Skip to main content

Appels à contributions

Illegal Markets and Criminal Organizations - Journal “L’Année sociologique” - Deadline (abstract) September 28, 2026

Calenda Announcement 1,430,597 (excerpts)

L’Année sociologique is issuinga call for papers in preparation for a special issue on the topic of illegal markets and criminal organizations. This call for papers aims to examine the functioning of illegal markets and criminal organizations through the lens of mechanism-basedexplanations. We invite authors to submit empirical papers that identify the social mechanism—or chain of mechanisms—atworkin a given case.

Journal “Law, Society, and Power” (JLSA) Volume 16, Issue 1 — March 2027 (Algeria) - (various areas of law) - deadline: December 20, 2026

Calenda Announcement 1,431,227 (excerpts)

This issue is devoted to the study of contemporary transformations in law, political science, international relations, governance, and state-society relations. It features original and rigorous research—particularly from theoretical, empirical, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives—on current developments in institutions, legal systems, political power, and international affairs.

 

Law, the State, and Religions in Africa: Dynamics, Tensions, and Realignments (for an edited volume) – Royal Military College of Saint-Jean (Canada) and other organizations – Deadline (abstract): November 10, 2026

Calenda Announcement 1,427,497 (excerpts)

This call for papers aims to produce a multidisciplinary collective volume on the interplay between law, the state, and religions in contemporary Africa. Under the academic direction of Prof. Guy Bucumi, the project explores how the overlapping legal frameworks (local cosmogonies, colonial legacies, positive law) and the role of religion influence political legitimacy, as well as the creation and implementation of law and the rule of law. 

History of Republicanism in Geneva, 16th–19th Centuries (for a collective volume) – University of Geneva (Switzerland) and other institutions – deadline (abstract) October 30, 2026

Calenda Announcement 1,419,755 (excerpts)

This is a collective work bringing together contributions intended to trace and explain the evolution of republicanism as it manifests itself in the history of Geneva, beginning with the promulgation of the first civil and political edicts of Calvin (1543) through the post-revolutionary period (1798–1815), marked by the annexation by France and subsequently by integration into the Swiss Confederation.

Sports Funding in Africa – African Journal of Sports Law and Economics (RADES) – (Cameroon) and other organizations – deadline (abstract) October 10, 2026

Calenda Announcement 1,429,250 (excerpts)

This international, multidisciplinary conference focuses on the challenges, mechanisms, and prospects for sports funding in Africa. It aims to bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, public policymakers, and stakeholders in the sports sector to examine public and private funding models, innovative mechanisms, and the legal, economic, financial, and institutional challenges related to the sustainable development of African sports.

Escaping Violence – State University of Haiti – Deadline (abstract) by September 24, 2026

Calenda Announcement 1,427,238 (excerpts)

The premise of this conference is that rigorously analyzing violence is in itself a political act, and that this analysis must remain grounded in the lived reality of those affected, without ever losing sight of the structures that produce and reproduce that reality. In short, the goal is to examine the possibility of transforming violence into a bond of civility and the conditions—both theoretical and practical—for such a transformation.

Subscribe to Appels à contributions