Calls for papers

Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences

• Vingt ans de la convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits des personnes handicapées en Afrique : progrès, défis et perspectives- Université de Yaoundé I (Cameroun) deadline (abstract) 11 06 2026

  Posted 05 26 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1400 864

  On December 13, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Twenty years on, it is worth noting that disabled people in Africa unfortunately continue to face numerous difficulties in accessing healthcare, information, education, decent employment and empowerment. They are also the daily victims of stigmatization, rejection and marginalization. This state of affairs contributes in no small measure to the flagrant violation of even the most fundamental rights guaranteed by national and international legislation.

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• Le patrimoine à l'épreuve des crises au Sahel - Cercle des chercheurs en sciences du patrimoine (Chad) - deadline (abstract) 10 08 2026

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 399655 (extracts)

  The Cercle des chercheurs en sciences du patrimoine is launching a call for scientific contributions for an international collective work devoted to the transformations of Sahelian heritage in the face of security, climatic, economic and identity-related crises. The book aims to analyze the dynamics of destruction, adaptation and revaluation of heritage through an interdisciplinary approach combining history, anthropology, geography, sociology, archaeology and political science. Proposals may focus on tangible and intangible heritage, governance issues, memory dynamics, forms of resilience and heritage revaluation processes in Sahelian and African spaces.

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• Travail, travailleuses et travailleurs agricoles du Maroc : trajectoires, représentations et autonomisation- Centre Jacques Berque (Rabat - Morocco) and other entities - deadline (abstract) 10 07 2026

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 511

  Since the 2020s, Moroccan agricultural workers have been the focus of growing media attention (demands, worsening living conditions), and institutional players are stepping up programs to manage temporary labor mobility between Morocco and Europe. This emergence of agricultural workers, who have long been invisible in public debate and political agendas, is correlated with a growing interest in the question of agricultural work in the social sciences and humanities. With this in mind, the aim of this study day is to examine the major dynamics of agricultural work from the point of view of Moroccan workers, both locally and in the diaspora, as well as in political and social imaginations.

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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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• 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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• (...) 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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• 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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• The complexities of sexual consent - APHM (Marseille) - deadline (proposals) 27 09 2026

  Online 29 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 394 366 (extracts)

  Organized by CRIR AVS PACA (Centre Ressource pour les Intervenants auprès des Auteurs de Violences Sexuelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), this symposium will explore the complexities of sexual consent at the intersection of the human and social sciences, medical sciences, law and professional practices. The aim is to analyze consent as a dynamic process, marked by power relationships, vulnerabilities, social norms and psychological issues, particularly in the field of sexual violence and support for perpetrators, both adults and minors. The event aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue on contemporary uses of the notion of consent, its evaluation and clinical, educational, social, institutional and judicial support.

  The symposium will explore consent as a dynamic process, based on a cross-reading of human and social sciences, medical sciences and law, in relation to professional practices. It is aimed at professionals concerned by these issues (carers, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, educators, professionals in the judicial, penitentiary and medico-social fields, etc.), as well as academics, researchers and students engaged in reflection on sexual violence, sexuality and consent.

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