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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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