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This 1.5-day workshop convened by the Department of Romani Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, Vienna, and hosted by the Prague Center for Romani Histories at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, will take place from 29-30 October 2026. The workshop addresses the variety of agendas and repertoires of Romani women activists/intellectuals engaged in a wide range of community and public activities in the region at local, national and transnational levels between the end of World War II and the 1990s.

The aftermath of the Holocaust brought about a new phase in Romani civil rights activism in both the Western and Eastern parts of a newly divided Europe. In the West activist/intellectuals were often confronted with the fact that while their governments acknowledged the crimes committed during National Socialism, the suffering of Roma remained unaddressed and legislation and institutional structures leading to the social exclusion of Roma remained for a long time unchanged. In Eastern Europe, the new People’s Republics established in the late 1940s, officially committed to antiracism and class and gender equality, and placed the enhancement of the situation of the Roma on their national agendas. Their central policy documents often called specifically for the inclusion of Roma in the process of “building socialism” and “solving the Gypsy question”. Still, anti-Roma racism continued to influence both state politics and authorities’ action as well as local sentiments.

The workshop “The history of Romani women’s activisms in Eastern Europe, 1945-1990s” traces how Romani women in Eastern Europe, committed to the improvement of the living and working conditions of their communities, engaged with the new state-provided opportunities for participation and social mobility as both Roma and women and how they maneuvered hindrances in their local and national contexts. On a transnational scale, the project follows Eastern European Romani women’s engagement with the international Romani civil rights movement in Western Europe on the rise from the 1970s. It aims to address Romani women’s diverse engagements from a long-term, comparative, transnational perspective and from an intersectional approach, paying attention to how gender-, sexuality-, class-, and race/ethnicity-based difference shaped the positionality of Romani women actors and their agendas and repertoires.

The workshop aims to contribute to the global histories of social movements, including the histories of gender and women’s activisms, by placing the so far under-researched endeavors of Romani women at the center of attention. By exploring their diverse public and community roles, it will contribute substantially to the current research on post-war Romani movements that has often overlooked especially the issues of gender and intersectionality.

We invite proposals for individual papers that explore the diverse social and political involvement of Romani women in improving the situation of their communities focusing on but not restricted to one of the following topics:

• Romani women’s participation in and contribution to the emerging mixed-gender Romani national political movements and self-organisations and the transnational organization of Roma in Europe
• Synergies with and the involvement of Romani women in other national mass organisations, such as the women’s councils, the Red Cross and trade union organisations, organisations aimed at the assistance of Holocaust survivors as well as the diverse organizations of the national communist and socialist workers’ parties
• Romani women’s participation in regional, cross-border initiatives, and transnational organizations
• Local level initiatives by Romani women, such as professional associations and neighbourhood or community-level initiatives among diverse groups of Roma aimed at improving their living and working conditions, access to services and infrastructures
• Romani women as actors and/or “objects” of state policies and state “care” on central, regional and local levels, including their participation in the state apparatus
• Romani girls and women’s educational paths and professional careers: navigating school and adult education, and employment in state institutions and national enterprises, and/or working to improve the access of Roma (including Romani women) to education and employment
• The emergence of gender issues on the agendas of local, national or transnational Romani initiatives, organizations and movements
• Romani women’s diverse (art) works reflecting on their lives and positions, their everyday realities as women and Roma, and/or the position of Roma in society between 1945 and the 1990s; their strategies of agency, resistance, mechanisms of solidarity and copying with anti-Roma racism and conservatism as well as their role in healing their Holocaust affected families

 

From the wide variety of sources available, we especially appreciate research working with ego documents. We also welcome contributions based on the analysis of photographs, artistic works and other visual materials.

 

Please send a 500-word abstract and a short academic CV (max 500 words) in one Word file to romaniwomen.workshop.prague@gmail.com by 21 June 2026. The proposal should include name, surname, current affiliation and contact details of the proponent.

Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by the end of July 2026. Paper drafts are expected to be sent to discussants by 9 October 2026.

Travel funding and accommodation will be available for the participants presenting at the workshop.

Scientific Committee: Margareta (Magda) Matache (Harvard University), Helena Sadílková (Charles University), Angéla Kóczé (Central European University), Eszter Varsa (Central European University).

Organizing Committee: Helena Sadílková (Charles University), Angéla Kóczé (Central European University), Eszter Varsa (Central European University)

 

Funding for the workshop is provided by the generous award of the Flax Foundation, Advancing Feminist and Inequality Research in Europe (https://flax-foundation.net/).

Organiser: Collegium Helveticum (Mischa Suter, Geneva Graduate Institute & Collegium Helveticum, CH) Host: Mischa Suter, Geneva Graduate Institute & Collegium Helveticum, CH Location: Collegium Helveticum Schmelzbergstrasse 25 Postcode: 8004 City: Zurich Country: Switzerland Takes place: In attendance Date: 03.06.2026 Website: https://collegium.ethz.ch/events/fellow-year-2025-2026/the-politics-of-psychoanalysis-in-history  

Making sense of our historical conjuncture requires understanding the unconscious as a political force. The resurgence of fascism and the enduring afterlives of colonialism highlight the need to explain political motivations beyond manifest interests alone. Historical research and activist practice alike suggest that social transformation depends on the remaking of political subjectivities.

This interdisciplinary workshop explores how psychoanalysis has shaped understandings of politics, political practice, and forms of subject formation, while remaining historically and politically contested.

Psychoanalysis is at the core of such understandings of politics. But just as psychoanalysis has always maintained a tense relation to the discipline of history, its politics have been complex and have never been tied to a single political project. The interdisciplinary workshop explores some of these dimensions. It is conceived as a forum for discussing work in progress.

It can be argued that the politics of psychoanalysis become discernible on at least three levels, and some of these will be reflected in the workshop’s contributions. Psychoanalytic theory offers a way to explain politics, as it did especially from the interwar period until the “long” moment of decolonization, 1930–1970. Psychoanalytic theory also informs politics: political movements aimed for the remaking of selves and thus the “dis-alienation” of relations in society, as in revolutionary psychiatry and libidinal politics. And psychoanalytic categories not merely describe but also prescribe forms of being and relating, thus both opening and limiting forms of political agency on a foundational level, that of subject formation.

Berlin/Germany   Veranstalter: Freunde und Förderer des Leo Baeck Institut e.V. Veranstaltungsort: W. M. Blumenthal Akademie (gegenüber vom Jüdischen Museum Berlin), Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1 PLZ: 10969 Ort: Berlin Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 10.06.2026 - Website: https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/juedischesexilveranstaltungberlin/  

Wir möchten Sie im Namen der Freunde und Förderer des Leo Baeck Instituts herzlich zu unserer Podiumsdiskussion in Kooperation mit dem Podcast »Der zweite Gedanke« (radio3/rbb) mit anschließendem Empfang einladen.

Freuen Sie sich auf ein anregendes Gespräch über deutsch-jüdisches Exil gestern und heute. Im Zentrum stehen die Kulturgeschichte der jüdischen Emigration sowie universelle Erfahrungen von Entwurzelung, Isolation und dem Leben zwischen den Stühlen. Vom Topos des Wandernden Juden über die zerstörten Träume einer deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose bis in die gewaltvolle Gegenwart gehen wir der Frage nach, ob Flucht und Migration Ankommen bedeuten kann – selbst wenn es ein Ankommen in einer fremden Heimat ist.

Die Diskussionsrunde besteht aus folgenden Teilnehmenden:

- Dr. Ursula Krechel setzt sich in ihrem literarischen Werk mit den Themen Verfolgung, Flucht und Exil in Geschichte und Gegenwart auseinander, so auch in ihrem jüngsten Buch »Vom Herzasthma des Exils«. Der Text appelliert an ein Umdenken und tiefgreifenden Respekt für jene, die ihre Heimat verlassen (müssen und mussten). 2025 erhielt sie den Georg-Büchner-Preis.
- Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner ist der Internationale Präsident des Leo Baeck Instituts. Er forscht und publiziert zu Themen deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, zuletzt in seinem Buch »Der lange Schatten der Revolution«. Michael Brenner ist Professor an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und an der American University in Washington D.C.
- Dr. Sebastian Schirrmeister ist Literaturwissenschaftler. Er forscht u.a. zur deutschsprachigen Exilliteratur, zu deutsch-hebräischen Literaturbeziehungen und zu deutsch-jüdischen Archiven. Er ist der Autor von »Das Gastspiel« (2012) und »Begegnung auf fremder Erde« (2019) sowie zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Aufsätze.
- Moderation: Natascha Freundel ist Journalistin mit einem Schwerpunkt auf deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte. Sie ist Redakteurin und Moderatorin der Podcast- und Radiodebatte »Der zweite Gedanke« von radio3 im rbb.

Wir freuen uns über ein Grußwort von Frau Julia Friedrich, Sammlungs- und Ausstellungsdirektorin des Jüdischen Museum Berlin.

Programm

ab 18:30 Uhr: Einlass

19 Uhr: Programmbeginn: Begrüßung + Podiumsdiskussion zum Veranstaltungsthema

ab 20:30 Uhr: Empfang
Die Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit radio3 statt, wo der Mitschnitt am 11. Juni 2026 um 19:03 Uhr sowie am 13. Juni 2026 um 13:03 Uhr und im Podcast »Der zweite Gedanke« (u.a. in der ARD Sounds App) zu hören sein wird.

Einlass nur nach vorheriger Anmeldung. Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei. Die Plätze sind begrenzt, daher erbitten wir eine zeitnahe Anmeldung, um Ihnen eine Teilnahme garantieren zu können.

In Kooperation mit dem radio3/rbb

Kontakt

info@leobaeck.de

Kiel/Germany   Veranstalter: Christian Hoffarth, Kiel; Christoph Mauntel, Osnabrück Veranstaltungsort: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 208a&b Gefördert durch: Collegium Philosophicum der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; Alumni und Freunde der CAU e.V. PLZ: 24118 Ort: Kiel Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 12.06.2026 - 13.06.2026   Der Workshop ist ein Forum für Wissenschaftler:innen verschiedener Disziplinen, auf dem Ansätze, Methoden und Zugänge zur Mobilitätsforschung diskutiert werden.

Formen der Mobilität sind seit langem ein vielbeachtetes Thema der Vormoderne-Forschung. Die thematischen Schwerpunkte und das methodische Instrumentarium einschlägiger Arbeiten haben sich naturgemäß im Laufe der Jahre gewandelt und spezialisiert. So wurden Boten, Diplomatinnen und Missionare, Kaufleute, Scholaren und Pilgerinnen als mobile Gruppen untersucht, Routen und Wegnetzwerke rekonstruiert, die Erfahrung, Beschreibung und Konstruktion von Fremdheit und Alterität analysiert, Aspekte von Körperlichkeit und Emotionalität erforscht, transkulturelle Kontakte und Austauschprozesse in den Blick genommen, Formen individueller oder auch kollektiver Migration analysiert sowie die narrative, rhetorische und poetische Repräsentation und Funktion von Mobilität in literarischen Texten untersucht – um nur wenige Themen und Ansätze zu nennen.

Der geplante Workshop ist ein Forum für Wissenschaftler:innen verschiedener Disziplinen, auf dem Ansätze, Methoden und Zugänge zur Mobilitätsforschung diskutiert werden. Dazu werden laufende Projekte und Forschungsarbeiten vorgestellt, die sich mit Formen des Reisens, Pilgerns und Migrierens sowie des Erzählens darüber in Europa von ca. 500 bis ca. 1800 beschäftigen

Programm

Freitag, 12. Juni 2026
Moderation: Christian Hoffarth (Kiel)

15.30 Uhr Kaffee und Begrüßung
16.00 Uhr Alicia Wolff (Heidelberg): Auf zu neuen Ufern: Bau, Instandhaltung und Nutzung von Brücken im Mittelalter
16.45 Uhr Martina Hacke (Düsseldorf): Die Büchertransporte der Verleger, Drucker und Buchhändler Anton Koberger und Johann Amerbach an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit
17.30 Uhr Pause
18.00 Uhr Melanie Greinert (Heide): In Bewegung! Eine Ausstellung zur Mobilität in Dithmarschen durch die Zeiten im Entstehen
18.45 Uhr Swantje Piotrowski (Kiel): Digitale Rekonstruktion vormoderner Mobilität. Adam Olearius’ Persienreise (1647) als Fallstudie
19.30 Uhr Tagungsende

Samstag, 13. Juni 2026
Moderation: Christoph Mauntel (Osnabrück)

9.00 Uhr Veronika Unger (Mainz): Reisepäpste des Frühmittelalters
9.45 Uhr Erik Wolf (Aarhus): Mobilität im nördlichen Fennoskandinavien als koloniale Expansion, Argumentation und Resistenz
10.30 Uhr Pause
11.00 Uhr Vanina Kopp (Münster): Zwischen den Kontinenten – Afrikanische Reisende nach Europa und ihre Erfahrungen
11.45 Uhr Sita Steckel (Frankfurt a. M.): Von Menschenfressern und Manuskripten. Beobachtungen zur Überlieferung der ‚Reisen des Mandeville‘
12.30 Uhr Schlussworte
12.45 Uhr Tagungsende

Kontakt

Christian Hoffarth (choffarth@histosem.uni-kiel.de)

Ratingen/Germany

Veranstalter: LVR-Archivberatungs- und Fortbildungszentrum Veranstaltungsort: Stadthalle Ratingen PLZ: 40878 Ort: Ratingen Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 02.06.2026 - 03.06.2026 Website: https://afz.lvr.de/de/fortbildungen___tagungen/rheinischer_archivtag/rheinischer_archivtag_1.html  

Unter dem Titel „Archive und Demokratie“ findet 2026 der 59. Rheinische Archivtag in Ratingen statt. Die Tagung möchte eine Verbindung zwischen Archiven, Wissenschaft, Verwaltung und Bildungsarbeit schaffen, um die Bedeutung von Archiven für demokratische Gesellschaften zu diskutieren. Archive leisten einen zentralen Beitrag zur Sicherung von Transparenz, zur Nachvollziehbarkeit staatlichen Handelns und zur historischen Aufarbeitung. Gleichzeitig stehen sie vor neuen Herausforderungen, etwa durch digitale Transformation oder den Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz. Der Archivtag widmet sich daher dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Transparenz und rechtlichen Schutzfristen, der Frage, wie Archive Vertrauen in staatliche und gesellschaftliche Institutionen fördern können sowie der wachsenden Bedeutung der archivischen Bildungsarbeit. Neben Fachvorträgen bietet die Veranstaltung Raum für Diskussion und Austausch. Ziel ist es, Impulse für die Weiterentwicklung archivischer Arbeit zu geben und Vernetzung zu fördern.

Programm

Dienstag, 2. Juni 2026

09:00 Uhr
Anmeldung und Begrüßungskaffee

09:30 Uhr
Eröffnung, Begrüßung, Grußworte
Moderation: Dr. Mark Steinert, LVR-AFZ

Patrick Anders, Bürgermeister von Ratingen
Dr. Corinna Franz, LVR-Kulturdezernentin

10:00 Uhr
Eröffnungsvortrag
Volkan Baran, Stv. Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Kultur und Medien NRW

10:40 Uhr
Kaffeepause

11:00 Uhr
Sektion 1: Archive und Transparenz
Moderation: Dr. Mark Steinert

Archivische Schutzfristen und Transparenz – ein Gegensatz?
Julia Schneider, Hessisches Landesarchiv, Archivberatung Hessen

Zwischen Grenzen und Möglichkeiten. Transparenz und Selbstverständnis kirchlicher Archive in demokratischen Gesellschaften
Ilona Schröder, Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland

Die Sicherstellung der Merkmale Authentizität und Integrität in Zeiten des KI-Einsatzes
Thorsten Preuss, Digitalisierung und Informationstechnik, Stadt Köln
Fragen und Diskussion

12:45 Uhr
Mittagspause

13:45 Uhr
Aktuelle Stunde
Moderation: Dr. Gregor Patt, LVR-AFZ

14:50 Uhr
Kaffeepause

15:10 Uhr
Sektion 2: Archive und das Vertrauen in die Institutionen
Moderation: Dr. Axel Metz, Archiv des Landtags Nordrhein-Westfalen

Vertrauensraum Archiv. Zwischen Offenheit, Schutz und historischer Wahrheit
Dr. Matthias Buchholz, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung

Stadtarchiv, kommunale Demokratie und lokale Geschichtskultur – ein Erfahrungsbericht aus dem Ruhrgebiet
Dr. Daniel Schmidt, Institut für Stadtgeschichte Gelsenkirchen

Online-Bereitstellung von zeitgeschichtlichem Archivgut: Vertrauensverlust oder Vertrauensgewinn?
Dr. Tobias Herrmann, Landesarchiv NRW

Fragen und Diskussion

17:00 Uhr
Ende des ersten Veranstaltungstages

18:00 Uhr
Come together

18:30 Uhr
Gemeinsames Abendessen

Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2026

8:30 Uhr
Begrüßungskaffee

9:00 Uhr
Gesprächsrunden: Aktuelle Projekte

Runde 1: Archivische Bildungs- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit als regionales Angebot
Moderation: Monika Marner, LVR-AFZ

Bekannte Wege – Vernetzte Wege: Archivische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Beispiel „Kommunale Gebietsreform 1975“
Dr. Sebastian Barteleit, Stadtarchiv Ratingen

"Mehr als nur Fußnoten“ – Das Portal Archive Rhein–Erft–Rur
Lena Delbach, Stadtarchiv Bergheim

Runde 2: Archive und KI
Moderation: Dr. Matthias Klein, LVR-AFZ

Künstliche Intelligenz für die Archivarbeit: Innovationsnetzwerk und erste Erfahrungen
Dr.-Ing. Matthias Peissner, Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO

Runde 3: Qualifikation und Fachkräfteförderung
Moderation: Matthias Senk, LVR-AFZ

Individuell und passgenau: das VdA-Mentoring-Programm
Dr. Stefan Schröder, LWL-Archivamt für Westfalen

Das Fortbildungscurriculum des LVR-AFZ: Zielgruppen und Anwendung
Thea Fiegenbaum, LVR-AFZ

10:20 Uhr
Kaffeepause

10:40 Uhr
Sektion 3: Archive und Demokratiebildung
Moderation: Heike Bartel-Heuwinkel, LVR-AFZ

Archivpädagogik in Zeiten des Zweifels. Die QuellenNAH-Reihe des Landesarchivs Sachsen-Anhalt als Beispiel für quellenbasierte Geschichtsvermittlung.
Dr. Riccarda Henkel, Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt

Synergieeffekte – Zusammenarbeit am historischen Ort. Die Gedenkstätte Brauweiler und das Archiv des LVR
Ariane Jäger und Dr. Markus Thulin, LVR-AFZ

„Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar“. Die Mütter und Väter des Grundgesetzes aus Essen. Eine stadtgeschichtliche Wanderausstellung mit archivpädagogischem Begleitprogramm.
Merlin Goriß und Dr. Claudia Kauertz, Haus der Essener Geschichte / Stadtarchiv

Fragen und Diskussion

12:45 Uhr Ende des Archivtags 2026

Im Anschluss Parallele Führungen

Stadtführung mit Unterstützung der AR-App „Ratingen digital erlebt“ (Internetfähiges Smartphone oder Tablet erforderlich)
Dr. Sebastian Barteleit, Stadtarchiv Ratingen

Kirchenführung in St. Peter und Paul inkl. Turmbegehung
Joachim Schulz-Hönerlage, Kreisarchiv Mettmann

This conference aims to bring into focus the contribution of the concept of social class to the study of various hierarchies, inequalities and conflicts. We are seeking theoretical contributions and studies on past and present phenomena and situations that use the social class as a central concept, highlighting its capacity to renew or enrich analytical perspectives (see the full CFP attached).

October 14 – 16, 2026, Department of History, University of Montreal, Center for the Study of Political Thought (CEPP), UQAM

Organizers

• Marie-Josée Lavallée, Department of History, University of Montreal
• Omer Moussaly, Faculty of Political Science and Law, UQAM

Argument

Social class has long been a privileged, even dominant, analytical tool in the social sciences. This concept highlights the economic foundation of hierarchies, and forms of inequality, domination and oppression, as well as social and/or political conflicts at the local, national, and international levels. While the Marxist interpretive framework was declining, starting in the 1970s, the concept of social class was also increasingly relegated to the background, although Marx was not the only one to develop and popularize it. The emergence and consolidation of the cultural and linguistic turns, which stemmed from postmodernism, and later, of feminist and postcolonial approaches, despite their contributions to understanding and analyzing some hierarchies, inequalities, oppressions, and conflicts, also contributed to this trend. Thus, Vivek Chibber notes that by fostering skepticism toward structural approaches and systemic explanations, by emphasizing the particular or, ‘identity,’ at the expense of the general, and by prioritizing contingency over structures, these currents have obscured the continuities, regularities, and commonalities of a multitude of experiences and perspectives (Chibber 2022: 8–9). The intersectional approach acknowledges the need to combine perspectives to grasp various asymmetries and forms of domination; however, it can lead to the individualization of situations, therefore making them incommensurable. A rigorous intellectual debate on the possibility of harmonizing the Marxist class approach with that of intersectionality is underway (Kergoat 2009; Arruzza 2015; Foley 2020). The concept of social class underscores the common, economic basis of various forms of inequality and oppression and, therefore, the economic roots of different conflicts. The observation that capitalism is undergoing a profound crisis, has become consensual, not to say commonplace, in our time. As the living conditions of populations around the world steadily deteriorate, despite all national, regional, ethnic, cultural, and identity-based particularities, the common foundation of these evolutions across different contexts—the economic component—becomes unmistakable. Academic research has recently begun to reintegrate the economic as a category of analysis on its own, to supplement political and cultural perspectives and overcome the individualization of situations (Carrier 2015: 37). However, if the concept of social class has become widespread again in popular discourse, its reintegration into academic circles is lagging behind.

Although commonly associated with Marx and his followers, the concept of social class has been developed by other classical theorists such as Max Weber and Émile Durkheim in the 19th century and, later, Pierre Bourdieu. Despite the differences that set them apart, these thinkers agree that societies are organized on an unequal, vertical basis, with certain groups and individuals concentrating more power, income, and wealth than others. These authors believe that these asymmetries, which are rooted in economic relations between actors, affect other social processes (Manza: 2025). For Marx, class membership depends on an individual’s position in the social relations of production, like all social relationships, which unfold under the banner of class struggle. For Max Weber, it is circulation rather than production that determines social classes in the first place; classes are shaped by the power of individuals in the market and property ownership. Like Marx, Weber recognizes that the class position of an individual strongly impacts the other spheres of his/her existence. Status (or Stand) is another central concept in his work; status determines opportunities, but it is not synonymous with the social class (Carrier 2015: 29-30, 35). The Weberian concept of status has often been appropriated apart from his conception of the social class and even in opposition to it; and yet, the hierarchies they produce can be articulated with one another (Roueff 2024: 377). Émile Durkheim’s position, although intended as a response to Marx, like Weber’s, drags economic relations and production, more specifically the division of labor, to the heart of the analysis of society. Where Durkheim challenges Marx, is by singling out the differentiation of tasks within the occupational hierarchy, rather than homogenization, as the defining characteristic of capitalist societies (Manza 2025). As to Pierre Bourdieu’s approach, which was intersectional before its time, it draws on Weber’s acknowledgment of a plurality of hierarchies and on his distinction between material and symbolic power to renew the concept of social class. For Bourdieu, grasping class calls for a multidimensional perspective, since the social class is the outcome of a constellation of variables (such as age, gender, education level, and profession), whose relationships determine social position (Roueff 2024: 377–379). In line with Weber’s distinction between the symbolic and the material, Bourdieu sets apart different types of capital, namely, economic, informational, and social. He emphasizes the expression of class inequalities through differences in knowledge, taste, and consumption, while the Bourdieusian concept of habitus acknowledges the impact of class situation on ways of thinking and behavior (Manza 2025). While Bourdieu was developing his ideas and the concept of class was entering its decline, it was fruitfully appropriated by leading authors such as Immanuel Wallerstein and Samir Amin to analyze colonialism, the postcolonial condition, and global inequalities.

Several recent studies return to Marxist versions of the concept of class to address issues related to the environment (Huber 2022), gender, or race (Roediger 2017). However, some authors turn to the theories of Bourdieu (Hugrée, Penissat, and Spire 2020), Weber (Breen 2005; Moen 2025), or even Durkheim (Grusky and Galescu 2005) in connection with the concept of social class. One also witnessed a renewed interest in the ideas of Immanuel Wallerstein in the last two decades (Dufoix et Hugot 2021), while the field of postcolonial studies started to reconsider its relationship to the concept (Pradella 2016). Thus, the concept of class is being slowly reintegrated, but its specific contribution relative to other interpretive frameworks is yet to be shown. This conference aims to contribute to this task. While returns to the concept are more often observed among sociologists, it can help open new perspectives in history, political science, and other social sciences, as well as in gender and postcolonial studies.

Going back to structuralist, economic approaches opens new avenues for analyzing the sources and mechanisms of various hierarchies and inequalities, and of social and/or political conflicts at the local, national and international levels, in the past and the present, and can contribute to developing fruitful solutions to contemporary social issues and movements. We are seeking submissions that use the concept of social class to shed light on past and present phenomena and situations, and theoretical contributions highlighting its capacity to renew perspectives on the following themes (other topics may be accepted):

• Women’s status/feminism and social class
• Ethnic conflicts and social class
• Religious conflicts and social class
• Violence(s) and social class
• Racism and social class
• Nationalisms and social class
• Imperialism and social class
• War and social class
• Political polarization or politics and social class
• Colonialism/ postcolonialism and social class
• Marginalization and social class

Submissions guidelines

500-700-word submissions must be sent by June 6, 2026, at the latest to classconceptconference@gmail.com. The languages of presentations must be English or French. In your proposal, please specify your institutional affiliation and status (faculty member, researcher, doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow). The organizers will reserve a few slots for doctoral students. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent during the week of June 21. The conference fee will be approximately $200 CAD; the exact amount will be confirmed by August 2026 at the latest.

Please note that this conference is an in-person event only.

Conference website: https://conferenceclassconceptmtl2026.com/.

References

Arruzza, Cinzia. « Les féminismes marxistes aujourd’hui ». Contretemps, February 23, 2015, https://www.contretemps.eu/feminismes-marxistes-aujourdhui/

Breen, Richard. “Foundations of a Neo-Weberian Class Analysis.” In Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright, 31-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Carrier, James G. “The Concept of Class.” In Anthropologies of Class Power, Practice, and Inequality, edited by James G. Carrier and Don Kalb, 28-40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Chibber, Vivek. The Class Matrix. Social Theory After the Cultural Turn. Cambridge (Mass.) – London: Harvard University Press, 2022.

Dufoix, Stéphane and Yves-David Hugot. « Le système-monde Wallerstein ». Socio – La nouvelle revue des sciences sociales 15 (2021) : 9-19. https://doi.org/10.4000/socio.10854.

Foley, Barbara « Intersectionnalité : une critique marxiste ». Réseau Bastille / Marx 21 (2020), https://www.reseau-bastille.info/intersectionnalite-critique-marxiste.

Grusky, David et Gabriela Galescu. “Foundations of a Neo-Durkheimian Class Analysis.” In Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright, 51-81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Huber, Matthew T. Climate Change as Class War. Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. London: Verso, 2022.

Hugrée, Cédric, Étienne Penissat, Alexis Spire and Johs. Hjellbrekke, eds. Class Boundaries in Europe. The Bourdeusian Approach in Perspective. London – New York, 2022.

Kergoat, Danièle. « Dynamique et consubstantialité des rapports sociaux ». Les Cahiers du CEDREF 17 (2009), https://journals.openedition.org/cedref/706.

Manza, Jeff. “Class.” Oxford Bibliographies, 2025, https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-9780199756384-0067.xml#firstMatch.

Moen, Atle. “Weber on Class, Status-Groups and Politics; Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance,” SN Social Sciences (2025), doi.org/10.1007/s43545-025-01183-w.

Pradella, Lucia. “Postcolonial Theory and the Making of the World Working-Class.” Critical Sociology 43, 4-5 (2017): 573-586.

Roediger, David. Class, Race, and Marxism. London – New York: Verso, 2017.

Roueff, Olivier. “Social Class.” In Global Handbook of Inequality, edited by Surinder S. Jodhka et Boike Rehbein, 363-386. Springer: Cham, 2024.

Location

• Université de Montréal en association avec le CEPP, Université du Québec à Montréal - 2900, boul. Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal (Québec)
  Montreal, Kanada (H3T 1J4)

Event format

• In attendance

Date

• 06 June 2026

Attachments

• Eng_Social Class Concept_Conference.pdf
• FR_Colloque_concept de classe sociale.pdf

Keywords

• social class, inequality, hierarchy, conflict, analytical framework, classe sociale, inégalité, hiérarchie, conflit, cadre analytique

Contact

• Omer Moussaly
  courriel : classconceptconference [at] gmail [dot] com
• Marie-Josée Lavallée
  courriel : classconceptconference [at] gmail [dot] com

In the 2020s, a growing number of activists and scholars have started using the term ‘green colonialism’ to describe how the burden of the ‘energy transition’ demanded at an international level is primarily borne by formerly colonised states (Hamouchene 2023; Claar 2025; Dejonghe and Van de Graaf 2025). Consequently, several scholars have attempted to develop a rigorous concept of ‘energy colonialism’ applicable to present-day examples of renewable energy mega-projects undertaken in the Global South for the benefit of the Global North (Sánchez Contreras and al. 2023; Müller 2024). By contrast, the history of energy during the heyday of European colonialism is usually examined through a geopolitical lens. Consequently, historians of energy tend to use terms such as ‘fossil imperialism’ and ‘energy imperialism’ rather than ‘energy colonialism’, even when studying former colonies (Musso and Crouzet 2019). This is problematic as if energy imperialism can take various forms, from foreign capital investments in energy production to unequal exchanges of energy, only in colonial situations does energy production and circulation come under the sovereignty of a foreign state.
Meanwhile, STS scholars and energy historians have been calling for a more pluralist and less Eurocentric history of energy for years (van der Straeten and Hasenöhrl 2016; Russ and Turnbull 2025). However, despite repeated calls to provincialize Europe in energy history, comparatively few historical studies have examined issues relating to fuel, power and energy in colonized territories between the 18th and mid-20th centuries (exceptions include Hasenöhrl 2018; Chatterjee 2020; Shutzer 2020; Conor 2024; Cropper 2025). Until now, the vast majority of socio-political and environmental histories of energy remain focused on Europe, the United States, and OPEC+ countries (e.g. Andrews 2010; Mitchell 2013; Malm 2016; Vergara 2021; Gross and Needham 2023; Fressoz 2024; Bruisch 2025). 
Outside of the Western world, energy historians have devoted much of their attention to the Middle East (Meiton 2019; Barak 2020; Malm 2024) and to some parts of Eastern Asia, especially China and Japan (Wu 2015; Seow 2023). The majority of these regions were never formally colonised, and, in the case of states such as the Ottoman Empire and Japan were imperial powers themselves. 
Moreover, studies examining the socio-environmental aspects of energy production, consumption or distribution in colonial settings frequently concentrate on a particular geographical area or energy source (e.g. Chatterjee 2023; Nguyen 2025) and the history of colonial energy still tends to be written independently of that of former metropolises (e.g. Cornu and al. 2025). Considering all of 
this, we believe that it would be beneficial to bring together studies related to specific colonies and energy productions and circulations to help identifying transversal themes and issues pertaining to colonial energy history. 
We launch today this call to participate in a series of online roundtable discussions devoted to the colonial histories of energy, aiming at sparking a dialogue amongst scholars of energy and colonial history. The proposed format is the following: during these half-day sessions, several researchers will present their ongoing research for 5 minutes each, after which there will be time for collective discussion and exchange on the transversal questions outlined below. Our aim is to bring together scholars for whom issues of fuel, power or energy are an important part of their research in colonial history, and vice-versa energy historians who study colonial settings.
This series of online roundtables will aim to answer the following questions (amongst others):
- What does the ‘colonial situation’ (Balandier 1951) make to energy production, circulation and consumption, in comparison to metropolitan and informal imperial contexts?
- Reciprocally, why and how is energy history an interesting prism to analyze colonial situations?
We are therefore particularly interested in comparative studies of different types of formal colonisation, such as colonies, protectorates and mandates, as well as comparisons between colonies and the metropolis and between formal and informal colonisation.

We welcome applications from researchers specialising in energy and colonial history to participate in a series of online roundtables on the colonial histories of energy, which will take place in late summer 2026. The deadline for submissions is 15 July (see below for practical details).

Expressions of interest, in the form of a short statement (200-300 words) explaining your research in energy and colonial history and your motivation for participating in the roundtable(s), along with your CV, your availabilities (dates and time zone) in September and any questions, should be sent to Lucie Rondeau du Noyer (lucie.rondeau-du-noyer@cnrs.fr) and Armel Campagne (armel.campagne@ucd.ie) by 15 July 2026 11:55 PM CET. Accepted participants will be notified by the 30th of July. The roundtable(s), divided in thematic half-day sessions, are set to take place online in early September 2026. 

 

Mainz/Germany   Veranstalter: Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Veranstaltungsort: Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Alte Universitätsstraße 19 PLZ: 55116 Ort: Mainz Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Datum: 28.05.2026 Website: https://www.ieg-mainz.de/en/  

"Migration im Geschichtsunterricht“ steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Podiumsdiskussion. Wir wollen diskutieren, wie dieses Thema mit seinen historischen Dimensionen, persönlichen Erfahrungen und gesellschaftlichen Aspekten in der Schule behandelt und vermittelt wird. Mit auf dem Podium: Sophia Britanow, Preisträgerin im bundesweiten Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten, Migrationshistorikerin Dr. Mareike König, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, sowie zwei Lehrkräfte, Dr. Sara Mehlmer und Benan Şarlayan, die aus ihrer Praxis berichten. Moderation: Prof. Dr. Nicole Reinhardt.

Gemeinsam laden das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) und die Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (LpB) Rheinland-Pfalz ein zu diesem Abend in der Veranstaltungsreihe „Reden wir über Europa!“ Wir nehmen darin aktuelle europäische Themen in den Blick und diskutieren sie mit Akzent auf ihre historischen Dimensionen.

Beginn: 18:00 Uhr.

Mit anschließendem Weinempfang. Kostenfreie Anmeldung unter info@ieg-mainz.de.

Organizer: Jan Yasin Suncac; Diana Volpe; Jorge Solozabal Zapata Venue: Institut d'études européennes (IEE) ZIP: 1050 Location: Brussels Country: Belgium Takes place: In Attendance From - Until: 12.11.2026 - 13.11.2026 Deadline: 15.05.2026 Website: https://repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-coloniality-of-the-modern-state?RH=1664519707693&LANGUE=0   This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyond state-seeking nationalisms?  

Anti-colonial nationalism arose as a response to colonial domination across the 19th and 20th century, denoting the demands of colonised populations for justice and a claim for self-determination through independent nation-states. For decades, this form of nationalism has served as both an ideological guide and an international political practice for liberation movements across the globe. Yet by following the same logic, these new nation-states did not necessarily dismantle the hierarchical structures of domination produced by colonial rule. Coloniality is central to this problem, as a concept concerned with how colonial power relations persist in contemporary institutions, knowledge systems, and governance practices.

At a moment when the liberal international order is collapsing, the colonial entanglements of the modern state become particularly visible. What can be learnt from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation beyond the mainstream understanding of decolonization as a geopolitical process of nation- and state-building? Conversely, can the modern state, as a model historically entangled with Europe’s colonial expansion, genuinely function as an instrument of decolonization, even in its “anti-colonial” articulations? To turn Audre Lorde’s resonant proposition into a question: can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house?

Scholars have examined these colonial continuities through the modern state. Some have focused on colonial practices of the modern state itself. Others have discussed the coloniality of borders, revealing how they reproduce colonial hierarchies that distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of mobility along racialised lines. Scholars have also discussed forms of ‘postcolonial colonialism’, where post-colonial states reproduce colonial domination over minoritised communities. Finally, a growing body of scholarship approaches the post-colonial state not as the desired end point of anti-colonial struggles, but rather as an eventual synthesis of world-making projects to the colonial world order.

However, foundational anti-colonial perspectives fail to completely reject state centrality in different ways. Either they understand colonialism as an inter-state issue (Marxist historical-sociological perspectives), or they defend sovereign equality of postcolonial state inscribed in a West-Rest dichotomy (postcolonial perspectives), further obscuring colonial hierarchies embedded in current world orders. In these perspectives, borders are at times defended as a foundational basis of state formation and national belonging, reproducing neocolonial lines of race and deservingness. Certain strands within this literature attempt to address these limits by advocating the recognition of indigenous peoples, through plurinational propositions. Yet these approaches risk recolouring the state in indigenous terms without fundamentally critiquing state centralisation itself.

Many of these perspectives have been foundational to anti-colonial studies: taken as a starting point, this workshop aims to prompt further reflection on the place of the modern state within them. We invite contributions both empirically grounded and/or theoretical in nature, from different disciplinary backgrounds addressing these key issues. By doing so, we seek to create avenues for discussion and further collaboration, potentially leading to collective outputs such as a special issue.

Here are some of the many questions we raise across four non-exhaustive main themes:

1. The knowledge of, and produced by, the state.
- Foundational concepts that explain the modern state such as order, legitimacy, violence, unity, progress, representation, inclusion/exclusion and their relations with the coloniality of power.
- State-formation in Europe as a process of conquest and colonisation.
- The role of these concepts in the reproduction of the coloniality of power in postcolonial state-formation experiences.

2. Sovereignty-based international order and masking colonial hierarchies
- Sovereignty as an epistemic limit of decolonisation.
- The obscuring of colonial hierarchies through the principle of sovereign equality of modern states.

3. Postcolonial state formation as reproduction of coloniality internally
- Social homogenisation, cultural standardisation, political centralisation and elite control as colonial governance.
- Examples of ethnic, religious, gender- or class-based resistance movements against colonial modernity.

4. Borders and bordering entrenching order across neocolonial lines
- Mobility and coloniality of borders.
- Hierarchy producing classifications, citizenship sorting, territorial management, securitisation, within and through borders.

Workshop details
Dates: 12-13 November 2026
Place: Salle Kant. Institut d'études européennes (IEE)
Address: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 39, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

The workshop is going to be in-person only. There is no registration fee.

Limited funding may be available to support travel and accommodation costs for participants without institutional support. Lunch and dinner will be provided.

Submission
Please submit your abstract (between 500 and 700 words) to colonial.state@ulb.be and use the subject ‘Coloniality of Modern State Workshop’ by 15 May 2026. We look forward to your contributions.

We will notify selected abstracts by 30 June 2026.

Full papers are due by 1 October 2026 and will be circulated among participants in advance to allow sufficient time for reading and engaged discussion.

Contact (announcement)

colonial.state@ulb.be

Oer-Erkenschwick/Germany

Veranstalter: Archiv der Arbeiterjugendbewegung Veranstaltungsort: Archiv der Arbeiterjugendbewegung PLZ: 45739 Ort: Oer-Erkenschwick Land: Deutschland Findet statt: Hybrid Vom - Bis: 21.08.2026 - 22.08.2026 Deadline: 24.07.2026 Website: https://www.arbeiterjugend.de   Der Forschungsworkshop "Arbeit-Jugend-Bewegung" des Archivs der Arbeiterjugendbewegung in Oer-Erkenschwick findet am 21./22. August 2026 zum sechsten Mal statt.

Der Forschungsworkshop richtet sich an Studierende, Promovierende und Postdocs, die zur Geschichte von Arbeit, Jugend und/oder sozialen Bewegungen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert forschen. Im Mittelpunkt steht der interdisziplinäre Austausch: Teilnehmende haben die Gelegenheit, ihre Forschungsergebnisse zu präsentieren, aktuelle Fragestellungen zu diskutieren, sich zu vernetzen und neue Impulse für ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit zu erhalten. Die Beiträge werden in der Zeitschrift "Mitteilungen" des Archivs der Arbeiterjugendbewegung veröffentlicht.

Die Teilnahme am Forschungsworkshop sowie Übernachtung und Verpflegung im Salvador-Allende-Haus, Oer-Erkenschwick, sind für Referent:innen kostenfrei, sofern bis zum 24. Juli 2026 ein knappes Exposé zum Forschungsprojekt per E-Mail bei m.daldrup@arbeiterjugend.de eingereicht und bestätigt wurde.

Kontakt

Maria Daldrup
E-Mail: m.daldrup@arbeiterjugend.de
Tel.: 02368-55993

Organiser: Institute of History, Jagiellonian University; Institute of History and Archival Studies, University of the National Education Commission, Krakow; Commission for the History of Women and Gender, the Committee on Historical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences Funded by: Jagiellonian University, Research University Excellence Initiative Postcode: 31-007 City: Kraków Country: Poland Takes place: In attendance Dates: 03.12.2026 - 05.12.2026 Deadline: 15.06.2026 Website: https://historia.uj.edu.pl/.../56.../11050764/160812867   The conference “Gender and Violence in Historical Perspective: Social Practices and Discourses” (3-5 December 2026, Kraków) aims to provide an academic forum for the reflection on the multifaceted experiences of violence through the lens of gender categories. Spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day, the event will explore the evolving practices and understandings of physical and psychological aggression across both public and private spheres. The deadline for submission of individual paper or panel proposal is 15 June 2026.  

Natalie Zemon Davis was among the first to conceptualize violence as a distinct historical phenomenon. Her 1973 study on religious violence in sixteenth-century France remains a seminal contribution to the field. As Philip Dwyer observed: “Davis was able to throw light on behaviours which historians until then had dismissed as irrational acts of barbarism or savagery, by interpreting seemingly random acts of violence in terms of their social-symbolic significance. She created a paradigm for a great deal of the cultural analysis of violence that was to follow.” It is no coincidence that in pioneering the cultural analysis of violence—focused on meaning and symbolism—Davis inextricably linked it to the context of gender. In her view, the violence experienced or performed by historical protagonists during rituals was deeply enmeshed in the negotiation of gender roles.

Today, the histories of violence and gender have matured significantly, boasting advanced research into the public and private spheres, lethal and non-lethal acts, and both physical and psychological dimensions. Nevertheless, the fifty-year tradition of this scholarly intersection serves as an invitation to rethink the challenges currently facing the field. This is particularly vital given contemporary debates regarding violence as a "useful category of historical analysis" and the occasional criticism that historians lack sufficient methodological rigor or rely too heavily on outdated sociological frameworks. However, it is not only "violence" that demands critical re-evaluation. The field of gender history itself is shifting away from rigid concepts of collective identity toward subjectivity, agency, and emotion. This shift necessitates a closer examination of individual experiences and the emotional drivers of actions that often circumvented or shattered cultural norms. A prominent manifestation of this trend is the surge in research on sexual violence during armed conflicts, where the primary objective—sources permitting—is to restore agency to victims through the recovery of their lived experiences. Furthermore, it is essential to contextualize categories such as "marital rape" or "physical punishment" as socially and culturally constructed phenomena. Our perspective can be also enriched by examining women as perpetrators of violence (e.g., against children or other women) and by recognizing the specificities of violence directed at men and boys. Simultaneously, the gender perspective must operate within an intersectional framework alongside ethnicity, religion, and age. Such an approach is invaluable for decoding the social mechanisms that either escalate or inhibit aggression, whether in interpersonal contexts (domestic violence), collective settings (lynching), or state-sponsored structures (torture, forced sterilization, and the death penalty).

The aim of our conference is to create an academic forum for in-depth reflection on the above-mentioned roles of victims and perpetrators, the multifaceted experiences associated with violence and its legal and historical frameworks, all through the lens of gender categories. Participants are encouraged to address the evolving practices and understandings of violence from the Middle Ages to the present day. Potential themes include, but are not limited to:

- Women as perpetrators: female criminality, violence within female hierarchies
- Sexual violence
- Domestic violence: historical transformations of "private" aggression and legal responses.
- Discipline and exclusion: violence as a tool for maintaining social boundaries.
- Identity and ritual: cultures of honour, rites of passage, militarism, and the construction of manhood/womanhood.
- Intersectionality: the role of race, class, and ethnicity in shaping victimization and aggression.
- State-sponsored violence: biopolitics, eugenics, and the weaponization of the reproductive body.
- Representations: violence in literature, media, and visual culture.
- The role of experts: medical, psychiatric, and legal discourses on violent behaviour.

Organizational Information:

We invite proposals for individual papers (abstract up to 300 words, author's name and surname, affiliation, and a short cv up to 200 words) or full sessions (3–4 papers). Please submit your proposals by June 15, 2026, to: gender.violence.krakow@gmail.com

The conference will be held at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University (13 Gołębia Street, Krakow).

dr hab. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, prof. UJ, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Scientific Committee:

dr hab. Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek, prof. UAM, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
prof. Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State University
dr hab. Dobrochna Kałwa, Warsaw University
prof. dr hab. Bożena Popiołek, University of the National Education Commission, Kraków
dr hab. Katarzyna Sierakowska, prof. IH PAN, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
dr Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
dr Stanisław Witecki, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Conference Secretaries: dr Karolina Kwaśna (UKEN, Kraków) i Jan Jakub Grabowski (UJ, Kraków)

Contact

gender.violence.krakow@gmail.com

Paris/France

 

Face à la multiplication des crises politiques, sociales et environnementales, et devant l’intensification des offensives masculinistes, racistes, sexistes et lesbo-trans-homophobes, de nombreuses initiatives de résistance émergent, notamment dans le champ de la pensée féministe. Dans ce contexte, ce congrès se propose d’explorer les résistances et les utopies féministes à partir d’une pluralité de perspectives et de traditions philosophiques.

Argumentaire

Dans un climat international marqué par la progression des extrêmes droites et par des menaces croissantes qui affectent particulièrement les études féministes et de genre ainsi que, plus largement, les sciences humaines et sociales, la philosophie féministe connaît, dans les espaces francophones, un essor significatif. Celui-ci se manifeste par l’intérêt soutenu qu’elle suscite auprès des étudiant·es – comme en témoigne la multiplication des séminaires et des journées d’étude – ainsi que par un dynamisme éditorial qui ne faiblit pas.

C’est dans ce contexte, et dans le prolongement du premier Congrès de philosophie féministe francophone, tenu à Paris les 23 et 24 novembre 2023, que la Société francophone de philosophie féministe (SFPF) a été fondée en avril 2025. Elle poursuit un triple objectif : renforcer la visibilité des recherches en philosophie féministe afin d’en affirmer l’importance, la diversité et la richesse ; nourrir et approfondir la réflexion théorique à travers des échanges internationaux ; et favoriser l’interconnaissance ainsi que la coopération, dans le but de contribuer à la structuration du champ, à la fois à l’échelle locale et dans une perspective transnationale.

Le Congrès

Face à la multiplication des crises politiques, sociales et environnementales, et devant l’intensification des offensives masculinistes, racistes, sexistes et lesbo-trans- homophobes, de nombreuses initiatives de résistance émergent, notamment au sein du champ de la pensée féministe. La deuxième édition du Congrès de philosophie féministe francophone entend ainsi mettre en lumière les résistances et les utopies féministes, passées, présentes et à venir, à partir d’une pluralité de perspectives et de traditions philosophiques.

Quels outils conceptuels et théoriques les philosophies féministes offrent-elles pour contester, affronter et combattre les multiples formes de domination – capitalistes, racistes, hétéropatriarcales, validistes et coloniales ? Et, en retour, quels imaginaires politiques, éthiques et esthétiques de l’émancipation contribuent-elles à faire émerger et à nourrir ?

Le cadre épistémologique

Les renouvellements théoriques qui accompagnent les luttes féministes participent à faire vivre la philosophie. Dans le même temps, la critique de la philosophie occidentale traditionnelle invite à repenser la philosophie féministe dans une perspective transnationale et décoloniale, tout en interrogeant ses lieux et ses pratiques de production des savoirs. Face à la crise multiforme actuelle, il apparaît plus que jamais nécessaire de pouvoir s’appuyer sur les ressources critiques et créatives de la philosophie féministe.

Celle-ci parle une multitude de langues qui se traduisent et permettent un échange à travers des frontières et barrières diverses et variées. L’internationalisme féministe est une longue tradition dans laquelle la SFPF souhaite s’inscrire et qu’elle cherche à poursuivre. Se rencontrer en français n’est pas une initiative consistant pour nous à hiérarchiser des espaces linguistiques. Au contraire, l’espace francophone que nous créons par cette société et ce congrès comprend le français comme étant habité et traversé par bien des langues, héritier d’histoires violentes et résistantes dont nous souhaitons qu’elles soient abordées lors de nos activités.Les propositions de communication pourront s’intéresser aux axes suivants :

1. épistémologies féministes et critiques du savoir

• Résistances aux épistémologies dominantes (objectivisme, universalisme abstrait)
• Réflexions sur les injustices épistémiques, les silenciations et la reconnaissance épistémique
• Perspectives féministes décoloniales : savoirs situés, refus épistémique, coalition cognitive
• Transmissions, féminisme et pédagogie
• Devenirs féministes de la philosophie
• Histoire des femmes philosophes dans l’Antiquité, au Moyen-âge, dans la Modernité
• Le genre dans l’histoire de la philosophie

2. résistances politiques, structures de domination et émancipation

• Critiques féministes du capitalisme, du libéralisme, du nationalisme, du racisme structurel - Féminisme et écologie, lutte contre l’extractivisme, les impérialismes et les violences d’État
• Solidarités, intersectionnalités et coalitions féministes
• Figures et formes contemporaines de résistance : assemblées, grèves, manifestations, action directe
• Expérimentations féministes, utopies concrètes, politiques préfiguratrices
• Refuges, contres-espaces et résistances spatiales féministes
• Résistance technologiques, technologies et IA féministes, (dé)colonialisme numérique
• Analyses de la reproduction

3. corps, violences, vulnérabilités et résistances

• Penser les VSS depuis la philosophie
• Corps féminins/queers/trans/racisés/handis/ouvriers comme lieux de contrôle et de subversion
• Politisation de la santé, du care, du handicap
• Politisation de la procréation
• Mouvements de résistance corporelle : performances, artivisme, esthétique féministe
• Résistances dans l’ESR : précarités et solidarités

4. surprises. ce qu’il nous reste à penser

• Inventivités, inventions et trouvailles féministes

Cette section est laissée volontairement très succincte afin de vous permettre de nous surprendre…

Modalités de contribution

Les propositions sont chaleureusement encouragées, quel que soit le statut ou le parcours des personnes qui les soumettent – professeur·es titulaires, doctorant·es, étudiant·es, chercheur·es indépendant·es ou militant·es. Le congrès souhaite offrir un espace d’échanges ouvert et accueillant, attentif à la diversité des voix et des expériences.

Les propositions de communication ou de panels (4 personnes max. + une personne modératrice) ne devront pas dépasser 3 000 signes (espaces inclus) ou 4 x 3 000 s. (+ texte de présentation de 3 000 s.). Elles indiqueront le ou les axes envisagés et comprendront une ou plusieurs courtes biographies, indiquant notamment les statuts et rattachements.

Elles sont à envoyer avant le 10 mai via le lien suivant : https://congressfpf.sciencesconf.org/

Groupe de travail Congrès de la SFPF

Renda Belmallem, Lila Braunschweig, Jules Falquet, Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, Cécile Gagnon, Nathalie Grandjean, Aude Malkoun Henrion, Cynthia Kraus, Claire Mélot, Cornelia Möser

Informations pratiques

Pour pouvoir intervenir au congrès, il faut être adhérent·e de la Société.

https://www.helloasso.com/associations/societe-francophone-de-philosophie-feministe-sfpf

Et n’hésitez pas à vous inscrire sur notre liste de diffusion :

https://groupes.renater.fr/sympa/info/philofem

Avec le soutien du Centre de recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris (Cresppa), du Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie (LLCP), de l’Université de Lausanne (Unil) et de l’Université Paris 8.

Lieu

• Campus Condorcet, Centre des colloques - Place du Front populaire, 93322 Aubervilliers cedex
  Paris, Frankreich (75)

Format de l'événement

• Événement hybride

Date

• Dimanche 10 mai 2026

Appendice

• Appel Congrès SFPF.pdf

Mots-clés

• philosophie, études de genre, féminisme, francophone

Contact

• Cornelia Moser
  courriel : Cornelia [dot] Moser [at] cnrs [dot] fr

After many years the Archives World Map is back with its third version. 
Archives World Map is a geospatial collaborative platform for cataloging public archive institutions worldwide.

Archives World Map 3.0 is now live and fully working at: https://archivesmap.org

The project remains free and open to everyone who wants to help make archival institutions more visible, easier to find, and better represented on a global map.

Anyone can contribute by adding institutions to the map. Submissions are reviewed before being published. Users are warmly invited to participate:

• add institutions that are not yet on the map
• review existing entries
• improve information whenever needed
• help expand coverage in your region, country, or area of expertise

Even small contributions can make a real difference. By adding and revising institutions, a more useful and representative resource for archivists, researchers, students, and the public can collectively be built.

The creators of this collaborative map thank everyone who has supported the project over the years.

The forthcoming workshop of the "Alternative Media and Digital Activism" work package of the ACTIVATE project will examine independent film collectives and their intersections with collective filmmaking practices, archival work, and cultural heritage in a transnational European perspective across the 20th and 21st centuries.
Although militant film collectives can be traced back to the 1910s in France and other European countries, it was from the 1930s onward that collective filmmaking practices became more widely structured and politically organised. Their “golden age” arguably emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the early 1980s, when numerous collectives across Europe operated outside or at the margins of the commercial film industry. Often linked to trade unions, workers’ movements, feminist and anti-colonial struggles, or alternative distribution networks, these groups developed collaborative modes of production and circulation that challenged dominant cinematic, economic and institutional structures.
Yet the history of film collectives is neither linear nor homogeneous. Their emergence, transformation, and decline are closely tied to specific political, economic, and technological contexts. From the interwar period to post-1968 activism, from analogue film culture to today’s digital environments, collective practices have continually adapted their forms and priorities. In recent years, for instance, some collectives have explicitly focused on preserving, circulating and reactivating the materiality of analogue and photochemical supports as both an aesthetic and political gesture. Understanding the historical evolution of collectives thus also means analysing the conditions that favour their emergence, the infrastructures they rely on, and the shifting focus of their activities.
From the mid-1980s onward, many collectives were gradually transformed into more conventional legal entities (production companies, NGOs, independent author-driven structures), marking a shift from collectively authored militant documentary practices to more individualised forms of filmmaking. This transformation raises important questions about the parallel process of patrimonialisation: how has the institutional recognition of these films accompanied, reframed or even reshaped their political and collective origins? Did the passage from militant documentary to “author cinema” coincide with processes of institutionalisation and canonisation?
Today, some of these films — along with their related documentation — are preserved, restored, catalogued, and exhibited by national film archives and heritage institutions. Yet films alone rarely capture the full scope of collective practices. Non-film materials — posters, pamphlets, scripts, correspondence, production files, distribution catalogues, photographs, technical notes, and digital traces — are often essential to reconstructing the political, social, and aesthetic frameworks in which these collectives operated. How can archives preserve and contextualise these heterogeneous materials? What role do they play in resisting the de-politicisation or simplification of collective histories?
At the same time, collective filmmaking has not disappeared. Contemporary artists continue to experiment with collaborative authorship, shared infrastructures, and alternative economies of production and distribution. This conference therefore also seeks to foster dialogue between historians, archivists, and contemporary practitioners working collectively today. Contributions from artists, filmmakers, and members of collectives — reflecting critically on their own practices in relation to historical precedents and archival futures — are particularly welcome.
We welcome proposals addressing (but not limited to):

Histories and Evolutions of Film Collectives in Europe
• Emergence of early militant collectives (1910s–1930s)
• The “golden age” (late 1960s–early 1980s)
• Transformation into institutional or author-driven structures
• Political, economic and technological conditions shaping collective practices
• Shifts in focus: activism, education, alternative distribution, analogue materiality
• Contemporary collectives and new collaborative models
Production, Circulation and Transnational Networks
• Production, distribution and exhibition models
• Links to trade unions, political movements, feminist, queer or migrant struggles
• Alternative circuits and transnational solidarities
• Informal or underground networks of circulation
• Cross-border collaborations and European infrastructures

Archival Challenges
• Acquisition of collectively authored works
• Copyright and collective authorship
• Cataloguing collective practices
• Fragmented archives and incomplete collections
• Preservation of non-standard formats and low-budget materials
• The role of non-film materials in reconstructing collective activity
• Archival strategies for contextualisation and reactivation
Institutionalisation and De-politicisation
• From activist cinema to cultural heritage
• The tension between institutional recognition and radical politics
• Canon formation and the marginalisation of collective authorship
• The shift from collective documentary to author cinema
• The role of festivals, retrospectives and museum exhibitions

Reactivating Collective Histories
• Restoring transnational networks of solidarity
• Curatorial practices foregrounding collective authorship
• Digital humanities approaches and network analysis
• Participatory archiving and community-based preservation
• Artistic reappropriations and contemporary reactivations

Institutional and Practice-Based Perspectives
• Concrete archival workflows
• Preservation and digitisation strategies
• Policy frameworks and funding structures
• Ethical considerations in handling politically sensitive materials
• Collaborative research between archives and universities
• Practice-based research by contemporary collectives
• Contemporary collectives and their relationship to heritage institutions

To apply: Please submit your proposal (max. 300 words), along with a brief CV, by 29 May 2026 to achilleas.papakonstantis@cinematheque.ch, francois.vallotton@unil.ch and archivum@ceu.edu (subject “ACTIVATE Conference WP4 March 2027).

The information about the workshop is now available on the website at this link.

Achilleas Papakonstantis (Cinémathèque suisse)
Oksana Sarkisova (CEU/Blinken OSA Archivum)
François Vallotton (UNIL)

 

*Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Organiser: Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre (International Youth Meeting Centre) Host: International Youth Meeting Centre Postcode: 12439 City: Berlin Country: Germany Takes place: In attendance Dates: 05.07.2026 - 11.07.2026 Deadline: 01.05.2026 Website: https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/bildung/aktuelle-angebote   The international summer school provides a forum for students and early-career educators to exchange ideas on methods, research approaches, and teaching practices related to Nazi forced labour and its remembrance in postwar Europe. The programme focuses on how Nazi forced labour is represented, constructed, and interpreted in fiction films and documentaries. Participants will learn the basics of film analysis, explore narrative strategies in historical fiction, and engage in collective viewing, critical discussion, and analysis of selected films. The summer school will conclude with a public screening accompanied by commentary developed by the participants.   Nazi Forced Labour in Film

Historical Context:
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Nazi Germany faced severe labour shortages and increasingly shifted the economic burden of the war onto populations from occupied territories. More than 13 million people from across Europe were deported or coerced into forced labour within the territory of the Third Reich.

Forced laboureres were subjected to harsh living and working conditions, including restricted rights, forced accommodation in camps or barracks, malnutrition, and limited freedom of movement. After 1945, many returned to societies that often marginalized or stigmatized them, particularly in contexts where forced labourers were perceived as having “collaborated” with the enemy.

Key Themes and Goals
1. Exploring the history of Nazi forced labour, current research trends, and pedagogical approaches.
2. Analysing how fiction and documentary cinema portray and shape our understanding of history.
3. Exchanging ideas on the current challenges faced by history educators in Europe, with a particular focus on teaching the history and memory of the Second World War.

Participants
The programme is open to 15 students and early-career educators. No prior experience in film studies is required.

Participants should be willing to stay for the whole duration of the summer school, actively contribute to discussions and participate in the final presentation of the film.

The working language of the summer school is English.

Organisers
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre, part of the Topography of Terror Documentation Center, is located on the site of a largely preserved former forced labour camp established in 1943 in an industrial district of Berlin for more than 2,100 people.

Its exhibitions, archives, and educational programmes focus on a historically underrepresented victim group: approximately 8.4 million civilian forced labourers from across Europe who were exploited by the Nazi regime during the war.

Application
To apply, please submit a short CV and a motivation letter in one file (max. 1–2 pages).

The organisers will cover travel costs, accommodation (single or possibly twin shared rooms) and meals for the selected participants.

Deadline: 1 May 2026

Please send your application to: Tanja Vaitulevich iymcberlin@topographie.de.

Contact

Tanja Vaitulevich iymcberlin@topographie.de

Organiser: Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing; Ghent University Location: Buchensee 1 Postcode: 82327 City: Tutzing Country: Germany Takes place: In attendance Dates: 29.06.2026 - 01.07.2026 Deadline: 25.06.2026 Website: https://www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/tagung/27-4-26  

The conference "From Geneva to Schengen" examines the evolution of refugee protection in Western Europe between 1951 and 1994. It explores the complex friction between international obligations under the 1951 Geneva Convention and the domestic realities of immigration control, labor migration, and decolonization. By analyzing how individual governments built administrative machinery to determine status and enforce exclusions, the program reassesses the diverse state practices that fundamentally shaped the contemporary European asylum landscape.

The 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention is a watershed in migration “management” by providing refugees a privileged access to the territory of states willing to protect them. The Convention was never just a static legal text. It was a living instrument, constantly reinterpreted throughout time. This workshop looks at high-level diplomacy, but also focusses on the ground level of implementation, examining how Western European states actually put the Convention into practice during its first four decades. We explore the friction between international obligations and the domestic realities of immigration control, labor migration, decolonization, and the shifting economic tides from the Trente Glorieuses to the post-industrial 1980s.

Our analysis centers on how individual governments defined who “counted” as a refugee and how they built the administrative machinery to determine status, grant rights, or enforce exclusions. By tracing these national trajectories up to the decisive 1994 turning point—the threshold of the Schengen era—we reassess how forty years of diverse state practice fundamentally shaped the asylum landscape in Europe.

Programme

Monday, 29 June 2026

2.00 pm Arrival, Registration and Welcome Coffee

3.00 pm Opening Remarks
Michael Mayer, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing
Frank Caestecker, Ghent University

3.15 pm Keynote
Before Geneva: The Formation of Refugee Regimes in Europe, 1920s–1940s
Philipp Strobl, University of Vienna

4.30 pm Break

5.00 pm Section 1: Shaping the Refugee Regime before the Geneva Convention

“In Limited Terms”: The 1943 Bermuda Conference on the “Refugee Problem” and the Emergence of the Post-War Refugee Regime
Annika Heyen, Osnabrück University

Norms, Practices and Marginality. The Production of Non-Western “Others” in the Postwar Refugee Regime
Jessica Wehner, Osnabrück University

The Afterlife of Atrocity: Jewish Displaced Persons, Sovereignty, and the Administrative Closure of the Holocaust Refugee Problem in Post-1951 West Germany
Harshada Anand Kavade, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

6.30 pm Dinner

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

8.00 am Breakfast

9.00 am Keynote
The 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention between Humanitarian Protection and Migration Management
Annette Weinke, University of Jena

10.00 am Break

10.30 am Section 2: Implementing the Geneva Convention

Reluctant Cooperation: Italy, Intergovernmentality and Refugees, 1951-1963
Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Restricting Asylum through International Refugee Law: West Germany and the Geneva Refugee Convention
Michael Mayer

Informal Governance and International Obligations: Luxembourg and the 1951 Refugee Convention, 1951–1993
Denis Scuto, University of Luxembourg

Interpretations of the Refugee Convention: The Case of the Cold War ‘Defections’ to Finland
Matti Välimäki, University of Helsinki

12.30 pm Lunch

3.00 pm Section 3: From Objects to Actors: Refugees in the Making of Protection Regimes

Being a Refugee in Post-War Germany: The Internationalisation and Political Belonging of a Contested Figure
Isabella Löhr, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Between Refugee Protection and Restrictive Citizenship Policies: The Naturalization of Geneva Convention Refugees in West Germany
Nicholas Courtman, King’s College London

4.30 pm Coffee Break

5.00 pm Section 4: Reshaping the International Refugee Regime since the 1970s

Between “Refugees Welcome” and Restrictiveness. Policy and Practice in Sweden from the 1970s to 1994.
Pär Frohnert, Stockholm University

Humanitarian Admission and Political Constraints: The Ambivalent Resettlement of Vietnamese Boat Refugees in Europe
Marcel Berlinghoff, Osnabrück University

In the Shadow of the Basic Law. Jurisprudence and Legal Practice of the Geneva Refugee Convention in the Federal Republic of Germany (1980s–1990s)
Bastian Högg, Lern- und Erinnerungsort Notaufnahmelager Gießen

6.30 pm Dinner

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

8.00 am Breakfast (Check-out by 8.45 am)

9.00 am Keynote
Formalizing Asylum Policy under the Pressure of Globalization and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc, 1975–1993
Frank Caestecker

10.00 am Break

10.30 am From Refugees to Inadmissibles: International Aviation Governance and Migration Control in Western Europe, 1980s–1990s
Carolin Liebisch, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Making Human Rights Matter in Migration: The Case of the ECHR in The Netherlands before 1995
Wiebe Hommes, University of Amsterdam

Shaping European Migration Governance: The Origins of the Schengen and Dublin Systems
Simone Paoli, University of Pisa

12.00 pm Conference Wrap-up

12.30 pm Lunch, End of Conference

Contact

Antonia Kreitner
Tel.: +49 8158 256-58
a.kreitner@apb-tutzing.de

Bielefeld/Germany   Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger, Bochum; Prof. Dr. Dietmar Süß, Augsburg; PD Dr. Knud Andresen, Hamburg; Dr. Alexandra Jaeger, Bonn; Dr. Michaela Kuhnhenne, Düsseldorf; Prof. Dr. Detlev Brunner, Leipzig; JProf. Dr. Nina Kleinöder, Bamberg; Prof. Dr. Martin Lutz, Bielefeld; Dr. Sibylle Marti, Bern; Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Veranstaltungsort: Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaften, Philosophie und Theologie, Abt. Geschichtswissenschaft, Universitätsstr.24, Konferenzraum: Gebäude X-C3-107 PLZ: 33615 Ort: Bielefeld Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Datum: 12.06.2026 Deadline: 29.05.2026

Das Kolloquium bringt Historiker:innen zusammen, die zur Geschichte der Arbeitswelten und der Gewerkschaften forschen. Das bundesweit einladende Kolloquium bietet die Gelegenheit, histori-sche, aber auch interdisziplinär angelegte Forschungen vom Dissertationskonzept bis zur Postdoc-Arbeit zur Diskussion zu stellen und dient der Vernetzung in diesem Teilgebiet der Sozialgeschichte.

Das Kolloquium findet semesterweise wechselnd digital oder als Tagesveranstaltung an einer der beteiligen Institutionen statt. Getragen und finanziert wird das Kolloquium von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Die beteiligten Lehrstühle, Institute und Stiftungen möch-ten mit dieser Kooperation Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeitswelten anregen und fördern.

Anmeldung
Die Teilnahme am Kolloquium ist kostenlos. Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zum 29.5.2026 bei: Alexandra Jaeger
alexandra.jaeger@fes.de

Programm

9.00 Uhr Begrüßung

9.15 Uhr Jan zum Mallen
Gesinderecht, Fremdenrecht und die Kriminalisierung von Vertragsbrüchen in der preußischen Landwirtschaft (1880–1934)

10.30 Uhr Pause

10.45 Uhr Nico Putz
In- und ausländische Studierende an der TH Dresden, 1941-1961

12.00 Uhr Mittagspause

12.45 – 14.00 Uhr Dr. Andreas Fischer
Migrantinnen als Gewerkschaftsaktivistinnen. Geschichte(n), Muster und Einflussfaktoren

Kontakt

Dr. Alexandra Jaeger
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.
Archiv der sozialen Demokratie
Godesberger Allee 149
53175 Bonn
Tel. (0228) 883-8072
alexandra.jaeger@fes.de

Weitere Informationen

Eine detaillierte Übersicht zum Kolloquium kann unter dem folgenden Link gefunden werden: https://www.gewerkschaftsgeschichte.de/data/Kolloquium_Flyer-SoSe26.pdf

 

Organiser: Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Host: Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, Vokiečių str. 10, Vilnius, Lithuania Funded by: This workshop is part of the MEPOST project that has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), agreement No S-LL-25-5, and the National Science Center (NCN) Poland, agreement No 2024/52/L/HS2/00283 in the framework of bilateral cooperation program DAINA. The MEPOST project is co-hosted at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University and at the Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Postcode: 01130 Citry: Vilnius Country: Lithuania Takes place: In presence Dates: 05.11.2026 - 06.11.2026 Deadline: 10.06.2026 Website: https://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/conferences/mepost_workshop/   How is the transformation of industry remembered, and what emotions does that memory carry? Join us for an international workshop bringing together scholars to explore the moral emotions embedded in memories of (de)industrialization. The workshop aims at examining the wide spectrum of moral emotions associated with the transformation of industry – and how these memories challenge, contest, or exist on the margins of national narratives. We welcome contributions from diverse national, transnational and institutional contexts and comparative perspectives on how mnemonic emotion narratives (MENs) attached to (de)industrialization play out differently across communicative and cultural memory.

This workshop intervenes in the rapidly expanding scholarship on the memories of (de)industrialization. Moving beyond the dominant focus on ruination and nostalgia, it explores the wide spectrum of moral emotions associated with the transformation of industry. It situates post-socialist transformations alongside industrial restructuring and economic shifts elsewhere, allowing for a comparative and transnational perspective on emotions and memory in social, cultural and political realms.

The workshop will be hosted by MEPOST project (Remembering (De)industrialisation: Moral Emotions in the Memory of Post-Socialist Transformation in Lithuania and Poland), which examines communicative and cultural memories of (de)industrialization in Lithuania and Poland. By integrating memory studies with the sociology of emotions, the project develops the concept of the Mnemonic Emotion Narrative (MEN): a story through which moral emotions about the past are articulated, revealing the social norms and values that are activated in the remembering process. The MEN functions as an analytical tool for mapping moral emotions in the context of abrupt socio-economic change.

Broadening the inquiry beyond Poland and Lithuania, this workshop explores the emotional dimensions of memory of (de)industrialization across diverse national and institutional contexts. It particularly welcomes contributions on either locally or transnationally embedded experiences of industrial transformation, focusing on the ways in which their emotional repertoires and memory articulations often challenge, contest or exist on the margins of national narratives. We also invite comparative perspectives examining how different national and local contexts shape the MENs attached to (de)industrialization – and how these play out differently across communicative and cultural memory.

Thematic Scope:

We welcome paper proposals addressing the following themes, understood broadly and comparatively:

- Moral emotions in socialist and post-socialist industrial memory, e. g., contempt, anger, shame, pride, sympathy, gratitude in memories of socialist industrialization and post-socialist reorganization;
- Mnemonic Emotion Narratives (MENs) across global contexts of (de)industrialization. How do MENs form, circulate, and compete in different national and local settings?
- Communicative memory and lived experience of (de)industrialization. Oral histories, biographical interviews and the social experience of industrial decline as expressed in everyday remembering.
- Cultural memory, industrial heritage, and memory activism. Museums, memorial sites, and forms of activism that represent, reframe or contest official industrial memory.
- The emotional turn in museum representations of industrial heritage. How institutions curate emotional narratives in exhibitions representing industrial pasts.
- Methodological approaches to emotions in collective and cultural memory. Innovative frameworks and methods for studying the relationship between emotion, narrative, and memory at individual and collective levels.

Submission Guidelines:

We invite proposals for individual papers (20-minute presentations). Proposals must be submitted in English by completing this form and must include the following:

- An abstract of 250 words outlining the research question, theoretical framework, methodology, and main findings
- A short biographical note (up to 100 words) and institutional affiliation
For any further practical information, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at mepost@tspmi.vu.lt.

Key Dates:

Submission deadline: 10 June 2026

Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2026

Workshop will take place on 5–6 November 2026 at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Details:

There is no workshop fee.

The workshop will take place in English.

Live participation only.

Participants are kindly asked to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

Vilnius is served by Vilnius International Airport (VNO), approximately 7 km from the city centre and easily reachable by public transport and taxi. Vilnius is also easily accessible from Kaunas Airport, which is about 100 km away and can be reached by bus or taxi in about 1.5 hours

Vilnius offers a wide range of accommodation options to suit different budgets and preferences, from international hotel chains to boutique guesthouses and short-term apartment rentals, many of which are conveniently located close to the venue.

Coffee breaks and lunches will be provided during the workshop.

Organiser: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History, The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Postcode: 1000 City: Ljubljana Country: Slovenia Takes place: In attendance Dates: 12.11.2026 - 13.11.2026 Deadline: 15.07.2026  

From domestic servants and agricultural laborers to apprentices, soldiers, and clerks – countless people across history lived and worked in the service of others. This workshop explores service not merely as a job category, but as a lens for understanding dependency, authority, gender, and social negotiation in premodern and modern societies. We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on Central Europe and the former Habsburg lands (broadly defined) to submit abstracts of max. 300 words by 15 July 2026.

 

Those Who Serve: Service, Labor, and Social Hierarchies in Historical Perspective

Across past societies, countless individuals lived and worked in the service of others. From the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, domestic servants, agricultural laborers, apprentices, soldiers, clerks, and other dependents occupied positions that were essential to the functioning of households, institutions, and states. Service relationships structured everyday life and social order, shaping hierarchies of authority, gender, age, and status. In many societies, service was a common stage in the life cycle, particularly for young people who entered domestic or agricultural service before marriage, while others spent much of their lives in positions defined by dependence and obligation.

Yet service was rarely a straightforward form of employment. Those who served often occupied ambiguous positions between dependence and autonomy, obligation and contract, belonging and subordination. Service could be embedded in life-cycle labor systems, household hierarchies, patronage networks, and institutional structures ranging from estates and workshops to courts, monasteries, and administrative bureaucracies. In rural societies in particular, forms of labor performed within households and farms – by servants, family members, and especially women – were central to economic and social life. At the same time, such labor did not necessarily constitute »service« in a strict sense. The conference therefore also welcomes contributions that examine how women’s work and family labor intersected with, but were not identical to, relations of service, and how these boundaries were historically constructed and negotiated.

This workshop situates service within the social and economic structures of the Ancien Régime, where relations of dependency, hierarchy, and obligation were central to the organization of work and everyday life. Rather than approaching service merely as a category of labor, we propose it as a broader analytical lens encompassing dependency, discipline, authority, and negotiation. We are particularly interested in forms of service embedded in household, rural, and institutional settings – as well as urban environments, estates, and workshops – while also encouraging reflections on how these relations were transformed in the transition to modern and capitalist societies. The workshop invites contributions that explore the historical worlds of those who served and the social relations that defined service across these diverse contexts.

At a conceptual level, the workshop seeks to highlight the analytical value of »service« as a category. Focusing on those who served allows us to cut across and complicate traditional frameworks such as class, gender, and race, and to illuminate forms of dependency and social relations that these categories alone cannot fully capture. In this sense, »service« offers a way to rethink how labor, hierarchy, and everyday life were structured in historical societies. At the same time, relationships of service were inherently dynamic and contested. Those who served were rarely entirely powerless, and relations of domination were never fully one-directional. Instead, service relationships were shaped by ongoing processes of negotiation, accommodation, and resistance. Approaching service in this way allows us to foreground the interplay between power and resistance that underpinned many forms of dependency.

The workshop particularly welcomes contributions addressing forms of service and servitude in Central European societies and the territories historically connected to the Habsburg lands, from the medieval period to the twentieth century. At the same time, we encourage papers that examine how forms of service changed over time, including in the transition from premodern to modern and capitalist societies.

We invite contributions that may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Domestic service and household hierarchies (urban/rural)
- Agricultural servants, family labor, and gendered divisions in rural economies
- Women’s labor in agricultural households and family farms
- Farm servants, seasonal workers, and peasant labor relations
- Apprenticeship, guild service, and workplace hierarchies
- Servants of the court, church, or state
- Legal frameworks regulating servants and dependent labor
- Mobility, migration, and life-cycle service
- Changing forms of service and servitude over time
- Transformations of service in the transition from premodern to modern (or pre-capitalist to capitalist) societies
- Comparative perspectives on service and servitude

Practical Information

The workshop will take place in person in Ljubljana (exact venue TBA) and will consist of 20-minute presentations followed by discussion. Lunch and dinner will be provided for participants. The language of the workshop will be English.
Participants without access to institutional funding may apply for partial travel support (subject to availability).

Abstract Submissions

Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biographical note (max. 100 words) to: brina.kotar@ff.uni-lj.si

Deadline for submissions 15 July 2026. Applicants will be notified by 5 August 2026.

Contact

brina.kotar@ff.uni-lj.si

Bejaia/Algeria

Dans ce cadre, « la culture de la résistance » est envisagée comme un concept dépassant l’action militaire et la décision politique pour inclure la mémoire collective, l’imaginaire social, les systèmes de valeurs, les symboles et les récits ayant accompagné le processus de libération. La résistance n’est pas une simple réaction circonstancielle, mais un long processus culturel ayant façonné l’identité nationale et structuré la conscience collective, dont les racines plongent dans la profondeur historique, les effets se prolongent dans les représentations du présent et les enjeux se projettent dans les défis contemporains.

Le Haut Commissariat à l’Amazighité organise le colloque international intitulé « Culture de la résistance : entre histoire, mémoire et imaginaire », en coordination avec le Ministère des Moudjahidine et des Ayants droit, la Commission Nationale de l’Histoire et de la Mémoire, ainsi que la Direction Générale des Archives Nationales auprès de la Présidence de la République, en partenariat avec la wilaya de Béjaïa, le Laboratoire TECLANG de l’Université M’Hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, et la Société algériennesavante d’onomastique (SASO).Cette rencontre scientifique s’inscrit dans le cadre des activités commémoratives du soixante-dixième anniversaire du Congrès de la Soummam (20 août 1956 - 20 août 2026), qui constitue une étape charnière dans le parcours de la révolution algérienne et un tournant décisif dans son organisation, son encadrement politique, militaire et institutionnel, ainsi que dans l’affirmation des fondements de la conscience nationale moderne.

Le Congrès de la Soummam, tenu du 13 au 20 août 1956 dans la vallée de la Soummam, a contribué à structurer l’action révolutionnaire à travers la définition de références politiques, l’organisation de la direction, la consolidation de l’unité décisionnelle nationale et l’élargissement du champ de la résistance. Il a renforcé la cohésion du mouvement révolutionnaire et donné à la cause algérienne une dimension nationale et internationale plus affirmée. Le congrès est ainsi devenu une référence fondatrice dans la mémoire collective, non seulement comme événement organisationnel, mais comme moment clé dans l’élaboration d’une vision politique intégrée de la libération.

La tenue du colloque à Bejaïa revêt une portée symbolique particulière, en raison de son ancrage historique et culturel profond dans l’imaginaire national. Le choix de cet espace géographique dépasse la dimension spatiale pour réactiver un contexte symbolique reliant l’événement à ses références humaines et territoriales, et affirmant la continuité du sens entre passé et présent.

Dans ce cadre, «la culture de la résistance» est envisagée comme un concept dépassant l’action militaire et la décision politique pour inclure la mémoire collective, l’imaginaire social, les systèmes de valeurs, les symboles et les récits ayant accompagné le processus de libération. La résistance n’est pas une simple réaction circonstancielle, mais un long processus culturel ayant façonné l’identité nationale et structuré la conscience collective, dont les racines plongent dans la profondeur historique, les effets se prolongent dans les représentations du présent et les enjeux se projettent dans les défis contemporains.

Ainsi, le colloque vise à proposer une relecture scientifique, critique et rigoureuse de l’expérience révolutionnaire, fondée sur des approches pluridisciplinaires s’appuyant sur les sources et les témoignages historiques en tant que capital cognitif et humain essentiel à la compréhension du passé.

Il ambitionne également d’ouvrir un espace académique de dialogue autour des dimensions politiques, culturelles et symboliques de la résistance, afin de renforcer l’articulation entre la recherche scientifique et la responsabilité mémorielle, et de contribuer à l’ancrage d’une conscience historique équilibrée, attentive à la portée à la fois libératrice et civilisationnelle de l’expérience nationale.

Problématique scientifique

Le colloque s’articule autour d’une question centrale : comment la culture de la résistance se construit-elle à l’intersection de l’histoire, de la mémoire et de l’imaginaire, et comment contribue-t-elle à la formation du sujet collectif et à l’élaboration de l’identité dans des contextes de domination, de colonisation et de post-colonialité ?

La culture de la résistance ne se réduit pas à une réaction circonstancielle face aux formes de domination ; elle se comprend comme un processus continu qui se manifeste dans les langues, les récits oraux et écrits, les productions littéraires et artistiques, les pratiques symboliques, ainsi que dans les politiques éducatives et culturelles. Elle constitue ainsi un champ privilégié pour penser l’histoire et préserver la mémoire.

À partir de cette perspective, le colloque entend adopter une approche pluridisciplinaire réunissant l’histoire, la littérature, la linguistique, la sociologie, l’anthropologie, les études culturelles, la traduction et la didactique des langues, afin de permettre une compréhension approfondie des relations complexes entre culture, mémoire et identité.

La rencontre ambitionne d’être un espace de dialogue scientifique international, rassemblant des chercheurs spécialisés pour aborder les enjeux de la mémoire, des cultures de la résistance et des imaginaires dans leurs dimensions spatiales et temporelles variées. Dans une perspective comparative, il s’agit d’étudier la résistance non seulement comme un événement historique ou une position politique, mais comme une construction culturelle et mémorielle qui se déploie dans les langues, les récits, les représentations et les pratiques symboliques.

Dans ce cadre, les productions culturelles deviennent un lieu d’affirmation et de continuité historique : les littératures, les langues et les arts participent à l’élaboration d’une mémoire collective fondée sur la dignité et l’appartenance. ; Le cadre théorique du colloque s’appuie sur des références intellectuelles et littéraires qui envisagent la création comme un acte culturel de résistance, capable de reformuler l’identité et d’incarner la mémoire dans des contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux.

Ainsi, le concept de culture de la résistance implique de dépasser une conception événementielle et restrictive de la résistance pour la considérer comme un processus historique et mémoriel continu. Cela ouvre la voie à des interrogations sur la formation des récits de lutte, de survie et de dignité, ainsi que sur le rôle des langues, des productions artistiques et des représentations symboliques dans la construction d’une mémoire collective durable.

Les axes de réflexion s’articulent autour des questions suivantes :

• Comment la culture devient-elle un espace de résistance ?
• Comment l’histoire et la mémoire interagissent-elles dans l’élaboration des récits de résistance ?
• Quel rôle joue l’imaginaire collectif dans la circulation et la reconfiguration de ces récits ?
• Comment les expressions littéraires, artistiques, orales et écrites contribuent-elles à la construction d’une mémoire partagée ?
• Comment la culture de la résistance se maintient-elle dans les contextes contemporains marqués par la mondialisation et les mutations technologiques ?

Ces interrogations consacrent une compréhension de la résistance comme dynamique historique et culturelle fondée sur un dialogue continu entre passé et présent, entre mémoire et création.

Objectifs scientifiques

Le colloque vise à :

• Mettre en lumière le rôle du Congrès de la Soummam dans la structuration d’une culture collective de la résistance.
• Renforcer le dialogue scientifique pluridisciplinaire.
• Analyser la dialectique entre histoire, mémoire et imaginaire.
• Valoriser les productions culturelles dans la construction des récits nationaux.
• Développer une approche comparative à dimension internationale.
• Promouvoir le patrimoine mémoriel comme levier de recherche et de renouvellement intellectuel.

Axes du colloque

 Axe 1 : Le Congrès de la Soummam – Étude historique

• Contextes historiques
• Transformations internes et externes
• Dimension unificatrice du Congrès dans la construction de l’État algérien

Axe 2 : Résistance – Définitions et approches croisées

• Résistances culturelles, linguistiques et onomastiques
• Culture de la résistance face à la culture de la domination
• Dimension géographique et unificatrice

Axe 3 : Littérature de la résistance

• Temps historiques et figures symboliques
• Influence des diasporaset circulations transnationales
• Écriture féminine, genre, traditions et modernité

Axe 4 : Oralité et écriture

• Contes, chants, poésie orale comme mémoire
• Figures héroïques populaires
• Analyses comparatives internationales

Axe 5 : Culture de la résistance, imaginaire et esthétique

• Innovation linguistique et stylistique
• Mythes et croyances
• Traduction littéraire et enjeux culturels

Axe 6 : Enseignement, transmission et politiques éducatives

• Didactique des langues et pensée critique
• Écriture de l’histoire dans les langues nationales
• Politiques éducatives et valorisation du patrimoine

Modalités de contribution

 Les propositions doivent comporter :

•  Le titre de la communication
• Nom et prénom
• Institution universitaire
• Résumé (300 mots)
• Cinq mots-clés
• Une courte biographie doit être jointe et envoyée à : secretariat@hcamazighite.dz
• Langues du colloque : Arabe – Amazighe – Français – Anglais

Calendrier

• Date limite d’envoi des résumés : 1er mai 2026
• Notification d’acceptation : 1er juin 2026
• Programme final : 5 juillet 2026
• Dates du colloque : 19–20 août 2026

Président du colloque

• M. Assad Si El Hachemi, Secrétaire Général du Haut Commissariat à l’Amazighité

Comité scientifique :

• Dr Zeghidi Mohamed Lahcene, président de la Commission Nationale de l’Histoire et de la Mémoire, Président du comité scientifique.
• Benramdane Farid, Professeur de l’Enseignement Supérieur et Président de la Société algerienne savante d’onomastique, Président du comité scientifique.
• Lang FafaDanfa, Directeur Exécutif du Centre Panafricain pour la Compétence Culturelle et Linguistique (PACCL), Gambie, Membre.
• Louloub Habib Hassan, président de l’Association des Recherches et des Etudes pour l’Union du Grand Maghreb, Université de Carthage, Tunisie, Membre.
• Maghdouri Hassane, Directeur du Musée National du Moudjahid, représentant du ministère des Moudjahidine et des Ayants droit, membre.
• Medjahed Leila, Professeure de l’Enseignement Supérieur, Directrice du Laboratoire de Recherche TECLANG, Université Mohamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Membre.
• Hareche Mohamed El Hadi, Professeur de l’Enseignement Supérieur, Université Abou El Kacem Saâdallah, Alger, Membre.
• Ziki Ali, Enseignant à l’Université Abou El Kacem Saâdallah, Alger, membre.
• Outmani Settar, Enseignant à Université Abderrahmane Mira, Béjaïa, Membre.
• Hamzaoui Mourad, Directeur des Moudjahidine et des Ayants droit de la wilaya de   Béjaïa, représentant du wali de la wilaya de Béjaïa, Membre.
• Kacimi Zine Eddine,Enseignant à Université Akli Mohand Oulhadj Bouira, Membre.

Lieu

• Bejaia - Université Abderrahman Mira
  Bejaia, Algerien (06000)

Format de l'événement

Événement online

Date

• Vendredi 01 mai 2026

Appendice

• colloque-international.pdf

Mots-clés

• résistance, culture, histoire, mémoire, imaginaire, colonialisme, arts

Contact

• Si El Hachemi Assad
  courriel : assadsielhachemi [at] hcamazighite [dot] dz