Calls for papers

Announcement Calenda 1 351 288

Against a backdrop of increasing pressure on African coastlines, including erosion, overfishing, pollution and conflicts of use, the blue economy is emerging as a strategic horizon for reconciling economic development, social inclusion and ecological sustainability. However, this notion, often promoted by international bodies, is based on technocratic, top-down approaches that tend to marginalize local knowledge and cultural practices derived from the experience of coastal communities. In Africa, such knowledge, long perceived as "traditional" or "informal", nonetheless constitutes a reservoir of skills, norms of use and representations of the marine world, essential for thinking about integrated and situated management of marine and coastal resources. From a sociological point of view, this symposium is in line with work on the co-production of knowledge (Jasanoff, 2004), environmental commons (Ostrom, 1990) and participatory governance (Fung and Wright, 2003), which questions the way in which scientific and lay knowledge can dialogue to build legitimate, effective and equitable public policies. The aim is to go beyond a strictly extractivist vision of the blue economy and give it a territorial and social scope, by placing local stakeholders - such as artisanal fishermen, women processors, ecotourism guides, etc. - at the heart of the dynamics of innovation, regulation and valorization.

Moreover, from a postcolonial perspective, the recognition of local knowledge also makes it possible to question the epistemic hierarchies inherited from Western modernity (Santos, 2011), and pave the way for an "ecology of knowledge" capable of responding to the challenges of climate change, food security and environmental justice.

Thus, this symposium aims to question the theoretical, practical and political conditions for the valorization of local knowledge in the dynamics of the blue economy, through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, anchored in African realities.

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This is one of the questions that will drive the 6th edition of the colloquium for doctoral students and young doctors, entitled "Actualité et réactions du droit", to be held on November 17, 2026 at the Faculté de Droit et de Sciences politiques in Nantes. The aim is to discuss and study the various reactions of the law to events of varying degrees of importance. While the law may give the impression of feeding on current events, it also appears that certain subjects and certain types of events do not lead to any evolution, or even lead the legislator to go back on acquired legal norms.

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Universities have traditionally been places for preserving and transmitting knowledge, but today they need to rethink their role in cultural mediation. In the digital age, heritage preservation has gone beyond simple archiving or scholarly commentary to include interactive, immersive and participatory features. However, this technological transition raises a fundamental ethical and aesthetic question: how can we promote heritage, whether tangible or intangible, without betraying it?

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This international symposium focuses on religious practices in public space in contemporary Latin American and European contexts. It proposes to adopt a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective, around a broad definition of the notion of public space: both the shared urban or rural space through which the public transits, and the institutions within which the public is represented and socialized. Putting the notion of belief at a distance, this call values a corporeal, material and performative approach to religious practices.

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Vulnerability thus reveals the diversity through which it can be addressed - in terms of disciplines (sociologies of vulnerable publics, sociology of public action, political science, geography, epidemiology, history, ...), methods (qualitative, quantitative, mixed, action research, ...), fields and objects of investigation. We invite doctoral students from a variety of disciplines to question vulnerability, (...).

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The 7ᵉ edition of the Congress broadened the scope of analysis by systemically integrating the five fundamental pillars of climate action: (1) mitigation, (2) adaptation, (3) loss and damage, (4) resilience and (5) finance, marking an essential conceptual transition towards an integrated and territorialized vision of climate change, in line with international scientific and political priorities.

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Echoing the many recent works devoted to this subject, this study day proposes to revisit the diversity of marginal mobilities. The aim is also to reflect on the epistemology of marginalized mobilities within geographical studies.

Whether willingly or unwillingly, consciously or unconsciously, politicized or, on the contrary, invisible, some mobilities can be described as marginal. Taking up and mobilizing the center-periphery explanatory scheme in the light of mobilities, this study day proposes to question any movement made in a situation of marginality, whether social (children, the elderly, prostitution, dead bodies, disabled people), economic (poverty, homelessness) or political (minorities, undocumented migrants).

This theme has been the subject of numerous works, such as the organization in November 2016 at Marne-la-Vallée of the colloquium dedicated to "mobilités marginales, mobilités dans les marges, marges mobiles", which gave rise to a publication in 2019 (Bernier, 2019) or the program for the agrégation externe de géographie on the France of the margins in 2019. The aim of this study day is to reinvestigate this theme in the light of recent research. We will also reflect on the epistemology of marginalized mobilities in our discipline. The aim is also to reflect on the epistemology of marginalized mobilities in our discipline.

This day is open to all researchers mobilizing a spatial approach, whether geographers or not. Proposals from young researchers, including master's students, are welcome. Proposals may fall within (or go beyond) the following themes:

[Axe 1] The role of mobility in the construction and revelation of margins

[Axis 2] Marginal mobilities, chosen or undergone: seeking the margins or escaping them?

[3] Marginalized mobilities in and by the geographical discipline: epistemological and reflexive approaches to isolated subjects of study

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This study day aims to bring together researchers interested in the study of political ideas in a digital context. Bringing together several fields of study from different disciplines, the aim is to explore the methodological and epistemological - and even ethical - issues at stake in this field under construction.

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This call for papers focuses on the transformations of university education in the age of artificial intelligence. The collective work aims to bring together case studies, empirical research and critical analyses exploring the opportunities, challenges and ethical issues involved in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into pedagogical practices, assessment, research and university governance.

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From an interdisciplinary heuristic perspective, the present editorial project focuses, on the one hand, on how armies, throughout history and through their information-communication operations, show themselves and reassure citizens, seduce and attract them, inform or misinform them. On the other hand, it intends to highlight the way in which the nation - individuals and organizations - talk about/to the army, and thus confront the ambitions of armies with the perceptions and feelings of the public.