Calls for papers

International Relations - International Institutions

• 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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• 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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• 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 2026

  Announcement 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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• DYNAGRO - Dynamiques agraires en zones sèches - IAV Hassan II (Rabat-Maroc) and other entities - deadline (abstract) 30 06 2026

  Online 22 04 2026

  Ad Calenda 1 391 008

  Dry zones (arid, semi-arid, sub-humid) are home to complex agrarian systems, where societies compete or synergize land uses for crops, livestock and forestry. The DYNAGRO symposium will explore the resilience of these systems in the face of climatic, demographic, land, security and geopolitical pressures, the tensions and compromises between stakeholders, and the adaptations, transitions and transformations at work in these territories. International in scope, the conference will focus on the Sahel, but will also be open to all the world's drylands, with a session dedicated to wetlands.

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• Travail et handicap, entre protection et inclusion (de l'après-guerre à nos jours) - (Around the 1957 and 1987 laws) - EHESP and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 28 06 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 383 301

  To mark the anniversaries of the 1957 and 1987 laws on the employment of people with disabilities, the colloquium aims to revisit the intersection between the fields of work and disability, from the mid-20th century to the present day. In order to contribute to this, this call for papers aims to call on the social sciences by proposing a number of (non-exhaustive) avenues for reflection: the uniqueness and diversity of disability situations; questioning the policies pursued, between protection and inclusion; studying the role of the various players, from legislative development to actual practices; aptitude standards and rationalization of work; processes of downgrading jobs; mobilization of disabled people themselves; international interferences; etc.

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• Africa and the restitution of cultural property: what is at stake for its development? - Université Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 10 07 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 387 464 (extracts)

  The aim of this international symposium is to examine the issue of the restitution of African cultural property, highlighting the memorial, political, economic and identity-related stakes involved. It aims to bring together researchers and experts for an interdisciplinary reflection on the role of these assets in the continent's development, the reconstruction of identities and the redefinition of relations between Africa and the rest of the world.

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• Onzièmes journées universitaires sur les enjeux des gouvernements ouverts et du numérique- Université Paris I - deadline (abstract) 10 07 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 374 577 (extracts)

  On November 3 and 4, 2026, IMODEV will be organizing the XIth University Days on Open Government and Digital Issues at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The aim of this event is to bring together the entire academic world (including young doctors, PhD students and researchers) and practitioners, with a broad, multi-disciplinary focus. Contributions will cover a wide range of topics, including citizen participation, artificial intelligence, the right of access to information, the right to privacy, net neutrality, freedom of expression in the digital age, the challenges of Big Data, digital sovereignty and smart cities.

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• Les transformations des mondes sociaux de la pêche - EHESS (Campus Condorcet - Aubervilliers)- deadline (abstract) 15 06 2026

  Online 20 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 390 480

  This study day aims to analyze the transformations of the social worlds of fishing, whether artisanal or industrial, and whether practiced in maritime, lacustrine or other aquatic spaces. From a comparative perspective, our aim is to bring together work from ethnographic research both "on board" and carried out in the land-based spaces of fish trade and processing, and in the places in which they take place. We will build a collective reflection aimed at understanding how fishing societies negotiate their existence in contexts marked by ecological uncertainty, regulatory pressure, technological mutations and market recompositions.

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• Health and environmental crises: issues of governance and justice - Université de Caen Normandie - deadline (abstract) before 15 06 2026

  Online 20 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 389 627

  The aim of this symposium is to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers and practitioners to shed light on the challenges posed by ecological and health crises on a global scale. Given the international dimension of these issues, a comparative approach will be adopted, with the participation of researchers from a variety of geographical and academic backgrounds.

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• Les sciences du bonheur face aux polycrises - Journal "Sciences et bonheur" - deadline (abstract) 30 06 2026

  Online 16 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 388 339

  As part of a forthcoming thematic issue, Sciences et Bonheur magazine is launching a call for contributions. When we think of the current zeitgeist, "happiness" isn't necessarily the first word that comes to mind, so full is the current situation of negativity and uncertainty, be it geopolitical, economic, social or climatic. In this troubled context, happiness might seem naïve, even at odds with the issues of the moment. What might appear to be a clash of horizons is only a clash of horizons if we consider happiness as a simple individual quest for well-being?

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