https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1427562 https://calenda.org/1427562 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Jewish law is often presented as a comprehensive, self-contained, and all-encompassing legal system. Yet beyond the classics on the bookshelf and in the classroom, lived experience and theoretical inquiry challenge this conception. To explore these tensions and their implications, the Jewish Law Association invites scholars from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to reflect on the theme of the Jewish Law Association’s International 2027 Conference, Inside/Outside: Jews, Law, and Jewish Law. Call for papers Vienna 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/1251049 https://calenda.org/1251049 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 How did the Mixed Courts of Egypt impact legal knowledge and societies on both sides of the Mediterranean? 150 years after these once highly influential institutions heard their first cases, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will dedicate a workshop to this question. Call for papers Frankfurt (60323) https://calenda.org/1231634 https://calenda.org/1231634 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100 As part of the project International collaborations: crime and police cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic, 1870-1940, financed by the of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation of Portugal and hosted by CIES-Iscte, this international meeting aims to bring together researchers working in the study of criminal behaviours of a transnational nature, transnational mobilities and the development of forms of international and transnational political and cross-border surveillance, involving the Atlantic and connecting Europe, the Americas and Africa, during the 19th and 20th centuries. This congress aims to contribute to the expansion and deepening of the historiographical debate surrounding the transnational movement of people and the surveillance of international crime in the Atlantic axis. Call for papers Lisbon https://calenda.org/1223432 https://calenda.org/1223432 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The participants in the Conference Normative Knowledge and the Emergence of New Spain will explore the important role that normative knowledge (in particular, law, theology and philology, closely interconnected) played in a long and delicate process of creating institutions and normativities. Conference, symposium Frankfurt (60323) https://calenda.org/1207397 https://calenda.org/1207397 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 We seek original contributions that, through the lens of the politics of comparison, focus on four “latecomer empires,” namely Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Japan that started their colonial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. In these countries and their colonies and protectorates, heated debates took place around the search for (historical or current foreign) models, and politicians, activists, and intellectuals often demanded the transimperial circulation of colonial knowledge, be it legal, political, or scientific. In particular, we are interested in two distinct yet bordering fields: models of colonial policies from a global perspective and transimperial circulation of colonial knowledge in scientific fields such as medicine, agronomy, anthropology, legal culture, etc. Call for papers Naples https://calenda.org/1199213 https://calenda.org/1199213 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200 It seems urgent to reflect on how democracies have responded to the presence of extreme right-wing movements, both in terms of political practices and rhetoric. Have democracies actively opposed the extreme right, or have they opted for strategies of containment and coexistence? Equally important is to examine the perspective of the extreme right: how has it interpreted and narrated the (supposed) coexistence with the democratic system? How has it dealt with the legacy of fascism and to what extent has it adapted to the culture of democracy? Call for papers Aubervilliers (93) https://calenda.org/1198445 https://calenda.org/1198445 Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200 We invite submissions to the second conference of the HIRECOM Project, “Meeting Business Commitments and Obligations: Practices, Networks, and Institutions”. The Conference will take place from July 9th to 11th, 2025, both in-person and online at Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). This Second Conference will address the diversity of institutions and normative structures, both legally sanctioned and culturally accepted, that enabled, encouraged, or reinforced the meeting of economic obligations undertaken by social actors through exchanges. Call for papers Madrid (28040) https://calenda.org/1197373 https://calenda.org/1197373 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The Journal of Law, Society, and Authority is calling for papers for its upcoming Volume 14, Issue 1, to be published in March 2025. We welcome research articles and theoretical essays in law, political science, and international relations. Call for papers Oran (31000) https://calenda.org/1189947 https://calenda.org/1189947 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The conference aims to gather scholars working on legal history or other aspects related to the teaching of legal disciplines in a historical context in order to contribute to an intellectual history of this discipline. Although the conference focuses on identifying the intellectual contexts in which legal history developed, social aspects are also considered, since ideas do not exist independently of people. The social aspects could be, for instance, teachers and students at universities, royal academies, or other institutions disseminating knowledge. Call for papers Bayreuth (95447) https://calenda.org/1187089 https://calenda.org/1187089 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The Journal of Legal and Social Sciences is a scientific, international, refereed journal. It is published by University of Djelfa, Algeria. It is affiliated to the Faculty of Law and Political Science. It is a periodical, quarterly review published every three months and free of charge. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1187422 https://calenda.org/1187422 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200 This article discusses the artistic censorship of German and Germany in Israel between 1948-1967. During these years, with various fluctuations, the Israeli Film and Theatre Review Board, the agency in charge of artistic censorship, actively censored films, plays and concerts in German. Relying on previously undiscussed archival data, the article tracks the contours of this censorship, from its adoption upon the establishment of the state, to its eventual demise after full diplomatic relations were established between Israel and West Germany. Miscellaneous information Paris (75007) https://calenda.org/1187444 https://calenda.org/1187444 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200 Much has been written on the constitutional overhaul in Israel, and the attendant constitutional crisis in the first nine months of 2023. Since October 7, however, with the breakout of the Israel-Gaza war, the overhaul was seemingly shelved. The Article discussed in this seminair seeks to connect both events, by comparing the legal-political response to the overhaul with the legal-political response to the war. It asks why, given the intensity of the protest movement generated by the overhaul, there was a dearth of protest activity after the war, even though both events implicated similar values, namely the rule of law and individual rights, championed by the protest movement. Miscellaneous information Paris (75007) https://calenda.org/1186161 https://calenda.org/1186161 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris is pleased to invite you to a seminar with Julien Jeanneney (University of Strasbourg) for his book: Une fièvre américaine. Choisir les juges de la Cour suprême (CNRS Editions, 2024). The presentation will be followed by commentary. Miscellaneous information Paris (75007) 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/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/1174297 https://calenda.org/1174297 Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM) in Naples in partnership with the Università di Napoli Federico II invites applications for 5 fully funded scholarships (of which 2 are funded by the Next GenerationEU Program) in the PhD program in Global History and Governance for the academic year 2024-2025. Scholarship, prize and job offer Naples (80138) https://calenda.org/1165560 https://calenda.org/1165560 Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200 How do land reforms affect land access and property rights? Who are the actors of these transformations? Does such evolution contribute to the commodification and financialization of land? How do urban regulations produce informalities and affect socio-spatial dynamics? This half-day thematic seminar seeks to delve into these key questions with two roundtables. Aiming to inform today’s urban transformations through law and history, the six presentations will cover different contexts as diverse as Istanbul, Northern Italy, rural China, Madrid, and colonial Bombay, spanning from the 14th century to today. Study days Paris (75007)