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Conference "Concepts of Freedom and the Development of Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison"

5 hours 32 minutes ago

Organiser: Arbeitskreis Großbritannien-Forschung; Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Host: Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, im Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets, Clemensstr. 17-19
Postcode: 44789
City: Bochum
Country: Germany
Takes place: In attendance
Dates: 16.07.2026 - 17.07.2026
Website: https://www.hgr.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/hgr/isb/

German Association for British Studies, and Institute for Social Movements of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum: Annual Conference 16-17 July 2026, im Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets, Clemensstr. 17-19, 44789 Bochum, Germany

Concepts of Freedom and the Development of Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison

Registration:
birgit.bublies-godau@rub.de
nobfabian@t-online.de

The participation is free of charge.

Programme

Thursday, July 16, 2026

9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and registration
9:30 – 9:45 Welcoming speeches: Stefan Berger (Bochum), Marius Guderjan (Berlin)

9:45 – 10:30: Introduction
Norbert Fabian (Bochum), The early English Revolution of 1381 and the European History of Freedom and Emancipation
Chair: Stefan Berger (Bochum)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 First keynote lecture:
Nicholas Vincent (East Anglia), The Magna Carta of 1215 and the History of Liberty
Chair: Birgit Bublies-Godau (Bochum)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Second keynote lecture:
Lyndal Roper (Oxford), For liberty! The German Peasant’s War of 1525 and the Twelve Articles.
Chair: Stefan Berger (Bochum)

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 1: Conceptualising Liberty
- Andrew Wells (Kiel), Freedom’s Parish: Liberty in the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760
- Brigitta Schvéd (Budapest), Public Opinion, Political Media, and the Language of Freedom: Conceptualising Liberty and the Balance of Power in Early Eighteenth-Century British and Habsburg Contexts
Chair: Mathis Gronau (Bochum)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Third keynote lecture:
Alan S. Kahan (Paris), ‘Freedom from Fear’. Transatlantic Concepts of Liberalism
Chair: Mathis Gronau (Bochum)

17:00 – 18:30 Panel 2: Socialism and Social Movements in Europe
- Jan de Graaf (Bochum), A Model for All? European Responses to Labour’s 1945 Victory
- Alberto Pantaloni (Turin), Social Movements and Struggles in Britain and Italy at the End of the ‘Golden Age’: a Comparative Study
Chair: Stefan Berger (Bochum)

19:30 Conference dinner

Friday, July 17, 2026

9:00 – 10:30 Panel 3: Political Debates on Freedom, Democracy, and Revolution in the ‘long’ 19th century
- Vicente Pons Marti (Frankfurt am Main), Freedom, Parties, and Opposition. Political Party Debates in Britain from the French Revolution to the Reform Act of 1868
- Birgit Bublies-Godau (Bochum), The European Revolution of 1848/49 and the debate on Christopher Clark, ‘Revolutionary Spring. Fighting for a New World’
Chair: Norbert Fabian (Bochum)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Panel 4: Modern Conservativism and Democracy in the ‘short’ 20th century
- Christina Sigrid Schlaich (Freiburg/ Br.), The Politics of ‘Freedom’ in the Making of Democratic Order: Stanley Baldwin and Transnational Public Spheres, c. 1922–1939
- Edmund Neill (London), Conservatism’ Adaption to Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain
Chair: Mathis Gronau (Bochum)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Round table and open final discussion: Theories and Concepts of Freedom and Revolution, Democracy and Reform - Comparisons and Responsible Learning from History
Lyndal Roper, Norbert Fabian, Mathis Gronau, Birgit Bublies-Godau
Chair: Marius Guderjan (Berlin)

Contact

Birgit Bublies-Godau, M.A., birgit.bublies-godau@rub.de, und Dr. Norbert Fabian, nobfabian@t-online.de.

CfA: Racial Uplift and Political Struggles in Slave and Post-Slave Societies (Slaveries and Post-Slaveries Journal) (English and French)

5 hours 32 minutes ago

This issue invites original contributions to scholarly research on ideologies of racial uplift in slave and post-slave societies from the late eighteenth century onward. As Slaveries & Post-Slaveries is an interdisciplinary journal, contributions may draw upon one or more fields within the social sciences (history, sociology, political science, ethnography, etc.).

 

Dear colleagues,

The journal Slaveries & Post-Slaveries is pleased to share with you the call for contributions for issue 17 (Spring 2018), whose provisional title is “Racial Uplift and Political Struggles in Slave and Post-Slave Societies.” You will find the full text of the call below and attached, in both French and English.

Proposals for article abstracts, with a maximum length of 5,000 characters (excluding bibliography), should also include your name and institutional affiliation, as well as a short biographical and bibliographical note. They should be sent to the journal’s editorial committee (ciresc.redaction@cnrs.fr) by December 1, 2026. The detailed schedule can be found in the text of the call.

Please feel free to circulate this call widely among your networks.

We thank you in advance for your contributions.

Theme of this Issue

What the English language refers to as racial uplift may be translated into French as “élévation de la race.” Without always designating exactly the same thing, related notions include respectability politics (Higginbotham 1993), racial advancement, racial reform or moral reform, self-help, and even uplift suasion (Kendi 2016). These political ideologies share a common objective: promoting the improvement or advancement of a racialized—and therefore stigmatized—group through a set of practices aimed at resisting racial oppression by elevating both the self and the group in an upward movement toward racial equality and democratic justice (Gaines 1996).

Generally speaking, ideologies of racial uplift propose a dual strategy (Martin-Breteau 2024). Internally, within the community, they seek to strengthen self-esteem and racial pride, and more broadly self-confidence, as a means of protecting individuals from the abjection imposed by the social order. The goal is to transform the negative dispositions internalized through contact with a violently hostile society, and to build the inner confidence necessary to overcome social contempt, encourage courageous action, and achieve justice. In this first sense, racial uplift constitutes a politics of dignity. Externally, beyond the community, ideologies of racial uplift aim to overturn racial “prejudices,” that is, the degrading representations that the dominant group—most often racialized as white—maintains about those considered nonwhite. From this perspective, racial uplift constitutes a symbolic struggle for recognition (Honneth 1995; Lamont 2023), seeking to impose positive representations of nonwhite people against the falsehoods of dominant social representations. In this second sense, racial uplift constitutes a politics of truth.

From a historical perspective, the various ideologies of racial uplift thus developed through a dual movement of social protection and political protest. Contrary to a widespread assumption, they did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth century. Rather, these ideologies appear to have been systematized at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within the framework of the slave institution, particularly in the United States and the Caribbean (Cooper 1972; Gaines 1993; Rael 2002). In the United States, these ideologies exerted their greatest influence during periods of intensified racial oppression: at the height of racial slavery (1830–1860) and, following abolition in 1865, during the establishment of racial segregation (1880–1920) (Brooks 2017). Nevertheless, they remain relevant today (Blume Oeur 2018).

Geographically speaking, tactics of racial uplift have been studied most extensively in the context of U.S. society—a disproportion in scholarly production that may suggest their marginality elsewhere. Yet in the Caribbean, these ideologies also took shape as more or less systematized tactics in the form of what McGraw calls “recognition work.” Indeed, these ideologies and practices of self-elevation circulated throughout the Black Atlantic and beyond. The circulation of the values and ideas of the Haitian Revolution, for example, contributed to the diffusion of certain forms of racial uplift (Byrd 2019; Alexander 2022). Likewise, the Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Marcus Garvey, originally from Jamaica, became the largest Black political organization of the early twentieth century, with a presence throughout the Atlantic world and an ambition centered on Black “improvement” (Stephens & Ewing 2026).

From a sociological perspective, finally, ideologies of racial uplift were initially promoted by the political, economic, and cultural elites of the Black world, who sought to “guide” their communities along the path toward equality and justice. Those whom W. E. B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth (Du Bois), and who have also been described as “aristocrats of color” (Gatewood 1990), were in fact the leading advocates of these “equalization strategies” (Lamont & Fleming 2005) between Black and white elites. In the Caribbean, these movements are sometimes referred to as elite reform or middle-class nationalism. Within the framework of the nineteenth-century reform movement in the English-speaking Atlantic world, Black women and their political organizations played a central role in promoting these ideologies (Giddings 1984; Higginbotham 1993; Wolcott 1997; 2001; Parker 2016; Cooper 2017; Pavlevitch 2022). Until today, these ideologies have concerned not only Black people but also other racialized groups, including populations perceived as Arab/Muslim or Asian (Jun 2011; Dazey 2021b).

These ideologies sought to improve the collective condition of the community through social practices aimed at a threefold moral, intellectual, and physical perfection. They proposed an ideal of excellence encouraging individuals to better themselves along these three dimensions through forms of “practice” and “care of the self” (Foucault 2001). As a result, religion (Wheeler 1986; Miller 2003), education (Edmondson 2009; Schenbeck 2012), and self-presentation were probably the three most important domains of social activity for uplifters. The use of photography (Wallace & Smith 2012), clothing (Miller 2009; Miller et al. 2025), cosmetics (Gill 2010), and sport (Martin-Breteau 2024) all served as means of promoting new forms of self-presentation. Economic success could itself be presented as proof of the triple perfection expected of members of the community (Weber 1958). Media outlets, especially the press (Fultz 1995; Anderson 2015; Haywood 2018), served as powerful vehicles for these political tactics.

These ideologies were vigorously criticized, particularly during the eras of the Black Power movement and Black Lives Matter (Frazier 1957; Kendi 2016; Taylor 2016; Malcolm 2022). Far from constituting a politics of emancipation, the pursuit of “respectability” associated with ideologies of racial uplift has been described as a set of bourgeois, paternalistic, conservative, authoritarian, or even reactionary political tactics—which consequently are relatively understudied in the social sciences despite their historical and sociological importance (Rhodes & Joseph 2016). The main criticism holds that racial uplift ignores the sociological, rather than psychological, origins of racial inequality: the prejudices of dominant groups are not the causes but the consequences of racial oppression, which relativizes—or even nullifies—any strategy of liberation based on moral persuasion. Ideologies of racial uplift have also been criticized for their inability to subvert dominant white norms. Since they require the oppressed to prove their humanity in order to obtain equality, they condition justice upon a standard of excellence that is often unattainable. Moreover, this demand contributes to the extension of dominant norms, thereby intensifying relations of domination over the most vulnerable members of stigmatized communities (Lopez Bunyasi & Smith 2019).

Nevertheless, it is undeniable that racial uplift was not a political tactic defended solely by conservative or bourgeois groups. Even in the 1950s-1970s United States, racial uplift was adopted in different forms as a tactic of resistance and survival within a racist society, both by activists in the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and by followers of the Nation of Islam (Curtis 2002; Matlin 2006). Although they favored different, if not opposing, political tactics, the lives and actions of W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington (Moore 2003), as well as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., were largely structured around this perfectionist demand for self-elevation. Reading their autobiographies reveals the same determination to elevate themselves in order to protect themselves from racist violence and, insofar as possible, eradicate it (Washington 1901; Malcolm X 1999). The reason is that racial uplift did not primarily seek to imitate or flatter the white majority in order to persuade it of its mistaken judgments about nonwhite people; rather, it sought to strengthen what Toni Morrison called the self-regard of Black people—that is, their self-love, understood as a prerequisite for any struggle for liberation.

This special issue therefore aims to propose a historical and geographical genealogy of the ideologies and practices of racial uplift. Rather than portraying the various forms of racial uplift as either heroic or naive, the objective is to analyze, in a methodical and contextualized manner, their intrinsic ambivalence as sets of practices simultaneously adapting to and contesting the established social and racial order (Dazey 2021a; Martin-Breteau 2024). These tactics could thus both challenge and reinforce dominant norms. Although central to the contemporary history of struggles for racial liberation, these ideologies remain relatively understudied in their historical and geographical coherence beyond the United States and even beyond the English-speaking world.

Themes

Contributions may in particular address the following issues:

  • The question of distinctions and hierarchies of class, gender, age, nationality, etc., among both the promoters and the intended recipients of ideologies of racial uplift. Were those advocating racial uplift merely “elites”? Or can one also identify a powerful lineage of these ideologies and practices within the working classes themselves? What forms did they take in those contexts? What were the specific characteristics of racial uplift when promoted by women? To what extent were majority groups themselves concerned with forms of racial uplift, as in what has been called white uplift (Newman 2012; Spahn 2024)?
  • The question of the highly diverse modalities of racial uplift tactics, grounded in an ethic of excellence supporting a range of practices of dignity and truth. In what sense can Black excellence—and more broadly subaltern excellence—historically be understood as a form of resistance? In which domains of social activity did this tactic develop most specifically, and why? Did these tactics not almost always combine a threefold aspiration toward moral, intellectual, and physical excellence? If not, why?
  • The question of the political effectiveness of tactics of racial uplift. Racial uplift is indeed widely regarded as a conservative political tactic. Yet the elevation of the self and the group remains a central framework for forms of primary and secondary socialization aimed at resisting racial abjection and oppression. Why, despite often justified criticisms, does this tactic remain relevant today? Do these tactics consist solely of symbolic and moral struggles for recognition? Do they not also seek the redistribution of economic and political power? Does the theoretical distinction between these two paradigms truly make sense?

We welcome original contributions to scholarly research on ideologies of racial uplift in slave and post-slave societies from the late eighteenth century onward, and that engage with the themes of this call. As Slaveries & Post-Slaveries is an interdisciplinary journal, contributions may draw upon one or more fields within the social sciences (history, sociology, political science, ethnography, etc.).

Submission Procedures

Proposals for article abstracts (in French or English), with a maximum length of 5,000 characters (excluding bibliography), should also include your name and institutional affiliation, as well as a short biographical and bibliographical note. They should be sent to the journal’s editorial committee (ciresc.redaction@cnrs.fr) by December 1, 2026. Feedback on proposals will be provided by January 15, 2027.

Completed articles, of approximately 45,000 characters (including notes and spaces), should be submitted by May 3, 2027. Each article will undergo anonymous peer review by a member of the editorial board and by an external reviewer. Final versions of accepted articles must be completed by December 2027.

Practical guidelines for authors are available here: https://journals.openedition.org/slaveries/2173?file=1

Publication of issue 17 of the journal Slaveries & Post-Slaveries: Spring 2028.

Coordination: 

Audrey Célestine, New-York University

Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Université de Lille

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Anderson Mia L., 2015. “‘I Dig You, Chocolate City’: Ebony and Sepia Magazines’ Coverage of Black Political Progress, 1971–1977,” Journal of African American Studies, no. 19/4, pp. 398–409.

Blume Oeur Freeden, 2018. Black Boys Apart. Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Brooks Clayton McClure, 2017. The Uplift Generation. Cooperation across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press.

Byrd Brandon R., 2019. The Black Republic. African Americans and the Fate of Haiti, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Cooper Britney C., 2017. Beyond Respectability. The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, Urbana, University of Illinois Press.

Cooper Frederick, 1972. “Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827–50,” American Quarterly, no. 24/5, pp. 604–625.

Curtis Edward E., 2002. “Islamizing the Black Body: Ritual and Power in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, no. 12/2, pp. 167–196.

Dazey Margot, 2021a. “Rethinking Respectability Politics,” British Journal of Sociology, no. 72/3, pp. 580–593.

Dazey Margot, 2021b. “Polite Responses to Stigmatization: Ethics of Exemplarity among French Muslim Elites,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, no. 46/4, pp. 686–706.

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Giddings Paula, 1984. When and Where I Enter. The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, New York, William Morrow.

Gill Tiffany M., 2010. Beauty Shop Politics. African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry, Urbana, University of Illinois Press.

Haywood D’Weston, 2018. Let Us Make Men. The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press.

Higginbotham Evelyn Brooks, 1993. Righteous Discontent. The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

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Kendi Ibram X, 2016. Stamped from the Beginning. The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, New York, Nation Books.

Lamont Michèle, 2023. Seeing Others. How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World, New York, Simon & Schuster.

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Lopez Bunyasi Tehama & Candis Watts Smith, 2019. “Do All Black Lives Matter Equally to Black People? Respectability Politics and the Limitations of Linked Fate,” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, no. 4/1, pp. 180–215.

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Martin-Breteau Nicolas, 2024. Frontline Bodies. Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.

McGraw Jason, 2014. The Work of Recognition. Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.

Miller Albert G., 2003. Elevating the Race. Theophilus G. Steward, Black Theology, and the Making of an African American Civil Society, 1865–1924, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press.

Miller Monica L. et al., 2025. Superfine. Tailoring Black Style, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Miller Monica L., 2009. Slaves to Fashion. Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, Durham, Duke University Press.

Moore Jacqueline M., 2003. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift, Wilmington, Scholarly Resources.

Newman Richard, 2012. “Good Communications Corrects Bad Manners: The Banneker-Jefferson Dialogue and the Project of White Uplift,” in John Craig Hammond & Matthew Mason (eds.), Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, pp. 69–93.

Parker Jeffrey W., 2016. “Sex at a Crossroads: The Gender Politics of Racial Uplift and Afro-Caribbean Activism in Panama, 1918–32,” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, no. 4/2, pp. 196–221.

Pavletich JoAnn (ed.), 2022. Yours for Humanity. New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Athens, University of Georgia Press.

Rael Patrick, 2002. Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.

Rhodes Jane & Ralina L. Joseph, 2016. “African American Representation and the Politics of Respectability,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, nos 18/2-4.

Schenbeck Lawrence, 2012. Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878–1943, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi.

Spahn Hannah, 2024. Black Reason, White Feeling. The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press.

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Date

  • Tuesday, 1 December 2026

Attachments

Keywords

  • slavery, post-slavery, history, sociology, political sciences, ethnography

CfP: ‘Halt! Who goes there?’ Registration of residents, travellers and migrants in historical perspectives (Workshop, University of Vienna)

8 hours 32 minutes ago

Workshop, 11.2.-12.2.2027, University of Vienna

Monitoring mobility and keeping records of the population and/or individuals present in a state’s territory seems an indispensable element of modern statehood and knowledge-based governance. However, different countries used different criteria, set different priorities, and employed different methods and tools to register and locate people. Even today, there is no universal understanding of population registration.

This workshop aims to discuss the history of population registration from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, focussing on Europe from the late 18th to the 20th century. We are particularly interested in the (continuous) monitoring and documentation of the abode or stay of (permanent or temporary) residents as well as travellers or migrants. Our focus is on the practices and uses of registration, as well as on the interactions between those involved in such procedures.

We would like to address the following aspects:

The developments of categories and the making of differences: Registration practices contributed to producing social facts such as “population”, “residents”, or “mobility”. At the same time, registration could be patchy and selective; it differentiated and distinguished between various sections of the mobile and/or sedentary population which, in the eyes of the authorities, required various levels of vigilance. Those authorities openly or secretly classified not only various kinds of strangers, foreigners and types of presence. Citizens too could be subject to different forms of monitoring and documentation, e.g. military conscripts, workers and servants, suspects or criminals, and religious, political, national or ethnic minorities. Registration and monitoring of the population could go beyond a state’s territory and become a matter of international affairs in various respects, e.g. through exchange of information, comparison and adaptation of policies.

Methods and involved parties: Registers constituted a fundamental administrative infrastructure of municipalities and states. The bureaucratic practices of cities and smaller municipalities, of industrial or rural regions, and of areas with intense mobility or tourism followed different agendas and faced different challenges. At the same time, registration was often relied on the reporting practices and cooperation of those who provided lodging or shelter, such as hosts, landlords, innkeepers, hoteliers, employers, wardens, etc. They could be compelled to keep records on guests or employees, deliver information, assess individuals and report suspects. Performing such tasks could conflict or align with their own agendas, administrative needs, and business strategies.

Uses, consequences and ambivalences: Registration is most commonly associated with surveillance and police work as well as the control of mobility. It is considered a feature of a disciplinary state, and – given the potential for persecution or abuse of power – seems almost intrinsically repressive. However, as Breckenridge and Szreter[1] have most prominently highlighted, registration can also signify recognition and acknowledgement of belonging; it may be the prerequisite for claiming entitlements such as voting rights, citizenship, welfare benefits, etc. Consequently, problems could be created by a lack (or denial) of registration, bureaucratic negligence, ambiguities, or errors. What was required or used to identify or verify data?

Perception, experiences and symbolic aspects: Registration could be regarded as an imposition, a nuisance, a threat or a humiliation. However, it could also come to be seen as a mundane formality. Moreover, various forms of voluntary and desired registration exist (i.e. of guests and tourists). Registration documented and reconfirmed status; it made individuals visible and tangible (e.g. in guest lists and address books). The experiences and perceptions of registration as benign or desirable can illustrate the power to normalise bureaucratic routines and encounters as well as official criteria and terms which, as Bourdieu has highlighted, may in the end might appear neutral or even “natural”.

In brief: this workshop aims to explore the interplay of practices and to discuss collective and individual struggles over the terms, conditions and consequences of registration. This includes attempts to enforce or avoid registration, to manipulate or protect data, or to access information on a national or international level.

The two-day workshop will be held at the University of Vienna on the 11th and 12th of February 2027. It is organised by the FWF-funded research project “Categorizing, Registering and Reporting of Mobility and Stay” (10.55776/PAT9328724); principal investigator: Sigrid Wadauer.

Submission guidelines:

  • Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words together with a short biographical note of around 150 words to sigrid.wadauer@univie.ac.at
  • Deadline for submissions: 31.07.2026
  • Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-August 2026.

Limited funding for travel and accommodation will be available.

We aim to publish a selection of papers presented at the workshop in an edited volume or a special issue.

Contact:

Sigrid Wadauer

sigrid.wadauer@univie.ac.at

https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/

https://www.sigridwadauer.com/

[1] Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter, ‘Introduction’, in: idem (eds), Registration and recognition. Documenting the person in world history (Oxford 2012)

CfP: Protest Across Time: Temporalities of Social Movements

8 hours 32 minutes ago

Protest is frequently analysed through eventful moments (demonstrations, strikes, occupations, sudden waves of contention) yet contentious politics also unfolds through longer temporal trajectories that shape what actors can do, what they remember, and how they persist. This special issue invites contributions that place temporality at the centre of protest analysis, examining how mobilisation is embedded in sequences, durations, and rhythms that extend beyond the “peak”. We welcome work that theorises and empirically traces how movements are made over time: through organisational reproduction, cycles of learning, intergenerational transmission, and the gradual reworking of repertoires. The aim of this issue is to strengthen the dialogue between social movement studies and historical sociology. Contributions with explicit temporal references (such as archival research, longitudinal designs, and comparative-historical approaches) that can shed light on the longue durée of conflict in different regions and political histories are particularly encouraged.

A focus on temporality also helps address what event-centred perspectives often overlook: abeyance and latency, the maintenance of networks and infrastructures between cycles, and the slow, cumulative processes through which claims, identities, and tactical capacities are sustained or transformed. We encourage papers that treat “between-cycle” periods not as empty time, but as analytically consequential phases where resources are conserved, solidarity is reproduced, and organisations adapt to shifting political opportunities and constraints. Submissions may explore how memory, commemoration, forgetting, and activist archives operate as mechanisms of continuity and change; how repression, surveillance, and counter-mobilisation reshape trajectories; and how diffusion and sequencing connect protest episodes across places and generations. Comparative contributions that broaden the geographical scope beyond the well-trodden cases of Western Europe and North America are particularly welcome, as are studies that examine how different institutional temporalities (elections, political cycles, regime transitions, economic crises) intersect with the timing of movements to produce distinct patterns of emergence, persistence, and subsequent repercussions.

Finally, the most recent transformations of protest arguably hinge on digital contention and the hybridisation of online and offline repertoires. This special issue therefore explicitly includes digital media and digital sociology within its scope, inviting research on phenomena such as hashtag campaigns, platform-based mobilisation, online boycotts, coordinated “X protests”, collective digital action, and the contentious dynamics surrounding cancel culture and public accountability campaigns. We welcome methodological innovation that connects archival materials, event datasets, life histories, ethnography, and digital trace data, as well as work that reflects on the epistemic opportunities and limits of each approach for studying temporal processes. In general, we seek theoretically ambitious and empirically grounded articles that explain how protests change over time—through mechanisms such as learning, conversion, coalition, and institutionalisation—without losing sight of the multiple temporal scales at which movements operate. Contributions should be addressed to the broad readership of Sociology Lens, offering clear conceptual benefits, comparative advantages, and insights into the perennial question of how time shapes conflict politics.

Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:
  • Long-term trajectories of movements across cycles, including abeyance, suspension, and reactivation.
  • Archival research on protest organisations, repertoires, and infrastructures of continuity.
  • Comparative-historical analyses of protest fields beyond Western Europe and North America.
  • Intergenerational transmission of activist identities, skills, and organisational know-how.
  • Collective memory, commemoration, forgetting, and activist archives as temporal mechanisms.
  • Diffusion and sequencing of repertoires across waves of contention and transnational spaces.
  • Outcomes, legacies, and post-peak organisational recomposition in movement afterlives.
  • Digital contention: hashtags, online boycotts, platform campaigns, and hybrid online-offline mobilisation.
  • Temporalities of repression, surveillance, and counter-mobilisation across protest cycles.
  • Interactions between protest, institutions, and political time in democratisation, authoritarianism, and regime change.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Gomer Betancor Nuez
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Spain

Prof. Guya Accornero
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal

Keywords: archival research; collective memory; diffusion; digital contention; historical sociology; longitudinal methods; protest cycles; protest; social movements; Temporality

Call for Abstract Instructions

Interested contributors should submit an abstract to the guest editors via email by 01/07/2026. Abstracts (300–400 words) should outline the proposed paper, its empirical basis, and its theoretical contribution. Submissions based on ongoing studies are also welcome, provided that the manuscript is expected to be completed by the submission deadline. The guest editors will respond to the letters of intent within one month after submission, allowing for a quick potential invitation to submit the full manuscript (around 7,000 words). Only the authors whose abstracts are selected by the guest editors will proceed to full submission.

Following peer review, authors will be expected to return their revised manuscripts by 1 December 2026, after which the complete set of papers will be submitted to the journal. Final versions will be submitted by 1 September 2027. On this basis, we anticipate a possible publication window in late 2027 or early 2028.

Abstract submission deadline: 1 July 2026
Full paper submission: 1 September 2027

CfP: What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation

6 days 8 hours ago

Organizer: Aviad Moreno (Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev and University of Florida); Heather Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania); Matthias B. Lehmann (University of Cologne); Raanan Rein (University of Florida)
ZIP: 50923
Location: Cologne
Country: Germany
Takes place: In Attendance
From - Until: 24.05.2027 - 25.05.2027
Deadline: 01.10.2026

What makes a diaspora? Not every population on the move becomes one, and not every dispersed community claims the term. This workshop is designed to bring three fields into conversation: American studies, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) studies, and Jewish studies.

For more than a century, Middle Eastern and North African peoples—Muslims, Christians, Jews, Druze, and others; Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, and more—have moved to and within the Americas in ways that transformed both the regions they left and the societies they joined. In many cases, these migrations complicated what it has meant to be a minority. Some migrants came from dominant religious or ethnic communities in their countries of origin but became minorities—small in number and relatively lacking in power—upon arrival in the Americas. In recent years, a substantial body of scholarship has examined these migrations through commercial networks, religious institutions, racial formations, and transnational attachments.

Building on this research, the workshop asks more nuanced questions about how migration and transnationalism produce diasporic formations. Who mobilizes people, through which institutions and infrastructures, for what purposes, and with what consequences for communal authority, hierarchy, solidarity, and division? The workshop seeks to explore how diasporic formations depend on collective consciousness—on people seeing and accepting themselves as members of a group—rather than understanding migration primarily as an individual project of autonomy and reinvention in lands of migration.

In short, the workshop approaches diaspora not as the automatic result of migration, but as a field of practices, institutions, infrastructures, memories, and struggles, subject to negotiation and contestation by both individuals and groups. Recent scholarship has emphasized that diasporas are at once social formations, political claims, historical memories, infrastructures of connection, and sometimes categories of practice with meanings must be explained, not assumed. Scholarship on diaspora politics has shown that transnational mobilization depends not on homeland attachment alone, but also on context, position, leadership, resources, and institutional capacity. Some scholars have gone further by suggesting that a diaspora is not simply “any” scattered migrant group, but one qualitatively shaped by a shared sense of trauma or loss, or alternatively, by a shared sense of network, as in diasporic business communities. Still others have pointed to longevity—that is, long-term group memory retention, or memory-making, including the potential invention of tradition—as a sine qua non for diaspora status.

How do concepts such as exile, return, imagined homeland, peoplehood, and long-distance nationalism—long central to Jewish studies and increasingly important in Middle Eastern studies, too—travel across Jewish, Armenian, Palestinian, Maronite, Coptic, Assyrian, Druze, Kurdish, Muslim, and other MENA diasporic formations? Where do they illuminate, and where do they distort? How do non-Jewish Middle Eastern and North African migrants in the Americas unsettle inherited Jewish-studies categories such as exile and return? What becomes visible when Jewish studies, MENA studies, and scholarship on the Americas are brought into conversation, and how might such dialogue sharpen our understanding of diaspora as both a regional and global formation?

We have three goals for the workshop. We want to bring fresh insights to consider, first, what Jewish history and historiography can contribute to current scholarship on modern and contemporary diasporic and minority communities; second, and reciprocally, what the study of Middle Eastern and North African migration to the Americas can bring to Jewish history; and third, how we can study diasporas and Middle Eastern communities in the Americas while setting new directions for scholars to follow.

Questions for Discussion
- What qualifies as a diaspora, and who claims—or refuses—the term?
- Who claims the authority to speak for the diaspora, and how are such claims accepted, challenged, or rejected within self-defined diasporic communities?
- How does homeland attachment generate solidarity, political mobilization, and communal continuity across distance? How can the same attachments produce internal disagreements, rival leaderships, ideological splits, or competing visions of belonging?
- How do diasporic networks connect multiple sites across the hemisphere and beyondin order to forge, contest, or revise shared diasporic stories?
- How do migration, return migration, circular mobility, and onward migration shape—or unsettle—the making of multilayered diasporas?
- How have the Americas functioned not merely as destinations for Middle Eastern and North African migrants, but as arenas where diasporic identities are remade through local racial regimes, minority politics, religious pluralism, and intercommunal encounters?
- What institutions, infrastructures, and media help produce diasporic formations—including religious organizations, communal associations, schools, newspapers, philanthropic networks, political committees, cultural initiatives, digital platforms, and family networks?
- How have diasporic identities become entangled with race as migrants have moved across imperial, colonial, mandate, and nation-state contexts into the Americas?
- What terminologies have communities used to describe themselves—“diaspora,” “exile,” “community,” “nation,” “minority,” “refugees,” “immigrants,” “returnees,” “Arabs,” “Jews,” “Sephardim,” “Maronites,” “Armenians,” “Assyrians,” “Middle Easterners,” “Latinos,” or “Hispanics”—and how have these terms shifted across languages, generations, and political contexts?
- How have concepts such as homeland, exile, return, peoplehood, martyrdom, minority rights, indigeneity, and belonging been translated across Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino, Turkish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and other diasporic languages?
- What has been lost, gained, or transformed when communal categories have been translated into the racial, ethnic, religious, and legal vocabularies of the Americas?
- How have hierarchies within diasporic communities—class, gender, generation, religious authority, ethnicity, sect, language, region of origin, and proximity to communal institutions—shaped who has participated in diaspora-making and who has been left out?
- How have gendered forms of labor, memory, education, kinship, philanthropy, and cultural transmission sustained diasporic life, even when formal leadership structures have remained male-dominated?
- How have generational gaps reshaped diasporic attachment, especially when younger generations have inherited homeland memories, languages, political commitments, or traumas they did not experience directly?
- How have diasporic communities negotiated tensions between preserving inherited traditions and adapting to new racial, religious, national, and cultural environments in the Americas? When have rival memories of displacement, persecution, migration, or homeland politics become sources of cohesion in some contexts and division in others?
- How have relations with other minority groups in the Americas—Jewish, Arab, Armenian, Black, Indigenous, Latino, Muslim, Christian, and others—reshaped diasporic self-understandings?
- When has the concept of diaspora become a political strategy, a moral claim, a cultural identity, a communal infrastructure, or a field of internal struggle?

Format
The workshop will take place in person at the University of Cologne over two full days, 24–25 May 2027. Participants will receive pre-circulated papers four weeks in advance and will discuss them in plenary sessions. Selected papers may be considered for a peer-reviewed special issue and/or an edited volume.

Submission Guidelines
- An abstract of up to 400 words, outlining the paper’s argument, sources, and contribution to the workshop themes.
- A short academic CV of one to two pages.

Please send materials to: m.lehmann@uni-koeln.de and moreno.av@ufl.edu

Deadline for proposals: October 1, 2026
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2026
Pre-circulated papers due: Late April 2027
Paper length: 5,000–7,000 words

Accommodation and conference meals in Cologne will be covered for accepted participants. A limited number of travel subsidies will be available, with priority given to early-career scholars. We especially encourage submissions from early-career scholars, scholars based in Middle Eastern, North African, and Latin American institutions, and researchers working with Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Turkish, Armenian, or other relevant sources.

The working language of the workshop will be English. The methodological frictions of multilingual and multi-sited research are not a problem to be solved, but a resource to be used.

The Consortium for Jewish Studies Across the Americas (CJSA) is a joint initiative of the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, the Initiative on the Jews in the Americas at Brandeis University, the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev, the Jewish Studies Program at Universidad Hebraica of Mexico, and the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.

Contact (announcement)

m.lehmann@uni-koeln.de and moreno.av@ufl.edu

CfP: Imperial, Colonial, Early Modern, Renaissance: Reflexions on Theory and Method (RSA 2027)

6 days 8 hours ago

Organizer: Marina Bezzi, Joseph da Costa
ZIP: PA 19107
Location: Philadelphia
Country: United States
Takes place: In Attendance
From - Until: 11.03.2027 - 13.03.2027
Deadline: 01.07.2026
Website: https://www.rsa.org/page/RSAPhilly2027

This is a call for papers for a panel proposal entitled "Imperial, Colonial, Early Modern, Renaissance: Reflexions on Theory and Method", as part of the Renaissance Society of America's 2027 Annual Meeting, to be held on 11-13 March 2027, in Philadelphia, United States.

This panel invites proposals on the analytical categories used in the studies of the period from c.1400 to c.1800 in modern scholarship, across disciplines. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Convergence and divergence between conceptual framings, such as ‘imperial’, ‘colonial’, ‘early modern’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘pre-modern’, ‘pre-colonial’, ‘dynastic’;
- Comparative approaches according to discipline, target audiences, national-academic and/or regional-linguistic contexts
- Articulation between chronological and geographical framings, eg. local, regional, national, continental, intercontinental, and global
- Impact of standardisation, eg. English language, in research, teaching and outreach outputs in studies engaging with period between c.1400 and c.1800

Interested participants should send the following, to Marina Bezzi and Joseph da Costa (marinab@unb.br, joseph.dacosta@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) by 1 July 2026:
- Full name, current affiliation, and email address;
- Title (max. 15 words);
- Abstract (max. 200 words);
- Short CV (max. 2 pages) emphasizing research and scholarship;
- Ph.D. completion date (past or expected).

Decisions will be communicated by 15 July (this will allow those not accepted ample time to submit unsponsored proposals).

Please see RSA proposal guidelines and on membership and graduate student eligibility in RSA Conference Submission Guide.

Contact (announcement)

marinab@unb.br

Conference "Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Zeiten der Anfechtung von Demokratie, Diversität und Verantwortung" (German)

6 days 8 hours ago

Bielefeld/Germany

Veranstalter: Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG); Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG) der Universität Bielefeld und Abteilung für Geschichtswissenschaft der Universität Bielefeld.
Veranstaltungsort: Universität Bielefeld, X-Gebäude
PLZ: 33615
Ort: Bielefeld
Land: Deutschland
Findet statt: In Präsenz
Vom - Bis: 09.09.2026 - 11.09.2026
Website: https://genderhistory2026.de

Die Geschlechtergeschichte ist in Bewegung. Sie stellt neue empirische Fragen, diskutiert über Ansätze und Begriffe, nutzt das gesamte Repertoire der historischen Methoden, fragt nach den Grenzen der historischen Erkenntnis, schließt an ältere Arbeiten an und setzt sich zugleich kritisch und selbstbewusst mit ihrer eigenen Geschichte als historischer Teildisziplin auseinander.

Der Kongress "Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Zeiten der Anfechtung von Demokratie, Diversität und Verantwortung" lädt alle Interessierten dazu ein, das Feld in seiner ganzen Breite wahrzunehmen, sich über neue Forschungen zu informieren und sich innerhalb des Feldes zu vernetzten.

Das Programm des Kongresses umfasst 41 Fachsektionen (Vortragspanel mit drei Vorträgen und Roundtable) sowie eine Eröffnungsveranstaltung (mit Podiumsdiskussion), ein World Café zu Konzepten der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung mit mehr als 15 Thementischen und eine Party.

Konferenzssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Die Veranstaltung beginnt am 9. 9. 2026 um 13 Uhr und endet am 11. 9. 2026 um 14 Uhr.

Die Konferenzgebühren sind gestaffelt (von €40 für Studierende bis zu € 120 für Professor:innen), wobei Schnellentschlossene noch bis zum 31. 5. von einem Frühbucher*innenrabatt profitieren und für späte Buchungen ein Zuschlag anfällt.

Programm

Mittwoch, 9. 9. 2026, 13:30-15:30 Uhr

Panel 1: Andere Praxen der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte. Archive und Bibliotheken, Museen und Social Media (Roundtable)
Diskussionsleitung: Levke Harders (Innsbruck)

Johanna Gehmacher - Universität Wien
Nora Lehner - wasbishergeschah - Wien
Dorothee Linnemann - Historisches Museum Frankfurt a.M.
Katharina Seibert - Universität Tübingen
Kerstin Wolff - Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung Kassel

Panel 2: Türkeibezogene Geschlechterforschung. Nachwirkungen der kemalistischen Geschlechterordnung

Béatrice Hendrich (Köln)
Gender und Queerness in der historischen Forschung zur frühen türkischen Republik

Olga Zitzelsberger (Darmstadt) und Florian Cristóbal Klenk (Flensburg)
Bildungsprozesse zwischen Rassismus und Heteronormativität. Rekonstruktionen biographischer Differenzerfahrungen von schwulen Männern mit familiärem Türkeibezug

Ezgi Saritaş (Ankara)
Queering Ottoman Historiography Amid Contemporary Anti-Gender Pressures

Panel 3: Zwischen Front, Heimat und Gefangenschaft. Perspektiven auf Männlichkeiten in den Weltkriegen
Moderation: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld)

Alina Nederegger (Innsbruck)
"Die lernen dort Männer sein". Das Bild des idealen Soldaten an der Isonzofront in Alice Schaleks Kriegsberichterstattung

Lea Feichter (Innsbruck)
Der Soldat und die 'Anderen'. Die hegemoniale soldatische Männlichkeit und ihre Abweichungen

Katharina Wehl (Innsbruck)
Zwischen Selbst- und Fremdzuschreibung. Homosexuelle jüdische Männer im nationalsozialistischen Verfolgungsdiskurs

Panel 4: Antisemitismus, jüdische Erfahrung und zeithistorische Geschlechterforschung. Fallstudien und Fallstricke
Moderation: Ullrich Bauer (Bielefeld)

Vera Kallenberg (Bielefeld)
Becoming Survivor. Gerda Lerners Deutschlandreise 1993

Vojin Saša Vukadinović (Paderborn)
Kein Riss im Eis. Die Selbstkritik der Roten Zora 1993 und der Antisemitismus

Dani Kranz (Berlin)
Die Nachfahrinnen des Jüdischen Frauenbundes

Panel 5: Making Feminist Histories Visible. Perspectives from Russia, Asia, and Africa
Moderation: Muriel Gonzales Anthenas (Innsbruck)

Annie Devenish (Johannesburg) und Karmen Tornius (Copenhagen)
Local and Global Women's Histories in Dialogue? Lessons from Southern Women in Global Politics Reading Group

Swati Guha (Kolkata)
Majoritarian Ethno-Democracy, Communal Hate Mongering and the Erasure of Gendered History in South Asia

Nadezda Petrusenko (Stockholm)
Contested Pasts. Feminist Historical Production in Russia since the 2010s

Panel 6: Trans-Subjektivierung und Trans-Wissen. Historische Normierungen und methodische Herausforderungen
Moderation: Janu Millela (Leipzig)

Merlin Sophie Engel (Berlin)
Heterosexuelle Transsexuelle. Normierung von Geschlecht in der erstmaligen Anerkennung von trans Menschen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1976-1981

Kai∗ Brust (Berlin)
Challenging Gender. Methoden geschlechtersensibler Geschichtswissenschaft

Anton Schulte (Leipzig)
Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstkonzept. Queere Personen in NS-Psychiatrien

Mittwoch, 9. 9. 2026, 16-18 Uhr

Panel 7: Geschlechtergeschichte & Zeitgeschichte. Neue Perspektiven und Herausforderungen
Moderation: Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg)

Isabel Heinemann (München)
"Ohne Frauen ist kein Staat zu machen". Plädoyer für die Re-Zentrierung der Zeitgeschichte aus geschlechterhistorischer Perspektive

Sandra Maß (Bochum)
More-than-Gender-history? Critical reflections on Contemporary History in the Age of the Anthropocene

Bernhard Gotto (München)
Vom Rand ins Zentrum. Geschlecht als Kategorie der Zeitgeschichte

Panel 8: Imaginierte Kontinuitäten? Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Polen im Kontext der politischen und sozialen Umbrüche in Europa
Moderation: Ina Alber-Armenat (Göttingen)

Iwona Dadej (Halle)
"Wer schreibt, der bleibt". Strategien der Verwissenschaftlichung eigener Geschichte jenseits und diesseits der Frauenbewegung in Polen bis 1939

Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Kraków)
Challenging the Class Paradigm. The Diverse Paths of Women's History in the People's Republic of Poland

Dobrochna Kalwa (Warsaw)
Women's History. Stragegies and Debates within Polish Historiography (1990-2020)

Panel 9: Bodies of Knowledge. Gender, Medicine, and Power in Early Modern Europe

Sophie E. Aldred (Oxford)
Most Vultorous Eating. Pregnancy Pica in Early Modern Medicine

Helena C. Aeberli (Oxford)
The Physician in the Parlour. Masculinity and Domestic Medicine in Early Modern England

Chloë Ingersent (London)
Miscarriages of Justice. Trespass and Abortion in English Criminal Law, 1558-1603

Panel 10: Biografien und Geschlechter. Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten einer geschlechterhistorischen Biografik
Moderation: Levke Harders (Innsbruck)

Tiffany Florvil (Albuquerque)
Radikale Lyrikerin und Denkerin. Ayims 'Blackened Knowledge' und 'undiszipliniertes Wissen'

Lisa-Marie Oelmayer (Jena)
"Gebrochene Biographien"? Lebensgeschichtliche Erinnerungen Chemnitzer Kommunist:innen

Andrea Rottmann (Berlin)
Politik, Sex, Poesie. Wandlungen demokratischen Citizenships im queeren Leben Hilde Raduschs. Ein Werkstattbericht

Panel 11: Religion, Geschlecht und Macht. Perspektiven religionswissenschaftlicher Geschlechterforschung auf Körper- und Sexualpolitiken
Moderation: Isabella Schwaderer (Erfurt)

Marita Günther (Marburg)
Das Zusammenspiel von Wissen(schaft), Religion und Geschlecht. Widerstände und Kritik

Verena Maske (Marburg)
Körper, Geschlecht und Sexualität in islamischen Jugendkulturen in Deutschland. Methodologische Überlegungen, empirische Befunde und Desiderate

Doris Decker (Zürich)
Von göttlicher Ordnung und menschlicher Kontrolle. Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Sexualität in der religiösen Anthropologie eines Großayatollahs

Panel 12: Erinnern, Sprechen und Schreiben über § 218 StGB. Schwangerschaftsabbruch und Selbstbestimmung in historischer Perspektive
Moderation: Juliane Scholz (Lübeck)

Katharina Eger (Halle)
Der Streit um den § 218 StGB. Ostdeutsche Perspektiven auf Selbstbestimmung und Transformation in den 1990er Jahren

Maren Lange (Bielefeld)
"War eben so". Verkörperte Archive historischer Praktiken der Durchführung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen in der BRD (1960-1979)

Anna Orinsky (Berlin)
Koloniale Eindrücke der deutschen Frauenbewegungen zum Thema Schwangerschaftsabbrüche

Mittwoch, 9. 9. 2026 ab 18.30

Abendveranstaltung zur Eröffnung des Kongresses
Begrüßung
Grußworte

Podiumsdiskussion: "Women's and Gender History in Times of Challenges to Democracy, Diversity and Responsibility"
Anna Dobrowolska (Basel)
Tiffany Florvil (Albuquerque)
Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg)
Martina Kessel (Bielefeld)
Katie Sutton (Universität Melbourne)

Verleihung des Dissertationspreises des Arbeitskreises historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG)
Anschließend: Empfang

Donnerstag, 10. 9. 2026, 9-11 Uhr

Panel 13: Anfänge: Die Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte im deutschsprachinge Raum in den 1960er bis 1990er Jahren, Teil 1: Bewegung und Disziplin. Die Anfänge der Frauengeschichtsschreibung im geteilten Deutschland
Moderation: Karen Hagemann (Chapel Hill)

Sylvia Paletschek (Freiburg).
Frauen in der Geschichtswissenschaft und Frauengeschichte an westdeutschen Universitäten in den 1950er bis frühen 1970er Jahren

Karin Zachmann (München)
Die Anfänge der offiziellen Frauengeschichtsforschung in der DDR in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren

Carola Sachse (Wien)
Die neue Frauenbewegung und die Anfänge der Frauengeschichte und Frauenforschung in Westberlin in den 1970er und frühen 1980er Jahren

Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg)
Die Anfänge der Frauengeschichtsforschung in Westdeutschland in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren

Panel 14: Advising Women. The Transformation of Health Manuals from Empire to the Digital Age
Moderation: Birgit Kolboske (Berlin)

Anne Kwaschik (Konstanz)
From Clinical Authority to Feminist Self-Help. Women's Health Knowledge in Germany, 1890s-1970s

Sarah Lias Ceide (Heidelberg)
(Un)Settling Knowledge. Colonial Manuals on Women's Health Between Biopolitics, Autonomization and Othering

Anne-Sophie Reichert (Berlin)
FemTech and the Digitalisation of Women's Health Advice

Panel 15: Weibliche Agency im Staatssozialismus neu denken
Moderation: Falko Schnicke (Linz)

Jessica Bock (Berlin)
Zwischen Emanzipation und Diktatur. Weibliche (Mit-)Täterschaft im Sozialismus

Michèle Matetschk-Delhaes (Leipzig)
Ikone oder Instrument? Walentina Tereschkowa und die Ambivalenzen weiblicher Agency im Staatssozialismus

Stefanie Eisenhuth (Potsdam)
Trotz allem schön? Weibliche Selbstermächtigung im Rückblick auf die DDR

Panel 16: Sprechen und Handeln
Moderation: Philippa Kalesse (Marburg)

David Bebnowski (München)
Feministischer Druck. Feministische Wellen und Druckerzeugnisse in Deutschland und den USA (1848-1995)

Sarah Heinemann (Aachen)
Sprechen Vulvalippen anders? Repräsentation und Reflexion weiblicher Rede- und Gesprächsrhetorik im Spannungsfeld von Wortergreifung und rhetorisch-kommunikativer Kompetenz

Lucie Kahlert (Marburg)
"Unter ihnen auch Frauen und Kinder". Geschlechtsspezifische Argumentation im Völkerstrafrecht. Das Beispiel der Nürnberger Prozesse 1945-1949

Panel 17: Sexist Jokes in Times of Social Change. Gendered Media Humour in Eastern and Western Europe

Sophie Dubillot (Milton Keynes)
No Laughing Matter. Women and Humour During the Liberation of France, 1944-1946

Katharina Friege (Oxford)
Sexualised Humour on Prime-Time TV. Gender Politics and Light Entertainment in Divided Germany, 1961-1989

Anna Dobrowolska (Basel)
"The Smile Is Still Tax-Free". Erotic Humour, Economic Crisis, and the Transformation of Media Culture in (Post)Socialist Poland

Panel 18: "Never Underestimate the Power of a Girl with a Book". Zur Konzeption eines Lehrbuchs zur geschlechtersensiblen Quellenanalysen in den Altertumswissenschaften
Moderation: Ann-Cathrin Harders (Bielefeld)

Elena Köstner (Bayreuth)
"Was machen wir mit Elagabal?" Auswertung einer gendersensiblen quellendidaktischen Proseminarsitzung

Leda-Sophie Moors (Regensburg)
Zwischen Mann und Frau. Die herodoteischen Amazonen (Hdt. 4, 110-170) im Euryklea-System

Frank Schad (Regensburg)
Tränen und Komplizenschaft am Beispiel des Scipio Aemilianus. Vergleich des Euryklea-Schemas mit dem von G. Budde

Donnerstag, 10. September 2026, 11:30-13:30 Uhr

Panel 19: Anfänge: Die Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum in den 1960er bis 1990er Jahren, Roundtable 2: Disziplinierung und Professionalisierung: Die Entwicklung der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte bis zum Millennium im deutschsprachigen Raum
Moderation: Claudia Opitz Belakhal (Basel)

Christa Hämmerle (Wien)
Anfänge und die Entwicklung der Frauengeschichtsforschung in Österreich

Regina Wecker (Basel)
Anfänge und Entwicklung der Frauengeschichtsforschung in der Schweiz

Susanne Schötz (Dresden)
Osterfahrungen der Wendezeit und Frauengeschichtsforschung in den neuen Bundesländern

Angelika Schaser (Hamburg)
Die Entwicklung der Frauengeschichtsforschung in Westdeutschland in den 1990er Jahren und die Rolle des Arbeitskreises Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Panel 20: Geschlechtergeschichte der radikalen Rechten. Unsichtbarkeit, Visualisierung, Forschungspotentiale

Aurelia Rohrmann (Fribourg)
Antifeminismus als symbolischer Kitt. Radikale Rechte und religiöse Allianzen in der Schweizer Anti-Choice-Bewegung und ihre transnationalen Netzwerke (1972-2001)

Sebastian Bischoff (Bielefeld)
Geschlecht und der Kampf der bundesdeutschen radikalen Rechten gegen die 'sexuelle Revolution', 1959-1979

Christian Jacobs (Berlin)
Geschlechterbilder und Antifeminismus in der Theorie und Praxis des GRECE in den 1970er Jahren

Panel 21: Women, Gender, Movement and Circulation Between Late Socialism and the Transition of the 1990s
Moderation: Teresa Malice (Bielefeld)

Anna McEwan (Potsdam)
"Despite All the Problems in Our Own Country, the DFD's Members Never Forget International Solidarity". The Reinvention of the Democratic Women's League of Germany and International Solidarity in Namibia

Jane Freeland (London)
Abortion, Borders and German Reunification

Réka Krizmanics (Bielefeld)
Maternal Instinct. Hungarian Women's Impressions of Nigerian Childrearing Practices During Late Socialism

Panel 22: Text, Netzwerk, Institution. Feministische Literatur als Medium der Geschlechtergeschichte (Roundtable)
Janin Afken (Berlin)
Annika Klanke (Bielefeld)
Stephanie Marx (Wien)
Vera Thomann (Wien)

Panel 23: Gender and Health Discourses in the Twentieth Century

Silke Fehlemann (Dresden/Düsseldorf)
Female Pioneers in the Shadows. Gender and Health at the Largest Exhibition of Weimar Germany (GESOLEI 1926)

Emma Kennedy (Wien)
Experiencing Endometriosis

Emilia Stuchlik (Oxford)
"Control You Know You Need". Thinness and Dieting Culture in Poland and England, 1954-1975

Panel 24: rethinking für / sorge / arbeit. Historische Reflexionen über Care, Vulnerability und Geschlecht

Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz)
Humanitäres Engagement und Exklusion. Kriegsfürsorge und Citizenship bei Lina Kreuter-Gallé (1856-1932)

Viktoria Wind (Graz)
"Arbeit aus Liebe". Emotionale Sorgebeziehungen und -praktiken im Roten Wien

Ruth Nattermann (München)
Internationale Care-Arbeit als demokratischer Gegenentwurf. Quäkerinnen in der Flüchtlingshilfe nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Donnerstag, 10. 9. 2026, 14:30-16:30

Panel 25: Aktuelle Forschungen zu Queerer Zeitgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Europa und ihr Verhältnis zur Geschlechtergeschichte
Diskussionsleitung: Merlin Sophie Engel (Berlin)
Kai∗ Brust (Berlin)
Maria Bühner (Leipzig)
Benno Gammerl (Florenz)
Adrian Lehne (Berlin)
Noah Munier (Stuttgart)
Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg)
Andrea Rothmann (Berlin)

Panel 26: The Housewife as a Figure of Democratic Crisis
Moderation: Karen Hagemann (Chapel Hill)

Hedwig Richter (München)
Die Hausfrau als Stabilisator von Demokratie und Konsum in der europäischen Nachkriegsordnung

Carola Sachse (Wien)
Der eigene Haushalt. Ähnliche Wünsche – divergierende Realitäten in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Jana Tschurenev (Berlin)
The End of the Housewife? Shared Parenting and the Crises of the 'Democratic Family'

Panel 27: Cold War

Kirsten Kamphuis (Münster)
The Archival Gap. Methodological Reflections on Leftist Women's Internationalism during the Cold War

Yanara Schmacks (Bremen)
Gender and the Appeal of Conservative and Right-Wing Politics. Anticommunism in Postwar Germany

Panel 28: Zu früh/zu spät? Zeitmetaphern und Zeitlichkeiten in Narrativen des Feminismus
Moderation: Julian Stoffel (Basel)

Anna Leyrer (Basel)
Unzeitgemäß. Über starke Frauen und Vorkämpferinnen, Anti-Heldinnen und falsche Feministinnen

Johanna Gehmacher (Wien)
Utopisch. Plädoyer für eine Historisierung der Zukunft

Katharina Seibert (Tübingen)
Rückständig. Das lange Scheitern des spanischen Feminismus?

Panel 29: Spheres of action

Juliane Clegg (Stuttgart)
Mind the Gap. What Archival Silences Reveal about Women's Economic Activity since 1800

Juho Korhonen (Bloomington)
Women as Producers of Global Historical Knowledge. Women's Suffrage in the Periphery of the Russian Empire, the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1890s–1910s

Sena Yapar (Mainz)
Revisiting Azra Erhat’s Role in the Making of Modern Turkish Cultural Identity

Panel 30: "Als Frau stehe ich dem Mann gegenüber." Gewalt und Geschlecht im 20. Jahrhundert
Moderation: Sophia Dafinger (Augsburg) und Laura Höss (Darmstadt)

Lisa Hellriegel (Bremen)
Geschlecht vor Gericht. Vergewaltigungsprozesse zwischen 'Sittlichkeit' und Selbstbestimmung, 1930er bis 1950er Jahre

Emma Teworte (Oxford)
"Sie machte den Eindruck eines geprügelten Hundes". Gewalt, Familie und Abtreibung in Deutschland zwischen den 1930er und 1950er Jahren

Julia Schneidawind (München)
Zwischen Demokratisierung und Kontinuität. Intersektionale Gewaltverhältnisse gegenüber Frauen in Abtreibungsverfahren nach Vergewaltigungen in Deutschland nach 1945

Donnerstag, 10. 9. 2026, 17-18:30 Uhr

World-Café zu Begriffen, Konzepten und aktuellen Fragen der Frauen∗- und Geschlechtergeschichte
Organisation und Moderation: Jana Hoffmann (Bielefeld) und Anna Horstmann (Bielefeld)

Bodie A. Ashton (Potsdam): Queer History und Männlichkeitsgeschichte

Marthe Becker (Bielefeld): Geschlecht in der Alten Geschichte

Christina Benninghaus (Bielefeld): Room for critical fabulation? Writing Gender History (Englisch)

Eva Bischoff (Trier): Körpergeschichte

Sebastian Bischoff (Bielefeld): Die universitäre Zukunft der Geschlechtergeschichte

Kai∗ Brust (Berlin): Trans∗ History

Sonja Dolinsek (Magdeburg): Global Gender History (Englisch)

Jane Freeland (London): Feminism in Contemporary Gender History (Englisch)

Benno Gammerl (Florenz): Methoden queeren Forschens

Levke Harders (Innsbruck): Migration und Geschlecht

Anne Kwaschik (Konstanz): Wissen als Zugang der Geschlechtergeschichte

Kristin Skottki (Bayreuth): Mediävistische Intersektionalitätsforschung

Katie Sutton (Melbourne): History of Sexualities (Englisch)

Xenia von Tippelskirch (Frankfurt a.M.): Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in der Frühe Neuzeit

Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz): Frauengeschichte als unerledigte Aufgabe

Freitag, 11. 9. 2026, 9 – 11 Uhr

Panel 31: Annex or Centre, Science or Politics? Institutionalization of Women's and Gender History in Scientific Journals: Aspasia, Arenal, Ariadne, Clio, Gender&History, Genesis, Genre&Histoire, L'Homme
Diskussionsleitung: Xenia von Tippelskirch (Frankfurt)

Dobrochna Kałwa (Warsaw)
Carmen María Ruiz-Vivas (Granada)
Nana Citron (Kassel)
Rebecca Rogers (Paris)
Diana Paton (Edinburgh)
Martina Salvante (Nottingham)
Ulrike Krampl (Tours)
Claudia Kraft (Wien)

Panel 32: Universität bewegen. Geschlechterhistorische Perspektiven auf studentische Proteste
Moderation: Fynn Steiner (Berlin)

Andreas Neumann (Jena)
Stille Revolte im Hörsaal? Bewegungs-, Protest- und Widerstandspotenziale von Studentinnen im späten Kaiserreich und der Weimarer Republik

Morvarid Dehnavi (Hamburg)
Mobilisierung, Politisierung und Aktivismus von Studentinnen ab den späten 1960er und in den 1970er Jahren

Lisa Oelmayer (Jena), Laura Shirin Choufan (Berlin) u.a.
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen studentischen Engagements

Panel 33: Writing Histories of Christian Women in Eastern Europe. Between Authoritarianism, Feminism, and Pious Agency

Nadezda Beliakova (Bielefeld)
Agency from the Margins. Religious Women from the Soviet Union as Elusive Actors of Transnational Religious Freedom Activism, 1970s–Early 1980s

Anna Sidorevich (Paris)
Pious and Feminist? Women' Religious Club "Maria" in the Late USSR

Iona Ramsey (Cardiff)
Domesticated Faith. Religious Knowledge and Female Authority in Romania and Beyond, 1960s-90s

Panel 34: Männer, Maschinen, Mythen. Technikgeschichte neu justiert

Nicole Hesse (Karlsruhe)
Wer macht Geschichte(n) der Technik? Geschlecht als Antrieb und Analyse

Julia G. Erdoğan (Berlin)
Hacks, Hacks. Haecksen zwischen Rollenklischee und Ermächtigung

Sophie Kühnlenz (Erfurt)
"Wem gehört PINK?" Über Farben und Friktionen im Technischen Museum Wien

Panel 35: Keine Angst vorm Eigen-Sinn. Ambivalenz in der Geschlechtergeschichte
Moderation: Annelie Ramsbrock (Greifswald)

Annalisa Martin (Glasgow)
Inhaftiert in Brauweiler. Agency abseits der Opfer/Widerstand-Dichotomie in Westdeutschland 1949-1969

Falko Schnicke (Linz)
Eigen-Sinn als Analysekategorie der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte. Elisabeth II. zwischen Zwang und Agency

Naima Tiné (Greifswald)
Die vergessenen Frauen von 1903 und 1923. Eigensinn und Subalternität im politischen Kampf von sächsischen Textilarbeiterinnen

Panel 36: Geschlecht verhandeln. Frühneuzeitliche Perspektiven

Hjördis Bohse (Osnabrück)
Geschlecht als mehrfach relationale Kategorie in ostfriesischen Gerichtsprozessen (1643-1744)

Anna-Lea Krampe (Bielefeld)
Unsichtbarkeit im Blick. Bi-Erasure in der historischen Frauen- und Sexualitätsforschung am Beispiel von Quellen zu frühneuzeitlichen Prozessen

Anna Petutschnig (Münster)
Der hochadelige Vater im Spätmittelalter im Spannungsfeld hegemonialer und sorgender Männlichkeiten?

Freitag, 11. 9. 2026, 11:30-13:30

Panel 37: Eine trinationale Perspektive auf die Geschichte der Internationalisierung der Gender Studies. Herausforderungen und Chancen im Spannungsfeld von disziplinärer und interdisziplinärer Verortung (Roundtable)
Diskussionsleitung: Johanna Leinius (Frankfurt a. M.)

Michèle Amacker (Bern)
Christa Binswanger (St. Gallen)
Dirk Schulz (Köln)
Gabriele Jähnert (Berlin)
Andrea Ellmeier (Wien)
Ingrid Schacherl (Wien)

Panel 38: Gender and Colonialism. New Questions and Challenges (Roundtable)
Diskussionsleitung: Bettina Brockmeyer (Gießen) und Ulrike Lindner (Köln)

Elizabeth Dillenburg (Columbus, OH)
Benno Gammerl (Florenz)
Rebecca Rogers (Paris)
Alma Simba (Gießen)

Panel 39: Der Aufstieg des Autoritarismus aus geschlechterhistorischer Perspektive
Moderation: Veronika Duma (Frankfurt a. M.)

Katerina Suverina (Konstanz)
Erasing Gender. The Cultural Politics of Visibility in Contemporary Russia

Dorothee Linnemann (Frankfurt a.M.)
Archivierung und museale Präsentation queerer Geschichte in Zeiten von Angriffen auf demokratische Gedächtnisinstitutionen

Newal Yalcin (Frankfurt a.M.)
Autoritarismus, Geschlecht und Sexualität. Historische und aktuelle Forschungen aus der Kritischen Theorie

Panel 40: Communities

Lucy McCormick (Birmingham)
A Sensory History of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1902-1929)

Helen Rossil (Copenhagen)
Singing the Mother’s Rite. The Hymnscape of Churching of Women in Sweden and Denmark c.1550-1950

Anja Segmüller (Oxford)
Forms of Togetherness. Approaches to Feminist Collectivity in the Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt (1984-1994)

Panel 41: Psychiatrisierung von LSBTIQ∗ in der BRD und DDR, 1949 bis 1990 – Stand der Aufarbeitung
Moderation: Karen Nolte (Heidelberg)

Steffen Dörre (Halle)
(Psycho)Pathologisierungen, Diskriminierungen und Traumatisierungen von geschlechtlich und sexuell varianten Menschen in der deutschen Psychiatrie, 1945-2000

Steff Kunz (Heidelberg)
Zum Umgang mit Abweichungen von Heteronormativität in den Universitätspsychiatrien Heidelberg und Tübingen

Ulrike Klöppel (Heidelberg)
Zum Umgang mit transgeschlechtlichen und nonbinären Menschen in der Nervenklinik der Charité

Kontakt

gg2026@uni-bielefeld.de

CfA: Intersectional Perspectives on Inequalities in Sweden: An exploration of the “Swedish Model” (“Inequalities” journal, 4/2027)

6 days 8 hours ago
Guest Editors

Diana Mulinari (Lund University)

Anders Neergaard (Linköping University)

Argument

Sweden is often represented internationally as a model of equality, social democracy, gender progressiveness and humanitarianism. Yet this image has always coexisted with deep and unevenly distributed inequalities. In recent decades, these inequalities have become increasingly visible through neoliberalism, antifeminism and ethnoracism in the forms of wealth disparity, growing class polarization, racialized labour market segmentation, gendered and sexualized violence, welfare retrenchment, intensified border regimes, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, anti-Roma discrimination, and the precarization of migrant lives. This special issue invites critical social science contributions that examine how inequalities in Sweden are produced, legitimized, contested and lived across intersecting relations of class, race, gender, sexuality and migration.

Recent feminist political economy scholarship argues that financialisation has beyond the class dimension also deepened gender and racial inequalities by transferring economic risk from states and corporations onto households, where women/racialised populations disproportionately absorb the burdens of debt, care work, and social reproduction. A number of studies illuminate that women increasingly rely on credit, microfinance, and informal debt to sustain households amid welfare retrenchment. Scholarship has identified how race, class, migration status, and gender shape unequal exposure to debt and financial precarity.

Rather than treating inequality as a deviation from the Swedish welfare model, this issue asks how inequality is embedded within the historical and contemporary formation of Swedish society itself. We are interested in work that interrogates the relationship between welfare, nationalism, coloniality, neoliberalism, racial capitalism, patriarchy, heteronormativity and bordering practices. How have ideals of equality been used to define the limits of national belonging? How are racialized and migrant populations positioned as problems to be integrated, governed, disciplined or excluded? How do gender and sexuality become mobilized in narratives of Swedish modernity, secularism and progress? How are class relations reorganized through migration, privatization, austerity, housing segregation and labour market restructuring?

We particularly welcome contributions that challenge dominant narratives of Swedish exceptionalism. Critical scholarship has shown that Sweden’s self-image as colour-blind, tolerant and egalitarian can obscure the operation of race and racism. At the same time, gender equality and LGBTQ rights are frequently framed as national achievements, sometimes in ways that stigmatize racialized minorities, Muslim communities and migrants as backward or threatening. This special issue seeks to examine these contradictions without reproducing culturalist explanations. We invite authors to analyse how institutions, policies, public discourse and everyday practices produce unequal conditions of life, while also attending to resistance, solidarity, alternative knowledge and collective struggle.

We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and creative interventions from sociology, gender studies, social work, political science, anthropology, geography, criminology, education, media studies, history, critical race studies, migration studies, queer studies, Indigenous studies and related fields. Contributions may be based on ethnography, interviews, archival research, discourse analysis, participatory methods, policy analysis, quantitative approaches, visual methods or other critical methodologies.

The special issue aims to create a space for scholarship that does not merely document inequality but examines its conditions of possibility. We are especially interested in contributions that foreground the voices, experiences and political analyses of those most affected by intersecting forms of domination, and particularly how inequalities are named, resisted and acted upon. At the same time, we encourage authors to move beyond recognition-based frameworks and to consider material redistribution, structural transformation, abolitionist horizons, decolonial futures and forms of collective world-making.

By centring class, race, gender, sexuality and migration, this special issue seeks to rethink Sweden as a site where global and local inequalities meet. Sweden is not outside empire, capitalism, patriarchy or border violence; it is shaped through them. Yet Sweden is also a site of struggle, critique and alternative futures. We invite scholars to contribute to a critical conversation on how inequalities are made, how they are resisted, and what forms of justice might become imaginable beyond the limits of the nation’s egalitarian self-image.

Information for authors

Deadline: contributions must be uploaded online by 30 December 2026

Length: maximum 50,000 characters (spaces and bibliography included).

Number of contributions: maximum 12.

Editorial guidelines, Peer review: Inequalities

The finalised paper must adhere to the editorial guidelines of Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

Publication of the Special Issue: May 2027.

Complete Open Access publication. 

Publication of the contributions is free of charge.

Peer review

Every article published by ECF was accepted for publication by no less than two qualified reviewers as a result of a process of anonymous reviewing (double-blind peer review). The reviewers are independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution.

The Journal’s Editors-in-Chief guarantees the proper execution of the peer review process for every article published in the Journal.

For a complete description of the process, please visit: Scientific certification.

Contact

Fabio Perocco
courriel : fabio [dot] perocco [at] unive [dot] it

Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver

6 days 8 hours ago

by Robert Ovetz

Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver is a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism. He shows the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marx theory to understand, find points of departure from, and finally end capitalism before it ends us. The reader is co-edited by Robert Ovetz, author, organizer, lecturer and former long-time student of Cleaver, and author and organizer Kevin Van Meter. 

Points of Departure will be released on Common Notion Press’s new Class Compositions series in September 2026. A special edition has been released to coincide with the June 2026 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and will have a full release in October 2026. Copies of the special edition of the book will be available for the talk. 

Harry Cleaver has developed a global following for his decades of work contributing to what he calls “autonomist Marxism,” a Marxism that focuses on the self-organized struggles of workers against capitalism. His classic book Reading Capital Politically (1979) reinterprets Marx to provide an alternative, autonomist perspective not only to more traditional interpretations but also to others working in the tradition of what today is more commonly known as Italian workerism. Reading Capital Politically (1979) has been translated into eight languages, including Korean which was banned by the South Korean government, and appeared in two editions. Harry has taught at the l’Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, the New School for Social Research in New York City, and the University of Texas at Austin where he taught for 36 years until his retirement in 2012. He has also published 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically (Pluto 2019), Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work, Money and Financialization (AK Press 2019), and The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis (Brill 2025). The third English language edition of Reading Capital Politically will be published in 2027 by Common Notions.

Robert Ovetz holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas–Austin where he studied with Harry Cleaver for about a decade. Robert is a senior lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, where he teaches labor relations in the MPA program and focuses on academic labor organizing and the labor movement. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back (Brill, 2018 and Haymarket, 2019), We the Elites (Pluto, 2022), and the forthcoming Rebels for the System (Haymarket), and is co-authoring a book on organizing against AI in higher education. Robert is co-editor with Kari Lydersen and Kevin Van Meter of Real World Labor, Vol. 4 (Dollars & Sense, 2024). He is also an editor and contributor to critical labor studies volumes, a labor writer for Dollars & Sense, and has been published widely in nine languages. His writings can be found at sjsu.academia.edu/RobertOvetzPhD.

Kevin Van Meter is a union organizer and labor educator who writes on contemporary labor issues, labor history, and working-class self-organization. He is co-editor with Kari Lydersen and Robert Ovetz of Real World Labor, Vol. 4 (Dollars & Sense, 2024). He is author of Guerrillas of Desire (AK Press, 2017), co-editor of Uses of a Whirlwind (AK Press, 2010), and has two forthcoming books: Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again (AK Press) and The American Worker: International History, Reception, and Responses (Common Notions). His work has appeared in New Politics, Notes from Below, Dollars and Sense, Truthout, Labor Notes, Work-Bites, The Chief Leader, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, and other publications. Kevin is the editor of the Common Notions Class Compositions series.

Pre-release June 12, 2026, available for pre-order under the folowing link:

https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/points-of-departure

CfP: Travail, travailleuses et travailleurs agricoles du Maroc : trajectoires, représentations et autonomisation (French, English, Arabic)

1 week 4 days ago

Rabat/Morroco

Alors que depuis les années 2020, les travailleur·euse·s agricoles marocain·e·s font l’objet d’une médiatisation croissance (revendications, conditions de vie dégradées), les acteurs institutionnels multiplient les programmes pour encadrer les mobilités temporaires de travail entre le Maroc et l’Europe. Cette apparition de travailleur·euse·s agricoles longtemps invisibilisé·e· dans le débat public et les agendas politiques est corrélée à un intérêt croissant des études en sciences humaines sociales pour la question du travail en agriculture. Dans cette dynamique, cette journée d’étude vise à interroger les grandes dynamiques du travail agricole depuis les travailleur·euse·s du Maroc, sur place et en diaspora, mais aussi dans les imaginaires politiques et sociaux.

Argumentaire

En novembre 2024, les ouvrier·ère·s agricoles de la plaine de Chtouka ont collectivement et publiquement dénoncé leurs conditions de travail et de vie (bas salaires, faible reconnaissance de leurs droits), réclamant de plus de justice sociale. Cette action s’inscrit dans un mouvement global de revendications croissantes et de médiatisation des travailleur·euse·sagricoles longtemps invisibilisé·e·s, alors même qu’ils et elles alimentent des pans essentiels de l’économie marocaine, mais aussi européenne via les migrations de travail temporaires. En 2023, le secteur agricole employait 30 % des actifs au Maroc et les espaces ruraux concentraient 40 % des emplois, dont 10 % des femmes actives (HCP, 2024). Dans le même temps, le Maroc était le premier pays d’Afrique émetteur de main-d’œuvre temporaire, dont une grande partie dans le secteur agricole peu qualifié. La question du travail et des travailleur·euse·s agricoles du Maroc soulève de nombreux enjeux sociaux, politiques, économiques et environnementaux dans un pays où les campagnes sont vives et hétérogènes.

Loin de la lecture binaire du territoire qui a longtemps divisé les campagnes marocaines entre des zones montagneuses et désertiques en marge et des plaines et des plateaux fertiles arrimés à la mondialisation, les ruralités marocaines sont complexes et prennent des formes multiples, parfois difficiles à catégoriser. Les limites entre agriculture familiale et agriculture intensive, entre propriétaires fonciers et dépossé·e·s, entre ouvrier·ère·s et exploitant·e·s ne sont ni linéaires ni évidentes. Les pratiques agraires et les profils des travailleur·euse·s issus des campagnes marocaines ont évolué au rythme de changements : la réquisition des terres collectives par le pouvoir colonial puis leur redistribution par le nouvel État chérifien ont alimenté des rapports de classe dans les communautés rurales (El Khyari, 1987) ; les grands programmes de développement ont privilégié une agriculture productiviste alimentant un marché du travail hiérarchisé et mondialisé (Jouve, 2002) ; dans les campagnes de l’intérieur laissées-pour-compte, la migration de travail régionale et transnationale a recomposé les équilibres familiaux (Arab, 2009). Le rapport au travail agricole dans le monde rural marocain a évolué dans les périodes précoloniale, coloniale et postcoloniale, sans toutefois être résumé par ces ruptures historiques. Le travail de la terre, le développement du salariat, la circulation des ouvrier·ère·s, des capitaux et des produits agricoles, la permanence de référentiels identitaires locaux invitent à penser les pratiques professionnelles dans la continuité et l’hybridité.

Dès les années 1980, les sociologues et les agronomes ont documenté comment la libéralisation du secteur agricole et l’intensification des cultures ont accrût les inégalités dans les sociétés agraires (Pascon, 1985 ; El Khyari, 1987). Au tournant des années 2000, les entrées par thématiques ou par lieux (l’irrigation, les oasis, les exploitations capitalistes) ont mis en avant l’évolution des pratiques professionnelles dans un contexte de technicisation, d’urbanisation et de mondialisation (Mathieu et al., 2001 ; Battesti, 2005), tout en ouvrant des perspectives critiques sur les programmes de développement et l’autonomisation des femmes par le travail (Gillot, 2016 ; Romagny et al., 2018). En parallèle, tout un pan des études migratoires a interrogé les liens entre les migrations transméditerranéennes et le développement rural et agricole, en particulier dans le Rif et le Souss (Berriane, 2003). Tous ces travaux ont en commun de déconstruire les représentations sur le monde rural marocain : l’agriculture de subsistance n’y est plus la norme et les changements fonciers ont contribué à la généralisation du salariat (Sippel, 2014 ; Bossenbroek et al., 2015). Loin d’être linéaire, les carrières rurales sont caractérisées par la pluriactivité (tourisme, artisanat, petit commerce) et une ouverture à géométrie variable à la mondialisation, vectrice de changements économiques et sociaux, comme l’illustre la mise en valeur croissante des terroirs et du tourisme (Berriane et Michon, 2016 ; Benarrosh, 2019 ; Oiry Varacca, 2019).

Depuis la rive de la nord Méditerranée, les chercheur·euse·s en sciences sociales ont mené des travaux pionniers sur la mise au travail dans un contexte transnational des ouvrier·ère·s marocain·e·s dans l’agriculture européenne (Provence, Mezzogiorno, Andalousie) via le prisme de la santé, du logement, de l’accès aux droits ou encore des dispositifs institutionnels (Décosse, 2008a ; Mésini, 2008 ; Crenn, 2015). D’abord essentiellement centrés sur les hommes, ces travaux ont pris une dimension genrée (Hellio, 2014 ; Arab, 2018) puis intersectionnelle (Sempéré, 2024). Au sud de la Méditerranée, depuis la décennie 2010, les recherches sur le salariat agricole font la part belle aux femmes, mettant en avant les liens entre genre, inégalités et agentivité (Gertel et Sippel, 2014 ; Mohamdi, 2023 ; Yousfi, 2023 ; Bouzidi et al., 2025). Les études sur les travailleur·euse·s marocain·e·s de l’agriculture s’élargissent désormais au-delà du temps du salariat et des exploitations agricoles, dans les familles et l’absence, mais aussi dans l’après comme la retraite ou l’entrepreneuriat (Lascaux, 2022 ; Smolski Brun, 2024), avec un intérêt pour la santé et le corps des travailleur·euse·s(Holmes, 2013).

L’intérêt médiatique et politique pour les travailleur·euse·s agricoles ne cesse de croître de chaque côté de la Méditerranée. La crise du Covid-19 a mis en avant le rôle indispensable des ouvrier·ère·s étranger·ère·s, notamment marocain·e·s, dans les chaînes d’approvisionnement alimentaires françaises (Mésini et Milazzo, 2025). Au Maroc, l’État et les associations multiplient les initiatives pour inciter les ouvrier·ère·s – nationaux·ales et étranger·ère·s – à se lancer dans des projets d’entrepreneuriat rural (Jiber, Wafira 2, Thamm+). Cependant, les travaux scientifiques s’intéressant aux travailleur·euse·sagricoles sont encore peu nombreux à interroger les processus de dépaysannisation, le développement du salariat, les transformations des organisations sociales rurales, les effets locaux des programmes de développement ou encore les formes de rapports de pouvoir et d’autonomisation qui se déploient dans les espaces ruraux.

Ces journées d’étude visent à interroger, dans une approche pluridisciplinaire et multisituée, les grandes dynamiques du travail agricole depuis les travailleur·euse·s marocain·e·s. Cette entrée par les acteur·ice·s du travail s’inscrit dans une perspective critique. D’une part, nous souhaitons interroger l’hétérogénéité du corps de celles et ceux qui font l’agriculture aujourd’hui (ouvrier·ère·s, paysan·ne·s, entrepreneur·e·s). D’autre part, l’objectif est d’éclairer les rapports sociaux qui se déploient dans des mondes du travail agricole hiérarchisés, et dont les processus de catégorisation s’appuient sur des représentations du corps des travailleur·euse·s ruraux. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que la particularité du travail agricole s’inscrit dans des questionnements croisés portant sur les dynamiques d’agentivité, l’intérêt pour les mobilités et l’étude des hiérarchies professionnelles. Il s’agira de mettre en tension les cadres dans lesquels évoluent les travailleur·euse·s avec l’autonomisation dont ils et elles font preuve au cours de leur carrière parfois fragmentée (multiplication des activités, arrêts de travail), aussi bien du point de vue des postures professionnelles que de mécanismes plus intimes et discrets.

Les communications portant sur les résistances, individuelles et collectives, bruyantes et silenciées, à la mondialisation des marchés, aux conditions précaires de travail ou encore à la déstabilisation des organisations rurales anciennes sont particulièrement encouragées. Une attention portée aux lieux serait particulièrement appréciée : des plus intimes, comme le corps, les maisons et les villages ruraux, mais aussi les exploitations agricoles, ainsi que les espaces d’ancrage et de circulation, qu’ils relèvent de l’échelle locale, régionale ou encore transnationale. Il s’agit de porter un regard sur les travailleur·euse·s marocain·e·s, depuis le Maroc, mais aussi depuis les diasporas et leurs espaces de travail et de vie, où qu’ils soient. Nous souhaitons interroger les évolutions du statut des travailleur·euse·s depuis le siècle dernier au regard de la transformation des techniques agricoles, des représentations sur les travailleur·euse·s, de l’accès à la ressource foncière, des évolutions des conditions de travail en agriculture et des changements qu’ont connues les politiques migratoires, ainsi que des discours qui en façonnent les représentations.

Enfin, un des objectifs de ces journées d’étude est d’interroger du point de vue méthodologique comment les chercheur·euse·s travaillant sur ces questions s’en emparent de manière créative. Ils et elles sont de plus en plus accompagné·e·s sur le terrain par des artistes et des technicien·ne·s, multipliant les méthodes sensibles auxquelles ils et elles se forment aussi comme la photographie, l’écriture filmique, les podcasts, la littérature, le théâtre, le dessin ou encore la bande dessinée. On peut penser à Aomar Boum qui a raconté l’histoire de son père messager en bande dessinée ou encore à Zhour Bouzidi qui a filmé les revendications des saisonnières agricoles dans le Gharb. L’appel à contribution en cours dans l’Année du Maghreb porté par Khalid Mouna et Victoire Jacquet sur les liens entre arts et circulations témoigne de l’actualité de ces questionnements. Nous souhaiterions ici ouvrir une dimension réflexive sur les pratiques créatives dans les sciences sociales : au-delà de la diffusion au grand public, en quoi les productions sensibles sont-elles matière à faire science ? Quelle place donner aux émotions dans la production des savoirs ? Les communications avec une dimension réflexive sur la positionnalité chercheur·euse·s seront particulièrement appréciées.

Pour répondre à ces questionnements, les communications peuvent s’inscrire dans quatre axes. Les propositions de toutes disciplines, proposant une approche depuis la diaspora marocaine, avec une dimension historique, une approche comparée ou transversale sont bien entendues les bienvenues.

Axe 1 : Travailler en agriculture au Maroc 

Les communications sont invitées à se pencher sur les évolutions qu’a connues la mise au travail dans les mondes ruraux et agricoles au Maroc. Il serait intéressant d’explorer comment les profils (migratoires, de genre, d’âge, par nationalité) et les pratiques des travailleur·euse·s agricoles évoluent au rythme des évolutions de la société marocaine (qualifications, âge, aspirations) et de leur carrière. La pluriactivité est courante (agriculture, petit commerce, artisanat, accueil à la ferme) et les trajectoires professionnelles bifurquent en fonction des contextes économiques et sociaux (expansion ou ralentissement du tourisme, spécialisation dans des cultures de terroir ou d’exportation), un aspect encore peu mis en lumière par la littérature.

Le recoupement souvent réalisé entre travailleur·euse·s agricoles et ruralité mérite que l’on s’y attarde dans une perspective critique. Les travailleur·euse·s agricoles peuvent ainsi être interrogé·e·s au prisme du genre, de leur situation sociale, du manque de perspective des jeunes, mais aussi des rapports entre employeur·euse·s et employé·e·s. La mise au travail des femmes, la multiplication des coopératives, l’investissement croissant des remises migratoires dans l’activité agricole, l’encouragement accordé aux projets entrepreneuriaux, les luttes ouvrières, l’accès inégalitaire à la propriété foncière, l’arrivée d’investisseur·euse·s étranger·ère·s, sont autant de (re)compositions qui rebattent les cartes des ordres sociaux jusqu’ici établis. Dans cette perspective, il semble pertinent d’établir un dialogue entre les études sur le travail agricole avec les travaux portant sur l’agentivité, les capabilités et l’autonomisation des individus.

Axe 2 : Travailleur·euse·s en mobilités

Pour interroger l’accès au travail agricole, les contributions sont invitées à étudier les déplacements des travailleur·euse·sdepuis le Maroc et au-delà. Le travail en agriculture occupe une place spécifique dans le marché de l’emploi des individus en migration. D’un côté, sur la base de programmes circulaires et de migrations encadrées par les États, le secteur agricole s’offre comme une niche d’entrée légale en Europe et de mise au travail dans les secteurs en tension en Espagne, en France et en Italie. En Europe, le recrutement de la main-d’œuvre repose sur l’embauche d’ouvrier·ère·s étranger·ère·s depuis le Maroc : les hommes se dirigent vers la France (Provence, Occitanie, Corse) et les femmes vers l’Espagne (Andalousie). De l’autre côté, au Maroc, les migrant·e·s subsaharien·ne·s (Sénégalais·e·s, Ivoirien·ne·s) alimentent les contingents de travailleur·euse·s peu qualifié·e·s dans les exploitations industrielles (Saïss, Chtouka Aït Baha). Ces recrutements, segmentés par nationalité et par genre mettent en concurrence les travailleur·euse·s entre eux et elles. Ils alimentent des circulations transnationales en s’appuyant sur des discours de co-développement liés aux bénéfices financiers et à la transmission des savoirs acquis dans la migration.

Avec les travailleur·euse·s, circulent des capitaux (remises, devises, investissements), des objets (produits de consommation courante, matériaux de construction, photographies) et des discours (représentations, mémoire, récits). Tous ces matériaux permettent de déconstruire les représentations sur les campagnes marocaines. Cet axe invite à interroger les effets des mouvements migratoires sur les lieux de travail et de vie – ruraux et urbains –, les individus et les familles. Les travaux articulant la dimension intime du travail et des mobilités au contexte (géo)politique des États seront particulièrement appréciés, de même que ceux proposant des approches multisituées. 

On pourra également s’intéresser aux mobilités liées au travail agricole à toutes les échelles et dans une perspective genrée et de classe : au Maroc, les travailleur·euse·s se déplacent localement et entre les régions pour accéder à l’emploi, avec parfois une vulnérabilité accrue des femmes. Cet axe invite aussi à étudier le temps des circulations, lié aux saisons, aux âges de la vie, mais aussi au temps des contrats et des institutions. 

Axe 3 : Corps et santé des travailleur·euse·s

Cet axe propose d’interroger la tension entre, d’une part, les discours portés par les acteurs du monde agricole (institutions, exploitants, intermédiaires du recrutement) qui tendent vers une des représentations valorisant les qualités physiques et morales des travailleur·euse·s en fonction de leur origine sociale, nationale ou de leur genre, et, d’autre part, les conditions concrètes dans lesquelles ces corps sont mis à l’épreuve par le travail agricole. Ces processus contribuent à (re)produire des formes de segmentation et de hiérarchisation du travail au sein du secteur, tout en exposant les travailleur·euse·s à des risques différenciés en matière de santé (Laraqui et al., 2017 ; Jehouani et Naji, 2023).

Cet axe invite à analyser les effets du travail agricole sur la santé, tant dans le temps de l’activité que dans ses prolongements hors travail, sur les exploitations comme dans les espaces de vie. Seront particulièrement bienvenues les contributions mettant en lumière la diversité des risques sanitaires auxquels sont exposé·e·s les travailleur·euse·s agricoles (pénibilité physique, exposition aux produits phytosanitaires, troubles musculo-squelettiques, risques psychosociaux).

Les propositions pourront également s’intéresser aux conditions de (non-)prévention de ces risques, ainsi qu’aux modalités et enjeux de leur (non-)reconnaissance et de leur prise en charge institutionnelle, pendant et après l’activité professionnelle (Décosse, 2008b ; Magnan et Math, 2024). Dans des contextes marqués par une faible effectivité des protections sociales — au Maroc comme dans d’autres espaces —, il s’agira enfin d’examiner les manières dont les travailleur·euse·s composent avec ces déficits. Les communications pourront ainsi analyser les savoirs profanes et les représentations du risque développés par les travailleur·euse·s, de même que les stratégies qu’ils et elles mettent en œuvre pour « tenir dans l’emploi » et, plus largement, pour faire face aux atteintes causées par le travail agricole sur leur santé. Les travaux s’intéressant à la question des luttes ouvrières dans le monde agricole et interrogeant l’accès aux droits sont encouragés. 

Axe 4 : Montrer le travail et les travailleur·euse·s par les écritures créatives

Enfin, il serait intéressant de discuter l’introduction de méthodes de recherche créatives sur les terrains marocains. Comment, en se saisissant des méthodes créatives, les chercheur·euse·s produisent-ils et elles de nouveaux récits sur les acteur·rice·s de l’agriculture nationale et transnationale au Maroc ? En quoi, l’écriture créative sur les travailleur·euse·sagricoles constitue-t-elle un outil pour déconstruire les stéréotypes dominants associés aux travailleurs et aux travailleuses agricoles et alimenter le débat dans la société civile ?

Les propositions peuvent s’accompagner d’un portfolio de quelques pages (5 maximum) présentant les travaux réalisés dans l’objectif de monter une exposition à l’occasion de la journée d’étude. Tous les formats sont acceptés : photographies, extrait de récit, bande sonore, vidéo, dessin, etc.

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de communication comprendront un titre, un résumé d’environ 2500 caractères (espaces compris) ainsi qu’une brève présentation de l’intervenant·e (nom, prénom, situation actuelle, affiliations institutionnelles, discipline). Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir adresser vos propositions à l’adresse mail suivante : anne.lascaux@cjb.ma.

La date limite de soumission des communications est le 10 juillet 2026.

La réponse des communications sélectionnées sera transmise début septembre.

Les travaux de jeunes chercheur·euse·s (doctorat, master), ainsi que ceux de chercheur·euse·s plus expérimenté·e·s sont les bienvenus. Les propositions peuvent se faire en français, en anglais et en arabe.

La journée d’étude est organisée par le Centre Jacques Berque et se déroulera à Rabat le jeudi 3 décembre 2026 au 35, avenue Tariq Ibn Ziyad.

À la suite de la journée d’étude, l’équipe organisatrice souhaiterait proposer la réalisation d’un ouvrage collectif sur le travail et travailleur·euse·s agricoles du Maroc aux éditions du Centre Jacques Berque dans la collection Description du Maghreb, ainsi qu’une exposition en ligne sur une page dédiée aux œuvres présentées à cette occasion.

Comité d’organisation 
  • Anne-Adelaïde Lascaux, géographe, post-doctorante, Centre Jacques Berque
  • Zhour Bouzidi, sociologue, professeure, Université Moulay Ismaïl
  • Anouk Smolski Brun, sociologue, doctorante, Centre Max Weber
Comité scientifique 
  • Chantal Crenn, professeure des universités, anthropologue, SENS
  • Assaf Dahdah, géographe, chargé de recherche au CNRS, ART-Dev
  • Nicolas Faysse, socio-économiste, chercheur, UMR G-EAU
  • Béatrice Mésini, géographe, chargée de recherches au CNRS, TELEMMe
  • Mari Oiry-Varacca, géographe, maîtresse de conférences, ACP
Bibliographie

Arab, Chadia (2009) Les Aït Ayad  : la circulation migratoire des Marocains entre la France, l’Espagne et l’Italie, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 358 p.

Arab, Chadia (2018) Dames de fraises. Doigts de fées. Les invisibles de la migration saisonnière marocaine en Espagne., Broché, Casablanca, Toutes Lettres (Enquêtes), 188 p.

Battesti, Vincent (2005) Les jardiniers des oasis et l’organisation du travail, in Jardins au désert  : Évolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens (Jérid tunisien), Marseille, IRD Éditions (À travers champs), p. 163‑185.

Benarrosh, Yolande (2019) Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb. Approches interdisciplinaires, Montpellier, IRD Editions, 540 p.

Berriane, Mohamed et Michon, Geneviève (2016) Les terroirs au Sud, vers un nouveau modèle  ? Une expérience marocaine, IRD Editions, Montpellier, 362 p.

Berriane, Mohammed (2003) Les rapports du migrant rifain avec sa région d’origine, Revue de géographie du Maroc, (1‑2), p. 41‑58.

Bossenbroek, Lisa, Errahj, Mostafa et Alime, Najoua El (2015) Les nouvelles modalités du travail agricole dans le Saïss au Maroc : l’émergence des inégalités identitaires entre l’ouvrier et l’ouvrière ?, in Dupret, Baudouin, Rhani, Zakaria, Boutaleb, Assia, et Ferrié, Jean-Noël Éd., Le Maroc au présent  : D’une époque à l’autre, une société en mutation, Maroc, Centre Jacques-Berque (Description du Maghreb), p. 365‑374.

Bouzidi, Zhour, Arab, Chadia, Faysse, Nicolas et Mayaux, Pierre-Louis (2025) Ouvrières agricoles au Maghreb  : entre domination, invisibilisation et résistances quotidiennes, Alternatives Rurales, (Hors-série ouvrières agricoles).

Crenn, Chantal (2015) Des invisibles trop visibles  ? Les ouvriers agricoles « marocains » dans les vignobles du Bordelais, Hommes & Migrations, (1301).

Décosse, Frédéric (2008a) La santé des travailleurs agricoles migrants  : un objet politique  ?, Études rurales, Éditions de l’EHESS, 182 (2). Droit social, p. 103‑120.

El Khyari, Thami (1987) Agriculture au Maroc, Rabat, Okad, 501 p.

Gertel, Jörg et Sippel, Sarah Ruth Éd. (2014) Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture : The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, Londres, Routledge, 312 p.

Gillot, Gaëlle (2016) Les coopératives, une bonne mauvaise solution à la vulnérabilité des femmes au Maroc  ?, Espace populations sociétés. Space populations societies, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, (3).

Hellio, Emmanuelle (2014) Importer des femmes pour exporter des fraises  ? Flexibilité du travail, canalisation des flux migratoires et échappatoires dans une monoculture intensive globalisée  : le cas des saisonnières marocaines en Andalousie, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis.

Holmes, Seth (2013) Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Berkeley, University of California Press, 264 p.

Jehouani, Rachida et Naji, Meryem (2023) Travailler dans les champs  : Les défis environnementaux et les conditions de travail pénibles des ouvrières agricoles au Maroc, SHS Web of Conferences, 175.

Jouve, Anne-Marie (2002) Cinquante ans d’agriculture marocaine, in Du Maghreb au Proche Orient  : les défis de l’agriculture, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 51‑71.

Laraqui, Omar, Laraqui, Salwa, Manar, Nadia, Chakib El Houssine, Laraqui, Ghailan, Tarik et Frédéric, Deschamps (2017) Santé et sécurité au travail au Maroc 60 ans après l’indépendance  : état actuel, contraintes et perspectives, Archives des Maladies Professionnelles et de l’Environnement, (1188), p. 1‑9.

Lascaux, Anne (2022) Paysans de la hess  ? Les agriculteurs marocains, un nouveau groupe de producteurs dans la huerta provençale, Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, (3), p. 91‑113.

Magnan, Axel et Math, Antoine (2024) Des régimes organisés de migration temporaire contre les normes sociales, Chronique Internationale de l’IRES, I.R.E.S., 188 (4), p. 3‑24.

Mésini, Béatrice (2008) Contentieux prud’homal des étrangers saisonniers dans les Bouches-du-Rhône, Études rurales, EHESS, (182), p. 121‑138.

Mésini, Béatrice et Milazzo, Josepha (2025) Les saisonniers marocains placés, déplacés et irremplacés dans l’agriculture labellisée corse, Espaces et sociétés, érès, 195 (2), p. 121‑144.

Mohamdi, Nacima (2023) Empowerment féminin et rapports de genre dans la patrimonialisation et la mise en tourisme de la rose de Kelaât M’gouna-Dadès (Maroc), Mondes du Tourisme, Université d’Angers, (23) juillet.

Oiry Varacca, Mari (2019) Montagnards dans la mondialisation. Réseaux diasporiques et mobilisations sociales dans l’Atlas (Maroc), les Highlands (Écosse) et les Alpes françaises, Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 236 p.

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Sempéré, Charline (2024) Between exploitation, expropriation and depletion. An exploration of the gendered and racialised migrant farming workforce in Provence, France, University of Sheffield.

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Smolski Brun, Anouk (2024) Droits sociaux déniés  : le triste retour au bled des Marocains retraités, Plein droit, GISTI, 141 (2), p. 22‑25.

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Lieu

  • RDC - 35, avenue Tariq Ibn Ziyad
    Rabat, Maroc (10020)

Format de l'événement

  • Événement sur place

Date

  • Vendredi 10 julliet 2026

Appendice

Mots-clés

  • travail, travailleurs, migrations, agriculture, maroc

Contact

  • Anne-Adélaïde Lascaux
    courriel : anne [dot] lascaux [at] cjb [dot] ma
  • Zhour Bouzidi
    courriel : z [dot] bouzidi [at] umi [dot] ac [dot] ma
  • Anouk Smolski Brun
    courriel : a [dot] smolski [at] univ-lyon2 [dot] fr

Colloquium "Produire, habiter, gouverner. Le logement et l’habitat face aux transitions sociales et environnementales" (French)

1 week 4 days ago

Les journées d’étude « jeunes chercheur·es » organisées par le GIS REHAL visent à favoriser les échanges scientifiques entre les jeunes chercheur·es (doctorant·es et jeunes docteur·es) travaillant sur le logement et l’habitat ainsi qu’à les aider à faire connaître leurs travaux. Elles cherchent également à renforcer le dialogue entre disciplines, en s’interrogeant sur la manière dont chacune définit, analyse et constitue ces questions comme objet d’étude. Elles contribuent enfin à renforcer et renouveler le milieu scientifique des chercheur·es travaillant sur les thématiques de l’habiter et du logement en France.

Inserat

4 et 5 juin 2026

Université Rennes 2 / UMR ESO CNRS 6590

Programme Jeudi 4 juin

Accueil café : 9h

Session plénière 1 : 9h30-10h30 – Amphi S – Université Rennes 2

  • Introduction – 5 minutes Accueil par la direction du Laboratoire ESO-Rennes
  • Conférence inaugurale – « La ville archipel, innovations et limites d’un modèle métropolitain de planification territoriale. Rétrospectives et perspectives de 40 ans de politiques du logement à Rennes » - Solène Gaudin – 45 minutes
  • Discussion – 10 minutes

Pause café : 10h30-10h45-– Hall du bâtiment S

Session 1 : 10h45-12h45

1.1 Alternatives dans l’habitat

Discutantes : Claire Carriou, Université Gustave Eiffel, Lab’urba et Marina Casula, Université Toulouse Capitaole, Institut du Droit de l’Espace, des Territoires, de la Culture et de la Communication (IDETCOM).

  • Le projet d’habitat Pré Castel, une typologie négociée entre vie collective et privée dans un contexte de sobriété foncière Al Saad Elissa, Docteure en architecture et urbanisme, LAVUE (UMR 7218 CNRS) - Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat (CRH)
  • Le rôle de l’habitat inclusif dans la prise en compte du vieillissement LGBT par l’action publique Elazzaoui Claire, Université Paris Dauphine, Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales (IRISSO) / 7170-1427
  • Choisir, c’est discriminer ? Défis de gestion de la précarité résidentielle dans les coopératives d’habitation au Québec Héon Cliche Catherine Université du Québec à Montréal, membre du Collectif de Recherche et d’ACtion sur l’Habitat - CRACH
  • L’habitation-objet artisanale et déplaçable (HOAD) : une alternative réversible et accessible ? Serrus Pauline, Nantes Université - Laboratoire AAU crenau.
1.2 Enquêter sur le logement et l’habitat : méthodes, sources et défis

Discutants : Pierre Bergel, Université de Caen, UMR ESO et Didier Desponds, CY Cergy Paris Université, PLACES - Laboratoire de géographie et d’aménagement (PLACES - EA 4113)

  • « On a rien à cacher » : entrer par la catégorie fiscale pour enquêter la vacance résidentielle Fourdrignier Lise, Université Gustave Eiffel (Marne-la-Vallée), Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS)
  • La mobilisation du foncier du bloc communal : reconstituer les évolutions cadastrales pour caractériser les chaînes de production de logements Lecourt Thibault, Avignon Université, UMR CNRS 7300 ESPACE
  • Retranscrire le vécu habitant - quelles postures et méthodes depuis la recherche en architecture ? Pommier Marianne, UT2J / LRA
  • « Nous n’osons plus annoncer un chiffre » La fabrique du besoin en logements en Meurthe-et-Moselle (1960-1970) Steinmetz Hugo, Chercheur associé au Laboratoire Histoire Humanités Architecture Contemporanéité (LHAC, UR 7490) — École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nancy — Université de Lorraine

Déjeuner : 12h45-14h – Hall du bâtiment S

Session 2 : 14h-16h

2.1 Conflits et régulations résidentielles : arbitrages locaux et résistances face à la crise du logement

Discutants : Quentin Brouard-Sala, Université d’Angers, UMR ESO et Antonin Margier, Université Rennes 2, UMR ESO

  • Se maintenir sur des littoraux convoites : les travailleurs·euses subalternes du tourisme face a la crise du logement en Bretagne Couedel Laura, Université Rennes 2 - UMR ESO (Espaces et Sociétés, site de Rennes)
  • L’acceptabilité sociale comme frein à la captation de logements dans le cadre du logement d’abord : exemples de Lille et Bruxelles Derrouiche Sephora, Université de Lille, TVES (Territoires Villes Environnement et Société)
  • Réguler les concurrences résidentielles dans les territoires attractifs : acteurs, instruments et arbitrages locaux Riego-Liron David, Lab’URBA - Université Paris-Est Créteil
  • Réguler les résidences secondaires : un renouveau des antagonismes entre droit de propriété et droit au logement ? Watine Julien, Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris / Lab’Urba / Université Paris-Est-Créteil
2.2 Habiter aux différents âges de la vie du logement au quartier

Discutant.es : Marion Ile Roussel, Université de Lille, TVES et Julien Torchin, Université Rennes 2, UMR ESO

  • Ménager sa maison en vieillissant. Diversité typologique et transformations au fil de l’avancée en âge. André Viviane, LAVUE (UMR 7218 CNRS) - Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat, ENSA Paris Val de Seine
  • « Habiter la cité : socialisation spatiale et usages juvéniles de l’espace à l’aune des rapports sociaux d’âge en quartier populaire » Chelal Mickael, Enseignant contractuel en sociologie université Le Havre Normandie
  • Se sentir chez soi dehors, faire société dans son logement : l’ibasho pour lutter contre l’isolement des personnes âgées au Japon Danielou Quentin, LABERS - Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest)
  • Informalité et entre-soi : les parcours des jeunes Français·es dans le marché de la colocation à Montréal Casier Charlotte et Jolivet Violaine

Pause : 16h-16h15– Hall du bâtiment S

Session 3 : 16h15-18h15

3.1 Sortir de l’habitat institutionnel : comment les acteurs du logement social catégorisent et orientent les parcours

Discutantes : Lucie Bony, CNRS, UMR Lavue-CRH et Laura Guérin, Université Paris Nanterre, UMR Lavue-Mosaïques

  • Troubles de santé mentale, troubles locatifs : comment les bailleurs sociaux se saisissent des mesures d’accompagnement psychosocial Lebouc Maud, Centre Émile Durkheim (Université de Bordeaux)
  • Être « prête au relogement » : l’accès au parc social des victimes de violences conjugales Mallet Charlotte, LAVUE (UMR 7218 CNRS) - Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat, Université Paris Nanterre
  • De l’habitat institutionnel au logement autonome : un enjeu de l’intégration sociale. Rabolini Ina, Université d’Angers, laboratoire Espaces et Sociétés (ESO)
3.2 Foncier et stratégies résidentielles entre héritages, choix individuels et mutation des modèles de propriété

Discutants : Fabrice Escaffre, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, LISST et Loïc Bonneval, Université Lyon 2, Centre Max Weber.

  • Identifier l’importance de la transmission intra-familiale dans la composition du patrimoine foncier des personnes privées Colovray Luna, Avignon Université, UMR 7300 ESPACE
  • Contraintes économiques, préférences résidentielles et stratégies spatiales des ménages : une analyse comportementale des marchés du logement Biawa Diegamounoua Raphaël, UMR ESPACE-Avignon Université
  • Entre financiarisation du marché et réinvention de la propriété sociale : logiques d’acteurs et alternatives coopératives Sofiane Sabine, Laboratoire Passages – Université Bordeaux Montaigne et Responsable de Programmes au sein de la SCIC AXANIS à Bordeaux
3.3 Logement et transition énergétique : des systèmes d’acteurs en recomposition

Discutant.es : Nadine Roudil, ENSAPVS, UMR Lavue-CRH et Silvère Tribout, Université Rennes 2, UMR ESO

  • La rénovation énergétique des copropriétés, entre contraintes et opportunités ? Dorison Louise, Laboratoire LISST CIEU - UMR 5193 Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
  • Les infrastructures financières de la rénovation énergétique des logements individuels. Le cas des certificats d’économie d’énergie. Guérin Anne Gaelle, Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire PACTE
  • Répondre au mal-logement et à la précarité énergétique : le cas de l’intermédiation locative Vives Lola, Chargée de recherche en sociologie à l’ENSEIS, membre associée au Centre Max Weber (UMR 5283) et Tofie Briscolini, Docteure en sociologie anthropologie, EVS

Cocktail dinatoire : 18h30 – Hall du bâtiment S – Université Rennes 2

Vendredi 5 Juin

Accueil café : 9h-9h30

Session plénière 2 : 9h30-10h – Amphi S

Le GIS Recherche Habitat Logement (REHAL) : organisation et actualités
  • La direction collégiale du GIS REHAL : Lucie Bony (CNRS, Lavue-CRH), Claire Carriou (UGE, Lab’urba), Fabrice Escaffre (UT2J, LISST)
  • Avec Emeline Brosset (UT2J, LISST), chargée administrative et d’animation du GIS REHAL
  • Avec les représentant.es des Jeunes chercheurs.euses au Conseil Scientifique du GIS REHAL : Elissa Al Saad (ENSAPVS, Lavue-CRH), Remi Engrand (Cergy Université, PLACES), Charlotte Mallet (ENSAPVS, Lavue-CRH), Anaïs Parmentier (UGE, ACP)

Pause : 10h-10h15 – Hall du bâtiment S

Session 4 : 10h15-12h30

4.1 Innovations et adaptations locales face aux crises du logement

Discutant.es : Solène Gaudin, Université Rennes 2, UMR ESO et Yoan Miot, Université Gustave Eiffel, LATTS

  • Housing Agency for Shrinking Cities : Le cas du réseau URBACT ALT/BAU Espiñeira-Guirao Tamara, ESO- Rennes 2 (associée ; thèse soutenue en 2021) Experte URBACT
  • Logement et production résidentielle dans le Guangdong (Chine) : une perspective post migratoire Losavio Cinzia, Post-doctorante Projet Chine CoREF UAR 2999 CNRS | Inalco Laboratoire PRODIG (UMR 8586)
  • L’autopromotion hybride de logements évolutifs dans la capitale tchadienne (cas de N’Djaména) Mahamat Alie Adam, École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme
  • « Sous le toit de mon patron » : Le développement d’initiatives d’employeurs-logeurs en réponse à la crise du logement dans les espaces ruraux. Mével Violette, Doctorante en Géographie, ESO UMR CNRS 6590 – Université Rennes 2
4.3 Habiter la précarité : circulations, légitimités et agentivités dans les marges urbaines

Discutantes : Muriel Girard, ENSAM, INAMA et Margot Bergerand, CRH

  • La circulation ouest-africaine du fonds rotatif habitat mise à l’épreuve : Canaux de circulation d’un outil de gestion collective de l’habitat précaire depuis Dakar vers Ouagadougou Ganemtore Laken, UMR PRODIG | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Habiter sans droit. Épreuves de la légitimité à occuper les zones grises résidentielles Lavayssière Julie, LAVUE (UMR 7218) - Alter, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, Fellow de l’Institut Convergences Migrations, Fellow du programme Uncertainty, Fondation Zeit Stiftung Bucerius
  • De l’imposition d’un habitat inadapté à l’agentivité matérielle : le bambou comme ressource face aux vulnérabilités résidentielles aux Antilles françaises Lecrosnier-Juraver Zoé, Doctorante en architecture LRA, CIFRE FSM Architecture
  • L’habitat informel dans l’aménagement de la ville de Douala au Cameroun Yomb Jacques, Université de Douala, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Département de sociologie
  • Le logement dans les trajectoires d’études : entre frein et levier des mobilités studieuses Blans Rémy, Laboratoire ESO - Nantes (Nantes Université) et associé au CENS (Nantes Université)

Déjeuner : 12h30-13h30

Session 5 : 13h45-15h45

5.1 Politiques locales de l’habitat : des contraintes en tension entre besoins, marché et environnement

Discutant.es : Claire Fonticelli, Aix Marseille Université, LIEU et Thomas Watkin, Nîmes Université, Laboratoire Projekt

  • Du besoin à la demande : mécanismes et conséquences du passage des politiques locales de l’habitat à l’heure néolibérale Dupuy Le Bourdellès Mikaël, Lab’URBA, Université Paris-Est
  • La fabrique urbaine du logement étudiant dans les villes moyennes universitaires Gales Jules, LISST-CIEU, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
  • L’impossible articulation entre l’objectif de production de logements sociaux et celui de « zéro artificialisation nette des sols » : entre contradictions et malentendus Micalef Romain, Centre Maurice Hauriou - CMH (EA 1515) Faculté de Droit, D’Économie et de Gestion Université Paris Cité
5.2 Appropriation de l’espace domestique et construction du « chez-soi »

Discutant.es : Brieuc Bisson, Université Rennes 2, UMR ESO et Charlotte Mallet, ENSAPVS, UMR Lavue-CRH

  • Le jardin en suspens, une épreuve de l’habiter dans les cités minières en rénovation Auclair Pauline, Université des Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes
  • Rénover “chez soi” ? Pratiques d’auto-réhabilitation et investissement du logement chez des locataires de l’agglomération lilloise Rion Thomas, Université de Lille, laboratoires Clersé (UMR 8019) et Cresppa-CSU (UMR 7217)
  • Le logement individuel suffit-il à faire un chez-soi ? Les conditions de l’autonomie de vie en Suisse Souesme Chloé, Université du Québec à Montréal et à la Haute école de travail social de Genève

Café - 15h45

Sortie de terrain : 16h30-18h – Intervenir sur l’habitat en centre-ancien (PSMV et OPAH avec la Sem Territoires) – Rdv Place St Anne

Comité scientifique

Elissa Al Saad (ENSA Paris Val de Seine), Claire Aragau (UPEC), Joséphine Bastard (ENSAPVS), Pierre Bergel (Université de Caen), Margot Bergerand (CRH), Brieuc Bisson (ESO-Rennes 2), Loïc Bonneval (Lyon 2), Séverine Bonnin-Oliveira (AMU), Lucie Bony (CNRS), Jérôme Boissonnade (Université du Littoral), Claire Carrirou (UPEC), Quentin Brouard-Sala (Université d’Angers), Laurent Cailly (Université de Tours), Laura Couedel (ESO-Rennes 2), Audrey Courbebaisse (ENSA Rennes), Didier Desponds (CYU), Fabrice Escaffre (UT2J), Claire Fonticelli (AMU), Solène Gaudin (Rennes 2), Muriel Girard (ENSAM), Laura Guérin (Paris Nanterre), Marion Ille-Roussel (Université de Lille), Anne-Laure Jourdheuil (Paris Nanterre), Antonin Margier (ESO-Rennes 2), Béatrice Mésini (CNRS), Violette Mével (ESO-Rennes 2), Yoan Miot (UPEM), Nadine Roudil (ENSAPVS), Lionel Rougé (UT2J), Julien Torchin (ESO-Rennes 2), Silvère Tribout (ESO-Rennes 2), Thomas Watkin (Université de Nimes).

Comité d’organisation 

Elissa Al Saad (ENSA Paris Val de Seine), Brieuc Bisson (ESO-Rennes 2), Lucie Bony (CNRS), Emeline Brosset (LISST), Laura Couedel (ESO-Rennes 2), Solène Gaudin (ESO-Rennes 2), Charlotte Mallet (LAVUE), Antonin Margier (ESO-Rennes 2), Violette Mével (ESO-Rennes 2), Julien Torchin (ESO-Rennes 2), Silvère Tribout (ESO-Rennes 2).

Lieu

  • Rennes, France

Format de l'événement

  • Événemet sur place

Dates

  • Jeudi 4 juin 2026
  • Vendredi 5 juin 2026

Mots-clés

  • habitat, logement, ségrégation, résidentiel, marché, politiques publiques, habiter

Contact

  • Emeline Brosset
    courriel : rehal [dot] lisst [at] univ-tlse2 [dot] fr

CfP: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations: The Moral and Material Foundations of Political Economy in the European World (1500 - 1800)

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INTRODUCTION
Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) has since 2013 supported 
research and advanced training in the field of the humanities. 
In a wider effort to pursue this goal, in 2020 Fondazione 1563 launched the Turin Humanities Programme, a research initiative that allows junior scholars to work on interrelated research projects under the guidance of especially appointed Senior Fellows. 
THP aims at promoting two-year research projects about relevant global history topics. 
Under THP Fondazione 1563 launched a fifth (2025-27) call for applications for research on Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations.
SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 AND ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The Turin Humanities Programme and Fondazione 1563 are pleased to invite doctoral students and early career researchers to submit their applications to the Summer School Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations: The Moral and Material Foundations of Political Economy in the European World (1500–1800). 
The emergence of political economy in early modern Europe was not the product of a single intellectual breakthrough, but of sustained attempts to reconcile material expansion with moral, legal, and political constraints. From the management of scarcity and subsistence to the governance of trade, empire, and population, early modern thinkers confronted a central question: how should wealth be created, distributed, and justified within society?
This Summer school explores the debates and policies that gave rise to political economy as a field of inquiry. Rather than treating it as a precursor to modern economics, participants will examine political economy as a historically situated set of practices and arguments, embedded in specific institutional, imperial, and ecological contexts. These took related yet disparate forms, ranging from the much-maligned shorthand of “mercantilism” to self-conscious traditions such as Cameralism, Colbertism, Physiocracy, and economia civile.
Bringing together approaches from intellectual history, economic history, and the history of science, the Summer School will focus on three interconnected axes:
1. Subsistence, Sociability, and the Problem of Order
How did early modern societies confront the tensions between scarcity, market dependence, and political stability? In what ways did concerns over provisioning, luxury, and commercial competition shape understandings of social order?
2. Production, Power, and the Uneven Wealth of Nations
Why did some nations prosper while others lagged behind? How did contemporaries understand the relationship between production, trade, and state power in a competitive international order?
3. Rights, Justice, and the Legitimacy of Economic Life
How were inequality, property, and market outcomes justified or contested within emerging frameworks of rights and justice? What moral limits were placed on economic activity, and by whom?

This Summer school approaches political economy not as a coherent body of thought, but as an evolving response to the material and political challenges of wealth creation, distribution, and contestation in a profoundly unequal world. From the management of subsistence to the cultivation of productive capacities, early modern debates were shaped by persistent efforts to understand why some societies flourished while others did not. Rather than reducing these efforts to a single tradition or trajectory, the programme reconstructs political economy as a plurality of practices and arguments articulated by artisans, merchants, philosophers, statesmen, and reformers across diverse institutional and imperial settings. In doing so, it highlights how different visions of economic life were grounded in concrete strategies of governance, production, and social organization. At a time when concerns about inequality and 
geopolitical rivalry have resurfaced with urgency, revisiting these debates does not provide easy answers, but it does remind us that the tensions we face have a history—and that economic ideas have long helped shape them.
English will be the default language of the Summer School. 
The programme is open to doctoral students and early-career researchers working on the history of political economy and related fields. 
Participants will engage in intensive seminars, collaborative discussions, and close readings of primary sources. 
The Summer School programme includes lectures by: Lasse Andersen (Institute for Intellectual History, University of St. Andrews, UK), Felicia Gottmann (Northumbria University, UK), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School, US), Pernille Røge (University of Pittsburgh, US), John Shovlin (New York University, US), research presentations by the Junior Fellows of the Turin Humanities Programme, feedback sessions, and roundtable discussions.
To foster dialogue between senior and junior scholars, the 2026 Summer School offers participants a unique opportunity to contribute to broader discussions on needs, justice, and political economy in the early modern world. 
Successful applicants will also have the opportunity to present their work in panel sessions, contributing directly to ongoing debates on the moral and material foundations of political economy.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION
To apply for the Summer School, prospective participants should submit a brief academic CV (max. 2 pages), an abstract of the research they wish to present (max. 400 words) and a short essay on why they would like to attend the Summer School (max. 200 words)
Please, upload these materials within the application form that can be found on the website of Fondazione 1563 at the following link: www.fondazione1563.it/application-form-thpsummer-school/ by 10.00 PM (Italian/CET time) of June 15, 2026
The Summer School will be activated only with a minimum of 10 participants; a maximum of 12 participants is allowed.
COSTS AND FEES
The participation in the Summer School is free to all Italian and International postgraduate students and early career researchers. 
Travelling expenses to and from Torino and accommodation expenses in Torino will be borne by the participants. 
Upon acceptance of the participation in the Summer School, the participants will be asked to confirm their participation in the social events proposed by Fondazione 1563. 
For information, please contact the organizers at info@fondazione1563.it
SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 SELECTION CRITERIA
The candidates will be selected based on their resumes and the relevance of their intended contributions to the general subject of the Summer School. 
They will be informed of the result of the selection by mid-July via the email address they included in the application form. 
Successful applicants will receive the attendance form that will have to be signed for acceptance and returned, on pain of forfeiture, within 5 working days starting from the date of the communication. 
Fondazione 1563 reserves the right to suspend, modify or cancel this selection procedure or the Summer School at any moment at its incontestable discretion, without that being in any way for the Candidates a right or a demand to claim any refund, compensation or reimbursement.

CfP: "Working Across Divisions" (LAWCHA Conference 2027)

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LAWCHA Conference 2027
Working Across Divisions

June 24-26
UMass Boston

“Working Across Divisions” asks us to think critically about the dichotomies that structure both the world of labor and our analyses of it, and then to trouble those boundaries. Scholars often define one form of labor against another: wage vs. unwaged labor; public vs. private; domestic vs.  marketplace; free vs. bound; productive vs. unproductive; skilled vs. unskilled. These categories have shaped law, organizing, policy, and scholarship. Yet they have also obscured the ways that working people  consistently cross, blur, and unsettle such divisions, laboring across boundaries of race, age, gender, citizenship, empire, and nation. They have confronted fractures within the working class itself, including divisions rooted in racism, sexism, xenophobia, ableism, and anti-Blackness, while also forging solidarities that transcend them. How have such divisions been constructed, maintained, resisted, or reimagined? Under what conditions have workers built alliances across lines of craft, sector, immigration status, or political ideology? When have those efforts faltered, and why?

At a moment when new technologies, global supply chains, environmental crises, and resurgent authoritarianisms reshape the terrain of work, we ask how we might expand the boundaries of what counts as “work” and who counts as a “worker.” How do carceral labor, reproductive labor, care work, and climate-related labor struggles challenge inherited analytical frameworks? How might histories of colonialism, racial capitalism, and imperialism help us rethink divisions between metropole and periphery, North and South, formal and informal economies? What can labor history contribute to contemporary debates about AI, automation, border regimes, and the future of organizing? “Working Across Divisions” ultimately calls on us to examine not only how labor has been divided, but also how working people have imagined and enacted unity across differences. By historicizing division and foregrounding efforts to overcome it, we hope to foster conversations that illuminate both the fractures and the possibilities within working-class life, past and present.

We welcome papers that explore labor and working-class history across all time periods and geographic regions. We especially encourage comparative, transnational, and global approaches; scholarship that bridges academic and activist communities; and work that connects theory and praxis. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

·       migration and mobility

·       coercion and unfreedom

·       care work and social reproduction

·       labor and the environment

·       disability and work

·       religion and labor

·       labor and incarceration

·       higher education and academic labor

·       public history and pedagogy

·       intersections of labor with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship

We will consider traditional panels with 3 papers; roundtables; performance-oriented and artistic sessions, including films; proposals for a poster session; and moderated conversations between activists or artists and historians. We welcome proposals from scholars and activists in all fields, and especially urge submissions from contingent faculty, community college faculty, K-12 teachers, and independent scholars.
We encourage the submission of complete panels rather than individual papers. Single paper authors are encouraged to seek out others prior to submission. We ask that organizers aim for diversity in the gender identity, race, ethnicity, and/or employment status of presenters when pulling together submissions. To assist, the conference has created a collaboration form where individuals can post ideas and seek others to create panels.
Proposals should be submitted by November 1. The conference will take place June 24-26 at the University of Massachusetts - Boston. Conference email: LAWCHA2027@gmail.com

LAWCHA 2027 Program Co-Chairs
Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh
Sergio González, Marquette University

Assata. An Autobiography

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by Assata Shakur

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder.

This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal 
contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou. Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.

Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) 10/2025

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Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) 10/2025 has been published as a special issue marking ten years of ecological historiography. The journal is freely available online in open access.

The Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) is an international journal for environmental history published by a Belgian-Dutch editorial board with Prof. Tim Soens (University of Antwerp) as editor-in-chief and Amsab-ISG as editorial secretariat. The journal has been published by Brepols since 2016. One issue appears per year, which is available in print as well as in Open Access at Brepols Online.

JHES 10/2025 - Environmental History at a Crossroads

  • Celebrating Ten Years of the Journal for the History of Environment and Society Editorial
  • Environmental Change and Imperial Governance Sabine R. Huebner
  • “Better Seen with Others' Observations” Penelope K. Hardy
  • Making Modern Raw Materials Sebastian Haumann
  • Imperial Ecologies Tom Demange

Available for free consultation in Open Access

Conference "Attacks on History and Historians and the Crisis of Democracy What Options for Action are Available?"

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Organiser: Swiss Society for History Funded by: Schweizerische Akademie für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften Postcode: 3012 Ort: Bern Country: Switzerland Event type: Hybrid event Date: 04.12.2026 Website: https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/news/angriffe-auf-historikerinnen-und-die-krise-der-demokratie/

Critical historical scholarship is an important pillar of democratic societies. However, without democratic and legal frameworks, historians and their research are at risk.

What does it mean for historians when democracy and self-governing scientific institutions come under attack, with their legitimacy called into question from various sides? How can historians react to social media’s increased platforming of hostility towards science?

As part of an event organized by the «Science Policy» Department of the Swiss Society for History, three organizations (Comité de Vigilance face aux usages publics de l’histoire, hist4dem, Network of Concerned Historians) will highlight examples of best practice, explore how scholars from different disciplines can learn from each other, and discuss opportunities for networking across disciplines.

We will examine attacks on researchers and research and ask: How can a legitimate scientific debate be protected from agenda-driven misrepresentation? What logic do attacks in the digital space follow, how can we respond, and what are their longer-term effects? What can historians learn from the climate sciences in terms of attacks on researchers and research? We will conclude our event with an online presentation and discussion with Naomi Oreskes on the current situation in the United States, drawing on her extensive experience with attacks on scientific research.

Programme

10.15–10.30: Introduction, Sandra Bott, Francesca Falk

10.30–10.55: Was ist die Funktion des Presserats in der Schweiz? Wie unterscheidet er Debatte von Diffamierung?, Monika Dommann

10.55–11.00: Break

11.00–11.25: Angriffe auf Forschende im analogen und digitalen Raum: Dynamiken und Handlungsmöglichkeiten, Anna Jobin

11.25–11.30: Break

11.30–11.55: Wie gehen die Klimawissenschaften mit Angriffen um? Was für Verhaltensweisen und Strategien haben sich bewährt?, Stefan Brönnimann

11.55–12.00: Break

12.00–12.30: Discussion, Francesca Falk, Pauline Milani (Moderation)

12.30–13.45: Lunch break

13.45–15.15: Organisations and Initatives
Chair: Sandra Bott

Comité de Vigilance face aux usages publics de l’histoire
hist4dem
Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)

15.15–15.30: Launch of the NCH-Website

15.30–16.00: Break

16.00–17.00: The Current Situation in the United

Contact

info@sgg-ssh.ch

Seminar "Doing Migration History with Digital Methods"

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Organiser: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) Host: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris Postcode: 75003 City: Paris Country: France Event type: Hybrid event Dates: 22.06.2026 - 26.06.2026 Website: https://mwsmigration.hypotheses.org/1115   How does migration history change when it is written with digital sources and methods? This question is at the heart of the 2026 summer university at the German Historical Institute Paris. As the field increasingly works with large, often multilingual corpora, the programme brings together contributions that explore a wide range of sources—from administrative records and correspondence to databases—and examine how these can be transformed and analysed as data. Approaches such as text analysis, spatial visualisation and network analysis open up new perspectives on mobility, trajectories and social relations.

At the same time, digital methods raise fundamental methodological and epistemological questions. Issues of data modelling and categorisation intersect with problems of bias, uneven coverage and the limits of digitised sources. The summer school therefore emphasises critical reflection, combining empirical case studies with discussions on source criticism, transparency and contextualisation.

The programme is framed by hands-on workshops on OCR/HTR, GIS and digital data processing, as well as keynote lectures by Lorella Viola and Christoph Rass.

Programme

Monday, June 22, 2026

5:30 pm Registration and Arrival
6:00 pm Welcome Address by Klaus Oschema (Director GHI Paris) and Introduction by the Organisers
6:30 pm Keynote Lecture
Chair: Mareike König (GHI Paris)
Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Mapping Migrant Worlds: Digital Approaches to Narratives, Identity, and Belonging

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
9:30 am Hands-on Workshops (parallel sessions, registration via dh@dhi-paris.fr)

Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition with eScriptorium (Pauline Spychala, GHI Paris, and Hippolyte Souvay, University of Fribourg)
From Scratch to Maps: Digital Mapping for the Humanities. An Introduction to QGIS (Giovanni Vitali, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

1:00 pm Lunch for Speakers and Participants
2:30 pm Plenary Session: Data Modelling, Critical Data Practices, and Ethical Reflections

Chair: Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Noel Mariam George (London School of Economics): From Registration to Data Infrastructure: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Category Drift, and the Making of Migration Knowledge

Daniel Richter (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Marriage Registers as Heuristic Sources for Migration History: Comparative Perspectives on Stability and Change Across Towns and Villages (1850–1923)

3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Plenary Session: Mapping Migration: GIS, Visualization, and Spatial Analysis I

Chair: Denis Scuto (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

Blandine Landau (C2DH, University of Luxembourg) and Maël Le Noc (EHESS, Paris): Biographies, Testimonies, Visualization: Mapping Individual Migration Paths of the Jews of Luxembourg 1935–1947

Ekaterina Iakovleva (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Beyond a Database: Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography

Free Evening
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
9:15 am Plenary Session: Mapping Migration: GIS, Visualization, and Spatial Analysis II

Chair: Giovanni Vitali (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Catrina Langenegger (University of Basel): Refugee Care in Switzerland During World War II in the Light of Historical Statistics and GIS

Alex Relicovschi (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Présentation d’une chaîne de traitement en histoire digitale des migrations: mise en cartes et mise en données. Dudelange (Luxembourg), XIXe–XXe siècles

10:35 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Plenary Session: Transforming Sources Into Data: OCR and HTR Methods and Their Challenges

Chair: Pauline Spychala (GHI Paris)

Christelle Al Haddad (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Written Language in Correspondences and Parish Letters of Luxembourgish Missionaries (1795–1900)

Sandra Velebit (Johannes Kepler University Linz): Digitizing Migration Data into Data Frames Using OCR and R. Problems and Workarounds

Ling Zi (École normale supérieure/Beijing Normal University): OCR, Romanization, and the Searchability of Chinese Migrants in European Digital Archives (1900–1950)

1:00 pm Lunch for Speakers and Participants
2:00 pm Hands-on Workshops (parallel sessions, registration via dh@dhi-paris.fr)

Building LLM-Assisted Workflows for Entity and Geospatial Data Processing (Alex Relicovschi, Ekaterina Iakovleva, both at C2DH, University of Luxembourg)
How to Process Interviews of Persons at Risk? Insights from the U-CORE project (Machteld Venken, Vladyslav Siulhin, both C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

Free Evening
Thursday, June 25, 2026
10:00 am Plenary Session: Modelling and Analysing Migration through Textual Data

Chair: Joanna Wojdon (University of Wrocław)

Timur Mitrofanov (University of Heidelberg/Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe): Latvian Diaspora Press Published in English-Speaking Countries in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Federica Schiaffino (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Mapping the “Imaginary East”: A Digital Analysis of West German Travel Reports (1967–1973)

11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 am Plenary Session: Datafication and Migration Databases

Chair: Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS)

Valentin Rhodius (Université de Caen Normandie): Traversées maritimes des déplacés et réfugiés (1946–1952): une analyse par base de données

Théo Behra (Université de Strasbourg): Germanosearch et le portail “Archives disséminées”: enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques pour l’étude des migrations allemandes aux XIXe et XXe siècles

12:30 pm Lunch for Speakers and Participants
2:00 pm Visit to the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée

6:00 pm Keynote Lecture at the GHI Paris

Chair: Mareike König (GHI Paris)

Christoph A. Rass (University of Osnabrück): How Migration Became Data, How Data Makes Meaning, and How Reflexive Migration Research Intervenes

Friday, June 26, 2026
9:15 am Plenary Session: Exploring Migration Using Digital Network Analysis I

Chair: Christoph A. Rass (University of Osnabrück)

Alexandre Binoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/École française de Rome): Comprendre les hiérarchies d’une communauté migrante par les réseaux et la statistique. Lettres, registres paroissiaux et bases de données (colonie grecque de Corse, XVIIIe siècle)

Jorit Jens Hopp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Collaboration and Migration Networks of Theatre Professionals in the Habsburg Empire of the 19th Century

10:35 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Plenary Session: Exploring Migration Using Digital Network Analysis II

Chair: Machteld Venken (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

Katharina Isaak (University of Münster): Mapping the Immigrant Public Sphere. The Networked Russian Language Press in the United States, 1917–1941

Piotr Budzynski (University of Łódź): Network Analysis of Polish Fulbright Scholars (1968–1990)
12:20 pm General Discussion

1:00 pm End of Conference

Contact

Dr. Mareike König

Organised by: Mareike König (GHI Paris), Denis Scuto (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), Machteld Venken (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), Giovanni Vitali (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS)

Conference "Intersectionality in Ancient and Pre-Modern Contexts. Considering Aspects of Privilege and Marginalisation"

1 week 4 days ago
Organiser: Sarah Siegenthaler / Ana Maspoli, University of Basel Host: University of Basel Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postcode: 4051 City: Basel Country: Switzerland Take place: In attendance Dates: 11.06.2026 - 12.06.2026 Website: https://daw.philhist.unibas.ch/de/event/details/intersectionality-in-ancient-and-pre-modern-contexts-considering-aspects-of-privilege-and-marginalisation/   We are pleased to announce an international conference on Intersectionality in Ancient and Pre-Modern Contexts. Considering Aspects of Privilege and Marginalisation to be held at the University of Basel on 11–12 June 2026.

Questions of identity and the marginalisation of specific groups have become central to both academic and public discourse. Awareness of these concerns is currently increasing in ancient and pre-modern disciplines. Intersectionality, a concept coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) within Black Feminism and Critical Race Theory, offers a valuable framework for understanding how overlapping of aspects of identity – such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and bodily dispositions (e.g., disability, age) – shape individual experiences of privilege and marginalisation. These dynamics unfold on the interpersonal, structural (government, law, education), and socio-spatial (urban form, spatial governance, land control) levels.

While intersectional approaches are well established in the social sciences, their application to ancient and pre-modern contexts remains mostly unexplored. The nature of pre-modern source material – often fragmentary and strongly reflecting elite perspectives – poses specific challenges. This conference aims to bring together scholars working in ancient and pre-modern fields who already engage with intersectionality or seek to explore its potential.

Selected Literature
A. Biele Mefebue – A. D. Bührmann – S. Grenz (Eds.), Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung (Wiesbaden 2022).
K. Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, Stanford Law Review 43, 1991, 1241–1299.
K. Ganz – J. Hausotter, Intersektionale Sozialforschung (Bielefeld 2020).
A. Griesebner – S. Hehenberger, Intersektionalität. Ein brauchbares Konzept für die Geschichtswissenschaften?, in: V. Kallenberg – J. Meyer – J.M. Müller (eds.), Intersectionality und Kritik: Neue Perspektiven für alte Fragen (Wiesbaden 2013) 105–124.
P. Hill Collins – S. Bilge, Intersectionality (Cambridge 2020).
E. Scambor – F. Zimmer, Die intersektionelle Stadt: Geschlechterforschung und Medienkunst an den Achsen der Ungleichheit, Gender Studies (Bielefeld 2014).
Ch. Sweetapple – H.-J. Voss – S. A. Wolter, Intersektionalität. Von der Antidiskriminierung zur befreiten Gesellschaft (Stuttgart 2020).
G. Winker – N. Degele, Intersektionalität (Bielefeld 2009).

Programme

Program Thursday, 11 June 2026

08:45 Arrival
09:00 Welcome and introduction

Keynotes on Intersectional Approaches

09:20 Intersectionality: A Critical Approach to Understand Power Across Time?
Dr. Claudia Wilopo (University of Bern)

10:20 Response organisers
10:30 Coffee break

10:55 Intersectionality as Analysis of Power: On Archives, Absence, and Historiography
Dr. des. Jovita dos Santos Pinto (University of Lucerne)

11:55 Response organisers
12:05 General discussion
12:30 Lunch break

Panel 1 “Epistemology, Visibility and Justice”

13:30 Intersectionality Meets Antiquity: Some Epistemological Thoughts
Prof. Dr. Kordula Schnegg (Innsbruck University)

14:00 Poverty and Power in Ancient Roman Cityscapes: Towards an Intersectional Reading of Urban Spaces
Sarah Siegenthaler MA (University of Basel)

14:30 Access to Justice and Social Margins in the Roman World
Dr. Vid Žepič (University of Ljubljana)

15:00 General discussion
15:30 Coffee break

Panel 2 “Gender, Race, and Power”

16:00 Intersections of Oppression: An Ecofeminist Reading of Vergil’s Eclogue 3
Dr. Tori Lee (Boston University)

16:30 An Intersectional, Black Feminist Analysis of Lucan’s Erictho:
Liminality, Abjection, and Metapoetic Power in Bellum Civile 6
Antonia Aluko MA (University College London)

17:00 Women Writing to Women: Intersectionality in Private
Letters from Roman Egypt
Irene Chioni MA (Ghent University)

17:30 General discussion

Program Friday, 12 June 2026

Panel 3 “Politics, Hierarchies and Social Structures”

08:45 Arrival and welcome

09:00 Intersecting Hierarchies in Death: Kinship, Age, and Status in the Highlands of Middle and Neo-Elamite Lahsavareh Cemetery in Iran
Mahsa Najafi MA (Independent Researcher)

09:30 Non-Combatants in Ancient Egyptian Warfare: An Intersectional Approach
Dr. Uroš Matić (University of Graz)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Constructing the Civic Body: Propaganda, Identity, and
Marginalisation in Fifth-Century Athens
Michelle Musolino MA (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

11:00 Meetings at Intersections? Intersectionality as an Analytical Tool for Understanding Ancient Associations and polis Society
– Maria Janosch MA (Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg)

11:30 General discussion
12:00 Lunch break

Panel 4 “Status, Identity, and Pedagogy”

13:00 The Identities of Enslaved Persons as Expressed on Dedicatory Inscriptions in Roman Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, and Etruria (Regiones IV, V, VI, and VII)
Ethan Bragg Rummel MA (University of Crete)

13:30 At the Intersection of Gender, Social Status and Prestige: The Case of the Imperial Freedwomen in Ancient Roman Society
Dr. Davide Trivellato (University of Crete)

14:00 Intersectionality as a Paradigm for a Renewed Medievalist Didactics
Dr. Julian Happes (Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg)

14:30 General discussion
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Final discussion

CfP: Imperial, Colonial, Early Modern, Renaissance: Reflexions on Theory and Method

1 week 4 days ago

Call for papers for a panel proposal entitled "Imperial, Colonial, Early Modern, Renaissance: Reflexions on Theory and Method", as part of the Renaissance Society of America's 2027 Annual Meeting, to be held on 11-13 March 2027, in Philadelphia, United States.

This panel invites proposals on the analytical categories used in the studies of the period from c.1400 to c.1800 in modern scholarship, across disciplines. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Convergence and divergence between conceptual framings, such as ‘imperial’, ‘colonial’, ‘early modern’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘pre-modern’, ‘pre-colonial’, ‘dynastic’;
  • Comparative approaches according to discipline, target audiences, national-academic and/or regional-linguistic contexts
  • Articulation between chronological and geographical framings, eg. local, regional, national, continental, intercontinental, and global
  • Impact of standardisation, eg. English language, in research, teaching and outreach outputs in studies engaging with period between c.1400 and c.1800
Submission guidelines

Interested participants should send the following, to Marina Bezzi and Joseph da Costa (marinab@unb.brjoseph.dacosta@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk), by 1 July 2026:

  1. Full name, current affiliation, and email address;

  2. Title (max. 15 words);

  3. Abstract (max. 200 words);

  4. Short CV (max. 2 pages) emphasizing research and scholarship;

  5. PhD completion date (past or expected).

Decisions will be communicated by 15 July (this will allow those not accepted ample time to submit unsponsored proposals). Please see RSA proposal guidelines and membership eligibility in the RSA Conference Submission Guide.

Organizers
  • Marina Bezzi (Universidade de Brasília),
  • Joseph da Costa (University of Oxford)

Location

  • Philadelphia, USA

Event format

  • In attendance

Deadline

  • 1 July 2026

Keywords

  • colonial, precolonial, early modern, premodern, renaissance, imperial

Contact

  • Marina Bezzi
    courriel : marinab [at] unb [dot] br
  • Joseph da Costa
    courriel : joseph [dot] dacosta [at] mod-langs [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk

CfP: Le cinéma en diaspora : pratiques, cultures filmiques et identités (French)

1 week 4 days ago
Montpellier/France

Agumentaire

Nées de migrations volontaires ou forcées, les diasporas sont à la fois des communautés d’immigration ancrées dans des territoires et des communautés imaginées (Anderson, 1983), déterritorialisées. L’« espace diasporique » (Brah, 1996) est ainsi inéluctablement mouvant, contesté, façonné par des rapports de pouvoir, de genre, de race, de classe, dans un contexte postcolonial. Parce qu’elle crée des expériences de l’entre-deux, entre territoire d’origine et territoire d’arrivée, entre culture familiale minorisée et culture nationale dominante, entre ici et là-bas, la condition diasporique façonne des identités constamment renégociées et hybrides (Hall, 1990), bien plus complexes que celles dessinées par les notions d’intégration, d’exclusion ou de double culture.

Le rapport des diasporas au cinéma mérite alors une attention toute particulière, notamment parce que dans les sociétés contemporaines, les films participent aux constructions identitaires subjectives et communautaires, au prisme du national et du transnational. Naviguant dans l’entre-deux diasporique, le cinéma peut parfois être un espace de médiation entre les appartenances identitaires et un outil pour penser/panser les réalités de la migration et de l’exil. D’une part, les diasporas ont davantage intégré les récits filmiques à la faveur notamment de l’émergence de cinémas diasporiques. D’autre part, au-delà des enjeux de représentation, le cinéma est un espace de production et d’expérimentation dynamique qui fait émerger des pratiques, des acteur·rices et des écosystèmes cinématographiques modelés par les réalités diasporiques. Enfin, les publics diasporiques de cinéma ont des pratiques de réception et des formes de cinéphilie qui sont autant de reflets d’enjeux identitaires complexes.

Ces deux dernières décennies, les relations entre cinéma et diaspora ont ainsi été peu à peu étudiées dans le monde académique, notamment anglophone, mais restent encore un champ de recherche à explorer. Cette journée d’étude se veut donc une invitation à étudier les pratiques culturelles des communautés de l’immigration et de l’exil dans un contexte postcolonial, à documenter des existences diasporiques au creux de leur relation au cinéma pour permettre de décentrer le regard au-delà de l’exotisation, et ainsi de contribuer à décoloniser les recherches sur le cinéma. A l’intersection des études cinématographiques, de l’anthropologie, des sciences sociales, des cultural studies et des études postcoloniales, cette manifestation scientifique examinera les façons dont les diasporas entretiennent une relation complexe au cinéma, et les façons dont le cinéma est, en retour, bouleversé par les expériences et les expérimentations diasporiques dans une perspective transnationale, interculturelle et décentrée. Elle mettra aussi bien en lumière les pratiques de réception du cinéma chez les publics diasporiques, les récits et esthétiques des films diasporiques, que des parcours de cinéastes des diasporas, plus ou moins engagé.es dans les réseaux de production, de diffusion et de circulation à l’échelle globale. 

Nous encourageons des propositions qui relèvent des axes suivants mais nous restons ouvert·es à tout autre sujet s’inscrivant dans l’argumentaire de la journée d’étude, à différentes échelles et dans divers contextes migratoires, émanant de chercheur·es, de doctorant·es, d’étudiant·es ou de cinéastes. 

Axe 1 : Les diasporas, publics de cinéma

La journée d’étude s’intéressera aux diasporas comme publics de cinéma. La New Cinema History (Biltereyst et al. 2011, Kuhn 2002) a ouvert la voie des études sur l’expérience spectatorielle du cinema-going comme phénomène socio-culturel et, dans le contexte français, les travaux de Fabrice Montebello (1997) et Jean-Marc Leveratto (2010) sur les spectateur·rices lorrain·nes et ouvrier·es d’origine italienne ont été pionniers dans l’étude de la réception cinématographique au prisme de la migration. Depuis, la recherche sur les pratiques culturelles des diasporas, et plus spécialement, sur leur expérience du cinéma, reste à développer. Les propositions pourront aborder non seulement la réception diasporique des films nationaux et internationaux au sein des sociétés d’arrivée mais aussi la façon dont les cultures filmiques et les expériences spectatorielles liées aux cinémas des territoires d’origine sont transmises et appropriées au sein des diasporas. Les propositions pourront, par exemple, se focaliser sur des pratiques, des lieux ou des temporalités propres aux publics diasporiques de cinéma, tels que les formes de cinéphilie, l’émergence des fan clubs ou des projections communautaires. Il sera alors intéressant de comprendre ce que ces formes de réception diasporiques disent de la (dé)connexion au territoire d’origine, ce qu’elles révèlent des enjeux d’appartenance, de transmission et de mémoire de l’expérience migratoire vécue ou héritée dans les sociétés postcoloniales. 

Axe 2 : Cinéastes et cinémas diasporiques

La journée d’étude examinera le cinéma diasporique comme espace discursif et critique privilégié sur la condition migratoire et post-migratoire. Ces films, parfois assimilés au Troisième Cinéma, se définissent comme un cinéma des subalternes, des minorisé·es, porté par des cinéastes issu·es des diasporas. Par définition, ces œuvres sont hybrides et « interculturelles » (Marks, 2000), aussi bien par les thèmes abordés, les genres explorés, les matériaux exploités que par leurs expérimentations formelles et esthétiques. Cet axe permettra d’étudier des parcours de cinéastes diasporiques, naviguant entre des récits qui puisent dans l’autobiographie, des pratiques filmiques originales ou subversives mais aussi des stratégies de visibilisation de leur travail dans un contexte national et transnational. Les propositions peuvent aussi se concentrer sur les filmographies de ces cinéastes au prisme de leurs récits, de leurs esthétiques, de leur langage visuel, sonore et musical, façonnés par l’expérience diasporique. Faisant écho à une histoire longue d’invisibilisation des réalités migratoires dans les médias de masse, les cinémas diasporiques peuvent contribuer à décentrer le regard vers les marges, et, par là même, à défier les régimes dominants de visibilité en créant un « contre-cinéma » (Wollen, 1972) diasporique qui rend visibles des vies qui n’existaient jusqu’alors ni dans le récit national, ni dans les représentations cinématographiques dominantes.

Axe 3 : Produire, diffuser et visibiliser les cinémas par et pour les diasporas

La journée d’étude sera aussi l’occasion d’étudier les acteur·rices et structures qui rendent possibles les cinémas par et pour les diasporas en les finançant, en les distribuant et en les diffusant. Cet axe permettra ainsi de mettre en lumière les écosystèmes et réseaux économiques, nationaux, transnationaux et communautaires qui donnent une visibilité aux films consommés et créés par les diasporas. Dans quelle mesure les politiques nationales de la diversité et les systèmes de financement publics créent les conditions d’existence ou, au contraire, freinent ces cinémas ? Quel rôle jouent les co-productions internationales, les plateformes et les festivals dans leur reconnaissance au sein d’industries cinématographiques ancrées dans les enjeux de récompense et de légitimation institutionnelle (Delaporte, 2022) ? Existe-t-il des contre-espaces alternatifs proposant des modes de valorisation et de visibilisation des cinémas vus par les publics diasporiques ou créés par les cinéastes diasporiques ? 

Modalités de contribution

Les propositions de communications en français ou en anglais (titre et résumé de 300 mots maximum) accompagnées d’une courte notice bio-bibliographique sont à envoyer avant le 15 juin 2026 aux organisatrices :

Les réponses seront envoyées au plus tard le 6 juillet 2026.

La journée d’étude se déroulera le vendredi 20 novembre 2026 à l’Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry. Les communications d’une durée de 25 minutes pourront être données en français ou en anglais. 

Comité d’organisation 
  • Shakila Zamboulingame (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
  • Amandine D’Azevedo (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
Comité scientifique 
  • James M. Burns (Clemson University, South Carolina)
  • Clelia Clini (London Metropolitan University)
  • Morgan Corriou (Université Paris 8)
  • Amandine D’Azevedo (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
  • Caroline Damiens (Université Paris Nanterre)
  • Daniela Ricci (Université Paris Nanterre)
  • Kevin Smets (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Shakila Zamboulingame (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)

Lieu

  • Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry Route de Mende 34090 Montpellier
    Montpellier, Frankreich (34090)

Format de l'événement

  • Événement hybride

Date

  • Lundi 15 juin 2026

Appendice

Mots-clés

  • diaspora, cinéma diasporique, culture filmique, publics du cinéma, réception cinématographique, cinéphilie, cinema-going, migration, exil, minorités, identité hybride, transnationalité, réseaux transnationaux, diffusion, distribution, société p

Contact

  • Amandine D'Azevedo
    courriel : amandine [dot] d-azevedo [at] umpv [dot] fr
  • Shakila Zamboulingame
    courriel : s [dot] zamboulingame [at] hotmail [dot] com
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