolonial comparative law community across the African continent and beyond. Summer School Douala https://calenda.org/1368613 https://calenda.org/1368613 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 “Rethinking Innocent IV and the Crusades” seeks to reassess the pontificate of Innocent IV (1243–1254) through a sustained examination of his engagement with the crusading movement. We are pleased to invite proposals for 20-minute papers exploring all aspects of the relationship between the pontificate of Innocent IV and the crusading movement. We particularly welcome contributions that adopt interdisciplinary approaches, including (but not limited to) history, legal history, theology, manuscript studies, political thought and institutional history. Particular attention will be moreover giving the proposals concerning the history of heresy and heretical communities during Innocent’s pontificate, the relationship with the Mendicant Orders, with the Mongol World, the promotion and the business of the cross in Italy. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1364273 https://calenda.org/1364273 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The 2026 edition of the TOPs’ summer school will take place at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, from 23 to 26 June 2026, and will consist of 30 hours of lectures, seminars, and interactive discussions among participants through working labs. In order to ensure a high-level academic environment, the summer school will host internationally recognised scholars and guest lecturers, who will contribute through keynote lectures and dedicated sessions to foster critical debate and interdisciplinary exchange. Summer School Forlì (47121) https://calenda.org/1363096 https://calenda.org/1363096 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This conference explores the early modern law of the sea as a contested legal regime forged through warfare, commercial rivalry, jurisdictional overlap, and asymmetries of power. It invites contributions examining how conflict, enforcement practices, neutral navigation, and maritime litigation contributed to the historical formation of the law of the sea between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Call for papers Ostend (8400) https://calenda.org/1360684 https://calenda.org/1360684 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The conference Between Eagles and Dragons: Identity Negotiation and Ethnic Diversity in the Ancient World explores the processes through which ethnic identities were constructed, contested, and transformed across multi-ethnic societies of ancient Eurasia. Bringing into dialogue regions from the Mediterranean to India and China, the event aims to investigate how institutions, cultural practices, languages, and historical narratives shaped categories of belonging and otherness. By adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, the conference seeks to highlight the fluid, dynamic, and historically contingent nature of identity formation in the ancient world. Call for papers Cagliari (09123) 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/1352806 https://calenda.org/1352806 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 We welcome submissions from historians who engage with any approach related to the use of flags at sea. Applications from Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral students, and early career researchers are warmly encouraged. Call for papers Paris (77190) https://calenda.org/1345774 https://calenda.org/1345774 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Conference dedicated to Alfonso de Castro's heresiographical treatrise “Adversus omnes haereses” (1534, 1546, 1547, 1556), an important milestone in Catholic heresiography that emerged from the interconfesional controversy with Protestantism. Conference, symposium Madrid (28040) https://calenda.org/1340433 https://calenda.org/1340433 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 We are inviting book chapter submissions for the upcoming edited volume titled “Legal Governance of Agentic AI and Autonomous Agents: Regulating the Future of Work,” published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). Call for papers https://calenda.org/1332596 https://calenda.org/1332596 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This panel explores the interaction between legal norms, sovereignty formation, and geopolitical dynamics in nineteenth-century Latin America. During this period, new republics faced the simultaneous challenges of consolidating internal authority and projecting it outward in a rapidly shifting international environment. Legal norms—constitutional, civil, penal, administrative, and consular—became key instruments through which states defined their international position and negotiated their place within an emerging hemispheric order. Call for papers Turin (10153) https://calenda.org/1325468 https://calenda.org/1325468 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This interdisciplinary conference aims to foster dialogue between legal scholars, management researchers, and the broader social sciences to examine fifty years of EU Waste Laws and Management, and to discuss the challenges shaping the next decades. Particular attention will be given to the tension between EU-level harmonisation and local implementation, as well as to power dynamics among public, private, and civil-society actors in the development of waste and circular-economy policies. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1319212 https://calenda.org/1319212 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 At first glance, the concept of “anonymity” may seem simple: any actor who acts without revealing their identity is acting anonymously. However, this superficial simplicity hides considerable technological, social, and political complexity. What conditions make anonymity necessary for expression, cooperation, and judgment? The cultural, ethical, and narrative dimensions of “anonymity” in contemporary digital environments affect both administrative and creative life. With a perspective that combines the techniques of law with those of sociology, politicalscience, cultural studies, and narratology, this project seeks to uncover the cultural transformations that underpin “anonymity’ in practice, through its new or emerging instruments and narrative features. Call for papers Nice (06200) 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/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/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/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/1289989 https://calenda.org/1289989 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This Special Issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto will examine the political, legal, andjudicial implications of the climate crisis. Its main goal is to collect recent developments and proposals toaddress the challenges posed by the climate crisis. Expected contributions will range from ongoing initiatives to constitutional proposals and amendments, proposals’ drafts ofinternational treaties, relevant case-laws, and best practices collections at the subnationallevel, including local policies. This Special Issue welcomes contributions from political science and law. Call for papers 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/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/1262476 https://calenda.org/1262476 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The conference's primary goal is to question the limits of contemporary legal and normative responses (transparency requirements, risk assessments, and digital literacy initiatives) in addressing social challenges posed by social media platforms, AI systems, and algorithms. Call for papers Lausanne (1015) 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/1259051 https://calenda.org/1259051 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The Center for Critical Democracy Studies invites you to a workshop on Autonomy and the Law. This event will explore the complex interplay between autonomy and legal frameworks, with a focus on the right to housing, the concept of autonomy in law, child autonomy, digital markets, and a conceptual inquiry into the limits of autonomy. Key themes include the legal and social dimensions of securing housing rights, the philosophical and practical facets of autonomy within legal systems, the unique challenges of children’s autonomy in legal contexts, the impact of digital markets on individual agency, and the theoretical boundaries of autonomous action. Critical issues to be addressed encompass systemic barriers to housing access, the balance between individual autonomy and societal obligations, protections for minors in legal decision-making, privacy and consumer rights in digital ecosystems, and the ethical and legal constraints on autonomy. This workshop provides a platform for engaging in a dialogue on the pressing legal, ethical, and societal questions shaping autonomy across these domains. Conference, symposium Paris (75003) 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/1254684 https://calenda.org/1254684 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The aim of this international and pluri-disciplinary two-day conference is to explore the current concern for land reform in its social, cultural, legal and environmental contexts. The intention is to gather specialists from a range of disciplines including history, geography, law, literature, political science, economics, sociology, and the arts, as well as environmental and climate change specialists, to explore the interactions between land and power in Scotland. Conference, symposium Paris (75005)