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Ce colloque a pour objectif d’interroger les espaces que les anarchistes revendiqué·es comme les personnes pratiquant des formes d’anarchisme(s) sans s’en prévaloir, ont investi, produit et contesté depuis la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Nous entendons ici « espace » dans un sens étendu : à la fois matériel et immatériel, idéologique et symbolique, pérenne ou temporaire, intégré ou liminaire, partagé ou affinitaire, réel ou imaginé… « Anarchisme » est également défini de manière inclusive : peuvent-être considérés comme tels des espaces constitués autour et en filiation avec le mouvement anarchiste, dans toute sa pluralité, mais aussi des espaces, qu’ils soient autonomes, autogérés, anti-autoritaires ou libertaires, intégrant plus ou moins implicitement l’anarchisme en tant que pratique quotidienne, militante et révolutionnaire.

Les propositions pourront s’inspirer de l’un ou plusieurs des quatre axes suivants : (1) productions anarchistes de l’espace ; (2) espaces de discussions anarchistes ; (3) circulations, réseaux et mobilités ; (4) mémoires et archives. Toutefois, la manière dont nous envisageons ces axes n’est ni exclusive ni prescriptive. Les communications pourront évidemment articuler plusieurs d’entre eux et même, dans une certaine mesure, les déborder.

Axe 1. Productions anarchistes de l’espace

L’axe 1 s’intéresse aux matérialités, aux expériences et aux lectures anarchistes des espaces, qu’ils soient urbains ou ruraux, plus ou moins artificialisés, habités ou simplement fréquentés, ouverts ou fermés. On peut penser ici aux communautés intentionnelles qui, depuis le dix-neuvième siècle, s’implantent dans le monde entier. On pourra aussi considérer les espaces de rencontres, d’actions et de sociabilités comme la rue, les clubs ou les cafés, les squats, les ateliers et les écoles. De surcroît, il faut intégrer les espaces de répression ou de relégation que sont les commissariats, les tribunaux, les prisons, les bagnes, les centres de rétention ou les foyers d’exil. Enfin, on pourra aussi interroger les réflexions et les pratiques des géographies anarchistes, cherchant à modifier les représentations étatiques et aménagistes de l’étendue.

Axe 2. Espaces de discussions anarchistes

Le deuxième axe se concentre sur les différents lieux de production, de circulation, de discussion et de contestation des idées anarchistes. Il faut bien sûr souligner la place des imprimés, de leurs contenus comme de leurs matérialités propres, ainsi que leurs rôles dans la transmission des idées et imaginaires anarchistes. Toutefois, il s’agit également d’étudier les espaces organisationnels, comme les réunions, les comités de rédaction, les assemblées générales, les conférences ou encore les congrès nationaux ou internationaux, en tant que lieux de production idéologique. Dans une réflexion sur les espaces, on pourra en outre s’intéresser aux lieux imaginés, légendaires, mythologiques, utopiques ou dystopiques, et leurs contributions spécifiques au sein de la grammaire idéelle anarchiste. Enfin, il ne faudra pas oublier la question des freins, contraintes et dispositifs de censure imposés à ces espaces, dans la mesure où ils participent à façonner tant leur structuration interne, leurs relations que leur production idéologique.

Axe 3. Circulations, réseaux et mobilités

Troisièmement, il s’agit de suivre les liens entre individus pour mieux saisir les espaces qu’ils investissent et les relations se nouant entre ces espaces. Les anarchistes forment des réseaux transnationaux qui leur permettent de s’entraider, d’organiser leurs luttes, de diffuser leurs idées ou d’accueillir les personnes exilées. Des anarchistes investissent également des réseaux qui dépassent le milieu proprement anarchiste, en tant que militant·es (syndicalistes, anticolonialistes, pacifistes, socialistes, féministes, écologistes, etc.), professionnel·les, intellectuel·les ou artistes. Ainsi, ils participent à des espaces de discussion plus vastes, qu’ils tentent parfois d’aligner avec leurs intérêts militants ou idéologiques. Inversement, les États et les organisations internationales cherchent à entraver ou infiltrer les espaces et réseaux anarchistes, par des espions ou des agents provocateurs. On pourra donc aussi réfléchir aux stratégies qu’ils mettent en place, et aux réponses qu’y trouvent les anarchistes.

Axe 4. Mémoires et archives

Enfin, on explorera les espaces et les pratiques d’élaboration, de conservation et de transmission des héritages de l’anarchisme. En effet, les anarchistes ont été des acteurs incontournables dans ces processus de mythification, via notamment des commémorations, de la martyrologie, voire du recueillement sur des hauts lieux militants. Elles et ils ont également beaucoup publié de témoignages, autobiographies et historiographies, sous des formes variées (livres, brochures, zines, pamplets, etc.). Les anarchistes ont en outre mis en place des centres d’archives autogérés et ouverts au public, dont beaucoup sont consultables en ligne. Par ailleurs, on pourra aussi examiner la manière dont les pouvoirs publics ont pu chercher à se réapproprier et à instrumentaliser la mémoire de l’anarchisme en lui dédiant des espaces (noms d’école ou de rue, plaques, statuaires, expositions). Enfin, il faut insister sur le fait que certains espaces anarchistes ont aussi été transformés par des phénomènes de touristification, de marchandisation ou de gentrification.

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions peuvent être envoyées en français ou en anglais, ne devront dépasser 500 mots, et seront accompagnées d’une notice biographique de 150 mots maximum. Elles devront être envoyées à espacesanarchistes@proton.me,

avant le 26 juin 2026.

Nos réponses vous seront envoyées avant le 15 septembre.

Informations utiles

Les communications seront à envoyer dans un fichier PDF intitulé comme suit : NOM_Titre.pdf

Les organisateur·ices du colloque auront à disposition un fonds pour subventionner (au moins partiellement) la participation de personnes n’ayant pas accès à des financements institutionnels. Si vous souhaitez bénéficier de ce fonds, veuillez l’indiquer dans votre proposition ou le courriel qui l’accompagne.

Comité d’organisation

• Sarah Albientz (Université de haute-Alsace)
• Claire Aniel-Buchheit (Sorbonne Université)
• Thomas Beugniet (Université de Nantes)
• Thomas Caubet (Université Paris Cité)
• Léo grillet (Sciences Po Paris)
• John-Erik hansson (Université Paris Cité)
• Léo Laglenne (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

Lieu

• Rue Bouchaud
  Paris, France (75)

Format de l'événement

• Événement sur place

Date

• Vendredi 26 juin 2026

Appendice

• ACC_CFP_Espaces anarchistes.odt

Mots-clés

• espaces, circulations, réseaux, mobilités, mémoires, archives, anarchisme

Contact

• Thomas Beugniet
  courriel : thomas [dot] beugniet [at] gmail [dot] com

Dakar/Senegal

Les dynamiques communicationnelles, les représentations sociales et les relations de pouvoir appréhendent différemment les rapports entre les femmes et les hommes, autant du point de leur vécu que de leurs spécificités. En Afrique, comme ailleurs, la condition féminine est au croisement des enjeux de pouvoir, d’égalité et de justice sociale dont les implications appellent à la fois une relecture des rapports sociaux et de nouvelles approches des problèmes de société (santé, codes culturels et identitaires, représentations sociales, inégalités, préjugés, équité et justice sociales, etc.). Pour approfondir la réflexion sur le rôle de la communication dans la construction et la déconstruction du leadership féminin, la Revue Africaine de Communication lance un numéro sur le thème : « Communication, sociétés et leadership féminin en Afrique ».

Loin de limiter les approches sur le leadership féminin africain aux luttes féministes, minoritaires, la dimension communicationnelle invite à l’étude des enjeux que mobilisent la défense et l’illustration de la visibilité (Voirol, 2005) et de la reconnaissance de la femme, qu’elles soient portées par les médias ou les réseaux d’influence, d’une part, les institutions publiques ou non gouvernementales, d’autre part. À ce propos, l’approche de Nancy Fraser (2001/1992) permet d’interroger les logiques d’inclusion (visibilisation) et d’exclusion (invisibilisation) et leurs effets sur les représentations de la femme dans l’espace public africain.

En outre, les dispositifs numériques, à l’instar de X (anciennement Twitter), Facebook ou de YouTube, sont investis par les femmes pour y défendre des causes visibles ou moins visibles, telles que leur représentativité dans les sphères de décisions, les violences faites aux femmes, la parentalité, la santé mère-enfant, la socialisation des filles, etc. Toutefois, ces espaces réputés moins soumis à un « droit d’entrée » semblent reproduire un ordre du discours (Dupré et Carayol, 2020) où les contenus les plus visibles doivent correspondre aux représentations les plus orthodoxes ; ce qui interdit toute possibilité de rendre largement perceptibles certaines réalités vécues. L’approche par les dispositifs numériques propose ainsi une démarche qui consiste à déconstruire les rapports hommes-femmes dans ce qui est visiblement exprimé, mais aussi dans les non-dits, voire dans tout ce que les systèmes discursifs et symboliques impliquent en termes de représentations.

Dans le sillage de travaux en sémiotique pragmatique (Boutaud et Verón, 2007), l’enjeu consiste aussi à faire émerger une pensée critique qui analyse les ressorts des logiques d’exclusion et de moindre publicisation induites par une distribution inégale des ressources et, surtout, des gratifications symboliques.

Au cours des dernières années, les questionnements sur les soubassements qui justifient la marginalité des femmes, l’iniquité de leurs conditions et les violences subies se sont multipliés. Dans ce contexte de remise en cause des savoirs hégémoniques masculins, l’émergence d’une pensée critique qui analyse le vécu singulier des femmes, leurs expériences partagées, leurs savoirs locaux a abouti à la décentration du discours de cette trajectoire universalisante.

En Afrique, des formes d’inégalité particulières touchent davantage les femmes avec une féminisation de la pauvreté, de la violence, un accès réduit à l’éducation, au foncier, à l’emploi, mais aussi du fait de la persistance de multiples interdits et contraintes sociales. D’où l’intérêt d’explorer le concept d’intersectionnalité pour en faire une catégorie d’analyse en vue de comprendre les principaux rapports de pouvoir dans la société. Ce concept développé par Kimberle W. Grenshaw (1989) permet de comprendre les oppressions multiples et enchevêtrées subies par les Afro-Américaines dans le système judiciaire américain à la suite de leurs trajectoires historiques, le « double handicap de la race et du sexe » selon Mary Church Terrell, les rendant invisibles. L’esclavage (Davis, 1983) et ses conséquences constituent le point de départ du Black feminism, une véritable révolution politique et théorique. Ce courant, fort intéressant et innovant, ne peut toutefois pas s’appliquer dans les mêmes termes au contexte africain où la condition du captif avait, par exemple, dans le royaume du Waalo, un contenu juridique et ne revêtait pas, dans le cadre d’une économie de subsistance, les traits d’une dure exploitation par le maître (Barry, 1985).

Le caractère universel de l’oppression des femmes est également mis en avant dans la plupart des pays occidentaux pour dénoncer l’organisation des sociétés régies par des valeurs patriarcales. Luttant pour une égalité homme-femme et une réorganisation profonde des structures sociales, politiques et économiques, le féminisme occidental est porté au fil des décennies par plusieurs courants. Leur lutte a permis l’amélioration de la vie des femmes dans différents domaines (santé, éducation, droits civiques et politiques, emploi) et au-delà de leurs frontières. Cependant, cet universalisme, qui a fait des « femmes un sujet social homogène » (Vergès, 2019 : 61), a posé ses propres limites en excluant celles qui n’ont pas suivi les mêmes trajectoires.

La posture des études postcoloniales se pose parfois comme une alternative à emprunter dans la mesure où, selon Deepika Bahri (2010 : 30), « théorie féministe et théorie postcoloniale sont préoccupées par les mêmes questions de représentation, de voix, de marginalisation […] ». Les théories féministes postcoloniales invitent donc les femmes à se voir et à voir leurs expériences et leurs savoirs comme situés, socialement construits, marqués par la race, l’ethnicité, la classe, le genre, la sexualité ou la religion, afin d’en montrer toute la complexité.

De ce fait, la diversité des approches témoigne de toute cette complexité des études sur la place et le rôle de la femme dans les sociétés africaines où les stigmates coloniaux, culturels, religieux, politiques, économiques, voire la « Bibliothèque coloniale » (Mudimbe, 2021) et la Tradition continuent à influer sur les mécanismes de validation et d’appropriation des connaissances et les enjeux de pouvoirs.

Le huitième numéro de la Revue Africaine de Communication (RAC) du Centre d’Études des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information (CESTI) de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Sénégal), se propose de réfléchir sur les pratiques de visibilisation et d’invisibilisation des causes et des figures féminines dans les différents espaces, politique, économique, social et numérique, voire sur les implications de leur connexion (intersectionnalité), en vue de comprendre les principaux rapports de pouvoir dans les sociétés africaines.

Cet appel à contributions, qui vise à approfondir les connaissances sur la problématique du leadership féminin en Afrique, se veut multidisciplinaire, dans la mesure où il se propose de mobiliser des contributions ayant trait à des disciplines telles que la communication, la sociologie, le droit, l’histoire, les sciences politiques, la littérature, etc. Les textes attendus peuvent provenir du milieu universitaire et associatif et devront montrer l’extrême complexité de la problématique soulevée, mais aussi le caractère interconnecté de ses multiples axes de déclinaisons. Ainsi, les possibilités d’inscrire sa contribution à ce numéro sont :

Axe 1 : Visibilisation et invisibilisation de la femme africaine

La perception de l’image et du statut de la femme africaine reste dépendante de l’héritage de la société traditionnelle phallocrate, nourri par les prescriptions de la coutume et le poids de la religion :

[…] dans de nombreuses régions d’Afrique noire, la polygamie, la famille étendue, la nécessité pour certaines femmes de pourvoir elles-mêmes à l’entretien de leurs enfants contribuent à mobiliser la femme africaine hors du foyer proprement dit ». Son rôle d’épouse et de mère est accompagné d’autres contributions économiques telles que les travaux champêtres, l’artisanat et la commercialisation de produits agricoles (Rita Cordonnier, 1987 : 17).

Dans un tel contexte socioculturel, la femme africaine fait « l’objet de caractérisations péjoratives » et est souvent soumise à la « dictature de l’ignorance » et de « l’infériorité intellectuelle » (Yinda et Kä, 2005 : 19), y compris dans les sphères médiatiques, même si, à l’opposé, elle oriente de plus en plus sa quête identitaire vers un nouveau statut de femme moderne instruite, déterminée et assoiffée de liberté (Balga et al., 2022 : 16). Cette situation constitue un obstacle majeur à l’émergence du « leadership politique de la femme africaine » (Ibid. : 19).

Pour y remédier, les médias ont un rôle majeur à jouer dans la promotion du leadership féminin en ayant en perspective l’intégration des femmes dans les instances de décision et la reconnaissance de leur rôle socioéconomique indéniable, valorisé déjà par la société traditionnelle dans la gestion quotidienne de la famille. De ce point de vue, l’entrepreneuriat digital féminin est un exemple de participation aux initiatives de l’écosystème numérique dans le but de réduire la fracture numérique par l’éducation, de déconstruire les préjugés sur les femmes par la sensibilisation et de promouvoir les espaces numériques inclusifs, etc.

Ainsi, les contributeurs pourraient explorer les pistes de réflexion suivantes :

• Comment les dynamiques communicationnelles contribuent-elles à la construction du leadership féminin africain ? Quels sont les mécanismes de visibilisation et d’invisibilisation des femmes dans l’espace public ?
• Comment les médias et les réseaux d’influence participent-ils à la reconnaissance ou à la marginalisation du leadership féminin ? Selon quelles modalités les dispositifs numériques (X, Facebook, YouTube, Tik-Tok) transforment-ils les modes d’expression et d’engagement des femmes africaines ? Ces plateformes favorisent-elles réellement une démocratisation de la parole féminine ou reproduisent-elles des formes d’exclusion ?
• Quelles stratégies les femmes mobilisent-elles pour contourner les contraintes liées à leur visibilité imposées par les logiques algorithmiques et discursives ? Comment les rapports de pouvoir se manifestent-ils dans les discours médiatiques et numériques sur les femmes ? En quoi l’« ordre du discours » limite-t-il la diversité des expériences féminines rendues visibles ? Dans quelle mesure la reprise de campagnes #BringBackOurGirls, #MeTooAfrica, #TotalShutdown, #EnoughIsEnough par les femmes africaines relève-t-elle d’une appropriation stratégique ou d’une reproduction des cadres dominants ?

Axe 2 : Épistémologie des études sur la place et le rôle de la femme dans la société

Pour analyser les rapports de pouvoir structurels, les épistémologies des études sur la femme questionnent la façon dont les connaissances, la race, le statut social, le handicap… sont construits pour générer des inégalités, des violences et un accès inégal des femmes aux ressources. L’analyse de ces types de discrimination renvoie à une pratique du féminisme qui, en partant « du point de vue » des femmes (Hartsock, 1983), montre la subtilité, la complexité et la spécificité des mécanismes discriminatoires dans l’étude des « savoirs situés » : « Par qui est produite la connaissance permet d’étudier comment, pour qui et ce qui mérite d’être étudié » (Harding, 1991), même si Haraway (1988) met en garde contre cette posture épistémologique, car le travail scientifique « ne saurait être objectif, puisqu’il est toujours dépendant du point de vue de celui qui l’accomplit ». Cette perspective remet donc en cause l’objectivité et la rationalité de la connaissance scientifique moderne ; ce qui impose au chercheur la nécessité d’une « objectivité forte » et éclairante dans la déconstruction de la production hégémonique aux mains des hommes.

• C’est dans ce contexte qu’il faut intégrer la théorie de l’intersectionnalité (intersectionality, en anglais) de Kimberlé W. Crenshaw (2013) sur les discriminations spécifiques subies par les femmes noires américaines, qui mêlent pauvreté, sexisme, race, classe sociale, handicap, etc. Les études de Crenshaw permettent de comprendre les imbrications des différents types de violence appliqués aux Afro-américaines pour mieux lutter contre cette forme spécifique de discrimination au croisement du racisme et du sexisme.
• Comment la réflexivité, en tant que démarche méthodologique, s’applique à la réflexion des intellectuelles noires dans le but d’éviter qu’elles ne se limitent à « constater la marginalisation de leurs intérêts et de leurs expériences dans les discours forgés » (Crenshaw & Bonis, 2005/2 : 54) ?
• Permet-elle de contester et de proposer des alternatives à la relégation des femmes dans la catégorie des « cadets sociaux » ?
• Offre-t-elle un argumentaire déterminant qui décloisonne et déconstruit les représentations, les divisions essentialistes et les préjugés sur la femme, en général, la femme noire, en particulier ?

Axe 3 : Femme et développement en Afrique

La reconnaissance de la femme comme actrice majeure du développement contribue non seulement à renforcer et à façonner son identité, mais aussi ouvre la voie à la construction inclusive de l’émergence économique et politique de l’Afrique. En tant qu’« actrice essentielle du développement », elle devient « femme de pouvoir, femme entreprenante » (Ajabou & Messomo, 2024 : 13). N’étant plus façonnée par les clichés et les stéréotypes, elle prend conscience de « son avenir en s’impliquant dans la vie politique, économique et socioculturelle pour un développement harmonieux et durable » de l’Afrique (Ibid.).

• Quels sont les mécanismes (historiques, symboliques, culturels, politiques, économiques…) de valorisation des modèles féminins en rapport avec les politiques et les programmes de développement en Afrique ?
• Quel est l’impact du leadership féminin, dans ses différentes déclinaisons, dans le développement de l’Afrique ?
• Comment ces parcours édifiants participent-ils de la redéfinition de l’identité et du statut de la femme africaine ?

Axe 4 : La problématique de la socialisation de la femme en Afrique

Le « destin traditionnel » de la femme a poussé Simone de Beauvoir (1949) à chercher à la « situer » en montrant comment à partir d’un « lourd passé » il est possible de construire un « avenir nouveau ». Ce qui l’amène à se pencher, sous tous ses aspects (enfance, adolescence, initiation sexuelle, mariage, maternité, prostitution, vieillesse, etc.), sur les étapes majeures susceptibles de jalonner son parcours. Un fossé naturel, disqualifiant la femme, se creuserait durant cette phase de socialisation entre elle et l’homme. Ces différences se transforment en inégalités qui, à leur tour, se muent en infériorité.

Ainsi, le rôle traditionnel de la femme africaine s’exprime dans une domesticité où les exigences de la tradition et de la religion freinent l’expression de sa féminité et son épanouissement. L’imbrication des facteurs sociologiques et des réalités biologiques lui fixe des obligations pour en faire un pilier économique et familial. De ce point de vue, la violence ne constituait pas, dans la tradition africaine, une source de dissolution, mais plutôt de consolidation du lien social, en rappelant à la femme ses devoirs envers la communauté (Cardi & Pruvost, 2012). Pourtant ces discours construits contre l’émergence du leadership féminin, que le monde contemporain appelle de ses vœux, sont largement relayés par les leaders d’opinion traditionnels ou religieux, au point que les médias et les réseaux sociaux sont devenus des espaces de discussions houleuses, partisanes ou fossoyeuses de la reconnaissance du rôle économique et des aspirations socioculturelles et politiques de la femme africaine (Cordonnier, 1987 : 17).

Selon Elena Gianini Belotti (1973), la « socialisation primaire genrée maintient l’inégalité et les rapports de domination sexuée, et que transformer la première permettra de mettre fin aux seconds ». Simone de Beauvoir, dans Le Deuxième sexe, résume ce nécessaire changement de paradigme de la socialisation en faveur de la femme dans une formule célèbre : « On ne naît pas femme : on le devient » (1976 [1949] : 13). Ces réflexions traduisent donc l’importance de l’éducation dans la définition de l’identité et du statut de la femme dans la société.

De ce fait, une approche holistique permet d’aborder de façon plus efficace l’étude sur la problématique de la socialisation de la femme africaine en prenant en considération les institutions et les acteurs impliqués (autorités publiques, parents, personnel enseignant, responsables culturels et communautaires, ONG, syndicats, élèves, associations de femmes, etc.), les difficultés à endiguer et les paramètres à prendre en considération (le faible taux de scolarisation, la socialisation différencielle ou éducation genrée, le manque d’infrastructures, le mariage précoce, l’insécurité, la pauvreté, le manque d’accès à l’eau, le défaut d’électrification/l’économie familiale, l’hygiène corporelle, l’éducation sexuelle, l’accès à Internet, la sensibilisation et la formation, le développement personnel, l’éducation sportive et civique…).

Dans cette perspective, l’analyse de la problématique travaillera à déconstruire le conditionnement social et l’infériorité construite dont sont victimes les femmes à travers une certaine conception de l’éducation, voire en montrant son impact sur le renforcement des stéréotypes de genre. La sensibilisation précoce des adolescents par l’information (médias, réseaux sociaux, centres culturels, etc.) et la formation (école, intelligence artificielle, espaces numériques socio-éducatifs, etc.) pourraient être envisagées comme des solutions pour lutter contre les inégalités hommes-femmes en mettant en avant des thèmes tels que l’éducation sanitaire et environnementale, la formation professionnelle des femmes, l’accompagnement des associations féminines, les actions de sensibilisation en faveur des femmes, la promotion des droits humains dans le cadre de la lutte contre les violences physiques et morales faites aux femmes, etc.

Varia

 La Revue Africaine de Communication, qui se veut un espace de dialogue interdisciplinaire, accepte, dans sa partieVaria, des contributions scientifiques des autres champs disciplinaires dont l’intérêt pour le développement des sciences de l’information et de la communication est évident.

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions d’articles sous format Word, Book Antiqua 11, contiendront :

• le nom et l’affiliation institutionnelle des (de l’)auteur(s) de la proposition ;
• l’axe auquel la proposition est rattachée ;
• un titre en français et en anglais ;
• un résumé en français et en anglais, d’environ 500 mots ;
• des mots-clés en français et en anglais (5 mots, au plus) ;
• une bibliographie.

Les propositions d’articles seront envoyées simultanément, aux adresses électroniques suivantes :

• Direction de publication de la RAC : alioune1.dieng@ucad.edu.sn ;
• Direction du numéro : sokhna-seck.sarr@ugb.edu.sn ; mfall@uqac.ca ; fatoumatabernadette.sonko@ucad.edu.sn,

au plus tard, le 30 septembre 202. Information utile

La politique éditoriale de la Revue africaine de communication (RAC) est téléchargeable sur le site : rac.ucad.sn.

Dates importantes

• Lancement de l’appel à contributions : mars 2026
• Date limite de soumission des articles complets : 30 septembre 2026
• Envoi des résultats des évaluations aux auteurs : 31 octobre 2026
•  Renvoi des articles corrigés par les auteurs : 15 novembre 2026
• Parution RAC, Nouvelle Série, N° 8 : 31 Décembre 2026

Bibliographie sélective

Ahmed, L. (1992). Woman and gender in Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Ayral, S. (2011). La fabrique des garçons. Sanctions et genre au collège. Paris : P.U.F.

Bâ, M. (1979). Une si longue lettre. Dakar : Nouvelles Éditions Africaines.

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Lieu

• CESTI, rue 01, Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop - Dakar Fann
  Dakar, Senegal (12522 Dakar)

Format de l'événement

Événement hybride

Daten

• Mercredi 30 septembere 2026

Appendice

• VF_AAC_RAC_n°8_mars 2026.pdf

Mots-clés

• femme, société, communication, leadership, développement, préjugés, éducation, épistémologie

Contact

• ALIOUNE DIENG
  courriel : linedieng [at] gmail [dot] com

Tenerife/Spain

El I Congreso Internacional: 'Familias isleñas, hogares, trabajo y sociedad' se concibe como un espacio de encuentro y debate desde una perspectiva histórica, comparada e interdisciplinar, abierta al análisis de diversos contextos territoriales y desde una mirada de larga duración.

El congreso propone reflexionar sobre los grupos domésticos como unidades centrales de análisis social, económico y demográfico, atendiendo a su diversidad interna, a sus transformaciones a lo largo del tiempo y a las desigualdades que atraviesan los distintos contextos históricos.

El Seminario Permanente Familias isleñas, hogares, trabajo y sociedad, del que toma nombre esta primera edición, es el responsable de organizar esta actividad, que tendrá lugar en la sede de la Real Sociedad Económica de Tenerife los días 7, 8 y 9 de octubre. La actividad tendrá una doble modalidad: presencial u online con el objetivo de romper barreras geográficas y permitir una mayor participación a los investigadores/as. Toda la información sobre el congreso queda a disposición en el siguiente pdf. Pueden dirigir cualquier duda o sugerencia al siguiente correo electrónico:
secretaria@rseapt.com

Paris/France (and online)

On June 8, 2026, the third seminar of Work package 4 of ACTIVATE project will take place at la Contemporaine and online.
The workshop is co-organised by Université de Lausanne, Blinken OSA Archivum and la Contemporaine.

The ACTIVATE project, «The Activist, the Archivist, and the Researcher: New Collaborative Strategies of Transnational Research, Archiving, and Exhibiting Social and Political Dissent in Europe (19th-21st centuries)» is a Marie Curie Staff Exchange project funded under the European Union's Horizon program. Launched in 2025, this four-year program aims to explore practices for collecting, archiving, and promoting documents, objects, and data, thereby contributing to a renewal of European history of social and political dissent from the early 19th century to the present day.
One of the project's specific work packages focuses on alternative media and digital activism. In this context, the aim is to reflect on the policies and practices of preservation, as well as the methods of transmission that, over the long term, have enabled social movements to perpetuate the «spirit and letter» of their struggles and mobilizations. This work package intends to give special attention to dissident approaches to official archives and the mainstream media system, as well as to media that have often escaped or been less associated, for political, economic, or institutional reasons, with conservation and, even more so, valorisation efforts.
After two initial hybrid seminars devoted respectively to the history of certain institutions of reference for the project and to the different acceptances of the notion of “alternative media,” we wish to focus this meeting on an exchange of experiences regarding the evolution of the missions of institutions involved in the archiving of social movements.

This third seminar of Working Group 4 will focus on document collection by institutions, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Several topics may be addressed during the presentations and discussions. For example, questions may arise regarding the scope of collections that an institution can define. The Contemporaine's documentation charter defines four priority thematic and geographical areas: wars, conflicts and post-conflict situations from 1914 to the present day; exile and migration; colonial empires and decolonisation; citizen mobilisation and human rights. However, the scope can also be defined according to the types of documents collected or their origin.
The organisation of document collection is another interesting topic for discussion. While in the distant past, La Contemporaine was able to send people to collect archives in the field, close to a conflict, this is no longer feasible today. The documents collected by the institution's agents therefore enter the collections in the form of donations, depending on their participation in various events, which can introduce biases in terms of representativeness.
Another aspect that may fuel reflection is the relationships maintained by institutions with other local, national and international actors. An inter-institutional documentary cooperation service attached to Paris Nanterre University, La Contemporaine is a library, archive centre and museum all in one. It is thus involved in several aspects of heritage and collaborates with various national and local institutions and associations, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Archives nationales, INA, Campus Condorcet, Sciences Po, MSH Mondes, CODHOS and IALHI.
The legal aspects related to collection, storage and communication conditions may also be enlightening for participants. As the storage of public archives is clearly regulated in France, La Contemporaine can only accept private archives in the form of donations, which means that rules governing their communication or reproduction must be defined with each donor. However, this allows La Contemporaine to preserve resources that complement those held by state organisations.

The seminar is conducted in a hybrid mode on site and online and is open to consortium partners and external contributors. It will take place in English.

We encourage archivists, activists and researchers to submit proposals on these topics, whether from the perspective of the institution preserving the archives, the researcher interested in them, or the producer wishing to bequeath them.

To apply: Please submit your proposal, with a maximum of 300 characters including spaces, along with a brief CV, by 9 April 2026 to francois.vallotton@unil.ch, archivum@ceu.edu and elise.lehoux@lacontemporaine.fr (Subject: “ACTIVATE Seminar WP4 June 2026”)
Application deadline: 9 April 2026
Organizing Committee:
François Vallotton (Université de Lausanne – UNIL)
Oksana Sarkisova (Blinken OSA Archivum – CEU)
Elise Lehoux (la Contemporaine)
Wilfried Muller (la Contemporaine)
René Pigier (la Contemporaine)

For more information, please refer to the attached call for participation. You're more than welcome to participate!

You can also share the call in your network on LinkedIn and via the ACTIVATE website.

Berlin/Germany

When?
9-12 September 2026, Berlin
Where?
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Hiroshimastr. 17, Berlin

Since the 1990s archives and libraries of the labour movement/social history have witnessed enormous changes in their collection practices. Often, the break with long-standing traditions based on the (unspoken) conviction that history had come to an end played an important role in this. Digitisation and generational changes may also have contributed to this development. The archives and libraries have tried to keep up with the development with its differentiation of groups and partially more ephemeral forms of tradition. The constellations in the various countries are very different and
also differ between archives.
At the 56th IALHI conference, we will take stock of the relationship, or more precisely, the nature of these relationships. Overall, the question to whom we are talking and how we as archives and libraries perceive these organisations and individuals is a crucial point. One could describe them as archival creators, but also as donators, activists, depositors or partners. We would like to reflect on this perspective in terms of relation management as pivotal point for our self-understanding and our collection strategies/policies. We want to delve deeper into this and ask how the relationship is (actively?) shaped, how approaches and agreements are made, how collections are assembled and managed, and what archives and libraries do to achieve these goals.
Therefore, we would like to get presentations that focus on this relationship, maybe with these questions in mind:

• Do you think of archival creators as creators or rather donators? What kind of relationship do you prefer and advantages does it have?
• How do the relations between donator/creator/activist/depositor and archive look like? How do you interact?
• What methods do you use to approach?
• How do you acquire new collections? To what extent has your collection profile changed or shifted? What role does a digital acquisition play that does not need depositors/donators?
• How does cooperation with other archives work?
• How do you discuss the consequences of digitisation with your depositors?
• Do you help to preserve the traditions of the depositors? If so, how?
• What does your collection policy look like? Are there any particular gaps you’d want to fill?
• What proactive steps are being taken in your collection work? Do you have any historical examples you’d like to share?

This raises many further questions about the shaping of relationships – including those of non-relationships or the dissolution of relationships. We are eager to hear your thoughts on this and look forward to receiving all kinds of suggestions on this
topic!
Please send your proposals with a title and an abstract (max. 1,000 characters) by 29 May 2026 to Nélson Pereira Pinto at info@ialhi.org. Please also send any questions to this address!
Further information can be found on the IALHI website.

Panel proposals
European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
Lyon, France, 21−24 April 2027
Guild and Artisan Labour Working Group

The Guild and Artisan Labour Working Group, part of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) brings together scholars working on one of the classic subjects of economic and social history: craft guilds and artisan labour. The Working Group aims to revisit, expand, and deepen long-standing debates on the socio-economic dynamics linking these institutions to labour and society from a historical perspective, with particular attention to the period between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Europe and beyond.

In view of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), to be held in Lyon (France), 21–24 April 2027, the Working Group invites scholars at all stages of their academic career to submit paper proposals to be included in a panel organized by the group.

Scholars (esp. doctoral candidates) interested in contributing to this session are invited to submit a 250-word abstract by 8 April to Guild.Artisan.Labour@gmail.com

Proponents will be notified once the panel has been accepted by the ESSHC.

The Working Group welcomes contributions engaging with a broad range of themes related to guilds, artisan labour, and their socio-economic, institutional, and cultural dimensions across time and space. Possible themes for panels include, but are not limited to:

Session 1. Who Made Skill? Guilds, Artisans, and the Politics of Work

Who made skill—and who had the authority to define it? Far from being a neutral or self-evident attribute of work, skill emerges in recent social and labour studies as a historically contingent category, shaped by institutions, negotiated in practice, and embedded in relations of power. From this perspective, artisanal work cannot be understood apart from the social, economic and institutional environments in which it was learned and regulated. These settings did not merely provide the background for artisanal work: they actively structured access to training, controlled labour relations, defined hierarchies of competence, and shaped the social and economic value of skilled labour.

The panel welcomes contributions that examine how institutions shaped the transmission of know-how, the organisation of labour, the value of expertise, and the boundaries between dependence and autonomy, coercion and opportunity, household economy and market production. Contributions may focus on any period or geographical area, and comparative or cross-regional approaches are particularly welcome.

Session 2. Conflicts and Institutionalisation in the Artisan World

This session examines the interplay between conflict and institutionalisation in the artisan world, with a focus on disputes related to and arising from the guild system. Conflict, a recurring theme in labour history, takes multiple forms: within and between guilds; between guilds and external competitors; among apprentices, journeymen, and masters; and between guilds and ecclesiastical or governmental authorities. Its transversal nature means it both shapes and is shaped by the institutional contexts in which it unfolds, with guilds, municipal authorities, and state structures acting simultaneously as arenas of conflict, mediators, and agents that may transform or intensify disputes. Institutions structure, channel, and regulate conflicts through negotiation, arbitration, and formal frameworks, influencing both their expression and outcomes, while also redefining power relations among actors. Grounded in the hypothesis that institutionalisation channels conflict and limits extrajudicial expression, the session takes a broad approach across historical periods and geographical contexts, considering diverse forms of conflict and analysing how institutions influence their causes, development, and resolution. Contributors are invited to explore both conflicts and the institutional frameworks developed to manage them, as well as the strategies and tactics employed by the actors involved.

Session 3. Guilds across Europe and beyond: Diversities and Divergences

This proposed session explores the diversity, commonalities, and transformations of guilds and artisan labour across Europe and in a broader global perspective, moving beyond strictly regional or national frameworks to place different traditions of craft organisation into dialogue and highlight both convergences and divergences in their structures, practices, and social roles. Particular attention is given to the comparative potential of guild systems and to the ways in which they can be meaningfully analysed across different historical and geographical contexts. Recent scholarship has renewed attention to the relevance of guilds and guild-like formations, notably in the collection Return of the Guilds, which expands the analytical lens to include a wide range of “guild-like organisations” beyond the European case—forms of collective organisation among artisans and producers that, while not always formally recognised as guilds, fulfilled similar functions in regulating labour, structuring training, maintaining standards, and representing collective interests. Contributions may address themes such as the institutional structures of guilds and guild-like organisations; systems of apprenticeship and skill transmission; mechanisms of labour regulation and market control; relationships with political and religious authorities; patterns of inclusion and exclusion; and the social, economic, and cultural roles of artisans within their respective societies. Papers adopting comparative, transnational, or connected-history approaches are particularly welcome, especially those that bring European cases into conversation with examples from other parts of the world. By fostering a comparative perspective, the session seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of artisan labour and its institutional forms, questioning established narratives and identifying both shared dynamics and context-specific developments, and thereby reassessing the place of guilds and guild-like organisations within broader histories of labour, economy, and society. 

Organizer: Jelena Jokic (CREE, Inalco) Lucie Raskin (CREE, Inalco) Sarah Bomba (CREE, Inalco) ZIP: 75007 Location: Paris Country: France Takes place: Hybrid From - Until: 14.04.2026 - 15.04.2026 Website: https://www.inalco.fr/en/events/interest-groups-post-socialist-central-europe-cross-analysis-historical-political-economic  

The study day on April 14 and 15, 2026 at INALCO focuses on the transformations of interest groups and lobbying practices in post-socialist Central Europe, considering historical, political, economic, and cultural shifts. It highlights recent developments, such as Ukraine’s 2024 lobbying law aimed at fostering transparent engagement between private and public actors. The event brings together early-career social science researchers examining actors, networks, practices, and regulatory attempts in the region. It also debates the relevance of the term “lobbying” and its analytical value for understanding private influence in politics. Since the end of socialism, new non-state actors (businesses, associations, unions, religious groups) have transformed interactions between the private sector and political power. Contributions are expected to explore historical and institutional dynamics shaping influence relations, the ambiguous role of interest groups in democratic processes, and the transnational dimensions of lobbying in Central Europe. Discussions will address how these groups affect public decision-making, their effects on democratic institutions, and issues of transparency, conflicts of interest, and clientelism. Finally, the study day will examine the impact of European integration on influence practices in the region and the challenges of legally regulating lobbying across various Central and Eastern European countries.

Programm

Please register if you want to participate (videoconference or in presence) : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctHqYTBW3JI5mFrJyW6BiF0soGcz0jpCXpRUULPGzYoyWkpA/viewform

Tuesday april 14
Inalco - Maison de la Recherche
Auditorium Dumézil
2, rue de Lille - Paris 7e

9:20am – 9:40am: Welcome coffee
9:40am – 9:50am: Welcome address from partner institutions
9:50am – 10am: Introduction to the Study Days: Sarah Bomba, Jelena Jokic and Lucie Raskin

10am – 11am: Panel 1 – Axis 1: Understanding the Structural and Contextual Factors of Influence Activities Since the 1980s – Part 1
Chair: Anne Madelain

10am – 10:20am: Vit Simral: Imperial legacies and interest group formation in Central and Western Europe
10:20am – 10:40am: Szczepan Pawel Czarnecki: Who protests and why? Organisational and contextual drivers of interest group mobilization in Central Europe
0:40am – 10:55am: Questions and discussion with the audience

10:55am – 11:10am: Coffee break

11:10am – 12:05am : Panel 2 – Axis 1 – Part 2
Chair : Fabio Giomi

11:10am – 11:30am: Lucie Raskin: Researching interest groups as a historian: the case of Yugoslav organisations in the 1980s
11:30am – 11:50am: Michael Dobbins: Impressing De Tocqueville: Analysing interest group mobilization in Ukraine

11:50am – 12:05pm: Questions and discussion with the audience

12:10pm – 1:45pm: Lunch

1:45pm – 2:40pm: Panel 3 – Axis 2: The Impact of Interest Groups on the Economic Sphere: Networks at the Core of Institutional and Sectoral Transformations in Central Europe
Chair: Jean-Michel de Waele

1:45pm – 2:05pm: Magdalena Bernaciak & Aurora Trif: From social partners to lobby groups? Trade unions and employer associations in Central and Eastern Europe
2:05pm – 2:25pm: Rafal Riedel: Conflict of interest regarding the Europeanization of the legal framework for sustainable corporate governance
2:25pm – 2:40pm: Questions and discussion with the audience

2:40pm – 2:55pm: Coffee break

2:55pm – 3:50pm: Panel 4 – Axis 2 – Part 2
Chair: Nadège Ragaru

2:55pm – 3:15pm: Jelena Jokic: Innovation ecosystems as vehicles of economic diplomacy: The case of French Tech Belgrade in Franco-Serbian relations
3:15pm – 3:35pm: Nathan Hourcade: Influence in the Ukrainian energy sector: lobbying or oligarchy? (2010–2025)
3:35pm – 3:50pm: Questions and discussion with the audience
3:50pm – 4pm: Wrap-up of the first day

Wednesday april 15
Inalco - Maison de la Recherche
Salle de Sacy (2nd floor)
2, rue de Lille - Paris 7e

9am – 9:20am: Welcome coffee

9:20am – 10:25am: Panel 5 – Axis 3: Interest Groups and Democracy: An Ambivalent Relationship? – Part 1
Chair: Jana Vargovcikova

9:20am – 9:50am: Aneta Cekikj & Mika Ivanovska Hadjievska: Lobbying strategies in new democracies: Insights from a survey of interest groups in North Macedonia
9:50am – 10:10am: Aneta Pinkova: Regulation, transparency, and influence: Interest groups in Czech electoral politics
10:10am – 10:25am: Questions and discussion with the audience

10:25am – 10:40am: Coffee break

10:40am – 12am: Panel 6 – Axis 3 – Part 2
Chair: Katerina Kesa

10:40am – 11am: Urszula Kurczewska & Agnieszka Vetulani-Cegiel: Lobbying in times of political polarization and democratic backsliding: The case of Poland
11am – 11:20am: Sarah Bomba: title to be finalized
11:20am – 11:40am: Cristian Pîrvulescu: Interest Groups and Populism in Central Europe: A Neo-Institutional Reading Based on the Romanian Case
11:40am – 12am: Questions and discussion with the audience
12am – 12:15pm: Concluding remarks

Partners:
Inalco / CREE (Centre de recherche Europes-Eurasie) / Ecole Doctorale de l'Inalco
Académie Polonaise des Sciences – Centre Scientifique à Paris
Université libre de Bruxelles

Scientific Committee:
Jean-Louis Briquet (CNRS, CESSP)
Anne Madelain (Inalco, CREE)
Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po, CERI)
Jana Vargovčíková (Inalco, CREE)
Jean-Michel De Waele (Université libre de Bruxelles, Cevipol)

Organising committee:
Sarah Bomba (CREE, Inalco)
Jelena Jokic (CREE, Inalco)
Lucie Raskin (CREE, Inalco)

Contact (announcement)

lucie.raskin@inalco.fr
jelena.jokic@inalco.fr

Organizer: mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien Venue: mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien ZIP: 1030 Location: Wien Country: Austria Takes place: In Attendance From - Until: 22.07.2026 - 25.07.2026 Deadline: 30.04.2026 Website: https://www.mdw.ac.at/forschungsfoerderung/isaresearch/   In 2026, the isaResearch summer school in the framework of isa – International Summer Academy invites contributions that rethink the entanglements of the global and the local though postmigrant, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives and how they relate to music, sound, and the performing arts.

Experiences of mobility, displacement, migration, and exile are not exceptional but constitutive of cultural and artistic histories. From touring performers and diasporic communities to digital circulation and forced displacement, music and performing arts have long been shaped by movement across borders. In recent decades, scholarly debates on these dynamics have introduced key concepts such as cosmopolitanism, translocality, and postmigration. When studying music, sound, and performing arts today, how might we reconsider the relationship between the global and the local? Which conceptual tools enable us to grasp contemporary mobilities without flattening their historical and political ambiguities?

In 2026, the isaResearch summer school in the framework of isa - International Summer Academy invites contributions that rethink the entanglements of the global and the local though postmigrant, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives and how they relate to music, sound, and the performing arts. We also welcome reflections on how worlding as a concept and artistic practice can can illuminate the creation of worlds beyond the binary logics of the local and the global.

Taking place in parallel to the isa masterclasses and workshops at the mdw campus in Vienna - a city both historically diasporic and currently postmigrant - the four-day workshop is open to Ph.D. students and other early-stage researchers in the humanities and artistic research, specifically those immersed in the study of music, sound, dance, and film. Participants will be able to present and discuss their research in an interdisciplinary framework. Experts in respective fields at the mdw and beyond will engage in conversations and act as respondents. The programme will also include a lecture by an international expert and site-visits in the cultural landscape of Vienna. The summer school thus sets out to provide participants with an intimate interdisciplinary experience that fosters new networks and perspectives.

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

- Postmigration as concept, method, and critique
- Translocality and digital networks of cultural production
- Exile, diaspora, and historical continuities of displacement
- Climate crisis: ecological displacement and artistic responses
- Cosmopolitanism revisited: class, race, and cultural capital
- Decolonial perspectives on global music history and canon formation
- Worlding and musical world-making: epistemologies and aesthetics
- Translation as method
- Sound, film, performance, and the politics of positioning
- Methodological innovations: How can traveling concepts and critical term analysis offer new analytical tools? (How) can travel, mobility, and movement themselves become (integrated into) methodological premises?

We invite applications from Ph.D. students and other early-stage researchers from disciplines including (but not limited to) Musicology, Dance and Performance Studies, Artistic Research, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Music Theory, Indigenous Studies, Music Sociology, Critical Race Studies, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Art History, and Film and Media Studies. Presentation proposals must be connected to the topic of the participant’s thesis or current research project.

Attendance at the summer school is free of charge, with lunch and refreshments provided on-site by the mdw. Limited funding to help with travel and accommodation expenses is available. The exact amount of funding will be decided according to the requirements of the participant. Application is possible after the acceptance of your proposal with a short description of your situation and academic affiliation (or lack thereof). We are happy to organize childcare for researchers travelling with children of any age and kindly ask to be informed of any such needs as soon as possible after acceptance.

Applications including a title, a presentation abstract, keywords, a statement of motivation, and a short bio must be uploaded via our website. The deadline for applying is 30 April 2026.
Decisions on the acceptance of proposals will be announced by the end of May.

The isa comprises masterclasses, workshops and lectures as well as isaOnStage with public concerts, the music education program isaCommunity and the interdisciplinary academic summer school isaResearch. The mdw campus provides an ideal setting that promotes exchange between disciplines as well as the interplay of artistic excellence, social responsibility, and intercultural community.

Contact: Kathrin Heinrich isaresearch@mdw.ac.at

Websites:
https://www.isa-music.org/de/isaresearch/
https://www.mdw.ac.at/forschungsfoerderung/isaresearch/

Organization: Kathrin Heinrich, Therese Kaufmann, mdw Research Support

Academic Advisory Board:
Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Anja Brunner, Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology (ivE)
Ass.-Prof. Scott L. Edwards, PhD, Institute for Musicology and Performance Studies (IMI)
Dr. in Magdalena Fürnkranz, Senior Scientist, Theory and History of Popular Music, Department for Popular Music (iPOP)
Mag. Dr. Juri Giannini, Senior Scientist, Institute for Musicology and Performance Studies (IMI)
Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Marie-Anne Kohl, Institute for Musicology and Performance Studies (IMI)

Contact (announcement)

Kathrin Heinrich
isaresearch@mdw.ac.at

Organizer: Arbeitskreis Großbritannien-Forschung (German Association for British Studies) und Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum) Venue: Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Clemensstraße 17-19 ZIP: 44789 Location: Bochum Country: Germany Takes place: In Attendance From - Until: 16.07.2026 - 17.07.2026 Deadline: 30.04.2026 Website: https://www.hgr.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/hgr/isb/   The German Association for British Studies and the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-University Bochum are pleased to invite applications for a joint conference, Concepts of Freedom and the Development of Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison, scheduled for July 16 – July 17, 2026 in Bochum, Germany.

This joint conference, organised by the German Association for British Studies (AGF) and the Institute for Social Movements (ISB/ISM) at Ruhr University Bochum, seeks to explore and discuss the emergence and development of freedom and democracy in Great Britain over several centuries, from the Magna Carta in the thirteenth century to the diverse forms of democracy found in the twenty-first century. It considers related political ideas and concepts, social movements and emancipatory aspirations, as well as interpretations and horizons of historical memory as received in different parts of the European continent. These discussions are intended to lay the groundwork for sustained comparisons of the reception of British ideas of freedom and democracy in continental Europe. Since the British Empire and the subsequent Commonwealth are essential to understanding large parts of British history, the conference also welcomes submissions that examine freedom and democracy in Britain and their European reception through the lens of the British Empire and the Commonwealth. The discussions will centre on two fundamental questions: What ideas of freedom and popular sovereignty developed in Britain over time? Which ideas fostered democratic developments and the establishment of liberal democracy as a form of government, society, and way of life in other parts of Europe?

The conference traces the breakthroughs and turning points in the democratisation of Great Britain and Europe, and thus the long-term establishment of modern democracy in the wake of a series of upheavals that included not only successes but also numerous failures. Diachronic and synchronic, inclusive and problem-oriented comparisons (following Charles Tilly, Jürgen Kocka et al.) of various revolutions and reform movements in Great Britain, Germany, and other European countries are intended to capture the complexity and ambivalence of ideas of freedom and of democratic development. Such comparisons may open up new perspectives on the history of democracy up to the present day. Furthermore, the struggles over memory of past actors, and of the freedom and democracy movements they supported, may motivate us to take action against today’s enemies and opponents of democracy in order to prevent its potential erosion and slow “death” (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt).

Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words, including a title and a brief description of the proposed paper, together with a short CV (no longer than one page). The submission should include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, we welcome contributions from the fields of history, political science, law, and the social sciences, as well as from related disciplines. Presentations by early career researchers are particularly welcome. Please send your proposals by 30 April 2026 to: Birgit Bublies-Godau, M.A., birgit.bublies-godau@rub.de, Dr Norbert Fabian, nobfabian@t-online.de, and Dr Mathis Gronau, mathis.gronau@rub.de.

The organising institutions aim to reimburse speakers in full for their travel and accommodation expenses. Publication of the conference contributions as proceedings is planned at a later stage.

Contact (announcement)

Birgit Bublies-Godau, M.A., birgit.bublies-godau@rub.de, Dr Norbert Fabian, nobfabian@t-online.de, and Dr Mathis Gronau, mathis.gronau@rub.de.

Organizer: Doubravka Olšáková, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University ZIP: 15800 Location: Prague Country: Czech Republic Takes place: Hybrid From - Until: 07.09.2026 - 08.09.2026 Deadline: 19.04.2026  

How did scientists and expert communities challenge Cold War power structures? What role did knowledge, dissent, and moral authority play in shaping transnational interactions?

The conference will explore how scientists, intellectuals, and expert communities engaged with questions of dissent, responsibility, and transnational cooperation across ideological divides, with particular attention to initiatives such as the Pugwash Conferences.

Science, Dissent, and Activism: How Non-State Actors Challenged the Cold War Order

In recent years, science activism has gained renewed visibility, as scientists increasingly engage in public debates on climate change, global security, and democratic governance. These developments invite us to reconsider the historical roots of scientific activism and the longer trajectories through which non-state actors have mobilized knowledge and authority in times of geopolitical tension.

From this perspective, the Cold War emerges as a key historical laboratory for examining these dynamics. Cold War historiography has long been dominated by state-centric perspectives that privilege diplomatic elites, military institutions, and formal international organizations. In recent years, however, growing attention has been paid to non-state actors who operated across, alongside, or in tension with Cold War power structures. Scientists, intellectuals, dissidents, activists, and expert communities played a crucial role in articulating alternative forms of authority, mobilizing knowledge for political ends, and creating transnational spaces of interaction that both reflected and contested the bipolar order.

This conference seeks to advance an analytically grounded discussion of how non-state actors used science, expertise, and moral authority to challenge Cold War logics of sovereignty, security, and ideological loyalty. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interplay between knowledge production and political agency across different institutional settings, including conferences, committees, universities and research institutes, expert networks, and non-governmental organizations. A central point of reference is the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and related initiatives, understood not only as a peace movement but as laboratories of non-state diplomacy, epistemic authority, and Cold War governance.

In addition, we are interested in contributions that examine hybrid actors occupying the space between state and non-state authority, including intergovernmental frameworks that operated as platforms of expert governance, norm production, and monitoring rather than as traditional diplomatic actors. Institutions such as the OSCE, particularly in its late Cold War and post-Cold War configurations, invite analysis as sites where non-state practices, expertise, and moral authority were institutionalized within formally intergovernmental settings. The conference aims to situate such forums within broader histories of expertise, dissent, and activism across different political systems and world regions.

We welcome empirically rich case studies as well as theoretically informed contributions from the history of science and technology, Cold War history, new diplomatic history, political sciences, international relations, political sociology, area studies, and peace studies. Comparative, transnational, and entangled perspectives are particularly encouraged.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Non-state actors and the reconfiguration of political authority during the Cold War;
- Science as a resource for dissent, mediation, and legitimacy;
- Institutional contexts of non-state action: conferences, committees, universities, research institutes, and NGOs;
- Tensions between loyalty, autonomy, and internationalism in scientific and expert communities;
- Informal diplomacy, expert forums, and the politics of “neutral” knowledge;
- Dissenting expertise within socialist, authoritarian, and post-colonial contexts;
- Activism, morality, and responsibility in nuclear, environmental, and peace-related debates;
- Knowledge circulation, surveillance, and control across ideological borders;
- Methodological challenges in studying non-state actors, expertise, and informal power.

Financial support for participants: Thanks to dedicated funding, we will be able to cover accommodation costs in Prague for a limited number of early career researchers and researchers in need. Applicants who wish to be considered for this support are encouraged to indicate this when submitting their proposal.

Submission Guidelines: Prospective participants are invited to submit a short abstract (max. 240 words) and a brief biographical note by 19 April 2026 to doubravka.olsakova@fsv.cuni.cz

Scientific Committee: Carola Sachse (professor emerita, University of Vienna, AT), Katja Castryck Naumann (GWZO Leipzig, DE), Kenji Ito (University of Tokyo, JAP), Doubravka Olšáková (Charles University in Prague, CZ, organizer), Michel Perottino (Charles University in Prague, CZ)

Genealogies of Memory 2026 The Lasting Presence of the Past: How Trauma Lives on Across Generations? When? 23–25 September 2026
Where? Iași, Romania

How is memory transmitted across generations? Through which processes, practices and media does this transmission occur, and how does it become visible? In what ways do the memories of one generation intersect/blend with those of the next to produce new mnemonic constellations and spaces of meaning? The process of transmission from one generation to another encompasses knowledge, memories and their emotional constellations, and is shaped by the surrounding cultural and societal context. This transmission occurs through various mechanisms, including different mnemonic layers and practices, and ranging from a personal level, such as through storytelling within families to cultural practices during commemorations, to historical narratives reinforced by education and in museums. It draws on both tangible and intangible remnants of the past. When disturbing events, due to their traumatic character, shape the memories of one generation, the transmission chain undergoes transformations that affect both the modes of recollecting and remembering the past and its content, as well as pre-established intergenerational connections. In the last century, Central and Eastern European countries experienced many traumatic events – wars, genocides, forced displacements and political repression – that created fertile ground for conflictual memories, which were further amplified globally by traumas generated elsewhere through colonial policies.

Traumas act as multiple distorting mirrors, preventing the smooth transmission between generations, fragmenting and (re)shaping memories, and repeatedly questioning the meaning, validity and significance of these memories, as well as the lives of those caught in this web of traumatic effects. Consequently, the possibility of representing trauma is questioned, and new ways of transmitting and (re)working the past become necessary (LaCapra, 2001).

For the second or third generation – those who did not directly experience the events – a process of reconstruction through collaborative remembering begins to unfold, while gaps in knowledge and memory are filled through the search for stories and remnants of the past and through accessing layers of collective narratives (Mitroiu, 2023). Family and/or community memories are supplemented by documentation processes through which collective registers of memory, such as archives, are used to assemble a shared memory. Active engagement with narrative and the (re)interpretation of past events transforms and shapes collective memory, defining the roles of agents of memory (ranging from institutions and political actors to individuals and private initiatives).

Postmemory is closely associated with the intergenerational transmission of trauma (Hirsch, 1997; 2012), and it is widely used to refer to the reconstruction of past narratives by the second generation (Schwab, 2010). Traumatic experiences are transmitted through the first generation’s recounting of events, creating a fragmentary understanding of the past for the next generation. In response, a reconstructive process based on documenting past traumas helps the second and/or third generation come to terms with the past.

This memory studies conference examines processes of transmission, transgenerational trauma, the different forms and the responses they generate, as well as the absences and silences surrounding these transmissions in different political, cultural and social contexts and through various media. Particular emphasis will be placed on Central and Eastern Europe viewed from a comparative perspective with other regions of the world. By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the conference will critically engage not only with the continuing presence of the past but also with the reappropriation of past traumas, the binary and hegemonic discourse surrounding traumatic histories, the silencing of trauma narratives and the emergence of alternative histories. The academic event will reflect on the possibilities of dialogic histories and memories of trauma (Rothberg, 2009), also considering current challenges posed by antagonistic and echo-chamber dynamics in a digitally mediated memory discourse.

The conference will centre on four main aspects:
1. Processuality of transgenerational trauma transmission: This theme explores the processes, patterns and variations occurring in transmission, including silences and expressions of transgenerational trauma, while questioning generational roles within this process.

2. Hegemonic histories of trauma, counter-memories and dialogic practices: This topic examines, on the one hand, the patterns of memory created by power systems and hegemonic discourses and, on the other hand, the chances of alternative voices and expressions being created, maintained and having an impact in the face of hegemonic discourse, drawing attention to the dangers of silencing traumas and memories.

3. Artistic and reconstructive practices and forms of memory work: This theme examines the role of art within the field of memory work on the one hand, and reconstructive practices and forms on the other hand, through which second- and third-generation individuals engage with traumatic pasts they did not directly experience. It focuses on processes of postmemory, collaborative remembering, documentation and reinterpretation, as well as the use of archives, cultural artefacts and institutional memory registers, while also addressing the risks of reconstruction and representation, including fragmentation, over-identification and gaps in transmission.

4. Digital mediation of trauma and memory: This theme analyses current challenges posed by online media, including the use of past traumas to generate polarised opinions, aggressive speech and echo chambers, while also highlighting the capacity of digital spaces to challenge official narratives, critically examine widely accepted accounts of trauma and produce personal, interconnected stories and interpretations.
By integrating theoretical perspectives with challenging empirical case studies, the conference aims to foster a space for dialogue between past traumas and ongoing traumatic situations in different regions of the world. Comparative and interdisciplinary studies are particularly welcome.

We propose the following thematic blocks for presentations, although other proposals are also welcome:
● The understanding of transgenerational trauma – theoretical aspects
● (In)tangible traces of past traumas: how remnants of the past respond to the present
● Absences, silences and ruptures in trauma transmission
● Agents of memory, memory practices and transgenerational engagement with trauma
● The role of the arts in representing and transmitting trauma
● Digital technologies and new challenges

Deadline for submissions: 3 May 2026

References:
Hirsch, M. (1997) Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Harvard University Press.
Hirsch, M. (2012) The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Columbia University Press.
LaCapra, D. (2001) Writing History, Writing Trauma. John Hopkins University Press.
Mitroiu, S. (2023) ‘Dialogic Memories in Graphic Narratives: Intergenerational Entanglements of Witnessing, Trauma and Vulnerability.’ Parallax, 29(1), 67–83.
Rothberg, M. (2009) Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford University Press.
Schwab, G. (2010) Haunting legacies: violent histories and transgenerational trauma. Columbia University Press.

Organisational Information ● To apply, please send your proposal by filling out the following form: Apply for the 16th Genealogies of Memory Conference.
The application deadline is 3 May 2026.
● Applicants will be notified of the results in early June 2026.
● Written draft papers (2,000–2,500 words) should be submitted by 31 August 2026.
● The conference’s language is English. 
● The organisers provide accommodation for accepted speakers.
● There is no conference fee.
● If you have any further questions, please contact us at the following email address: genealogies@enrs.eu Conference convenor and the Academic Committee The convenor of the 2026 edition of the Genealogies of Memory conference is Senior Researcher Dr Simona Mitroiu.
The Academic Committee of the Conference consists of Prof. Florin Abraham, Prof. Leena Käosaar, Prof. Simo Mikkonen, Prof. Ihab Saloul, Prof. Ewelina Szpak, Prof. Catherine Teissier, Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak and Dr. Małgorzata Pakier.
  About Genealogies of Memory With the “Genealogies of Memory” project we facilitate academic exchange between Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, and intend to promote this region’s study of memory among the broader international academic community.
To read more about the conference  click here.

 

30 April - 1 May 2026, University of Cambridge

Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Annual Conference

Convenors: Erica Bellia and Robert Gordon (Italian, MMLL, Cambridge)

 

Day 1: Thu 30 April

Performances

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio (Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site)

14:45-15: Welcome & Introduction

15-16: Performance Mining Memories, Digging Words

(Elisa Biagini, David Cain, Marta Gentilucci)

16-16:30: Tea & coffee

16:30-18: Book discussion & music

Giulio Carlo Pantalei, Una lingua per cantare. Gli scrittori italiani e la musica leggera (Einaudi, 2025)

[Please note that the Drama Studio is in the basement.

There is a lift but please do get in touch if you have any concerns about accessibility]

 

Day 2: Fri 1 May

Conference

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) & online

9-11: Panel 1 | Bodies at work, voices at work

Rachel Love

Giovanna Daffini’s Labour in Song

Rachel Haworth

La Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964) and the Unseen Labour of Bringing

Literature and Music to the Italian Small Screen

Silvia Garzarella

“Practical Instructions” for Poetry and Dance:

Machinic Composition in the Work of Nanni Balestrini

and Valeria Magli

Elisa Biagini and Marta Gentilucci

Exploring Mines, Collecting Memories

11-11:30: Tea & coffee

11:30-12:30: Keynote Lecture

Alessandro Portelli

Roma forestiera. Migrant Music as the New Folk Music of Italy

12:30-14: Lunch break

14-15:30: Panel 2 | Experimenting within and beyond the factory

Jonathan Impett

Music and Class – The Naïve and the Sublime

Olivier Tonneau

Music, Work and Transgression : Christophe Dejours and the

New Italian Musical School

Ilaria Favretto and Nico Pizzolato

Towards an Auditory History of the Factory:

Sonic Experience and Struggle on the Shopfloor

15:30-16: Tea & coffee

16-18: Panel 3 | Material and immaterial archives within and beyond Italy

Salvatore Morra

Foreboding in the Song “Tripoli 1969” as Italian Refugees

Jacopo Tomatis

The Atlas of Antagonist Discography. Italy: 1958-1980

Ed Emery

Understanding my Record Collection:

Italian Political Vinyl of the 1960s and ‘70s

Erica Bellia

Fabbrica––Foresta:

Notes on Work from Nono's Archive

Festa (details to be confirmed)

The event is free of charge and open to all, but please let us know if you plan to attend one or both days in person by registering here:

• Day 1 (30 Apr): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984477104440?aff=oddtdtcreator
• Day 2 (1 May): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984608538563?aff=oddtdtcreator 

The conference (day 2) can also be attended remotely via Zoom. Please contact theconvenors if you would like to receive the Zoom link. 

Bursaries of up to £100 may be made available to unwaged and postgraduate delegates who are not based in Cambridge. Please get in touch by 1 April if you would like to be considered: Erica Bellia (eb692@cam.ac.uk) and Robert Gordon (rscg1@cam.ac.uk)

These events are generously sponsored by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy) and the Gulbenkian Early-Career Research Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities at Churchill College. They are organised in collaboration with OBERT (Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail / European Observatory of Labour Narratives).

Newcastle University, Thursday 3 – Friday 4 September 2026

Children’s social care has been described as being in a state of crisis since at least 2010, with reports of poor quality care and abuse, declining numbers of carers, and a chronic under-funding of services. Yet, it remains a fundamental part of our social fabric: 1 in 4 children in England will receive some kind of service from social care before they are 18 (Jay et al. 2024).
The way we provide and experience care is shaped by a complex mix of cultural, emotional, and economic forces, and in which class, race and gender remain defining factors. Moreover, years of austerity and underfunding have dismantled vital support systems, further marginalising Care-Experienced people and those who support them. Today, families and welfare systems still struggle with the practical and emotional realities of caring for children when biological parents cannot. This involves navigating the delicate, often difficult relationships between foster parents, birth families, and the children and young people themselves, whose own voices, wishes, and identities are are not always heard, understood or valued. Despite its essential role, care roles continue to be undervalued, insecure and subject to intense scrutiny. Meaningful transformations to the current system of care cannot happen without a deep understanding of how these contexts have shifted over time.
We are particularly interested in cultural and emotional histories of care and this conference prioritises the voices, views and experiences of those often excluded from these histories – especially those with lived experience. We will foster connections between those interested in, and affected by care, and use lessons from the past to open up new conversations about what care today means and how it might look in the future. These collaborations will continue beyond the conference, resulting in a published edited collection spanning new themes and ideas emerging from these discussions.
We encourage diversity in methodological approaches, geographical scope, and religious/spiritual background. We welcome proposals for 15-minute contributions from Care-Experienced individuals, community researchers or practitioners outside of academia, in addition to abstracts from academic researchers at all career stages and across disciplines.We also invite proposals that feature creative or participatory methods, including engagement and co-production workshops, and roundtables of up to 1 hour. Please submit individual proposals, or proposals for panels of 3-4 contributions.

We are keen to address the following five themes:

1. Relational care: families, kinship and identity

Exploring the ‘human’ side of care and diverse experiences, including adoption, kinship care, fostering and institutionalisation, and how the impacts of this care is felt, remembered and negotiated within and beyond the biological family.  

2. Structures of care: class, economy and power

Exploring how macro forces like deindustrialiation, neoliberalism, and class struggle shape care provision and experience.

3. Care and labour: professionalism and practice

Exploring the history and lived reality of paid and unpaid care work, care-giving and caring, professional identity, and the ‘dark side’ of care.

4. Care environments: space, place, and the senses

Exploring the physical and sensory contexts of care, from the ‘home’ vs ‘institution’ to the material history of archives.

5. Methods and ethics

Exploring the prioritisation of sidelined voices, perspective and experiences through innovative, participatory and creative methods, reflections on care concepts, lived experience and expertise, alongside ethical reflections on sensitive research and archives.

This list is not exhaustive and we encourage proposals that speak to themes outside of these suggestions. Please send abstracts of c. 300 words and a short biography to caring.communities@newcastle.ac.uk by 24 April. Please indicate in your email if you will not be available on one of the two dates the conference is set to run: 3 and 4 September 2026.

The event will run largely as an in-person event due to limited capacity for hybrid attendance. If you would be like to contribute but can only be present online, or have other accessibility requirements or questions, please do get in touch with the team at caring.communities@newcastle.ac.uk

The conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Caring Communities: Rethinking Children’s Social Care, 1800-present (ref: MR/X034968/1) and is organised by Claudia Soares, Jade Shepherd, Jim Hinks, and Kate Wilson (Newcastle University).

Website: https://caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

Special Issue of «Genesis»
Journal of the Italian Society of Women Historians
No. 2/2026
Edited by Marica Tolomelli and Anna Nasser

Genesis intends to dedicate a special issue to the theme “UN Conferences on Women and the Global Growth of Feminism: Tensions and Interactions.” We invite researchers at all career stages who engage with this theme to submit original articles that advance new perspectives, sources and methodologies.
The major UN Conferences on Women held between 1975 and 1995 marked significant milestones in thedevelopment of feminist movements on a global scale, building on pre-existing trajectories of international relations among women’s movements while also marking significant phases in the UN’s role as an interpreter of demands for social justice and respect for human rights. 
Despite the limitations imposed by its status as a supranational body, the UN indirectly contributed to stimulate the emergence of women’s liberation movements in various parts of the world by strengthening networks – albeit heterogeneous and fragmented – that were increasingly aware of the global interconnections binding them.
This perspective aims to provide an overview of the development of feminism/feminisms in the last quarter of the 20th century, focusing on the following thematic areas:

1. The United Nations as a subject, actor, interpreter, promoter and also regulator of social change, with particular regard to the issue of the oppression of women. In this sense, it seems important to shed light on the decision-making processes that governed the 
organization of the Conferences, with a focus on the interaction between bodies and figures of particular significance operating within the UN, and the demands expressed by civil society, often through the channels of accredited NGOs and to some extent involved in UN initiatives.

2. The programmatic points discussed within the individual Conferences, seeking to highlight:
a. whether and how they related to the prevailing contexts (which differed greatly between 1970s and the mid-1990s) in which the Conferences respectively took place;
b. whether and how the programs adopted directed government policies and movements aimed at overcoming the conditions of women’s oppression. Equality, Peace, and Development were the three watchwords that shaped the ten-year Action Plan resulting 
from the work of the first Conference Mexico City in 1975. The issue of international development, in a context that saw the launch and subsequent rise of the neoliberal agenda on a global scale, proved highly controversial. Felt most acutely by women in 
Latin America and the Global South, it was the subject of critical analysis and innovative approaches that guided the formation of new strands of transnational feminism;
c. the paths and dynamics that emerged around the themes of peace, equality, rights, with particular attention to reproductive rights. 

3. Criticisms and Reactions. Historiography and testimonies have documented some of the main criticisms of the Conferences from a feminist perspective, expressed often, but not exclusively, by activists from the Global South. Particularly lively contexts of criticism and debate were represented by the women’s forums that took place in parallel with the meetings of official delegations. From the Mexico City Tribune (1975), in which some six thousand women from numerous associations from all over the world took part, participation in the Forums that brought together the voice of NGOs, feminists, pacifists, activists in cooperation and volunteer work, etc., grew progressively, so much so that it had more than quintupled by the time of the Houairou Forum, the “counter-summit” that accompanied the Beijing Conference in 1995. Particular attention must be paid to the factors that, against the background of the geopolitical, economic, and social changes that occurred during the twodecade period under consideration, had the greatest impact on feminist movements on a global scale, in terms of both unifying and divisive forces, starting with the choice of 
strategies.

4. Continuity/Discontinuity in the dialogue between feminisms and “feminists of a single world,” entangled in the web of intersectional relationships that gave rise to quite heterogeneous positions. While in 1975 the limits and difficulties of a presumed “universal sisterhood” seemed to depend on the asymmetrical relationships between the “three worlds” in which the geopolitical space was perceived, from the late 1990s to the present day, awareness, theoretical elaborations, and experiences have accounted for the fragmentation of the feminist universe, stemming from the complexity of the multiple dimensions—social, cultural, economic, and political—present in the configuration of gender relations.
This special issue draws inspiration from the discussions that took place during the conference “Tensions and Interactions between the UN Women’s Conferences and the Global Growth of Feminism,” organized by the Department of History, Culture, and Civilization at the University of Bologna, held on October 16–17, 2025.

Call for Papers with a deadline of April 25, 2026. 
Abstracts (max 450 words) and a brief CV (max 2 pages) must be submitted by the deadline to: 
marica.tolomelli@unibo.it and anna.nasser@sant.ox.ac.uk .
Proposals must include first name, last name, affiliation, and institutional contact information. 
Selection results will be announced on May 8, 2026.
The deadline for submitting papers is October 15, 2026.

Lisbon/Portugal

Este dossier pretende reunir estudos originais que contribuam para o conhecimento aprofundado do fenómeno associativo nas suas múltiplas dimensões, privilegiando abordagens que combinem rigor metodológico com amplitude empírica e analítica. Acolhem-se propostas que, partindo de casos de estudo concretos ou de análises comparativas, problematizem a natureza do associativismo e os seus impactos nas sociedades contemporâneas. São particularmente bem-vindas contribuições que mobilizem fontes primárias inéditas ou que proponham releituras inovadoras de corpora documentais já conhecidos.

Apresentação

Este dossier pretende refletir sobre o associativismo, articulando perspetivas historiográficas, arquivísticas e dos estudos da memória. Procura-se analisar, através de estudos académicos originais, o fenómeno associativo – nas suas múltiplas configurações e funções sociais – valorizando processos transnacionais de circulação de modelos, ideias e práticas. Pretende-se igualmente dar visibilidade aos arquivos das associações e aos desafios da sua preservação, organização e acessibilidade, bem como às dinâmicas de construção da memória coletiva em torno do associativismo.

Linhas orientadoras / temáticas :

Este dossier pretende reunir estudos originais que contribuam para o conhecimento aprofundado do fenómeno associativo nas suas múltiplas dimensões, privilegiando abordagens que combinem rigor metodológico com amplitude empírica e analítica. Acolhem-se propostas que, partindo de casos de estudo concretos ou de análises comparativas, problematizem a natureza do associativismo e os seus impactos nas sociedades contemporâneas. São particularmente bem-vindas contribuições que mobilizem fontes primárias inéditas ou que proponham releituras inovadoras de corpora documentais já conhecidos. Considerando as potencialidades e desafios do objeto de estudo, propomos a submissão de propostas que abordem, mas não se limitem, aos seguintes temas :

• Raízes e Emergência do Associativismo Moderno : o Legado Pré-Liberal e a Adaptação ao Liberalismo
• Diversidade Tipológica e Funções Sociais do Associativismo
• Associativismo e Massificação da Participação Política
• Associativismo sob Regimes Autoritários e Totalitários : Resistência, Contracultura e Resiliência Comunitária
• Associativismo em Processos Revolucionários e Transições Democráticas
• Memória, Património e Arquivos do Associativismo
• Perspetivas Comparadas e Transnacionais do Associativismo

Submissão de propostas

A enviar antes de 31 de julho para o seguinte endereço: https://cadernosarquivo.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php/am/about/submissions

Scientific coordination : Joana Dias Pereira (NOVA FCSH)

Equipa Editorial

Diretora

• Helena Neves (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal)

Editora-Chefe

• Marta Gomes (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal)

Editores Executivos

• Ana Ribeiro (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Nuno Martins (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Rui Paixão (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Sandra Cunha Pires (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal)

Conselho Consultivo

• André Pinto Dias Teixeira CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
• Armando Luís Gomes de Carvalho Homem Faculdade de Letras, Porto, Portugal Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
• Dejanirah Silva Couto Section Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, École Pratique des Hauts Études, França
• Hélder Alexandre Carita Silvestre IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
• Jorge Manuel Rios da Fonseca CEPESE – Centro de Estudos da População, Economia e Sociedade, Portugal
• José Manuel Louzada Lopes Subtil Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
• Maria Fernanda Baptista Bicalho Departamento e Programa Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
• Maria Raquel Henriques da Silva IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
• Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto DLCV, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
• Teresa Leonor Magalhães do Vale ARTIS, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Contacto

• Marta Gomes
  courriel : marta [dot] gomes [at] cm-lisboa [dot] pt
• Nuno Martins
  courriel : nuno [dot] martins [at] cm-lisboa [dot] pt

Marburg/Germany

Organizer: Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft ZIP: 35037 Location: Marburg Country: Germany Takes place: Digital From - Until: 23.04.2026 - Deadline: 23.04.2026 Website: https://www.copernico.eu/   The online portal “Copernico. History and Cultural Heritage in Eastern Europe” (https://www.copernico.eu/de/start) is calling for submissions for its focus topic “Many Faces of Populism. Forms and Dynamics of Populist Movements in Historical Perspective”. The aim of this focus is to explore and present historical and present-day forms of populism and diverse populist movements in Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

About Copernico

The new research, topic and transfer portal "Copernico. History and Cultural Heritage in Eastern Europe" brings history to life. It provides attractive and scientifically based information about the joint history and the shared cultural heritage in Eastern Europe. In addition to a thematic magazine it also offers a research database in which the services and activities of more than two dozen partner institutions from the fields of science and cultural heritage can be searched.

The portal's thematic magazine is aimed in particular at the wider public: it presents articles and content that make scientific topics and research results accessible to beginners and are attractively presented. Complex scientific apparatus and technical language are avoided, necessary technical terms are explained via infoboxes, places and countries are presented via slide-in windows with maps.

The portal covers the countries, landscapes and regions between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.

Many Faces of Populism. Forms and Dynamics of Populist Movements in Historical Perspective

The current political rise of authoritarian populist regimes is posing a threat to democracies in various parts of the world. The support these regimes receive from significant segments of the public is the result of complex processes of political mobilization, which are driven by polarization and sustained by crises. Right-wing populism in particular appeals to the desire to restore an “authentic self,” allegedly lost through the hostile interference of an imagined cultural “Other” that must be confronted and defeated.
Alongside the promotion of traditional values and lifestyles (for example, through the “tradwife” phenomenon, which has gained international popularity), racism and anti-gender movements have contributed to the political mobilization of the so-called “political center.” Through these dynamics, attempts to curtail political rights are framed as matters of cultural politics. In this context, “gender” has become both a code word and a unifying force within these movements.
Building on these contemporary observations, this thematic issue seeks to explore historical and present-day forms of populism in Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. We welcome both analytical background articles and focused case studies that illuminate specific facets of populism. Contributions may, for example, center on the interpretation of a photograph, poster, film excerpt, or other artifact/object as a lens through which broader developments can be examined.
The aim is to present diverse populist movements and attitudes in Eastern Europe in a way that is accessible to a broad readership. We invite submissions addressing the region as a whole, including its transnational entanglements. Topics of particular interest include:

- Restrictions on women’s rights
- Anti-gender politics
- Anti-LGBTQAI+ policies
- Racism as a mechanism of exclusion
- The revival and promotion of “national” values within authoritarian regimes
- Anti-globalism and antisemitism
- “Progressivism” as a constructed enemy image
- Fake news, conspiracy theories, and disinformation as instruments of populist politics

Formal requirements

We invite the submission of proposals in a variety of formats and genres, ranging from introductory pieces aimed at a wider audience to in-depth analytical articles addressing specific research questions. The maximum length for submissions is 12,000 characters (including spaces). Other formats—for example, short portraits of historical figures, object-based narratives, or focused discussions of selected primary sources—may be considerably shorter (4,000–6,000 characters).
Contributions exceeding 10,000 characters will additionally be published on the Herder Institute’s publication server and assigned a DOI. All contributions published on the portal include a recommended citation format, permanent links, and licensing information. All texts will be published bilingually and translated into English (if required, submissions may also be made in English and translated into German). Each contribution must include at least one compelling, high-resolution illustration, accompanied by a caption and confirmation that all necessary usage rights have been secured. Submitted articles will undergo editorial review as part of an internal evaluation process. Authors retain full usage rights to their own texts. Further guidelines for contributors, including information on illustrations and keywords, are available on the portal or upon request at copernico@herder-institut.de. The principles of good academic practice apply.
This thematic focus is partly initialized and processed through Cost Action 23149 “Democratization at Stake? Comparing Anti-Gender Politics in CEE and NME”. Respective texts will also be published as part of the action's dissemination and outreach activities (OERs).

Deadlines and Schedule

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, briefly outlining the proposed contribution, to copernico@herder-institut.de by April 23, 2026. You will be notified by May 22, 2026 whether your proposal has been accepted for inclusion in the thematic focus. The deadline for submitting the completed article is September 15, 2026. The review process will take place after this.

The editors Heidi Hein-Kircher and Hans-Christian Petersen are looking forward to all submissions!

Contact (announcement)

E-Mail: copernico@herder-institut.de

Organiser: "In Global Transit: International Standing Working Group to Explore Spatial and Temporal Dimensions in Global Migration", Technische Universität Braunschweig Event format: Online talk by Dolores Augustine (St. John’s University), moderated by Stefanie Schüler Springorum (Technische Universität Berlin) and introduced by Simone Lässig (Technische Universität Braunschweig) Registration: https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PiY2mcKWSruMsGO39fe6Zw#/regist… Postcode: 38106 City: Braunschweig Country: Germany Date: 05.05.2026 Website: https://transit.hypotheses.org/permanently-in-transit  

Making a new home in a foreign country is difficult for those who have been forced to emigrate. The refugees of the Spanish Civil War, which ended in 1939, proved particularly resistant to accepting their exile as long-term, or possibly permanent, in nature. Many Spaniards lived for years in a state of liminality, to use Arnold van Gennep’s term. Keeping a proverbial packed suitcase next to the front door, they long remained emotionally in transit, as examples from France and Mexico show. The emotional geography of exile in France was molded by various factors: the suddenness with which they had to flee Spain; the geographical proximity of Spain; the desire to cross back over the Pyrenees into Spain to sow an uprising against General Francisco Franco’s regime; and the emergence of Toulouse as a center of Spanish life. Poor and under-educated exiles clung with tenacity to their insular community in France, while communists and anarchists infiltrated their homeland clandestinely. However, the better-off Spanish refugees who escaped during the Second World War to Mexico also remained in a state of limbo for a long time, awaiting Franco’s death and the possibility of return to Spain. A post-colonial studies framework can help explain their attempts to reconstruct Republican Spain in Mexico.

May 5, 2026, 6:30-7:30 PM (Central European Summer Time)

Online, registration:
https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PiY2mcKWSruMsGO39fe6Zw#/registration

Contact

Swen Steinberg (Swen.Steinberg@queensu.ca)

Bern/Switzerland   Veranstalter: Agnes Gehbald, Historisches Insitut, Universität Bern / Eva Eßlinger, Literatur-, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften, Universität Konstanz Veranstaltungsort: Universität Bern PLZ: 3012 Ort: Bern Land: Switzerland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 08.10.2026 - 10.10.2026 Deadline: 01.05.2026   Die interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Universität Bern thematisiert narrative Verfahren und Darstellungslogiken der Rückkehrerzählungen vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Sie soll das Spannungsfeld ausloten, das aus der komplexen Trias von Migration, Text und Macht im Brennpunkt der biographischen Schwellenerfahrung der Rückkehr entsteht.

«Remigration» wurde 2023 zum Unwort des Jahres erklärt. Die Jury befand, dass es als Kulturkampfbegriff zur Verschleierung einer menschenunwürdigen Abschiebepraxis benutzt werde. Gegenüber dieser politischen Funktionalisierung ist daran zu erinnern, dass Rückwanderungen seit jeher ein Bestandteil von Migrationsprozessen und als solche Gegenstand einer breiten Erzählpraxis sind. Rückkehrerzählungen haben individuelle Lebensläufe strukturiert, kollektiven Erinnerungen zum Ausdruck verholfen und gesell-schaftliche Narrative geprägt, und sie tun dies noch heute.

Doch wer erzählt von der Rückwanderung? Wie wird das migrantische Erleben narrativ gefasst und wie wird es sozial, politisch und kulturell gedeutet? Unter welchen Bedingungen werden die entsprechenden Erzählungen tradiert oder marginalisiert? Welche Rolle spielen dabei Gattungen, Medien und Diskurse? Unter der Prämisse einer kritisch reflexiven Migrationsforschung gilt es zu hinterfragen, in welche historische Konstellationen sich die betreffenden Erzählpraxen einfügen, inwieweit sie bestehenden Macht- und Deutungsregimen gehorchen und wo sie ein Unruhepotential entfalten, das auch auf die Selbstwahrnehmung der Sesshaften zurückwirkt.

In den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten ist die Geschichte Europas von Migrationsbewegungen geprägt. Halb vergessen wurde dabei, dass der Kontinent, der sich heute von Migrant:innen bedrängt glaubt, zumal in Phasen gesellschaftlicher und politischer Umbrüche von Emigrationen gezeichnet war: von Revolutionären und Dissidenten, Kolonialisten und Siedlern in Übersee, globalen Arbeitsmigrierenden bis hin zu Vertriebenen und Kriegsflüchtlingen. Viele von ihnen träumten oder planten ihre Rückkehr. Einige traten sie auch, zumindest temporär, an.

In einem weiten interdisziplinären Spektrum – Geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Ethnologie und Soziologie – bildet deshalb die Rückwanderung in die (oft nur imaginierte) Heimat ein wiederkehrendes Motiv. Zugleich ist Rückkehr jedoch eine schwer fassbare analytische Kategorie. Die Migrationsforschung hat eine Vielzahl verflochtener Dimensionen zu untersuchen: Verbindungen und (transnationale) Netzwerke von Migranten, Bedingungen für Entscheidungsprozesse zur Rückkehr, sowie nicht zuletzt Dynamiken des Ankommens und der konfliktreichen Wiedereingliederung in die Herkunftsgemeinschaft.

Rückkehrprozesse sind außerdem in hohem Maß krisenanfällig und von Ambivalenzen geprägt. Es ist deshalb kein Zufall, dass sie in verdichteter Weise narrativ bearbeitet werden: in Reiseberichten, Tagebüchern, (Auto-)Biographien, Memoiren, journalistischen Texten, Essays, Briefen, Briefnovellen, Romanen oder auch Dramen. Um der Schwellenerfahrung der Heimkehr eine Struktur zu geben, sind Formen und Muster der Erzählpraxis zentral.

Eine migrantische Grunderfahrung ist in diesem Zusammenhang, dass die Rückkehr nicht zirkulär zum verlassenen Ausgangsort zurückführt, dass sie vielmehr oft einen Moment des Verfehlens markiert. Wie alle Schwellenerfahrungen wirkt sich dies zugleich rückwirkend aus: Sie nötigt dazu, auch die Vergangenheit neu zu bestimmen, und macht aus der Biographie der jeweiligen Akteure statt einer linearen Lebensbeschreibung einen diskursiv und narrativ geformten Verhandlungsgegenstand. Das Gleiche gilt für den sozialen Raum, in dem sie sich positionieren.

Die interdisziplinäre Tagung thematisiert narrative Verfahren und Darstellungslogiken der Rückkehrerzählungen vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Sie soll das Spannungsfeld ausloten, das aus der komplexen Trias von Migration, Text und Macht im Brennpunkt der biographischen Schwellenerfahrung der Rückkehr entsteht.

Themenkomplexe
- Migrantische Texte: Selbstzeugnisse und Erzählstrategien der Rückkehr
- Absenz, Erwartungsstörung, Enttäuschung
- Erfahrungswissen der Heimkehrenden. Perspektivwechsel, Irritation und Innovation
- Intendierte Funktion und soziale Antwort auf Rückkehrerzählungen
- Sinnstiftendes Narrativ versus Disruption
- «Remigration» zwischen materiellen und diskursiven Realitäten

Auf der interdisziplinären Tagung, die vom 8. bis 10. Oktober 2026 an der Universität Bern ausgerichtet wird, möchten wir Beitragsideen des skizzierten Themenkomplexes Zurück. Remigrieren zwischen Geschichte und Literatur diskutieren und weiterentwickeln.

Die Initiatorinnen der Tagung, Agnes Gehbald (Universität Bern) und Eva Eßlinger (Universität Konstanz), laden alle Interessierten ein, bis zum 01. Mai 2026 Vorschläge, zusammen mit einem Kurz-CV, einzureichen. Die Abstracts sollten 500 Worte nicht überschreiten. Im Anschluss an die Tagung ist an die Publikation ausgewählter Beiträge gedacht, die Texte dafür sind bis Anfang 2027 fertigzustellen.

Die Unterbringung während der Tagung und Reisekosten können gemäß universitären Richtlinien übernommen werden.

Kontakt

agnes.gehbald@unibe.ch

Veranstalter: Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V. - Landesverband Hessen (Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V. - Landesverband Hessen; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main) Ausrichter: Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V. - Landesverband Hessen; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main Veranstaltungsort: Institut für Stadtgeschichte im Karmeliterkloster Frankfurt am Main Gefördert durch: Die Veranstaltung wird ermöglicht dank der freundlichen Unterstützung durch das Institut für Stadtgeschichte im Karmeliterkloster Frankfurt am Main und das Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur. PLZ: 60311 Ort: Frankfurt am Main Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 16.06.2026 - Website: https://www.vda.archiv.net/lv-hessen/hessische-archivtage/47-hessischer-archivtag-2026.html   Unter dem Rahmenthema Migrationsgesellschaft(en) im Archiv. Ansätze zur Überlieferungsbildung und Vermittlung wird der 47. Hessische Archivtag 2026 in Frankfurt am Main veranstaltet, und zwar im Institut für Stadtgeschichte im Karmeliterkloster am 16.06.2026.

Unter dem Rahmenthema "Migrationsgesellschaft(en) im Archiv. Ansätze zur Überlieferungsbildung und Vermittlung" wird der 47. Hessische Archivtag 2026 im Institut für Stadtgeschichte im Karmeliterkloster Frankfurt am Main am 16.06.2026 veranstaltet. Mit Beiträgen aus hessischen Archiven aber auch von nichtarchivischen Forschungs- und Vermittlungseinrichtungen sollen Stand und aktuelle Projekte der archivbezogenen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phänomen der Migration insbesondere nach 1945 in den Blick genommen werden.

Programm

Ab 09:00 Uhr Eintreffen und Registrierung

10:00 Uhr Eröffnung durch Dr. Peter Quadflieg (Landesvorsitzender LV Hessen des VdA e.V. )

10:15 Uhr Grußworte: Mike Josef (Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Frankfurt am Main) und Dr. Michael Ruprecht (Vorsitzender des Verbands deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare)

10:45 Uhr Eröffnungsgespräch mit Dr. Armin von Ungern-Sternberg (Leiter Amt für multikulturelle Angelegenheiten Frankfurt a.M.).
Das Gespräch führt Dr. Mirjam Sprau, ISG Frankfurt a.M.

11:15 Uhr Kaffeepause

11:40 Uhr Sektion 1 (Moderation Dr. Stephan Schwenke)
Vortrag Arbeitsmigration in Hessen nach 1945. Aufbau einer digitalen und publizierten Quellenedition mit anschließender Diskussion
Dr. Wilfried Rudloff (Hessisches Institut für Landesgeschichte, Marburg)

Vortrag Migrationsgeschichte in amtlichen Unterlagen: Ein Blick in die Überlieferung des Stadtarchivs Wiesbaden mit anschließender Diskussion
Dr. Peter Quadflieg und Dr. Katherine Lukat (Stadtarchiv Wiesbaden)

13:00 Uhr Mittagspause

14:00 Sektion 2 (Moderation Julia Schneider)
Vortrag Erinnern, Erzählen, Vermitteln: Der Lern- und Erinnerungsort Notaufnahmelager Gießen als Brücke in die Migrationsgesellschaft
mit anschließender Diskussion
PD Dr. Florian Greiner (Lern- und Erinnerungsort Notaufnahmelager Gießen)

14:40 Uhr Runder Tisch: Migrationsgeschichte im Archiv: Aufgaben und Herausforderungen. Moderation: Julia Schneider

15:40 Uhr Kaffeepause

16:00 Uhr Aktuelle Stunde, u.a. Archivberatung Hessen, VdA-Landesvorstand, Bundeskonferenz der Kommunalarchive beim Deutschen Städtetag (BKK)

16:30 Uhr Mitgliederversammlung Landesverband Hessen des VdA
Hierzu ergeht eine gesonderte Einladung an die VdA-Mitglieder

ca. 16:45 Uhr Ende der Veranstaltung – Möglichkeit zur Teilnahme an einer Führung durch das Institut für Stadtgeschichte

by Pablo Scotto

Despite its broad legal recognition, many do not consider the right to work to be a genuine right. The reason: its identification with the public promotion of full employment, a goal that is probably unattainable in capitalist societies. The right to work therefore appears as a sort of pious wish, if not a dangerous idea: taken seriously, guaranteeing it would require a state that has little respect for private economic initiative. This book recovers an alternative conception of it. Coined by Fourier in the early 19th century, the ‘right to work’ is reinterpreted in 1848 by a new type of socialism, heir of the republican and democratic thought of the French Revolution. This socialism does not expect the state to control the entire economy, but rather that the world of work be governed by the same egalitarian principles that regulate the political sphere.

Keywords

• right to work,
• republicanism,
• socialism,
• French Revolution,
• history of political thought