Calls for papers

Environment - Ecology - Sustainable development

• 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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• (...) 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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• 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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• 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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• Environnement et écologie sur les réseaux socionumériques : récits, acteurs et dynamiques- Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier) - deadline (abstract) 01 06 2026

  Online 28 04 2026

  Calenda announcement 1 394 088 (extracts)

  This symposium will examine the ways in which digital spaces contribute to the construction of social representations relating to climate change and environmental transitions. It will examine both the content published and the socio-technical logics that structure its production, circulation and prioritization, as well as the ways in which it is appropriated by online communities.

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• 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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