https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1387221 https://calenda.org/1387221 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The issue examines how urban forms emerge and configure possible futures in contexts shaped by partial infrastructures, social and environmental vulnerabilities, and the reconfiguration of public action. The issue welcomes empirically grounded work — fieldwork, case studies, and comparative approaches — on cities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, in dialogue with contemporary debates in urban studies, the sociology of space, and critical geography. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1385219 https://calenda.org/1385219 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Cities have always been more than merely settings for human events—often marked by conflicts of varying intensity. They are themselves among the most sensitive and enduring outcomes of those events and conflicts. Urban transformations bear the material and symbolic traces of the tensions that have traversed them: wounds produced by armed conflicts, political and social crises, natural disasters, and processes of exploitation or exclusion, as well as by projects of reform, reconstruction, and refoundation. It is within this unresolved tension between trauma and reparation, fracture and recomposition, that the theme of the congress is situated. Call for papers Genoa (16123) https://calenda.org/1382773 https://calenda.org/1382773 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This international colloquium explores how ambiances—light, wind, humidity, sound, temperature—shape the experience of island spaces and the relationships between communities, territories, and built environments. It is structured around five themes : sensorial architectures, digital sensing, geo-sensitive approaches, knowledge and skills, and arts and ambiances. Call for papers Port Louis https://calenda.org/1355452 https://calenda.org/1355452 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The International Conference Building Identities: Character in Architecture and Beyond, will be taking place at ETH Zurich, 2-4 September 2026. We aim to examine ‘character’ as a historical concept across various disciplines and geographies, and invite paper proposals addressing specific uses of the term ‘character’ in sources from the period 1700-1900. Call for papers Zurich https://calenda.org/1350570 https://calenda.org/1350570 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 ESPI2R, ESPI’s real estate research division, adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address a wide array of real estate issues. In November 2026, ESPI2R will host its biannual International Conference on Real Estate in Paris, serving as a premier platform for discussions and insights on the evolving real estate landscape at various levels - from global to local. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1330837 https://calenda.org/1330837 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Visiting Research Chair in Urban Sustainability at the University of Ottawa supports invited researchers in conducting interdisciplinary research on urban sustainability in the context of climate change. The goal is to foster the creation of innovative solutions and knowledge mobilization to make urban centers more sustainable, resilient, and equitable. Scholarship, prize and job offer Ottawa (K1R 6N5) https://calenda.org/1325916 https://calenda.org/1325916 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 A high degree of complexity, be it in terms of governance or actors’ diversity in local contexts, characterises heritage development projects, which increasingly rely on private interventions or public-private partnerships. In this context, the interplay between public and private interventions becomes a critical arena for research. Tensions, negotiations and innovations increasingly shape heritage development while highlighting the challenges and opportunities of the intervention of private actors in the revitalisation of urban heritage – particularly in contexts where heritage is commodified as a comparative advantage for rehabilitation projects. The main objective of this conference, which specifically focuses on the role of private actors in heritage urban contexts (UNESCO World Heritage sites, conservation areas, historic centres, etc.), is to explore the relationships and dynamics established between “heritage entrepreneurs” and other urban stakeholders in diverse heritage contexts as a means to shed light on how these combined actions produce heritage today. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1324497 https://calenda.org/1324497 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Perspectives Rurales scientific and pedagogical network meetings aim to bring together a wide range of participants: researchers from various disciplines, as well as local territorial actors and members of civil society. The event will be organized into several thematic sessions. This call for contributions is open to individuals, institutions, associations, and collectives who share these concerns. Call for papers Gunsbach (68) https://calenda.org/1302099 https://calenda.org/1302099 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The Sustainable Cities Initiative project, led by Professor Brian Rey, Vice-Dean of Governance at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa, is inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. The program aims to recruit an early-career researcher whose work focuses on urban sustainability issues. Scholarship, prize and job offer Ottawa (K1N 6N5) https://calenda.org/1305839 https://calenda.org/1305839 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The aim of this approach is to consider how national urban planning traditions are shaped by conflict-related constraints during periods of escalation towards war and of occupation. National historiographies have long considered this period as a parenthesis in the circulation of ideas and models. In contrast to this approach, the perspective of the session involves an in-depth investigation of urban planning theories on a European scale, as well as an analysis of personal and institutional exchanges, technical transfers and expertises before and during World War II. Call for papers Barcelona https://calenda.org/1301011 https://calenda.org/1301011 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 While considering the ongoing changes in the SWANA region, the conference has the ambition to lay the foundation for new research projects on youths that explore how the challenges and intersections within existing approaches can contribute to advancing research. We are looking to bring together researchers to consider the legacy of earlier youth mobilizations on today’s youth, whilst discussing new and emerging research which enables theoretical, methodological, and spatial ways of understanding the lived experiences and futures of young people in the region. We will examine the extent to which this category can be mobilized as an analytical tool in its own right, and we question its conceptual relevance, as well as its limits and its potential blind spots. Call for papers Amman https://calenda.org/1296512 https://calenda.org/1296512 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Metropolitan cities are well understood to be in the course of constant change. The city’s edges push ever outward into the suburbs or the hinterland. Heritage, on the other hand, certainly in the guide of preservation is often constructed as resistance to change; and yet is not static. The call is aimed at researchers interested in the relationship between heritage and the metropolis, between heritage preservation and urbanisation, in different geographical contexts. We want to compare situations observed in the North and South, in formerly industrialised and non-industrialised regions, in very active metropolises and others in decline. Call for papers Aubervilliers (93) https://calenda.org/1294952 https://calenda.org/1294952 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The vacancy of tertiary buildings is a growing issue in urban and regional dynamics. While vacant offices are a visible symptom of economic, social and environmental mutations, they also represent an opportunity to rethink the role of business districts and the uses of the city as a whole. The aim is to analyse tertiary vacancy in France and Europe for identifying the potential for converting unoccupied buildings, whether into housing or other functions: coliving, hotels, industrial or commercial activities, data centres, living labs, collaborative spaces, etc. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1292259 https://calenda.org/1292259 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We are pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for a session scheduled for the upcoming 2026 Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) on the theme 'City Networks in Europe and beyond', to be held in Barcelona in September 3-6, entitled: Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945. This session will look at the circulation and transfer of critical discourses, as well as activist practices that challenge the dominant ways of making cities after 1945. From a transnational perspective, the aim is to trace the networks, interrelations and genealogies of critical and alternative urbanism in contemporary Europe and beyond. Call for papers Barcelona 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/1290912 https://calenda.org/1290912 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The session aims to shed light on the city as a contact zone and as a subject and object of making, circulating, implementing, and institutionalising knowledge in the early modern period. We are interested in gaining insights into the reciprocal process that both practically and theoretically shapes the city and situates architecture within a broader field of knowledge-making. Call for papers Aarhus https://calenda.org/1282209 https://calenda.org/1282209 Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Organized by the French Federation of Landscape Architects (FFP, Fédération Française du Paysage), the 61st World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) will take place in Nantes, France, from September 10-12, 2025, under the theme "Guiding Landscapes". Landscape architects play a key role in adapting cities to climate change at a variety of scales. Planning, conceiving, and managing new resilient urban districts, reorganizing the public realm by reopening soils, increasing rainwater infiltration, and developing urban biodiversity to cool cities are all essential challenges. Conference, symposium Nantes (44) https://calenda.org/1280403 https://calenda.org/1280403 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the threshold of a biopolitical modernity. Here, the ‘will to knowledge’ is not the subject’s drive for research, but the injunction to bring into the field of knowledge-power those borderline domains of life that had been previously excluded from it: death, birth, sexuality. This process of the adherence of knowledge to bodies entirely invests our time and urges us to reflect on the figures of the ‘will to knowledge’ in the new millennium. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1263362 https://calenda.org/1263362 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The conference seeks to bring together researchers from across the Global North and South to build an international research network on squatting in its broadest sense. We will cover a wide range of occupation practices, including squats, informal settlements, self-managed social centers, ZADs, and other forms of lend or housing occupation. We will host two interactive panels in which squatters and activists discuss their practices and explore avenues for future collaboration with scholars. Call for papers Aubervilliers (93) https://calenda.org/1257224 https://calenda.org/1257224 Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods and tools specific to the field. Clara launches a call for guest editor(s) for its issue 13 (to be published in 2027). The role of guest editors is to prepare Clara’s thematic section which consists of six to nine articles developing a specific and original topic in the field of architecture. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1246447 https://calenda.org/1246447 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We invite scholars and practitioners to contribute to the forthcoming edited volume, Shaping Local Governance in a Changing Context: Perspectives from the Global South. This book seeks to explore the evolving dynamics of local governance in the Global South, focusing on decentralization, recentralization, hybrid governance models, the policies of government elites, and the strategies of local actors. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1243436 https://calenda.org/1243436 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Although the study of barriers and inequality is central to understanding the dynamics of mobility and the structuring of urban life, we consider it relevant to also advance in understanding the strategies that these groups build to face the challenges of urban life. Different populations experience varying degrees of freedom or restriction when travelling, depending on their social, economic and spatial position. Depending on the characteristics of the individuals, but especially the social groups in which they are inserted, it is possible to observe creative mobility strategies to face the barriers imposed by the organisation of urban space, inequality or transport policies. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1228528 https://calenda.org/1228528 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100 We seek contributions that explore the conditions under which cities should be granted autonomy, the implications of autonomy for equality, and the challenges specific to cities in navigating their relationship with regional, national, and global governance systems. The aim is to foster a robust dialogue on whether autonomy (and in which form? which constitutional status?) is the appropriate framework for empowering cities or if alternative approaches, such as empowerment through subsidiarity, are better suited to achieving justice and effective governance. Call for papers Paris (75007) https://calenda.org/1221243 https://calenda.org/1221243 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100 By examining the characteristics of societies and cultures in relation to disability, the concerns of disability studies are useful for geography, as they enable us to reflect on spatial barriers and on the diversity of ways of perceiving or representing space. Over and above the question of accessibility, spatial approaches enable us to reflect on the habitability of territories, whether highly urbanized or rural, in terms of disability. Call for papers Vienna https://calenda.org/1207078 https://calenda.org/1207078 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 This workshop aims to explore critical histories of the multifaceted relationship between UNESCO and UIA in development contexts. It will address various aspects of their partnership, including environmental initiatives, housing programs, school buildings, professionalization efforts, heritage campaigns, international networking, and media strategies. Conference, symposium Zurich https://calenda.org/1204170 https://calenda.org/1204170 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 The meeting aims at crossing perspectives of urban and law history, resorting to a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach that enables to capture key aspects of the relation between law, city and jurists over the long term. Call for papers Rome (00154) https://calenda.org/1204067 https://calenda.org/1204067 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 CLARA is launching a new call for papers entitled "Questioning the Profession:
Architect and Planner Cooperatives" for the 12th issue of the journal. In opposition to the glorification of the singular figure of the architect, the twentieth century saw the emergence of numerous initiatives seeking to invent new, more collective and interdisciplinary forms of practice. Cooperative associations from the global North and South sought to overcome individual authorship by linking design activities with political militancy and social engagement. By studying cases of architect and planner cooperatives from different countries and cultural contexts, this issue of Clara invites contributions which critically reflect on the political, social and disciplinary issues that favored the creation of these organizations, and how they were managed. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1202307 https://calenda.org/1202307 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100 The Session explores recent developments and innovations in spatial planning in African countries. It includes theoretical and empirical contributions. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1198227 https://calenda.org/1198227 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100 The fourth issue of The Journal of Architectural Design and History intends to explore the theme of exclusion in its various forms, investigating the relationship between the historical city and the architectures that, with their spaces and forms, define places of urban exclusion in different historical, geographical, political and social contexts. We invite the authors to investigate the subject of exclusion in its broadest sense: from the most traditional exclusionary categories (e.g. prisons, asylums, hospices, hospitals) to more lateral and less explored interpretations, which also investigate the theme of exclusion in terms of exclusivity, gender, ethnicity, census and lifestyle differences, or the absence of life (e.g. special schools, holiday villages and resorts, suburbs and banlieues, brothels, cemeteries). Call for papers Mantova https://calenda.org/1196657 https://calenda.org/1196657 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The France-Berkeley Fund (FBF) is pleased to announce its 2025 Call for Projects. The Fund invites applications for up to $15,000 in seed funding for new collaborations between faculty and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and their counterparts in France.The core mission of the FBF is to advance innovative basic and applied research in all fields. Call for tender