Calls for papers

Political Science

• Insecurity, resilience and development - "EMP- ABB" magazine (Mali) - deadline (article) 30 08 2026

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 402 710 (extracts)

  The African continent, and in particular the Sahel region, is facing a multidimensional crisis marked by insecurity, armed conflict, weakened states and socio-economic difficulties. These crises are closely linked to problems of governance, tensions over resources and changing power relations. The aim of this call for papers is to collect and publish articles on issues of sustainable development in Africa, insecurity, resilience and local dynamics, as well as on subjects relating to the design of public policies better adapted to African realities.

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• Francophone Africa: research as a lever for effective development in the education, health and green economy sectors - Université Sorbonne Nord and other entities - deadline (abstract) 06 07 2026

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 399273 (extracts)

  This colloquium brings together researchers, doctoral students, decision-makers and development players around the public policies pursued since independence in the 1960s in the fields of education, health and the economy, under the influence of the MDGs and then the SDGs. Despite progress in school enrolment, health and economic development, many challenges persist: low quality of education, inadequate infrastructure and teacher training, fragile and unequal health systems, and high economic dependence on raw materials.

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• Travail, travailleuses et travailleurs agricoles du Maroc : trajectoires, représentations et autonomisation- Centre Jacques Berque (Rabat - Morocco) and other entities - deadline (abstract) 10 07 2026

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 511

  Since the 2020s, Moroccan agricultural workers have been the focus of growing media attention (demands, worsening living conditions), and institutional players are stepping up programs to manage temporary labor mobility between Morocco and Europe. This emergence of agricultural workers, who have long been invisible in public debate and political agendas, is correlated with a growing interest in the question of agricultural work in the social sciences and humanities. With this in mind, the aim of this study day is to examine the major dynamics of agricultural work from the point of view of Moroccan workers, both locally and in the diaspora, as well as in political and social imaginations.

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• Online Roundtable Series on the Colonial Histories of Energy - CNRS and others (announcement) - deadline (abstract) by 15 July 2026 11:55 PM CET

  Online 21 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 829 (extracts)

  We welcome applications from researchers specializing in energy and colonial history to participate in a series of online roundtables on the colonial histories of energy, which will take place in late summer 2026.

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• Sociologie et savoirs critiques sur le handicap: apports, tensions et décloisonnement - Revue " Cahiers de Recherche Sociologique " (n°80) - (UQAM-Canada) - deadline (abstract) 17 08 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 589 (extracts)

  Today, disability studies constitute a diversified and interdisciplinary field of research based on the desiré to understand the notion of disability through the tools, methods and categories of analysis of the human and social sciences, considering disability as a political, cultural and social object. More recently, the emergence of internal critiques has contributed to the rise of a new constellation of work: critical disability studies. Critical disability studies offer unprecedented angles of approach for apprehending a host of themes (citizenship, issues of recognition, processes of exclusion, social ties and self-help networks, etc.).

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• Foreign policies of African states: regimes and narratives - Revue " Études internationales " - deadline (abstract) 15 07 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 413 (extracts)

  This dossier focuses on the theme of "The foreign policies of African states: regimes and narratives". The main issue explores the following question: how do African states construct and legitimize their place in a recomposing world, and to what extent does the nature of their political regime shape their foreign policy orientations? This issue focuses on a thematic and comparative approach, anchored in the contemporary period with the historical depths necessary to understand trajectories. The aim is to draw up a typology of the foreign policies of African states, based on three analytical dimensions: stated objectives, mobilized narratives and realized actions.

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• Penser les transitions dans les mondes arabes et musulmans - EHESS (Campus Condorcet - Aubervilliers) and other entities - deadline (abstract) extension before 30 06 2026

  Online 20 05 2026 - extended 02 06 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 778 (extracts)

  The Arab uprisings of 2011 ushered in sequences of political transformation whose contrasting trajectories continue to challenge the social sciences. Fifteen years on, the variety of outcomes observed - authoritarian restorations, unfinished transitions, state collapses - calls for a critical review of the analytical tools mobilized to think about change in the Arab and Muslim worlds. This study day will examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the notions of crisis, transition and rupture, questioning their uses, their limits and the conceptual alternatives likely to give a better account of configurations where instability is not an episode but a lasting condition.

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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 2026

  Announcement 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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• Artefacts, status and power in prison - Université Grenoble Alpes - deadline (abstract) before 03 07 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 399 478 (extracts)

  This international colloquium (Université Grenoble Alpes, June 2027) offers a comparative analysis of the artifacts worn by prisoners - badges, armbands, uniforms - as material devices of classification and hierarchization in prison. Crossing fields from all continents, it represents the first systematic comparison of these objects, in order to analyze the diversity of institutional, legal and material configurations in which they are embedded. The project brings together sociology, anthropology, political science, history, law and geography, as well as the perspectives of research and civil society.

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• When filiation cannot be taken for granted. Filiations et violences, XXe - XXIe siècles - Sciences Po Paris - deadline (abstract) before 30 06 2026

  Online 20 05 2026

  Announcement Calenda 1 400 735 (extracts)

  On a collective scale, the two world wars and the wars of decolonization have left behind generations marked by the experience of disrupted bonds with parents. On a private level, recent years have seen a growing awareness of the presence of violence even in the family sphere. It is precisely at the point where violence and filiation collide that this symposium intends to focus. We propose to examine the impact of private and public violence on questions of filiation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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