Events
Academic and scholarly society events
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Academic freedom under attack: causes, methods, consequences - Hybrid seminar 07 04 2026 (and later dates to come) - Université Paris Saclay - Registration
Miose online 03 25 2026Announcement Calenda 1 375 909
Cycle of seminars devoted to the growing attacks on academic freedom and their implications for research and higher education. Its aim is to analyze the causes and methods by which political, economic and institutional actors challenge, frame or weaken certain scientific activities, whether through pressure, budget restrictions or the calling into question of work deemed sensitive.
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L'écrit diplomatique médiéval - Thematic school from September 7 to 11, 2026 - Université de Namur (Belgium) - Application deadline May 15, 2026
Online 19 03 2026Calenda ad 1 375 374 (extracts)
Presentation
From September 7 to 11, 2026, the members of the "Pratiques médiévales de l'écrit - PraME" center will organize a summer school devoted to diplomacy. A fundamental science of history, diplomacy is the foundation of all research based on medieval and modern archival documentation. Properly mastered, this technical discipline should help historians to refine their source criticism, enabling them to better apprehend the typological diversity of the deeds at their disposal, to better understand the processes of elaboration and transmission of the documents they study, and to decipher their discourse and validation mechanisms. Diplomatics is more than just a critical tool, however: it sheds light on documentary practices and the context of written production, and thus on the history of institutions and societies in the past.
Primarily aimed at Master's students and doctoral candidates, this course is designed to help participants progressively assimilate the fundamentals of diplomatic science. To this end, it will combine lectures by members of the team, meetings and exchanges with internationally recognized specialists in the field, and practical exercises on unpublished documentary corpuses held at the State Archives in Namur.
The course will take place exclusively at the University of Namur and the Namur State Archives. Places are limited to a maximum of 15. No registration fee is required. Accommodation in Namur will be provided by the organizers for candidates wishing to attend, as will lunches. A minimum command of medieval Western paleography and at least a passive understanding of French are expected.
Deadline for applications: May 15, 2026
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Secularities, a dialogue between theologians and jurists - seminar 10 03 2026 to 09 june 2026 Université Paris I (IRJS)
Online 06 03 2026Calenda announcement 1 368 902
Neither theology nor law can be posited as purely descriptive knowledge and reasoning, transparent to their object, unlike the exact sciences and, in their image, certain social sciences. The ways in which discourses are rationalized produce effects, what we might call dogmatics, whereby the content, meaning and scope of a part are conditioned by its relationship with the whole, in a systemic relationship.
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Éducations militantes et rapports au savoir - Hybrid seminar 11 02 2026 - 10 06 2026 - Université Paris VIII - Registration
On-line 25 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1 335 739 (extracts)
his doctoral seminar is open to doctoral students from all doctoral schools at Paris 8 and elsewhere, as well as to young (and not so young) researchers of all statuses.
How do you become an activist? Is there such a thing as "activist knowledge", and if so, what are its characteristics? How does knowledge acquired "on the job" through activist experience, and by definition not easily identifiable, call into question pre-existing knowledge, shake up worldviews, and even radically alter (future) activists' relationship to knowledge[1]? These questions are addressed through research into the activist experience and activist training.
Five sessions of this seminar have already been organized in 2024 and 2025. The aim is to extend, broaden and deepen a first publication on this theme[2] by opening the floor to both established researchers and younger researchers presenting their doctoral or post-doctoral work, which may still be in progress. These may concern union or association activism, partisan commitment, popular education, feminist or ecologist struggles, or any other collective activist practice (ZADs, etc.), with a focus on the effects on activists' relationship to knowledge of training organized within collectives and/or experiential learning resulting from activist practices.
Each session begins with the guest presenting his or her research, followed by a scientific debate on the presentation. At the end of each session, the participants are invited to draw links between the various sessions and identify perspectives for the rest of the seminar.
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Des mots de la colonisation : Ruptures, continuités...impossible synchronie - Séminaire hybride 21 01 2026 - 18 06 2026 - Université de Nantes et autres entités - inscription
On-line 25 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1 355 315 (extracts)
This fifth edition of the Ateliers d'histoire du droit colonial will focus on a few key words, characteristic of the colonial origins of international law and the unanimous desire at the end of the 19th century to build a unified European law, a guarantor, it was believed at the time, of a certain peace, and yet largely inspired by the colonial experiences of the countries involved in this undertaking.
Initiated in 2021 at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Limoges, the Ateliers d'histoire du droit colonial (Colonial Law History Workshops) take a diachronic, interdisciplinary approach to the emergence, construction and evolution of legal concepts in the mainly French-speaking world. The inaugural edition (2021-2022) addressed a number of major colonial themes (indigénat, judicial institutions, labor law), while the second edition (2022-2023) focuses on the meaning of certain terms and concepts characteristic of the colonial era, and on understanding their origins in the history of the French overseas territories, with the aim of analyzing the ruptures or continuities of their legal scope with contemporary realities. They take an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together recognized specialists from different fields: academic, university, political and scientific, enabling new and dynamic cross-disciplinary approaches. A hybrid event, accessible both face-to-face and remotely, the Ateliers have been a great success with students and researchers since their inception. Thanks to the richness of their program and their methodological proposals, which focus in particular on sources and archival work, but also to the quality and expertise of the speakers, and the new avenues of reflection they open up, these Workshops have established themselves as a full-fledged player in the history of colonial law as a new field of research. They have already led to the publication of several studies, as well as Master 1 & 2 theses and doctoral dissertations in progress.
This year's event will be a little more itinerant than previous ones, in that the five presentations scheduled for this year will take place in Nantes (Faculté de droit), Paris (IUF), and Senegal (Institut d'études avancées de Saint-Louis). In Nantes, the event is supported by the Faculty of Law and Political Science and the Law and Social Change Laboratory (DCS-UMR_C 6297), in Limoges by GEOLAB (Faculty of Arts & CNRS), and in Paris by the Institut Universitaire de France, the Institut Universitaire de France and the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, in Senegal, the Institut d'études avancées de Saint-Louis, the Académie Nationale des Sciences et des Techniques and the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, and in Switzerland, the Faculté de droit de Zürich.
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Bodies, sports, gender, power relations - Hybrid seminar 02 24 2026 to 06 23 2026 - Université Paris Saclay
On-line 25 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1 362 327
At the crossroads of history, sociology, anthropology and political science, this seminar's research studies the social construction of bodies and their biologization. As an extension of the "bodies, sport, gender and power relations" research team, it proposes a critical and methodological articulation of gender issues (sexist and sexual violence, masculinities) with the question of sport.
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Réseau Arendtien Francophone (RAF) - Arendt 2026 Seminar - online 29 04 2026 to 26 11 2026
On-line 25 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1363 054
The Arendtien Francophone network, created in 2024, aims to foster synergy between those who, from amateurs to researchers, frequent the thought of Hannah Arendt. With this in mind, we're looking to set up a regular rendezvous to discuss the various interpretations and aspects of her work. In 2026, we propose four regular seminar sessions and one special session: "Arendt and economics", "Arendt and work", "Freedom, will, politics", "Arendt and violence", "Philosophy, education and politics".
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Les rencontres de Gallica - Series of lectures March 17 / May 26 / June 02, 2026 - BNF Paris - book online
On-line 25 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1 361 864
Every month, Rencontres de Gallica showcase the digitized collections of BnF and its partners, focusing on a specific theme or corpus of documents. From songs to gastronomy, from popular novels to photography and baroque music, these educational and practical sessions are aimed at anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge by exploiting Gallica's resources.
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Politiques des archives visuelles - Thematic school from 01 06 2026 to 06 06 2026 - Université de Montréal - registration
On-line 25 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1 336 562
he CÉRIUM, in collaboration with the Centre de recherches intermédiales sur les arts, lettres et techniques de l'Université de Montréal (CRIalt) and the international partnership cinEXmedia, is organizing a summer school entitled Politiques des archives visuelles : intermédialité, décolonialité et création, from June 1 to 6, 2026, at the MIL campus of the Université de Montréal. This is a unique opportunity to examine the different forms and uses of archival images, the role of the technologies mobilized for their conception, and the role of the institutions in which they are embedded (archives, museums, cinemas, courts, universities, etc.). A full description, timetable and details of how to take part are available on the CÉRIUM website.
The CÉRIUM summer school Politiques des archives visuelles : intermédialité, décolonialité et création will focus on the interest of a decolonial approach to archives.
To achieve this, we will interpret different types of visual archives from an intermedial and decolonial perspective, that is, by questioning the links between the different forms and uses of archival images, the role of the technologies mobilized for their conception and that of the institutions within which they are inscribed (archives, museum, cinema, court, university, etc.). In addition to intermediality, which remains the main focus of the summer school, several other approaches will be mobilized, ranging from indigenous studies to anthropology, film and photographic studies, as well as digital humanities and audiovisual preservation.
To bring this reflection to fruition, various guest speakers will present case studies taking into account several historical, geographical (Quebec, USA, Belgium) and cultural (aboriginal/non-aboriginal in Canada) contexts, leading us to highlight the political dimension of this subject.
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Corps, genre et travail agricole - hybrid seminar 18 03 2026 to 20 05 2026 - EHESS and other entities - registration
Online 17 02 2026Announcement Calenda 1 357776 - extracts
The body is currently the subject of constant interest in scientific work (we are thinking in particular of the seminar corps et sciences sociales - Crespa CNRS organized 10 years ago) but remains little used to approach and question agricultural work.
Using the body as an entry point for a new approach to the relationship between gender and agricultural work seems to us to offer promising prospects for making visible the work of the invisible, and opening up our field of reflection to an intersectional approach. As the interface between the individual and the society of which he or she is a part, the body lies at the confluence of social dynamics and natural data. Relationships with the body, including in the professional sphere, are constructed through the incorporation of norms differentiated by individuals (gender, race, age, norm, class, etc.). These different postures have an impact on how individuals relate to their work, how others view their work, their professional posture and the representations they form of it.
Body fit or unfit, healthy or sick, young or old, racialized or not, body under tension, visible or invisible, are all ways of expressing the relationship between the individual and the society that surrounds him or her. Varying according to time, region, social class and age, the way in which individuals apprehend the world through their physicality is by definition fluctuating, revealing to researchers a wide range of dynamics with which to interrogate the social.
The body therefore appears to be an interesting entry point for gaining a better understanding of the norms and relations of domination at work in the world of agricultural work, which is highly marked by issues linked to physical ability and relies heavily on the aptitude of bodies and their performance. The discourses constructed by the actors around physical strength, necessarily masculine and in its most hegemonic form, as a condition of possibility for their work seem to us to be particularly revealing of these dynamics.
The body is an object that emerged with feminist epistemology in the 1980s, and its mobilization varies from one social science discipline to another. While it is an effervescent emerging subject in geography and history, it is a fundamental reading prism in anthropology and sociology. This seminar thus proposes to cross disciplinary approaches to identify different aspects of the relationship to the body as it is expressed in the workplace, and the ways of making visible what is often perceived as self-evident by those involved. The methodological aspects of how research takes into account bodily data are therefore central to our thinking. Moments as crucial to the construction of bodies at work as vocational training will be studied, with a particular focus on those that make the researcher's relationship with the body visible. Health and disability; youth, ageing and pregnancy as life stages that recompose the relationship to work; social struggles as a means of making the militant body visible; the visibility of queer bodies in agricultural and militant spaces - these are just some of the issues at stake in understanding the link between the body, gender and agricultural work.
