Calls for papers

(Announcement Calenda 1169473)

The issue will focus on the issues surrounding the practice of physical and sporting activities (PSA) in the context of family transformation. These practices include a wide spectrum of modalities, from leisure activities to elite sports.

(Announcement Calenda 1131573)

This call for papers for issue 25 of the journal Politiques de communication explores the role of the media in the mediatization of the "sexist and sexual violence cases" scheduled for spring 2025. It examines how the format of the affair influences the mediatization of such violence, while also analyzing how the "affair form" configures media frames. Cases of gender-based violence, comparable to public health scandals, offer a prism through which to study the media's construction of public problems. The dossier aims to answer the question of how the "affair form" and cases of mediatized sexual violence interact.

(Announcement Calenda 1181333)

The aim of this symposium is to analyze contemporary equal opportunity policies - or the lack of them - in the English-speaking world (including the United Kingdom, the United States, India, Australia and South Africa) and in France, in an attempt to identify typologies and propose a retrospective and prospective analysis of often controversial preferential policies.

(Calenda Announcement 1178458)

Managing "equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility" (EDIA) in the workplace is not a new issue in Canada: federal employment equity legislation now dates back over thirty years. However, in recent years, in the wake of the Aboriginal Reconciliation Program and the #MeToo and Black Lives Matters movements, there seems to have been a growing interest in this issue. This craze is part of an ever-changing world of work: changes due, among other things, to the irruption of information and communication technologies in labour relations, the aging of the Canadian population and labour shortages. This raises the question of EDIA's place in the face of these constant changes in the workplace.

(Calenda announcement 1179745)

"Women and discourse: between quests and requests" explores the dynamic between women's deepest aspirations and the concrete requests they make to realize those aspirations by considering discourse in all its forms. This interplay highlights the challenges and strategies women use to navigate between their personal desires and social and institutional structures. It also highlights the importance of recognizing and supporting these quests and requests in order to move towards a more equitable and inclusive society.

(Announcement Calenda 1160433)

For its March 2025 issue, the online journal L'Ordinaire des Amériques (ORDA) is calling for contributions on the theme of "Liberalism, neoliberalism, illiberalism and civil rights in the United States". This issue will be coordinated by Nicolas Gachon (Université Paul Valéry- Montpellier 3). This issue seeks to contextualize and exemplify what are often theoretical abstractions about liberalism, neoliberalism and illiberalism in the United States.

(Announcement Calenda 1172635)

Against a backdrop of massification and the commercialization of higher education, academic migration has grown considerably in recent decades. Destinations have diversified. And while immigration is a subject of great tension in many countries, national migration policies have often become more selective, including for students. All these developments prompt us to question the conditions under which academic mobility is taking place today. Contributions are invited on the following themes: academic migration policies and their implementation in the field of recruitment; the construction of migration projects for study purposes and their confrontation with selection mechanisms; the living and studying conditions of international students and their future.

(Announcement Calenda 1178963)

The aim of this workshop is to explore new ways of writing the history of homosexuality based on judicial archives. We observe that the disciplinary field of the "history of homosexualities" has evolved considerably over the last twenty years. Since Georges Chauncey's Gay New York (1994) and Florence Tamagne'sHistoire de l'homosexualité en Europe (2000), the history of homosexuality has relied on the multiplication of sources (press, literature, diaries, police reports, medical literature) to draw up broad portraits of homosexual culture. Today, historians prefer to focus on one type of archive: the judicial archive. The aim of our workshop is to address this historiographical evolution and measure its consequences for our field of study.

(Announcement Calenda 1165718)

The aim of this multidisciplinary colloquium will be to consider conflict in all its complexity (nature, form, intensity, places, consequences, temporality) and to propose an analysis of the characteristics of the actors involved and the levels of conflictuality that have taken place in the various conflicts that have traversed the history of Chile from the 19th to the 21st century. Drawing on various lines of research, the symposium proposes to take a fresh look at conflict in contemporary Chilean history, based on an analysis of the articulation between antagonism, solidarity and resolution, and a critical dimension in relation to the notion of agentivity.

(Announcement Calenda 1171025)

This study day is open to multidisciplinary approaches. The aim is to examine the ways in which different disciplines can be used to question and describe the understanding of digital practices that (re)compose the field of the private and the intimate. While work conducted in the social sciences (sociology, ethnology, language sciences, information and communication sciences, etc.) is particularly eagerly awaited, we will also be looking at work being done in the field of computer science. One of the challenges of this study day is to create a dialogue between approaches that, when articulated, contribute to producing elements of knowledge about digital intimacy.