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• 16

  Jun

  2023

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Global Series: TV and the Political Imagination

  This collective volume seeks to explore the vast potential of TV series and their role in shaping our moral and political perspectives on the world. Global Series: TV and the Political Imagination is part of the ERC Demoseries project, hosted by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and responds to Sandra Laugier’s call for taking TV series seriously as “a new form of education…[that is] both political and moral” (Laugier 2022). TV series have the capacity to reflect complex social and political realities and can serve as shared representations of moral reasoning and values, prompting viewers to engage in ethical reflection and philosophical inquiry. By examining a diverse range of TV series from across the globe, the volume aims to highlight their power to act as common reference points in shaping public discourse and conversation.

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• 15

  Jul

  2023

  Call for papers - History

  Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the 20th Century

  In recent years, scholars in historical and secular studies have become increasingly interested in communist attitudes towards religion, communist regimes’ efforts to uproot religion, and interactions between Marxists and Christians. Sponsored by the Explaining Atheism programme, this conference will explore transnational communist perspectives on atheism in the twentieth century and Marxist-inspired attempts to explain and influence the evolution of atheism. Building on work on “scientific atheism”, “atheist establishments” and “thought collectives”, the conference explores differences and commonalities within the Soviet bloc – within which scholarly debates on atheism took place in what might be called a limited international scientific community.

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• 31

  Aug

  2023

  Vác

  Call for papers - Religion

  Fifth Interdisciplinary Student Conference for Religious Studies

  The aim of the conference is to provide an academic forum for students and young researchers working in religious studies and its auxiliary sciences, where they can present and discuss their current research topics and their initial results on a yearly basis, but in a different location every year.

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• 31

  Dec

  2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Social polarisation across the world

  This first issue of Inequalities is dedicated to the fundamental and primary form of inequality, class inequality, with a focus on the sharpening of social polarisation within the various countries of the world. We accept contributions with a theoretical, analytical, and empirical slant that focus on the causes, forms, and consequences of social polarisation, on the specific aspects and internal dynamics of its intensification, and on the conflicts and social struggles that arise from it.

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• 30

  Jun

  2023

  Naples

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Natural Rights and Politics in the Early Modern Period

  Despite the ubiquity of the idea of human rights in our political culture, and its strong presence in the work of political scientists, jurists and contemporary historians, scholarly interest in natural rights — the tradition from which human rights are drawn — remains sporadic and fragmentary. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to deepen and broaden our understanding of the political uses and development of natural rights in the Early Modern Period, in Europe, the Atlantic world and beyond. By interrogating the relationship between natural rights and politics, this will be an occasion not only to analyze natural rights as a theoretical concept, but also and above all to study the different uses of concepts drawn from natural rights in precise political contexts, the political projects they served, their relationship with republicanism, and the emergence and evolution of particular rights.

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• 03

  Jul

  2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  Hardy and Heritage

  The conference aims to examine notions of heritage and legacy in Thomas Hardy’s writings, career and influence. Part of the conference will focus in particular on the links between Hardy and D.H. Lawrence.

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• 02 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Africa

  In Passage, The International Journal of Writing and Mobility - Varia

  In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in December 2023.  All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world.

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• 30

  Jun

  2023

  Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Armenian Diaspora(s) in Motion: Places, Stakeholders and Practices in the 21st Century

  Since diaspora studies emerged in the 1980s, the Armenian dispersion has played a prominent role in the scholarly literature seeking to understand and classify the nature, forms, and effects of diasporas as social formations. However, 40 years after the rise of diaspora studies, one has to admit that far from offering a stable paradigm, the Armenian diaspora (an expression that should be used in the plural) has undergone numerous transformations. The objective of this 2-day conference will be to reflect on these contemporary reshapings of the Armenian diaspora(s), revealing their diversity and the new dynamics at work.

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• 12

  Jun

  2023

  Cagliari

  Call for papers - Asia

  Asia in the mirror: self-representations, self-narratives, and perception of the other

  The 21^st century has been defined as the “Asian century”, a new global phase after the European and the American centuries. We invite scholars working in a range of disciplinary fields including literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies to submit proposals pertaining, but not limited, to the following research questions: What is Asia from a cultural point of view? How has Asia represented itself in its diversity and/or to different cultures? How has Asia represented other cultures? How have other cultures represented Asia? How have contacts between Asia and other cultures shaped the continent? What is the role of postcolonial and decolonial approaches in enhancing our understanding of Asia and its entanglements? 

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• 25 May 2023

  Honolulu

  Call for papers - Law

  Worlds of Earth Law : Emergence and Governance of Earth’s new Normative Spaces

  Law, technologies, and living things in 'nature' exist in a relation of co-production.What happens, however, in practice when lawyers, technoscience, and 'nature' meet in transnational adjudication – Ecuador v Chevron being an ideal-typical case ? This panel will invite papers that consider Earth Law and normative spaces as co-productive worlds of configurations of legal practices, technoscientific practices, and living and lively agencies.

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• 20

  Jun

  2023

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Anthropology and Social Movements Network Workshop

  This two-days workshop’s theme will be “Social Movements and Citizenship”, and will have a panel discussion devoted to “E. Isin and Political Anthropology”. When conducted under the umbrella of ‘citizenship’, a significative amount of the anthropological research rests on premises which derive from philosophical works, and a significant part on Engin Isin’s theory of “Acts of citizenship”. The working hypothesis for this proposal is that many anthropologists interested by social movements, activism, “ordinary politicization” and micro-politics use Engin Isin’s notion of “acts of citizenship” and, in doing so, put to work its underlying normativities on which relies the theory’s conception of citizenship.

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• 15 May 2023

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - Europe

  Culture for and with older people

  Culture and Aging. Understanding changes in social participation and cultural activities dedicated to older people

  Older people are becoming increasingly active,involved in social participation and culturalactivities, alongside with their increasedpresence in public discourse and media.Moreover, social perceptions of old age isshifting and adapting to new ways of living andsocial dynamics. This special issue of Culture. Society. Economy. Politics is focused on Culture and Aging and adresses the challenges and efforts made toward a better understanding of older persons and the way in which organizations, brands, policy makers, etc. are changing frameworks and means of interaction as to include this growing part of our society. 

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• 15 May 2023

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Swiss Mobility Conference

  The conference provides a place for discussion and debate for scholars in the humanities and social sciences working on various forms of mobility. Presentations may address mobility in its diversity and fall in the following research agendas: theoretical debate; methodological innovations; public policy and decision making in mobility; regulation of mobility and its tools; the actors and their logics of action; the norms and values underlying mobility and social inequality; temporality and spatiality of mobility; mobility prospective.

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• 31

  Jul

  2023

  Call for papers - History

  “Práticas da História”. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past - Permanent call for submissions

  Práticas da História is an open-access, bi-annual online academic journal, and it is looking to publish original articles, bibliographical essays, interviews, and book reviews on the subject matters of historical theory, historiography, methodology, and the uses of the past. We encourage submissions in Portuguese, English, French, or Spanish. The journal attaches equal importance to research relating the practice of history with other domains of the humanities and to works debating history in the context of the social sciences. While we find ourselves in the disciplinary field of history, we do aspire to question the boundaries of the field. It is our goal to promote interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity.

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• 20 May 2023

  Call for papers - History

  Experts and the City. Urban/spatial planning between politics and expertise in Western Europe, 1945 to present

  The “Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient” is delighted to announce a call for articles for the special issue “Experts and the City. Urban/spatial planning between politics and expertise in Western Europe, 1945 to present”. The special issue will focus on the Western European space between post-WWII reconstruction and the present.

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• 31

  Dec

  2023

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

  The UK New Towns in the face of Health, Housing and Climate Challenges

  The growing concern for healthy living, housing supply, and sustainability in the UK warrants a reflection on the potential contribution of New Towns (past and present) in the form of a special issue of the Journal of Urbanism. The issue will address the relationship between these contemporary challenges and the planning and housing heritage and identities of New Towns in the UK. More generally, it will focus on how the New Towns can help towards achieving sustainable development as defined by the Sustainable Development Goals set in the UN 2030 Agenda (UN, 2016): ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages (Goal 3) by making cities inclusive, sustainable and resilient (Goal 11), among other sensitive goals.

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• 30 May 2023

  Palermo

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Problematizing Migration

  Mobility and Vulnerablization in an Age of Abandonment and Inequalities

  The need to problematize migration has never been more urgent. Pervasive austerity policies have, unsurprisingly, been unable to achieve their stated aims of stopping immigration. Instead, they have systematically under-resourced migration infrastructure and implemented policies and programs that increasingly isolate newcomers and remove or further complicate paths to inclusion. As a result, social relations beyond the state have become increasingly important as both an alternative and necessity to survive state abandonment and vulnerablization. This conference aims to bring together diverse perspectives that dwell in the particular, think through the specific, and offer thick description of migration between state and non-state life.

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• 31 May 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Microscopic Imaginaries in 20th and 21st Century Literature

  Over the 20^th century, microscopy was revolutionised by UV, phase contrast, and electron technology. The circulation of microscopic images increased exponentially. This symposium aims to identify the microscopic imaginaries that appeared in literature over the 20^th and 21^st centuries, and the turning points that structured literature’s engagement with microscopy over this period.

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• 31 May 2023

  Prague

  Call for papers - Language

  Migration within the EU Context seen through a multi-disciplinary and plurilinguistic view

  The purpose of the Conference is to analyse and deepen, also from a comparative perspective, the way in which, in the 21^st century, language and legislations in the migration perspective have become almost indivisible, as one influences the other on a rather deep level.

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• 31 May 2023

  Uppsala

  Call for papers - Europe

  Mining Mobilities across the globe

  Labour, Science, and Knowledge circulation in Mining (15th-21st century)

  The fifth conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) will explore how mining mobility and knowledge circulation have played a pivotal role in extractive industries worldwide. The movement of workers, technologies, and knowledge has been mediated by state authorities, corporations, and subcontractors through alluring and forced forms of recruitment. Alongside these trajectories, men and women from neighbouring and distant territories moved to newly reopened mines to search for new deposits and improve their social and economic conditions.

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