https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1401645 https://calenda.org/1401645 Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Call for papers for a panel proposal entitled “Renaissance and Early Modern Meanings of History”, as part of the Renaissance Society of America's 2027 Annual Meeting, to be held on 11-13 March 2027, in Philadelphia, United States. Call for papers Philadelphia https://calenda.org/1401116 https://calenda.org/1401116 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Artists’ biographies are not neutral. They are constructed, shaped, and often contested. The one-day international SALON conference 'Unreliable Lives: Rethinking the Artist’s Biography in the Nineteenth Century' at Singer Laren (NL) explores how these narratives emerged in the nineteenth century and how they continue to shape or distort our understanding of art. Conference, symposium Laren (1251 BS) https://calenda.org/1400122 https://calenda.org/1400122 Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This conference seeks to bring together scholars working on such large and complex multilingual traditions of textual and pictorial narratives. We invite contributions from researchers across linguistic boundaries and disciplinary approaches—philological, historical, iconographical, literary, or digital—to critically engage with the methodological challenges posed by these traditions. By doing so, we aim to refine our understanding of the cultural history of the premodern era, characterized by its long-term, multicultural, and multilingual dynamics. Call for papers Hamburg https://calenda.org/1396963 https://calenda.org/1396963 Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The Musicology research group “Music and Society” at the Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (IMF), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), invites expressions of interest from outstanding postdoctoral researchers wishing to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF 2026) with our group as host institution in Barcelona. Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/1394795 https://calenda.org/1394795 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The city is a privileged field for encounters between historians and musicologists. The work of recent decades has seen a significant renewal, particularly with regard to the Modern Age, during which music became a central component of the urban experience. The diversification of themes is the key ingredient to this renewal. Institutional studies have given way to more complex approaches that combine artistic, social, political, cultural and economic issues to show how music was negotiated in urban contexts. Through the central theme of urban sociability and an unusual periodization, this workshop aims to highlight the original work of emerging scholars in which the spatial issues of urban musical practices are predominant, in order to compare sources, methods and questions. Study days Poitiers (86) https://calenda.org/1392779 https://calenda.org/1392779 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This unconference invites participants to collaboratively explore Europe–Japan relations between 1868 and 1913 – a transformative period spanning the Meiji era and the lead-up to the First World War. Rather than a traditional conference, this event emphasizes dialogue, exchange, and co-creation of ideas. We especially encourage contributions that challenge established narratives, introduce new perspectives, or explore underexamined bilateral connections across Europe and Japan. Call for papers Budapest (8000) https://calenda.org/1392273 https://calenda.org/1392273 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The congress invites scholars to reflect on the representation of death in art, literature, and history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Taking the iconic theme of the Dance of Death as its starting point, contributions may explore both the iconographic and literary traditions associated with it, including the Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead, the Triumph of Death, the Ars moriendi, the Memento mori, the Vanitas, and eschatological themes connected with the Last Judgement. Papers may also address funerary monuments and monumental sepulchral art, including gisants, tombs, and cemeteries, as well as the social practices surrounding death, such as funeral rites, the commemoration of the dead, and obituary traditions. Call for papers Turin https://calenda.org/1390138 https://calenda.org/1390138 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The workshop examines service as a key social relationship from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe and the Habsburg lands, it brings together early-career researchers to explore forms of dependent labor across households, rural economies, and institutions. Approaching service as more than a category of employment, the workshop highlights its value as an analytical lens that cuts across class, gender, and race. Particular attention is given to rural labor and women’s work, as well as to changing forms of service in the transition from premodern to modern societies. Call for papers Ljubljana (1000) https://calenda.org/1390180 https://calenda.org/1390180 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Consacrée à l’art méconnu des peintres d’offrandes dans la Grèce antique, la rencontre programmée à l’Ecole française d’Athènes le 6 mai permettra de présenter, durant la session du matin, les recherches menées sous l’égide du Louvre et du C2RMF sur la polychromie des statuettes de terre cuite. La seconde session sera consacrée à une ouverture vers l’Egypte ptolémaïque et romaine, en examinant la question de la transmission et des adaptations de la technè grecque au contexte multiculturel de l’Egypte gréco-romaine. Study days Athens https://calenda.org/1389452 https://calenda.org/1389452 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This international conference asks whether the biomedical humanities can intervene in the very constitution of the phenomena they study. We propose to rethink the body as a relational entity shaped by biological, social, environmental, and existential assemblages—moving beyond traditional partitions (body/mind, nature/culture, biological/social) that structure contemporary medicine. Conference, symposium Mons (7000) https://calenda.org/1385433 https://calenda.org/1385433 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This call for contributions invites proposals to a two-day roundtable (2-3 July 2026, online) from researchers currently working on the arts in the field of ethnomethodology/conversation analysis (EM/CA). Call for papers 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/1378532 https://calenda.org/1378532 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Focusing on Italian, German, French and other historical or national contexts, the volume conceptualises the Far-right not as a fixed ideological formation but as a dynamic and transnational network sustained by flexible and often unobtrusive linguistic infrastructures. It distinguishes between far Right as an adjectival umbrella term (neo-fascist, nationalist, radical, terrorist, subversive right movement and phenomena) and Far-Right as a situational category within the broader right–left continuum (Pirro 2023; Livi 2024). The volume does not seek to replace ideological analysis with a purely linguistic approach. Ideological formations remain central to any understanding of the Far-right. Yet they become historically intelligible only when examined through the semantic and discursive processes by which they are articulated, circulated and normalised. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1377300 https://calenda.org/1377300 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Ce colloque sur les humanités numériques en Afrique est un cadre d'échanges qui, au-delà des perspectives interdisciplinaires et pluridisciplinaires, se veut une occasion d'échanges en vue de creuser les limites imposées par le numérique et les sciences sociales. Dans une approche inclusive, il s'agit de montrer en quoi la dématérialisation et la démocratisation de l'information s'érigent en des questions épistémologiques sur le numérique, sur le modèle d’éducation et de culture dans une Afrique en plein essor. Les discussions porteront essentiellement sur le numérique, les lettres, les arts, la pédagogie, la recherche, les sciences sociales et l’émergence de l’Afrique. Call for papers Lomé (---) https://calenda.org/1374313 https://calenda.org/1374313 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Facts & Frictions/Faits et Frictions is a Canada-based peer-reviewed journal for journalism studies published by J-Schools Canada/Ecoles-J Canada. Our mission is to promote diversity of discourse on emerging issues and controversies in journalism and journalism education. Facts & Frictions highlights new perspectives and critiques catering to a broad public audience interested in innovations in journalism research, theory, practice, and teaching. Our editorial interests include current issues, changing norms, evolving practices and points of friction in the journalistic field, in the spirit of bridging multiple voices and perspectives in a shared space. Call for papers 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/1370761 https://calenda.org/1370761 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Archivorum Ark is Archivorum’s biennial grant program activating the archive as a living process, bringing together established artists and postgraduate students in an intergenerational collaboration to shape artistic legacies through digital archives and critical publications. Scholarship, prize and job offer 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/1371987 https://calenda.org/1371987 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Partially inherited from Enlightenment thought, the opposition of emotion to reason, body to mind, and natural sciences to social sciences has resulted in the marginalisation of the study of emotions and affects by devaluing them within the latter. The study of emotions requires a multidisciplinary approach. Our objective is to discuss emotions in a broad sense using diverse media. This call is therefore intended for a wide range of disciplines, regions, and time periods. Call for papers Aubervilliers (93) https://calenda.org/1365493 https://calenda.org/1365493 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This conference aims to explore the loss of artworks in Balkan,Central, and Eastern European studies. We propose to researches three main themes : the loss of the physical media of artworks, the loss as a subject of art and reflection and the loss as a theoretical imagination. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1362536 https://calenda.org/1362536 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Summer School in Critical Theory and Praxis: Literature and Society is a seven-day intensive programme held on the island of Cres, Croatia. It brings together scholars, students, researchers, artists, educators, activists, cultural workers, and policymakers for interdisciplinary exchange through lectures, workshops, and cultural events. The programme connects theoretical inquiry with literary and artistic practice, addressing pressing social and political issues while exploring creative and innovative responses. Summer School Cres https://calenda.org/1363923 https://calenda.org/1363923 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Journey and journeying shape social practices, forms of knowledge, narrative devices and experiences of the world at large. They can be ordinary yet unsettling processes, thresholds and metamorphoses, movements that open up, dislocate and transform. Crossing different spaces and temporalities introduces discontinuities in ways of perceiving, narrating and thinking. Transformation, however, is not automatic. Journeying may involve waiting, suspension, or blockage, as experienced by migrants or by those living under conditions of forced immobility. Change and the reworking of experience are never linear or immediate. Journeys often produce partial, ambiguous, or reversible transformations, placing identities, interpretive categories and regimes of meaning under tension. Call for papers Tallinn (10120) https://calenda.org/1362245 https://calenda.org/1362245 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The workshop aims to combine reflections on the ongoing development of Palestinian studies with the recent revival of work on Jordan, in order to examine Jordan's role as a privileged observation point for Palestine, a question that has been relatively unexplored until now. Through three main axes — archives and primary sources preserved in Jordan that enable the study of Palestine, the cross-border circulation of people and knowledge, and intersecting cultural scenes through the notions of identity and authenticity, this workshop aims to lay the groundwork for a transnational and multidisciplinary reflection on Jordan's place in the production of knowledge on Palestine. Call for papers Amman https://calenda.org/1357436 https://calenda.org/1357436 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This symposium is aimed at doctoral students and ECRs working on topics related to architectural humanities and invites participants to share work-in-progress, field notes, or methodological explorations. Call for papers Sétif (19000) 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/1352690 https://calenda.org/1352690 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The fifth edition of this international conference continues an established scientific and clinical tradition dedicated to exploring vulnerabilities in their various forms. Following previous editions that addressed sexuality and intimate relationships in disability, art in the service of disability, and mental health and new technologies, this 5th edition expands the discussion to a fundamental societal issue: parenthood in contexts of vulnerability. Call for papers Fes (30000) https://calenda.org/1348535 https://calenda.org/1348535 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Through this joint Call for Papers, “Geschichtstheorie am Werk” and “theorieblog”, two blog platforms designed to address basic theoretical questions of their disciplines (history and political science) for a wider audience, invite you to explore how and with what implications historical theory assumptions, historicity concepts and historical narratives have come about in political theory, and conversely ask what political and social-theoretical premises can be identified in academic historiography. Through this two-way observation, the blogs aim to shed light on certain implicit, unconscious or poorly reflected-upon elements of political thinking, historical research and historiography that exert considerable influence. They also hope to make disciplinary blind spots more visible and use the insights gained productively within and across disciplines. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1347797 https://calenda.org/1347797 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 In 2022, Jean Monnet University - Saint-Étienne, its Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Environment - City - Society Laboratory (UMR 5600 - CNRS) launched a series of annual international seminars on the use of digital tools (geomatics, 3D, sound reconstruction, etc.) for the study and management of cultural heritage. Given the success of previous editions, both among Master's students and colleagues and professionals, the seminar series will continue, with a new edition to be held on February 4, 2026 Study days Saint-Étienne (42) https://calenda.org/1347154 https://calenda.org/1347154 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Phanariots have long animated the historiography of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Southeast Europe. Contemporary political commentators, as well as historians seeking to construct national(ist) narratives, branded the Phanariots with critiques of corruption, foreign interests, and the legacies of the Ottoman past. Yet, scholars have conducted scant research on how and why “Phanariots” and “Phanariotism” came to signify corruption, bad governance, and a seemingly inescapable Ottoman past after 1821. This workshop tends to this gap in historiography. Call for papers Bucharest