Calls for papers

Social issues

• 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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• Artefacts, status and power in prison - Université Grenoble Alpes - deadline (abstract) before 03 07 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 399 478 (extracts)

  This international colloquium (Université Grenoble Alpes, June 2027) offers a comparative analysis of the artifacts worn by prisoners - badges, armbands, uniforms - as material devices of classification and hierarchization in prison. Crossing fields from all continents, it represents the first systematic comparison of these objects, in order to analyze the diversity of institutional, legal and material configurations in which they are embedded. The project brings together sociology, anthropology, political science, history, law and geography, as well as the perspectives of research and civil society.

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• When filiation cannot be taken for granted. Filiations et violences, XXe - XXIe siècles - Sciences Po Paris - deadline (abstract) before 30 06 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 735 (extracts)

  On a collective scale, the two world wars and the wars of decolonization have left behind generations marked by the experience of disrupted bonds with parents. On a private level, recent years have seen a growing awareness of the presence of violence even in the family sphere. It is precisely at the point where violence and filiation collide that this symposium intends to focus. We propose to examine the impact of private and public violence on questions of filiation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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• (...) operational philosophy for the development of Africa and the humanization of the world theme administrative ethics and the fight against corruption in Africa -Université A. Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire)-deadline (abstract) before 31 07 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 402 310 (extracts)

  The underdevelopment of African states cannot be reduced to a lack of resources; it is largely due to the mismanagement of these resources. Indeed, the continent has an abundance of resources, both natural and human. There are major mineral deposits, such as gold, diamonds, oil, gas, cobalt, uranium, bauxite, copper, coltan, manganese, iron and so on. There is no shortage of human resources to exploit these resources and accelerate development. The continent abounds in qualified human skills, such as engineers, technicians, doctors and professors. This congress on operational philosophy will examine a crucial question: can administrative ethics contribute to reducing corruption in African states?

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• Academic freedom in question (...) - Journal "Animation, territoires et pratiques socioculturelles" (Québec-Canada) - deadline (abstract) 15 06 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 401 912 (extracts)

  Issue 30 of the journal Animation, territoires et pratiques socioculturelles will be devoted to this theme of academic freedom. The present call aims to encourage the participation of colleagues from different disciplines (literature, linguistics, communication, education, philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, social work, etc.) and geopolitical regions, including Eastern Europe and Quebec. It is part of a common reflection on the value of information and its circulation in globalized societies, and on literacy as a means of better grasping the phenomena under study and orienting ourselves accordingly.

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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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• Building community in higher education: interculturality as a lever for integration, recognition and belonging - Université de Clermont-Auvergne - deadline (abstract) 12 06 2026

  Online 11 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 398 650

  The colloquium organized at the University of Clermont Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France) on November 25, 26 and 27, 2026 proposes to combine feedback from experience, analysis of systems, and theoretical contributions in order to question what it means to "build community in higher education" in a context of internationalization. The aim is to explore how interculturality can be thought of not just as an objective, but as a process that structures policies, pedagogical practices and forms of institutional life. We invite researchers from a variety of disciplines and practitioners to submit papers in French, English or Spanish.

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• Ageing. Je vieillis, nous vieillissons: de la complexité des vieillissements pluriels - "Cahiers de systémique" - deadline (article proposals) before 30 11 2026

  Online 07 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 394 491 (extracts)

  This issue of Cahiers de systémique proposes to address a phenomenon that is widely shared but rarely dealt with from the point of view of the dynamics of complex systems: aging, understood as a biological process (cells, organs, organism), a biographical process (individual trajectories marked by ordeals, e.g. widowhood, loss of autonomy), and a collective process (demographic, institutional and cultural transformations).

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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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