Calls for papers

Justice

• 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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• Pouvoir et foncier : faire et défaire la propriété en Afrique contemporaine - Yaoundé I University (Cameroon) - deadline (abstract for a book) before 10 06 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 388 009 (extracts)

  Throughout Africa, the state is constantly at the heart of the dynamics of land regulation. Its status differs according to the position it adopts. Peacemaker or vigilante when it acts as a mediator to neutralize the conflicts that arise; executioner or captor when it uses the means of public power or its legal prerogatives to pre-empt a domain that may or may not be recognized as individual or even community property; broker or facilitator when it acts as a negotiating interface between various parties in the context of market or non-market transactions. In this way, the state appears to be the essential mechanism on which social forces in relation to land ownership are built and built upon, stumbled upon and unravelled.

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• Penser l'Amérique latine : débats transdisciplinaires (À cinquante ans du coup d'État en Argentine) - Université de Picardie Jules Verne - deadline (abstract) 15 06 2026

  Online 21 04 2026

  Calenda announcement 1 385 909 (extracts)

  The colloquium aims to address Latin American themes and issues from a variety of disciplines, including history, literature and linguistics. It aims to establish itself as a biennial forum for discussion, fostering transdisciplinary analysis of a theme in Latin American history and reality. In this sense, transdisciplinarity is conceived not simply as the presentation of the same theme from different angles, but as an integration of disciplines that generates new knowledge and transcends the limits of each field.

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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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• 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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• Law, political identities, languages - University of Bordeaux - deadline (proposal) before 15 09 2026

  Online 16 04 2026

  Announcement 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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• Normative transmission - Université d'Orléans - deadline (abstract) 09 06 2026

  Online 15 04 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 380 977

  The École d'Orléans, under the aegis of the Centre de recherche juridique Pothier, is launching a new collective research project on the theme of normative transmission for the publication of a book. This new research follows on from those on normative force, normative densification, normative guarantee and normative posture. This research aims to describe, question and conceptualize the contemporary evolution of legal, social, ethical, technical and managerial norms.

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• Laïcité scolaire : représentations, pratiques et contextualisations- Revue "Expressions-RIICLAS " - deadline (abstract) before 01 06 2026

  Online 03 31 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 379 134

  Following on from recent work, this thematic issue ofExpressions-RIICLAS aims to place the analysis of school secularism, and its corollaries of citizenship and the common good, in an international and comparative perspective, attentive to the processes of imposition, appropriation and socialization of norms. It also looks at how these norms are adjusted by those involved in education, students, families and, possibly, associative partners.

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• La défense et la sécurité à l'épreuve des crises en Afrique de l'Ouest - Université Alassane Ouattara (Bouaké Côte d'Ivoire) and other entities - deadline (abstract) before 20 07 2026

  Online 30 03 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 380 032

  The aim of this symposium is to examine the logic of strategic cultures in Côte d'Ivoire and, by extension, in West Africa, to enable the defense and security sectors to effectively resolve various security issues. It is also intended as a forum for updating security governance in order to better deal with related national and transnational problems.

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