Calls for papers
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Contemporary Changes in Class-Action Law in the Face of Systemic Risks – University of Artois – Abstract deadline: August 7, 2026
Posted online July 21, 2026Calenda Announcement 1,420,786 (excerpts)
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for papers for the conference titled “Contemporary Changes in Class Actions in the Face of Systemic Risks,” organized by the Alexis de Tocqueville Doctoral Students’ Association (ADAT) and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Procedures (CDEP) at the University of Artois. This conference aims to explore contemporary developments in class action in the face of the proliferation of systemic risks and harms, whether environmental, health-related, economic, digital, or financial. In particular, the conference will examine the ability of class-action mechanisms to address these new challenges from theoretical, practical, and comparative perspectives.
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Artificial Identities: From Writing to Algorithms – University of La Rochelle - Deadline (abstract) September 1, 2026
Posted online on June 17, 2026Calenda Announcement 1,406,371 (excerpts)
How do techniques and technologies—from literary writing to artificial intelligence, from video games to digital platforms—contribute to the construction of identities, self-narratives, and forms of subjectivation? This is the central question that the PoLiCÉMIES laboratory’s annual seminar aims to explore in this edition. The call for papers does not limit the concept of “artificiality” to the sole issue of artificial intelligence. It understands it in a broader sense: that of the creation, shaping, and development of symbolic and material frameworks through which an experience of the self becomes conceivable.
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Relevant Disciplines
The call is open to all disciplines concerned with these issues, with a particular focus on the disciplines represented within PoLiCÉMIES: philosophy, political science, law, literature, cultural studies, urban planning, information and communication sciences, the arts, design, and research-creation.
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Current Research in the History of Women's Law: Sources, Methods, and Epistemologies - Catholic University of Lille - Deadline (abstract): September 1, 2026
Posted online on June 17, 2026Calenda Announcement 1 407 022 (excerpts)
Research in the history of women’s rights has undergone a significant renewal in recent years, both in terms of its subject matter and its methodological and epistemological frameworks. To support and bring together these developments, we are launching an online seminar that will take place throughout 2027.
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Le système international à l'épreuve des crises contemporaines - Revue " EMP- ABB" (Mali) - deadline (article) 30 09 2026
Posted 05 26 2026Announcement Calenda 1 402 761 (extracts)
The international system is based on a set of relationships between states, international organizations and non-state actors, framed by international law and multilateralism to preserve peace and organize global governance. However, since the end of the Cold War, this order has undergone a profound crisis, marked by geopolitical conflicts, power rivalries, the fragmentation of international institutions and the emergence of new forms of hybrid and informational conflict. At the same time, the global South, notably through the BRICS+, is asserting its growing strategic autonomy and challenging Western domination and the established international order. Against this backdrop, the Sahel is a telling example of the limits of multilateralism in the face of persistent security, political and economic crises. These mutations underline the need to rethink the international system and its governance mechanisms to meet contemporary challenges. In line with the above, the Revue de L'EMP-ABB is collecting articles for an issue on the international system.
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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 2026Announcement 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 2026Announcement 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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The complexities of sexual consent - APHM (Marseille) - deadline (proposals) 27 09 2026
Online 29 04 2026Announcement 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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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 2026Announcement 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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Law, political identities, languages - University of Bordeaux - deadline (proposal) before 15 09 2026
Online 16 04 2026Announcement Calenda 1 381 733
At the beginning of the 21st century, with globalization taking hold of our pluralistic societies, the issues of languages, identities (social and political) and individual rights have become nodal themes for the world as it reshapes itself. Paradoxically, globalization has made it possible not to compartmentalize, standardize - or even normalize - the 6,700 (re)known languages and 7,000 ethnic groups that interact in the legal-normative (rights of States, customs, heteronomies) and economic system it encloses, but, on the contrary, to think modernity in terms of freedom, security and democracy, and thus to open up new language practices.
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Decolonial comparative law and the informal/formal economy - Afric'Avenir Foundation (Douala-Cameroon) and other entities - deadline (paper proposals) 01 09 2026
Online 10 03 2026Announcement Calenda 1 367 625
Announcement Calenda 1 367 625 (extracts)
In May 2027, the DeCoLa program of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will hold the fourth edition of its decolonial comparative law workshop series in Cameroon. Organized in partnership with the Afric'Avenir Foundation, this edition aims to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a decolonial comparative legal approach. It also aims to contribute to the consolidation of a decolonial comparative law community across the African continent and beyond.
This call is part of a series of workshops on decolonial comparative law. Following workshops on methodology (Johannesburg/online 2020), pre-colonial law (Oxford 2022) and property (Brasília 2024), this fourth workshop will examine decolonial comparative approaches to the informal and formal economy.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Informal cross-border trade, including trade carried out by peoples transcending state borders, regardless of its legality under national legislation.
- Local and digital currencies created or used for non-colonial purposes.
- Indigenous and customary economies, both urban and rural, including their own non-colonial value systems, exchange practices and monetary forms.
- Ecofeminist, pastoralist and intentional communities (e.g. ZADs in France), as well as pre-colonial or other traditional modes of value creation (regardless of the actual historical roots of the practice).
- Labor rights in informal work, including economic dependence within and beyond the employer-employee relationship, conflict resolution practices and collective organization (e.g. unions, associations, cooperatives).
- Microcredit, alternative securities and property rights as mechanisms for accessing capital.
- The (non-)legal recognition of informal workers.
- Migration and the (in)formal economy.
- Informal work at the heart of globalization.
- Digital businesses and the linking of informal workers via digital platforms (e.g. Instagram/TikTok, Yango/Uber).
- State-imposed constraints on local economic sovereignty, including the spatial distribution and regulation of formal and informal economic activities.
- The blurred boundaries between formal and informal economies: workers operating in both contexts (e.g. secondary jobs for civil servants; 'entrepreneurs' or 'débrouillard.e.s').
If your research does not fit any of these themes, we still encourage you to submit a proposal. Generally speaking, we invite authors to analyze and destabilize coloniality by examining, in a comparative way, the economic and legal imaginaries through which communities (generally, but not necessarily, in the South) define, practice or refuse to practice an economy beyond (or in spite of) coloniality.
