https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 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/1400829 https://calenda.org/1400829 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 We welcome applications from researchers specialising in energy and colonial history to participate in a series of online roundtables on the colonial histories of energy, which will take place in late summer 2026. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1400017 https://calenda.org/1400017 Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This conference will examine the manifestations of religiosity of women who were not fully considered by the Catholic Church as members of its body, such as beatas, consecrated virgins, beguines, bizzoche, penitents, tertiaries, puellae, as well as sisters of religious congregations, from 1400 to 1900. Conference, symposium Brussels (1000) 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/1390693 https://calenda.org/1390693 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This issue of RILEA journal wishes to focus on socio-ecological and territorial transition (SETT), its design and institutional framework, its links with applied language research, and with vocational teaching in applied foreign languages. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1387898 https://calenda.org/1387898 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The history of the chemical industry has long attracted scholarly attention and continues to do so today. This workshop reflects on the current state of the historiography, including its implications for other areas of research. Focusing on Northwest Europe and its connections to other regions, the workshop provides a forum to discuss works in progress and identify avenues for future research. Those interested in attending, either in person or virtually, are encouraged to register via the link above. Study days Villeneuve-d'Ascq (59650) https://calenda.org/1359638 https://calenda.org/1359638 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Connecting to the main subject of the „Bringing Art Nouveau heritage back to life” symposium, the conference to be held in Budapest in 2026 intends to examine the topic of architectural covering materials in Art Nouveau buildings as part of a Gesamtkunstwerk system, after the Torino Declaration on the Preservation of the Art Nouveau Architecture (1994). How did architectural ceramics and cement tiles, as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk, appear in the colour scheme and visual harmony of the buildings ? Call for papers Budapest 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/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/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 https://calenda.org/1346594 https://calenda.org/1346594 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This is fourth of a series of study days dedicated to the history of precious ornaments in Europe since the Middle Ages. Favoring an interdisciplinary approach inspired by Aby Warburg, specialists, historians, philologists, philosophers and gemologist, will share their groundbreaking research on the history of precious arts, gemstones, craftsmanship and finery, between neoclassicism and industrial revolution periods. Study days Paris (75005) https://calenda.org/1334967 https://calenda.org/1334967 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Fondazione 1563 is pleased to launch the sixth call for applications of the Turin Humanities Programme (THP) to award up to 4 two year fellowships for advanced studies on After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations. Candidates are invited to propose projects examining how the concept of the Enlightenment has been constructed, adapted, contested and (re)appropriated in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries—that is, after the historical period conventionally associated with it. Scholarship, prize and job offer Turin https://calenda.org/1333413 https://calenda.org/1333413 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The conference aims to show how the study of the polyphonic press, published in Thessaloniki, contributes to a better understanding of its topography, its sociology and the evolution of its cultural landscape, paving the way for a plural history of the city of Thessaloniki. Call for papers Thessaloniki (92600) https://calenda.org/1333546 https://calenda.org/1333546 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Summer School will focus on the interplay between media developments and performative culture, spanning from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Through lectures, artist talks, re-enactments and interactive hands-on experimentation, the summer school programme aims to foster students’ ability to think through media by questioning their materiality, sensory properties, and its role as a historical source. Summer School Antwerp (2000) https://calenda.org/1323685 https://calenda.org/1323685 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The long eighteenth century is widely recognisedby scholars as a golden age of letter writing, characterised by the expansion of transnational and transatlantic correspondence networks among the elites. Particularly in Britain, this period witnessed an unprecedented enthusiasm for epistolary exchange, which led to a proliferation of publications—ranging from scholarly productions such as theoretical treatises and letter-writing manuals, to literary works, whether fictional, sentimental, general, or biographical. These developments contributed to a redefinition of epistolary conventions, narrative models, and often gendered representations of letter writing. Study days Brest (29) https://calenda.org/1316905 https://calenda.org/1316905 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The trilingual conference “Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya seeks to address a still relatively unexplored topic: the study of Italian communities abroad, with particular attention to the Mediterranean world in the period between national unification (1861) and the occupation of Libya (1911). At the core of this reflection lies the close, and not merely chronological, relationship between the migratory dynamics that characterized the early decades of unified Italy and the rise of colonial expansionism. The seminar therefore aims to investigate this connection through the specific lens offered by the Italian presence in North Africa and in the Ottoman Empire before the occupation of Libya. Call for papers Turin 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/1316033 https://calenda.org/1316033 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is looking for contributions on the work of Frederick Nietzsche. Abstracts are due January 5, 2026. Final publication is planned for December 2026. This special issue will be guest-edited by M. Blake Wilson, California State University. Call for papers Budapest (H-1119) https://calenda.org/1299211 https://calenda.org/1299211 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 On 10 October 2025, we will bring together historians from Eurasia and Africa (19th and 20th centuries) to reflect on the concept of peripheral archives and how the production/preservation/use of archives located on the periphery or margins (geographical, political, global or national, family archives, village archives, non-state institutions, the Global South, etc.) informs the writing of history. Study days Paris (75007) https://calenda.org/1279010 https://calenda.org/1279010 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We are pleased to announce the new call for papers for the second issue of the new series of Senzacornice Journal. Studies on the Contemporary Art System, on the theme We don't need no education. The Education of the Artist and for the Artist from 1900 to the Present, edited by Raffaele Bedarida. This issue explores the histories, theories, and practices related to the formation of the artist's role in the contemporary context, both nationally and internationally. It investigates the spaces, methods, and networks of relationships and knowledge shaped through official and unofficial channels of artistic practice transmission. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1292473 https://calenda.org/1292473 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, religion played a continuous role in shaping societies worldwide. This period was marked by dramatic historical changes, including imperial expansion, decolonization, the devastation of two world wars, and the ideological tensions of the Cold War. Religious institutions, communities, and individuals actively engaged with all these phenomena, proving themselves to be co-creators of profound social, cultural, and political shifts. Currently seeking contributions from historians focusing on selected examples of religious transformation and social change in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism of the Greek rite, Judaism and Islam. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1281811 https://calenda.org/1281811 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The 1st International Forum on Design, Desert, and Sustainable Development (4D) offers a transdisciplinary reflection on the desert as a space for creation, innovation, and resilience. Held in Tozeur from February 4 to 7, 2026, the forum brings together researchers, artists, designers, engineers, and local stakeholders to explore ecological, social, and aesthetic challenges related to arid environments. It examines the role of design in the sustainable transformation of the desert through three key approaches: the desert as an in situ creative laboratory, an in vitro catalyst for innovation, and an in vivo space for learning. Call for papers Tozeur (2200) 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/1270739 https://calenda.org/1270739 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This special issue examines the intersections of literature, spirituality, and politics in Italian culture between 1861, the year of Italian unification, and 1915, a symbolic threshold that, for Italy, marked both the onset of the war and the collapse of its liberal order. This period witnessed a profound epistemological crisis, as traditional structures of knowledge and belief were increasingly destabilized by the pressures of modernization, secularization, and rapid ideological and social change. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1256536 https://calenda.org/1256536 Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The Journal of Economic Integration in an international, free of charge and open-access quaterly scientific journal, specialized in Economics and Management, issued by the Algerian-African Economic Integration Laboratory, in the Faculty of Economics, Business and Management Sciences at Ahmed Draia University of Adrar, Algeria. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1255456 https://calenda.org/1255456 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The conference aims to show that even at the apex of the modern State trajectory, hybrid practices not only persisted, but rather represented fully sanctioned courses of action across Europe. Observed through the prism of hybrid groups like civic militias, security agencies as well as volunteer armed corps, the well-established dichotomy between public and private appears to be less clear-cut than it is usually believed to be. In between these two poles of publicness and privateness, a vast grey area emerges. Call for papers Naples https://calenda.org/1249571 https://calenda.org/1249571 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The nineteenth century, as stated by the volumes that have now become classics ofhistoriography by Christopher A. Bayly (2003) and Jürgen Osterhammel (2009), coincideswith a «transformation of the world» in a global sense and «the birth of the modern world». The present proposal aims to collect articles that analyse the perception and response to changes in maritime transport at the harbour level, with respect to port cities considered both as individual cases and as groups of cities belonging to a regional geographic area or connected in a network, and finally as case studies in a comparative perspective. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1248905 https://calenda.org/1248905 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Liberas, UGent, the Laboratoire des pratiques et des identités journalistiques (ReSIC-ULB) and CAMille (ULB/KBR) are organizing between 5 and 7 June a three-day international colloquium on the life stories and careers of "forgotten journalists". The history of journalism has often focused on a limited number of famous individuals. Behind these big names are many journalists whose names and work have not made it into the canon. But to capture the full diversity of the journalistic field, these careers and lives need to be recovered. Conference, symposium Ghent (9000) https://calenda.org/1249682 https://calenda.org/1249682 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This conference proposes to explore the concept of ecological grief and the fast-growing body of theoretical work that is developing around it against the background of the ongoing sixth-mass extinction and biodiversity loss. With this conference, we also wish to think about the longer history of ecological grief from the eighteenth century onwards, including by exploring some of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Is nature grievable? How do we grieve for it? What is the role of writers and artists in this individual and collective process? While to some, environmental grief gives way to desolation or an irredeemable sense of melancholy, others view it as a form of resilience or even a spur to action, a source of activism in art. Conference, symposium Paris 13e Arrondissement (75)