Calls for papers

History of law - History of ideas - History of institutions

• Les religions et le temps à l'époque contemporaine (XIXe-XXIe siècles) - Association française d'histoire religieuse contemporaine (AFHRC) and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 21 06 2026

  Online 28 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 394 249 (extracts)

  Religious traditions are closely linked to ways of thinking, organizing and living time. Even in the most secularized societies, collective time retains the imprint of the religious matrix. This is evident in calendars (whether Gregorian, Julian or Hegira), as well as in certain "rites of passage". In all these dimensions, religious time is a powerful matrix of collective experience. It concentrates the intensity of experience in feasts and ceremonies that allow us to experience a before and an after, and attest to the active power of the religious institution.

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• Three thousand years of French port history - Centre international de la mer (Rochefort) and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 15 06 2026

  Online 28 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 394 324 (extracts)

  The aim of this symposium is, on the one hand, to update the state of the art of work carried out on French ports - both metropolitan and overseas - over the very long term and, on the other hand, to chart new directions in terms of documentation, methodology and themes.

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• Revealing the invisible: visual and audiovisual forms in the making of religious worlds - Société internationale de sociologie des religions (SISR) and other entities - deadline (article) 10 06 2026

  Online 28 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 393 322 (extracts)

  As part of the 2027 Congress of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion(ISSR), this call for papers explores the relationships between visual cultures, audiovisual approaches, religions and contemporary spiritualities. It brings together contributions examining images not only as research tools, but as performative practices that shape religious communities and imaginaries. Proposals incorporating image corpora are welcome.

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• Anémic Cinéma, (re)tours - Université Paris 8 and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - deadline (abstract) 25 06 2026

  Online April 27, 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 392 709 (extracts)

  To mark the centenary of Marcel Duchamp'sAnémic Cinéma, the joint organization of a film event and an international symposium in November 2026 will combine a major program of rare films from the 1920s to the present day, with a survey of the many new and previously unpublished research projects and creations that this unique work has continually inspired. With some papers by invitation, the Anémic Cinéma, (re)tours symposium will bring together specialists in Marcel Duchamp's work, as well as in avant-garde and experimental cinema.

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• Les sciences sociales à l'écoute du monde (Médias, archives et imaginaires sonores) - Collège de France - deadline (abstract) before 15 07 2026

  Online 27 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 392 727

  This resolutely multidisciplinary call for papers for a study day aims to bring together research that shares a common focus on the social uses of sound. Our approach aims to analyze how sounds are composite objects that become issues of struggle. It also aims to show how a form of distortion necessarily imposes itself when we study sound environments, due to our scientific methodologies of investigation and collection, but also to the techniques of production and dissemination of sound materials. This distortion precisely reflects the varied uses to which sound is constantly put.

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• Revue " Habitat et Ville Durable " (Revue HVD) - (Togo) - Call for contributions "Varia" - deadline (article proposal) 16 08 2026 at 23h00

  Online 24 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 392 317 (extracts)

  This first issue of volume 3 of the journal is in varia form and aims to deepen knowledge of urban planning policies in the face of the challenges of sustainable urbanization in Africa and materials. Contributions in this issue may focus on urban resilience, the impacts of urbanization, urban water and sanitation services and construction techniques.

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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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• 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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