Calls for papers

Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)

• Francophone Africa: research as a lever for effective development in the education, health and green economy sectors - Université Sorbonne Nord and other entities - deadline (abstract) 06 07 2026

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 399273 (extracts)

  This colloquium brings together researchers, doctoral students, decision-makers and development players around the public policies pursued since independence in the 1960s in the fields of education, health and the economy, under the influence of the MDGs and then the SDGs. Despite progress in school enrolment, health and economic development, many challenges persist: low quality of education, inadequate infrastructure and teacher training, fragile and unequal health systems, and high economic dependence on raw materials.

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• Online Roundtable Series on the Colonial Histories of Energy - CNRS and others (announcement) - deadline (abstract) by 15 July 2026 11:55 PM CET

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 829 (extracts)

  We welcome applications from researchers specializing 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.

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• Penser les transitions dans les mondes arabes et musulmans - EHESS (Campus Condorcet - Aubervilliers) and other entities - deadline (abstract) extension before 30 06 2026

  Online 20 05 2026 - extended 02 06 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 778 (extracts)

  The Arab uprisings of 2011 ushered in sequences of political transformation whose contrasting trajectories continue to challenge the social sciences. Fifteen years on, the variety of outcomes observed - authoritarian restorations, unfinished transitions, state collapses - calls for a critical review of the analytical tools mobilized to think about change in the Arab and Muslim worlds. This study day will examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the notions of crisis, transition and rupture, questioning their uses, their limits and the conceptual alternatives likely to give a better account of configurations where instability is not an episode but a lasting condition.

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• The city as a test. Compétences citadines et fabrication ordinaire du social- Revue "Sociologie et sociétés" (Canada) - deadline (abstract) before 01 09 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 399 028 (extracts)

  The journal Sociologie et sociétés is preparing a dossier entitled "La ville comme épreuve. Compétences citadines et fabrication ordinaire du social". This issue proposes to analyze urban life from the point of view of the link between urban trials and urban skills. Housing, infrastructure, mobility and public space are examined as places where social inequalities take shape, and where residents develop practical responses. In this context, "urbanity" refers to the situated know-how required to establish a foothold, get around, access services and occupy space. Contributions should articulate an identifiable ordeal with the skills mobilized to respond to it.

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• Housing between market, law and solidarity - FLEPES and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 15 07 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 388 (extracts)

  This call for papers invites us to explore housing in terms of distributive justice, recognition, ownership, regulation, territorial solidarity, financing, legal status, local governance and social vulnerability. This colloquium aims to take note of the complexity of the housing approach, which cannot be limited to an abstract opposition between housing as a commodity and housing as a right, but rather to think of it as a field of tension between several normative and institutional logics.

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• De l'écologie du travail à l'écologie au travail - "Nouvelle Revue du Travail" (NRT) (issue 32) - deadline (article proposals) 11/30/2026

  Online 07 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 396 031 (extracts)

  This issue of Nouvelle revue du travail (NRT) looks at the growing importance of ecological issues in the world of work and, in so doing, the transformations of work and employment in the context of a major ecological crisis. This issue invites contributions devoted to the full range of professional activities, including polluting activities, potentially challenged by the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions or, on the contrary, marked by resistance to the greening of work, and activities a priori remote from environmental issues.

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• La permission - Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon) - deadline (abstract) 01 06 2026

  Online 07 05 2026

  Calenda announcement 1 396 878 (extracts)

  This call for papers focuses on the notion of permission in law, understood as a category. The event aims to question its theoretical status, diversity and functions, distinguishing in particular the different forms of permissive acts (authorization, tolerance, empowerment). It also aims to analyze the growing role of authorization mechanisms in contemporary legal systems, marked by logics of prior control. At the crossroads of general legal theory and the branches of positive law, the aim is to clarify the place of permission in the typology of norms and its practical implications.

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• Environnement et écologie sur les réseaux socionumériques : récits, acteurs et dynamiques- Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier) - deadline (abstract) 01 06 2026

  Online 28 04 2026

  Calenda announcement 1 394 088 (extracts)

  This symposium will examine the ways in which digital spaces contribute to the construction of social representations relating to climate change and environmental transitions. It will examine both the content published and the socio-technical logics that structure its production, circulation and prioritization, as well as the ways in which it is appropriated by online communities.

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• Les sciences sociales à l'écoute du monde (Médias, archives et imaginaires sonores) - Collège de France - deadline (abstract) before 15 07 2026

  Online 27 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 392 727

  This resolutely multidisciplinary call for papers for a study day aims to bring together research that shares a common focus on the social uses of sound. Our approach aims to analyze how sounds are composite objects that become issues of struggle. It also aims to show how a form of distortion necessarily imposes itself when we study sound environments, due to our scientific methodologies of investigation and collection, but also to the techniques of production and dissemination of sound materials. This distortion precisely reflects the varied uses to which sound is constantly put.

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• Revue " Habitat et Ville Durable " (Revue HVD) - (Togo) - Call for contributions "Varia" - deadline (article proposal) 16 08 2026 at 23h00

  Online 24 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 392 317 (extracts)

  This first issue of volume 3 of the journal is in varia form and aims to deepen knowledge of urban planning policies in the face of the challenges of sustainable urbanization in Africa and materials. Contributions in this issue may focus on urban resilience, the impacts of urbanization, urban water and sanitation services and construction techniques.

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