Calls for papers

Urban planning - Real estate

• Mountain infrastructures and their vulnerability: design, governance and transformation - "Revue de géographie alpine" - deadline (abstract) before 01 09 2026

  Online 23 04 2026

  Calenda announcement 1 391 659 (extracts)

  This thematic issue is devoted to mountain infrastructures. These infrastructures have, on the one hand, a physical and technical materiality (relative to the practices of users and/or managers, and at the heart of operational issues) and, on the other hand, an economic existence (in terms of management or financing). In both cases, we need to consider these infrastructures through the prism of the socio-technical and economic systems at the heart of which they are located, as well as through their environmental, political and historical dimensions.

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• Les communs d'urgence : dynamiques citoyennes et coopérations institutionnelles face aux crises contemporaines - Sciences Po Rennes and CESI Saint-Nazaire - deadline (abstract) before 30 06 2026

  Online 23 04 2026

  Calenda announcement 1 392 034 (extracts)

  Contemporary crises, such as those caused by extreme climatic events or pandemics - notably that of Covid-19 - have revealed the capacity of societies to produce unprecedented forms of collective action, situated at the interface between citizen initiatives, social innovation and public action. Among these dynamics, the "emergency commons" constitute a fertile object of analysis for questioning the transformation of public action and modes of territorial governance.

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• Ubiquitous pollutants - Université Gustave Eiffel (Champs sur Marne) - deadline (abstract) 12 06 2026

  Online 23 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 391 447

  This conference is designed to bring together a network of young researchers on the issues raised by "new" ubiquitous pollutants. The aim is to bring together the work of mainly doctoral and post-doctoral students in the social sciences, who are questioning the forms of appropriation and evaluation used by various players, at different scales, to live with, make sense of and work with pollutants whose persistence and ubiquity have only recently become visible. The proposed entry aims to bring together in a single object the forms of management of ubiquitous pollution, whether moral, sanitary, political, scientific or material.

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• Suburban towns: tomorrow's heritage? - Bordeaux Métropole - deadline (summary) before 30 06 2026

  Online 22 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 387 074

  For the fifth edition of its "Cities and Heritage" days, aimed at bringing together research and action, Bordeaux Métropole is devoting its attention to a theme that has already been extensively explored by historians, sociologists and city and regional planning professionals: housing estates. Is the housing estate the heritage of tomorrow? Twentieth-century housing is still in the process of becoming part of our heritage - see, for example, large housing estates. What about suburban housing? The aim is to study its potential for development, its qualities and the obstacles to its densification, in connection with the current revision of the Bordeaux Métropole PLUi and the reorganization of the city within the city (ZAN law).

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• Revue " Nouvelle Afrique Juridique et Politique " (NAJP) de l'Université Omar Bongo (Gabon) - Call for contributions "Varia" - deadline (article proposal) 30 08 2026

  Online 22 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 391 146 (extracts)

  Nouvelle Afrique Juridique et Politique (NAJP), the journal of the Centre d'études et de recherches en droit et institutions politiques of the Faculty of Law and Economics at Omar Bongo University, Libreville (Gabon), invites contributions for its second issue, to be published in December 2026.

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• DYNAGRO - Dynamiques agraires en zones sèches - IAV Hassan II (Rabat-Maroc) and other entities - deadline (abstract) 30 06 2026

  Online 22 04 2026

  Ad Calenda 1 391 008

  Dry zones (arid, semi-arid, sub-humid) are home to complex agrarian systems, where societies compete or synergize land uses for crops, livestock and forestry. The DYNAGRO symposium will explore the resilience of these systems in the face of climatic, demographic, land, security and geopolitical pressures, the tensions and compromises between stakeholders, and the adaptations, transitions and transformations at work in these territories. International in scope, the conference will focus on the Sahel, but will also be open to all the world's drylands, with a session dedicated to wetlands.

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• Africa and the restitution of cultural property: what is at stake for its development? - Université Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 10 07 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 387 464 (extracts)

  The aim of this international symposium is to examine the issue of the restitution of African cultural property, highlighting the memorial, political, economic and identity-related stakes involved. It aims to bring together researchers and experts for an interdisciplinary reflection on the role of these assets in the continent's development, the reconstruction of identities and the redefinition of relations between Africa and the rest of the world.

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• Onzièmes journées universitaires sur les enjeux des gouvernements ouverts et du numérique- Université Paris I - deadline (abstract) 10 07 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 374 577 (extracts)

  On November 3 and 4, 2026, IMODEV will be organizing the XIth University Days on Open Government and Digital Issues at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The aim of this event is to bring together the entire academic world (including young doctors, PhD students and researchers) and practitioners, with a broad, multi-disciplinary focus. Contributions will cover a wide range of topics, including citizen participation, artificial intelligence, the right of access to information, the right to privacy, net neutrality, freedom of expression in the digital age, the challenges of Big Data, digital sovereignty and smart cities.

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• Les transformations des mondes sociaux de la pêche - EHESS (Campus Condorcet - Aubervilliers)- deadline (abstract) 15 06 2026

  Online 20 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 390 480

  This study day aims to analyze the transformations of the social worlds of fishing, whether artisanal or industrial, and whether practiced in maritime, lacustrine or other aquatic spaces. From a comparative perspective, our aim is to bring together work from ethnographic research both "on board" and carried out in the land-based spaces of fish trade and processing, and in the places in which they take place. We will build a collective reflection aimed at understanding how fishing societies negotiate their existence in contexts marked by ecological uncertainty, regulatory pressure, technological mutations and market recompositions.

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• Health and environmental crises: issues of governance and justice - Université de Caen Normandie - deadline (abstract) before 15 06 2026

  Online 20 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 389 627

  The aim of this symposium is to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers and practitioners to shed light on the challenges posed by ecological and health crises on a global scale. Given the international dimension of these issues, a comparative approach will be adopted, with the participation of researchers from a variety of geographical and academic backgrounds.

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