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CfP: Temporary Migration (20th –21st Centuries): Spaces, Regulation, and Imaginaries (English French and Arabic)

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Recent migration research has recently adopted intersectional approaches by disputing age  categories, Gender, and class, which have long been pivotal  to the study of migrant populations. Despite being the focus of sustained scholarly inquiry, these domains continue to exhibit notable  limitations particularly in areas where migrants navigate conditions of “illegality” and where state authorities frequently respond with various forms of repression, including violence, detention,  stop-and-search practices, and police surveillance. This symposium will thus serve as a platform  for scholars and practitioners to exchange methodological insights into short-range mobility and  to explore innovative approaches to researching migration contexts. Furthermore, it will provide a  critical space to examine how funding agencies shape, influence, and/or potentially limit migration  research agendas.

The Laboratory for the History of Mediterranean Economies and Societies  (HESM) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis, and  Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (CAREP) jointly organize an  international Conference on:  Temporary Migration (20th –21st Centuries): Spaces, Regulation, and  Imaginaries

May, 7-8-9, 2026

Argument

Existing databases and bibliographic resources on migration reveal that scholarly inquiry within  the humanities and social sciences has tended to coalesce around two principal areas of focus: the  conditions surrounding migrants’ departure, and the processes of reception and/or exclusion in  host societies. Nevertheless, geographers have been at the forefront of mobility data analysis, the  development of “spatial interaction” related theories and the bridging of spatial domains through  conceptual frameworks such as the migratory field (Simon, 1981) and migratory circulation  (Charef, 1999; Arab, 2009). The multifaceted nature of migration—rooted in the intricate interplay  of economic, social, political, cultural, and ecological factors—is investigated across diverse  temporal and spatial contexts. While they remain challenging, such dimensions are concomitantly examined, given that individual mobility patterns shape both personal trajectories and the  geographies traversed. Hence, mobility is analyzed through both national and transnational lenses  (Rosenthal, 1999; Mabrouk, 2010; De Wenden, 2016; Schmoll, 2020; Ben Khalifa, 2021; Regnard,  2022). Furthermore, migration studies invite critical interrogation of foreign policy frameworks  and societal transformations (De Wenden, 2016; Lacroix, 2023, 2024; Abbondanza, 2024). Within  this discourse, media representations and political rhetoric play a pivotal role in shaping public  opinion by constructing narratives that inform collective imaginaries, often contributing to the  entrenchment of migration within predominantly negative paradigms. The study of human mobility is substantially critical for migratory flows.

Recent migration research has recently adopted intersectional approaches by disputing age  categories (El Miri, 2021; Jamid, 2022; Ait Ben Lmadani, 2020), Gender (Moujoud, 2008; Ait Ben  Lmadani, 2020; Arab, 2018; Schmoll, 2020), and class (Peró, 2014), which have long been pivotal  to the study of migrant populations. Given the prominence of migration in public discourse, media representations are replete with traces of Human mobility offering valuable material for analyzing  social imaginaries (Schor, 1985; Gastaut, 2000; Mills-Affif, 2004; Wihtol de Wenden, 2022).  Despite being the focus of sustained scholarly inquiry, these domains continue to exhibit notable  limitations particularly in areas where migrants navigate conditions of “illegality” and where state authorities frequently respond with various forms of repression, including violence, detention,  stop-and-search practices, and police surveillance. This symposium will thus serve as a platform  for scholars and practitioners to exchange methodological insights into short-range mobility and  to explore innovative approaches to researching migration contexts. Furthermore, it will provide a  critical space to examine how funding agencies shape, influence, and/or potentially limit migration  research agendas.

Temporary migration runs counter to sustainable or long-term settlement projects. One  prominent form is circular migration, characterized by repetitive, temporary movement. The  European Union notably promotes such a model as an alternative to irregular migration and as a  development key driver. Temporary migration spans a multitude of situations, such as seasonal  migration (e.g., Gastarbeiter in Germany) (Arab, 2018; Rass, 2023), student and trainee migration  (Jamid), migration of workers and skilled labor under fixed-term contracts contributing to the  precariousness of migrant labor (Khaled, 2023). Temporary migration has a distinct temporality, characterized primarily by its repetitive nature and, to varying degrees, by precarity and  vulnerability. Further, Political exile (Diaz, 2021; Dulphy, 2021) emerges as a temporary condition  that profoundly shapes the life trajectories of both refugees and their descendants. As Bianchi aptly  states (2005): “To exile oneself is not only to change location but also for consciousness itself to  tend toward exile.” Finally, transit situations also fall within the scope of temporary migration  studies” (Alioua, 2013; Regnard, 2022).

Temporary migration can be approached both as an analytical category and as a set of social  practices (Triandafyllidou, 2022), highlighting the gap between state-imposed administrative  classifications and migrants’ lived experiences. Abdelmalek Sayad recognized the dual nature of  migration: the temporary nature (de jure) and the lasting nature of the immigrant’s stay with “an  intense feeling of the temporary.” which is often accompanied by: “an intense feeling of  provisionality.” Sayad thus posited that the immigrant’s situation: “lends itself, not without  ambiguity, to a dual interpretation: at times, as though to deny the increasingly permanent nature  of migration, one retains only the immigrant’s inherent de jure provisional status.; at other times,  conversely, as if to refute the official identification of the immigrant’s status as temporary. "It has  been rightly emphasized that immigrants increasingly tend to ‘become permanently embedded in  their condition as immigrants, " (Sayad, 1991, p. 14).

A thorough critical examination of temporary migration necessitates a decolonial analytical  lens-- one that questions both the historical and structural continuities of colonial power. This approach calls for the deconstruction of colonial legacies rooted in racialization, securitization,  and in the privileging of certain populations. Analyzing migration temporalities through a  decolonial lens enables us to move beyond multiple forms of ethnocentric simplification and to  expose the enduring links between colonial power relations and postcolonial tensions, both in  border zones and in countries of transit and settlement.

Moreover, the construction of collective memory related to these forms of mobility unfolds within  a rather complex temporality—rooted in the past albeit extending into contemporary political  debates and identity claims. Highlighting the diversity of memories and the contexts in which they  emerge (Teulières et al., 2015) prompts us to focus on the role of temporary migrations in processes  of heritage-making and “désinvisibilisation” of previously marginalized histories. “Rendering  immigration history visible is inextricably intertwined with contemporary migration issues.  Numerous museum and archival exhibitions employ artistic mediums to engage with such  concerns, thereby eliciting diverse critical reflections” (Bertheleu et al., 2018).

Temporary migration operates within a framework of migratory utilitarianism" (Morice, 2001)  embedded in European state policies, which helps explain how migration is shaped according to  labor needs in specific sectors such as tourism and agriculture. Such a Utilitarian migration policy  is underpinned by two guiding core priciples: “Firstly, wherever and whenever relevant and  necessary, and in the appropriate quantity, states will import ‘high-quality’ (skilled or elite  migrants). Secondly, should a need for low- or semi-skilled labor also arise, such labor will be  deliberately confined to a time-limited contractual basis.” (Morice, 2001). Southern neighboring  countries have internalized such a logic in their own migration policies, largely due to the  authoritarian nature of their political regimes.

A system of “precarity competition” (Loiseau, Lasacaux, Mesini, 2024) is thereby implemented  in the employment of foreign labor, particularly evident in cases of Moroccan women recruited  for strawberry harvesting in Huelva (Arab, 2018), migrant labor in tomato farming in southern  Italy (Filhol, 2022), and in seasonal work in arboriculture in the Crau region of France (Mesini,  2022). 

This structurally embedded precarity is further intensified for female migrant workers, whose  labor often sits at the intersection of economic marginalization and gendered vulnerability. Such  is blatantly visible in seasonal migration schemes—such as those involving Moroccan women in  the Spanish strawberry fields —where the temporality of labor is narrowly defined and tightly  controlled, reinforcing an endemic instrumentalization of women’s bodies in service of highly  specific and extractive economic needs (Arab & Azaitraoui, 2024).

Of Further significance, temporary migration is embedded not only within individual  projects but also within family strategies aimed at distributing economic risks and securing  relatively stable income streams amid local economic uncertainties (Stark and Bloom, 1985). The  decision to migrate temporarily is not always the outcome of a preconceived, rational, and stable  plan. Drawing on Howard Becker’s work (1963), particularly his concepts of “life sequences” and  the construction of “deviant careers” (Outsiders), temporary migration is perceived as an evolving contingent process. Migrants typically do not set the duration of their stay beforehand, rather, the  temporality of migration develops through experience, shaped by interactions, emerging  opportunities, and constraints. Motivations to prolong or alter migratory trajectories often arise  retrospectively, I so much as they are informed by accumulated experiences within the host  context.

Focusing on irregular migration highlights a temporality shaped by security policies, which  can obstruct migratory trajectories, result in the detention of migrants, or lead to deportation to  places of origin. The sociology of bifurcations (Grossetti, 2006) underscores the role of  contingency and unpredictability in social trajectories. Migratory engagement, whether regular or irregular, can be triggered by unforeseen events or specific contexts, prompting a reassessment of  initial plans. This perspective encourages viewing temporary migration as an open-ended process,  wherein the duration is not predetermined but shaped by unexpected biographical bifurcations  often linked to personal, economic, or political changes.

Although temporary migration has received comparatively less attention compared to more  permanent forms of migration, it has nevertheless been the subject of extensive individual and  collective reflection (Arab, 2018; Baby-Colin et al., 2017; Donnan, Hastings, et al., 2017; Jacobson  et al., 2022; Regnard, 2022). Several key research trends can be identified as follows:

  • Studies on pre-defined mobility projects (e.g., migration of workers and professionals,  as well as students, interns and trainees) whose stays are initially framed by fixed durations.  ∙ Research on refugees whose exile is conditioned by political situations in countries of  origin and transit, as well as by dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in countries of  settlement.
  • Work on temporary labor regimes examining how labor needs—particularly in sectors  such as agriculture, tourism, and other seasonal industries—generate circular or short-term  migration flows involving both skilled and unskilled workers.
  • Studies of migratory trajectories and their intermediary stages where migrants may  pause temporarily -- either in anticipation of further movement or in strategic response to  security barriers such as border enforcement. Such intermediary stages involve complex  logistical arrangement and are frequently subject to state surveillance of non-nationals.

Since the First World War, states have progressively developed and refined mechanisms for the  identification and control of foreigners, reflecting a broader logic of bureaucratic governance and  surveillance (About, Denis & Torpey, 2005). The intensification of mobility regulation has become  a hallmark of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, shaped by the rise of nationalist  ideologies, the consolidation of authoritarian and dictatorial regimes, and the proliferation of  political dissent. Since the late 1990s, the European Union has positioned itself as a central actor  in the externalization of migration governance, extending its regulatory reach beyond its territorial  borders and reshaping mobility dynamics across its peripheries which are transformed into zones  of delegated migration management underpinned by security-oriented logics across the  Mediterranean and in bordering regions, thereby reaffirming restrictive logics that prioritize  containment and deterrence (Balleix, 2022; Billet et al., 2022).

By centering our analysis on the 20th and 21st centuries, this symposium intends to analyze  temporalities of migration through the prism of increasingly institutionalized mechanisms of  control and surveillance. The growing politicization of migration-- alongside sustained violations  of human rights-- calls for a thorough rethinking of how temporal regimes/ temporality shape migratory dynamics.

Within this framework, it is essential to undertake a critical inquiry into the practices of a wide  range of actors—including public institutions, international organizations, and civil society—and  to assess the extent to which these practices are informed and conditioned by the temporalities of  migrants’ presence. Whether oriented toward inclusion, capacity-building, or securitization, such  interventions remain inextricably tied to the temporal frameworks within which mobility is  managed.

Building on this premise, migrants residing on a temporary basis often develop distinct modes of  engagement with host societies, that diverge markedly from those of long-term or permanently  settled populations. Public policies that overlook the provisional nature of certain migratory  trajectories—or that operate within temporal logics misaligned with migrants’ lived experiences  — risk generating ineffective and even counterproductive outcomes.

While the Mediterranean space remains an area of focus in our analysis, we have deliberately  chosen not to be confined to this space alone. This approach allows for a more nuanced  examination of interactions with both neighboring and more distant regions and supports a  comparative framework that sharpens conceptual tools while deepening our understanding of how  temporality shapes public policy, humanitarian and associative interventions, as well as the lived  and outlived experiences of migrants and their families.

During their temporary stays, migrants engage in everyday interactions with individuals who  carry—and reproduce—representations of both the Other and the self. The duration and nature of  these encounters play a crucial role in either reinforcing or deconstructing stereotypical attitudes.  At various stages of their trajectories, migrants meet people from diverse cultural and social  backgrounds, making the temporality of migration a critical lens through which to examine  intercultural relations and the processes through which biases and perceptions are shaped,  challenged, or transformed.

Despite a substantial body of literature on exile, relatively few studies have addressed how  migrants themselves represent the spaces they traverse—particularly through artistic and literary  production. This dimension remains underexplored and warrants closer analytical attention.

It is therefore essential to highlight the adaptive strategies and forms of resilience developed by  migrants themselves as they navigate hostile environments or spaces requiring adjustment to  unfamiliar socio-cultural, economic, and political frameworks. In this regard, the collection of life  narratives and in-depth interviews offers valuable methodological avenues for foregrounding  grassroots perspectives and centering migrant agency in the study of temporary migration. 

Notably, social media platforms have emerged as critical arenas for the performative construction  and negotiation of migrant identities (Djebeil, 2025). These digital spaces constitute rich sites of  temporal representation and offer researchers an increasingly relevant corpus for analyzing  evolving subjectivities and practices of self-representation.

The aim of the symposium is to further scholarly inquiry into the multifaceted dimensions of  temporary migration by reconsidering analytical scales and promoting innovative methodological  approaches rooted in empirical fieldwork and critical engagement with heterogeneous corpora— including archival records, institutional documents, personal testimonies, and diverse media  outputs. Contributors are invited to reflect on the influence of temporary migration on public policy  frameworks, sociocultural representations, and the complex textures of migrants’ lived  experiences.

Key Areas
  • Temporary Migration of Workers and professional/ skilled labor migration. ⮚ Migration and Education.
  • Living and Surviving within Migration Transit Spaces.
  • Exile and Temporality.
  • Migrants’ Representation of Temporality.6
Output
  • Enhancing the Analytical Framework/ conceptualization of Temporality in the Migratory  Context.
  • Fostering intellectual and Scholarly exchange between academics from European  universities and institutions and across the MENA region.”
  • Publication of the conference proceedings during the year 2026.
Submission Guidelines

Papers that engage with and address one or more of the following areas of focus are welcome:  

Interested authors are invited to submit original abstracts of 250–350 words, outlining the research  question, data or corpus used, and the adopted methodology.

Submissions must include a brief bio with institutional affiliation, research interests, and key  publications.

Proposals should be submitted by October 5, 2025 to the following addresses: labohesm.carep@gmail.com

Important Dates and Deadlines
  • Submission Deadline : Abstracts must be submitted by October 5, 2025.
  • Notification of Acceptance: Authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision by October 20, 2025. 
  • Full Paper Submission: Authors of accepted proposals are required to submit the complete text of their presentations by  March 30, 2026.
  • Conference Dates: The conference will be held on May 7-8-9, 2026.  
Scientific Committee

Hayet Amamou (University of Tunis), Chadia Arab (CNRS, UMR ESO-Angers), Riadh Ben Khalifa  (University of Tunis), Fatma Chalfouh (University of Tunis), Mohamed Charef (Université Ibn Zohr Agadir), Julius Dihstelhoff, ( Mecam-University of Tunis), Anne Dulphy (Ecole polytechnique), Piero  Dominique Galloro (University of Lorraine), Roméo Gbaguidi (Antonio de Nebrija University, Madrid.),  Sofien Jaballah (University of Sfax), Karim Khaled (CREAD-Algéria), Mehdi Mabrouk (University of  Tunis), Esther Möller ( Marc Bloch Zentrum), Antonio M. Morone ( University of Pavia) ; Khalid  Mouna (Rabat Social Studies Institute), Harouna Mounalaika (Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey),  Fatma Raach (Universitof Tunis elManar) , Antoine Pécoud (Sorbonne Paris North University), Céline  Regnard (Aix-Marseille University).

Organizing Committee

Hayet Amamou, Mehdi Mabrouk, Riadh Ben Khalifa, Fatma Chalfouh, Henda Ghribi, Safouane Trabelsi

Conference Coordinator : Riadh Ben Khalifa

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Location: 10 rue tanit notre-dame
Tunis, Tunesien (1082 Tunis)

Event format: hybrid event

Keywords: temporary migration, space, regulation, imaginary

Contact person: Henda Ghribi
courriel : henda [dot] carep [at] gmail [dot] com

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Veranstalter:Mediävistisches Institut der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz)

Veranstaltungsort: Universität Freiburg Schweiz, Campus Misericorde

Gefördert durch: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds und Universität Freiburg

PLZ: 1700

Ort: Freiburg

Land: Switzerland

Findet statt: Hybrid

Vom - Bis: 03.09.2025 - 05.09.2025

Website: https://www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de/veranstaltungen/freiburger-kolloquien/

Das Mediävistische Institut der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz nimmt das Freiburger Colloquium 2025 zum Anlass, im interdisziplinären Austausch über das Thema «Behinderung», Armut und Arbeit nachzudenken und zu diskutieren, wobei verschiedene Quellen und Materialien (literarische, ikonografische, normative und praktische) herangezogen werden sollen. Eingeladen dazu wurden 16 internationale Spezialist:innen auf dem Gebiet.

Freiburger Colloquium 2025 "Disability, Armut und Arbeit im Mittelalter"

Das Mediävistische Institut der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) organisiert alle zwei Jahre ein interdisziplinäres Kolloquium, bei dem Forscher:innen und Spezialist:innen zusammen gebracht werden, um sich mit einem speziellen mediävistischen Forschungsthema zu beschäftigen.

Das Freiburger Colloquium 2025 thematisiert und diskutiert das Thema von Disability, Armut und Arbeit im europäischen Mittelalter und findet Anfang September 2025 statt.

Studien über Menschen mit Behinderungen sind, was das Mittelalter betrifft, erst um die Jahrhundertwende zunehmend aufgekommen. Sie sind mittlerweile sowohl in den Geschichtswissenschaften als auch in der Philologie und Literaturwissenschaft gut etabliert, vor allem im angelsächsischen Raum, in geringerem Maße auch in Deutschland und anderen Ländern, weniger allerdings in der frankophonen akademischen Sphäre.

Dennoch hat sich die mediävistische Forschung bereits vorher Menschen mit Behinderungen gewidmet, und zwar im Kontext des Themas Armut. Die großen Studien der 1960er bis 1990er Jahre, wie jene von Michel Mollat oder Bronislaw Geremek, gingen oft von der Annahme aus, dass Behinderung und Armut untrennbar miteinander verbunden seien. Die infirmi, so die Autoren, konnten aufgrund ihres hohen Alters oder einer Behinderung nicht arbeiten, und diese Arbeitsunfähigkeit führte zwangsläufig zu Armut. Gleichzeitig stellen Studien zur Armut im Mittelalter Menschen mit Behinderungen als die guten Armen schlechthin dar, die einen legitimen Anspruch auf Almosen hatten, im Gegensatz zu den mendicantes validi, die lasterhaft oder aus Faulheit von der Gesellschaft profitierten. So setzte sich trotz einiger differenzierterer Untersuchungen das bestimmende Bild von bettelnden Menschen mit Behinderungen durch, das seither nicht mehr in Frage gestellt wurde.

In der Tat lädt die mittelalterliche Ikonografie zu solchen Verkürzungen ein, denn die einfachste Art, eine arme Person bildnerisch darzustellen, bestand damals nicht nur darin, sie in Lumpen zu kleiden und sie mit ausgestreckter Hand zu zeigen, sondern auch in der Sichtbarmachung einer Behinderung und den mit ihr verbundenen Gegenständen, Krücken oder Holzbeinen. Darüber hinaus scheinen die umfangreichsten historischen Quellen, wie die Hagiografie einerseits, und die aus den städtischen und praxisorientierten (z.B. von Wohltätigkeitseinrichtungen) überlieferten Dokumenten andererseits, Behinderung und Armut fast immer miteinander zu verbinden.

Die Tagung bietet nun die Gelegenheit, gemeinsam über Fragen wie die Präsenz von Menschen mit Behinderungen, die in den Quellen weder als arm noch als inaktiv erscheinen, die soziale Akzeptanz ihrer Inaktivität oder die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen mit Arbeit oder deren Abwesenheit je nach sozialem Status, aber auch nach Geschlecht der Menschen mit Behinderungen nachzudenken.

Die Ergebnisse der Tagung werden wie bei den Freiburger Colloquien gewohnt, in der institutseigenen Reihe "Scrinium Friburgense" beim Reichert Verlag veröffentlicht.

Programm

Mittwoch, 3. September 2025

9.15–9.30 Uhr: Begrüssung durch das Rektorat der Universität Freiburg und die Organisatoren

9.30–10.00 Uhr: Einführung durch Olivier Richard

Moderation Cornelia Herberichs

10.30–11.15 Uhr: Sebastian Scholz (Universität Zürich) „Behinderung und Armut im frühen Mittelalter. Eine quellenkritische Annäherung“

10.15–12.00 Uhr: Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela / Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, LaMOP) „Life after Violence: Disability and Legal Amputations in Early Medieval North Iberia“

14.00–14.45 Uhr: Sabrina Kremling (Universität Tübingen) „Disability im höfischen Roman? Überlegungen zu Hartmanns von Aue ,Iwein‘“

14.45–15.30 Uhr: Léo Delaune (Université de Strasbourg) „Handicap et émotions dans l’incitation aux bonnes œuvres. Analyse des exempla cisterciens, dominicains et franciscains (XIIe–début du XIVe siècle)“

16.00–16.45 Uhr: Yves Mausen (Université de Fribourg) „La justice, les sens et la parole: la question des juges et des témoins aveugles, sourds ou muets au Moyen Âge“

Donnerstag, 4. September 2025

Moderation: Paolo Borsa

9.15–10.00 Uhr: Catherine Bloomer (Villanova University, PA, USA) „Redefining (Dis)Ability to Work in Dante’s Florence“

10.30–11.15 Uhr: Rose Delestre (Université de Genève/Université de Rennes 2) „Handicap et pauvreté: usages de la fragilité dans le miracle et la chanson de geste tardive“

11.15–12.00 Uhr: Georg Modestin (Universität Freiburg) „Der gelähmte Fürst: Albrecht II. von Habsburg zwischen körperlicher Beeinträchtigung und Herrschaftsausübung“

14.00–14.45 Uhr: Silvia Carraro (Università degli studi di Genova) „Una donna con disabilità può amministrare un patrimonio? Disabilità femminile e agency economica nell’Italia tardomedievale (sec. XIII–XV)“

14.45–15.30 Uhr: Piotr Pawlina (ENS de Lyon) „Économie du miracle et fabrique de la bourgeoisie: les rôles de l’Aveugle et du Boiteux dans les mystères médiévaux“

16.00–16.45 Uhr: Mark C. Chambers (Durham University) „Entertaining ,Disability‘: Performers and Disability in the Records of Early English Drama“

Freitag, 5. September 2025

Moderation: Marion Uhlig

9.15–10.00 Uhr: Ninon Dubourg (Universität zu Köln) „Ministre ou mendiant? Comment les ecclésiastiques handicapés ont échappé à la pauvreté à la fin du Moyen Âge“

10.30–11.15 Uhr: Ahuva Liberles (Tel Aviv University) & Astrid Riedler-Pohlers (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) „Negotiating Access: Women with Disability in Rabbinic and Municipal Responses from 15th-Century Bavaria“

11.15–12.00 Uhr: Bianca Frohne (Universität zu Kiel) „Behinderung, Arbeit und Technologie in der Disability History: Assistive Objekte in Selbstzeugnissen und Memorialbüchern des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts“

14.00–14.45 Uhr: Aleksandra Pfau (Hendrix College, Conway, AR, USA) „Caregivers, Disability and Work in Late Medieval France“

Kontakt

Martin Rohde
iem@unifr.ch

CfP: Beyond Centrality: Reassessing Urban Networks and Regional Hierarchies in Europe, 1300–1900

3 months 2 weeks ago

Organizer: European Association for Urban History (EAUH)

Postcode: 08001

Location: Barcelona

Country: Spain

Takes place: In person

Dates: 02.09.2026 - 05.09.2026

Deadline: 20.10.2025

Website: https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session22

We invite paper proposals for our session at the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference about new ways of examining urban hierarchies in Europe and addressing regional disparities and functional differences. We welcome all methodological approaches, but particularly those that go beyond the Central Place Theory.

Beyond Centrality: Reassessing Urban Networks and Regional Hierarchies in Europe, 1300–1900

This session (Session 22 of the EAUH 2026 conference) explores the formation and transformation of urban networks and hierarchies in Europe between 1300 and 1900, with a particular interest in the roles of non-economic drivers of urban development. While the legacy of Central Place Theory (CPT) remains influential in urban historiography, we invite contributions that go beyond centrality-based models to consider the impact of administrative, cultural, social, and geopolitical factors on the interaction between cities, towns, and boroughs. The session is open to a wide range of methodological approaches, including historical GIS, qualitative microstudies, and comparative long-term analyses. Key issues in this context are:
- the identification of indicators of urban functions (direct or indirect) in different periods of time and various regions;
- possible ways of investigating regionality within European polities in a longue-durée approach;
- in which cases do these differences lead to the formation of hierarchical or non-hierarchical networks;
- under which circumstances do similar development profiles lead to conflict or competition;
- how are small market towns and boroughs complement the network of cities and what was their role in regional development.

These questions have often been approached within the framework of Central Place Theory, which tends to privilege economic centrality. We aim to broaden this perspective by integrating a more diverse set of factors into the analysis of urban functions and regional connectivity. We invite contributions addressing the following questions in any regional framework and any chronological focus between 1300 and 1900:
- What was the role of administrative units, such as parishes, communes or neighbourhoods, in differentiating, organising and concentrating human and natural resources?
- What part did cultural institutions and access to learning play in establishing contacts between nodes of an urban network?
- How can one assess the role of different ethnic and religious communities and social solidarities in strengthening or weakening ties between nodes of a network?
- What was the impact of environmental factors such as natural barriers or communication corridors in the formation of urban networks?
- In the light of all the above factors, how do we assess the weight of economy in shaping urban networks?
We hope that discussing the above questions in a broad spatial and temporal frame can contribute to reassessing the relationship between urban functions and spatial organisation. Thus, the session intends to pave the way to a more nuanced understanding of European urbanisation and its networks and hierarchies.

Paper submissions

We encourage scholars with an interest in social and economic history and/or historical geography to submit abstracts for our session according to the general conference guidelines. Presentations should aim to be between 15-20 minutes, with additional space for discussion. Abstracts of max. 2000 characters can be submitted until Monday, 20 October 2025 at https://eauh2026.confnow.eu/?pagename=extpapersubmission

Kontakt

Katalin Szende, szendek@ceu.edu; Judit Majorossy, judit.majorossy@univie.ac.at; Beatrix F. Romhányi, romhanyi.beatrix@kre.hu

CfP: The Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes

3 months 2 weeks ago

Organizer: Plattform Global Encounters / College of Fellows, Universität Tübingen

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments

Postcode: 72070

Location: Tübingen

Country: Deutschland

Takes place: In person

Dates: 04.02.2026 - 06.02.2026

Deadline: 20.09.2025

The Global Encounters Research Focus Group is excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming “Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes,” taking place 4-6 February 2026 at the University of Tübingen. This conference invites submissions that engage with the theme "Politics of Division", fostering critical dialogue across disciplines.

The Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes

The politics of division exploit existing or newly created social divisions and cleavages, deploying them as mechanisms to consolidate power and maintain the status quo. Contemporary states and their attendant legal and knowledge regimes are a key marker of these politics of division.

Examples include the changing varieties of ethnonationalism, which are based on notions of exclusive citizenship that dehumanize and denigrate certain racial, religious, and national groups. Similarly, gender and sexuality politics have become sites of intensified hostility, everyday policing, and legal repression. These strategies of division are neither new nor specific to any geographical region. At the same time, a series of overlapping crises exacerbate and fuel these movements: climate change, the migration crisis, the intrusive state, neoliberalism, and the rise of right-wing populism.

Efforts to understand these challenges have been trivialised. In recent years, both ends of the political spectrum have engaged in the production of forms of knowledge suited to political ends and the university has been forced to negotiate curriculums and policies due to external pressures, calling into question its role as a space for critical inquiry and free discussion. The knowledge circulated within online filter bubbles is reshaping the real world, and the effects created in the process overwhelm the facts.

We are interested in exploring how legal regimes institutionalize norms and authorize forms of governance, while knowledge regimes legitimize these norms by producing, circulating, and privileging particular epistemologies over others. Together, they shape the boundaries of what is considered lawful, rational, and politically possible. This conference seeks to interrogate the interplay between law, policy, and knowledge as well as to understand how they are invoked and mediated, gain appeal within a particular population, and evolve in terms of their ideological sophistication, and representations.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers that consider the following or related themes. Early career scholars are especially encouraged to apply.
- Politics of History and Epistemic Violence
- Political Mobilizations
- The Rhetoric of the Right-wing Populism
- Competing historical narratives and selective invocations of the past, idealism, and nostalgia
- Rulership and sovereignty, political borders, and human movement
- Modern social problems, public policy/environmental justice, great replacement theory, and xenophobia
- Methods of resistance and restorative approaches

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words in English. Include a short academic bio with author, current affiliation, and contact details.

Limited travel funds may be available for those who lack institutional support. Participants who need partial funding should submit a travel budget.

Deadline for Submission: 20 September
Selected participants will be notified in early October

Please submit your abstract via mail: global-encounters@uni-tuebingen.de

For inquiries, contact: global-encounters@uni-tuebingen.de

Join us at “The Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes” for an inspiring ex-change of ideas. Selected papers will be solicited as part of an edited volume or special journal issue.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Kontakt

global-encounters@uni-tuebingen.de

Neuenburg und der Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland (German)

3 months 2 weeks ago

Neuenburg am Rhein/Germany

Veranstalter: Abt. Landesgeschichte, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

Veranstaltungsort: Stadthaus, Marktplatz 2

Gefördert durch: Bürgerstiftung der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

PLZ: 79395

Ort: Neuenburg am Rhein

Land: Deutschland

Findet statt: In Präsenz

Vom - Bis: 19.09.2025 - 20.09.2025

Website: https://www.mittelalter1.uni-freiburg.de/nachrichten/tagung-neuenburg-im-bauernkrieg-2025-09-19

Vom 19. bis zum 20. September 2025 findet im Stadthaus der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein in Kooperation mit der Abteilung Landesgeschichte der Universität Freiburg eine historische Tagung zum Thema „Neuenburg und der Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland“ statt.

Neuenburg und der Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland

2025 jährt sich der Bauernkrieg zum 500. Mal. Vom Südwesten ausgehend, breitete sich 1524/25 der hauptsächlich von Bauern, zunehmend aber auch von anderen sozialen Schichten getragene Aufruhr innerhalb weniger Monate bis in die Mitte des Alten Reiches aus. Schnell verquickten sich dabei die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Forderungen der Bauern mit dem Gedankengut der reformatorischen Lehre.

Das 500-jährige Jubiläum des Bauernkriegs bietet Anlass, diesen Konflikt und seine Auswirkungen auf die südliche Oberrheinregion im Rahmen einer Tagung in den Blick zu nehmen. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf die Oberen Lande des Markgrafen von Baden, also jenes zwischen Freiburg und Basel gelegene Gebiet, das eine der Keimzellen dieser bäuerlichen Protestbewegung darstellte. Im Rahmen der Tagung soll an konkreten Beispielen herausgearbeitet werden, wie sich die ländliche, durch (Wein-)Bau und nur wenige Städte geprägte spezifische Sozialstruktur dieses Raums sowie die Nähe zu und die Verflechtungen mit Basel, der Eidgenossenschaft und dem vorderösterreichischen Sundgau auf den Verlauf des Konflikts auswirkten.

Schirmherr der Tagung ist Regierungspräsident Carsten Gabbert, Regierungspräsidium Freiburg.

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer, Dr. Heinz Krieg

Programm

Freitag, 19. September:

9.15 Uhr Begrüßung und Grußwort von Regierungspräsident Carsten Gabbert, Regierungspräsidium Freiburg

Einführung

9.30 Uhr Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer, Freiburg i. Br.: Das Markgräflerland im 16. Jahrhundert – Aktuelle Bauernkriegsforschung

Rahmenbedingungen

10.15 Uhr Dr. Casimir Bumiller, Bollschweil: Der Bauernkrieg am Oberrhein – eine Annäherung in biografischen Skizzen

11.00 Uhr Kaffeepause

11.30 Uhr Dr. Clemens Regenbogen, Stuttgart: Lebenswelten spätmittelalterlicher Bauern – Grund- und Leibherrschaft, Bauernschaften, Landstände

12.15 Uhr Mittagspause

Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland

14.15. Uhr Dr. Jürgen Treffeisen, Bruchsal: Neuenburg am Rhein und der Bauernkrieg

15.00 Uhr Kaffeepause

15.30 Uhr Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer, Freiburg i. Br.: Markgraf Ernst von Baden im Bauernkrieg

16.15 Uhr Kai Börsig, Freiburg i. Br.: Gewalthandeln gegen Burgen und Klöster

17.00 Uhr Führung durch die Sonderausstellung „Ausgegraben! Archiv unter der Erde“ im Museum für Stadtgeschichte

18.15 Uhr Abendimbiss für die Tagungsteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer

Abendvortrag

19.30 Uhr Begrüßung durch Jens Fondy-Langela, Bürgermeister der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

19.45 Uhr Dr. Heinz Krieg, Freiburg i. Br.: Zur Gründung der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

Samstag, 20. September:

9.15 Uhr Arman Weidenmann, lic. phil., St. Gallen: Die Eidgenossen und der Bauernkrieg

Nach dem Krieg

10.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Dieter Speck, Bad Krozingen: Die Rechtfertigung Neuenburgs und anderer habsburgischer Städte

10.45 Uhr Kaffeepause

11.15 Uhr Joy Sheik, M.A., Freiburg i. Br.: Die Nachkriegszeit im Markgräflerland

Schlussdiskussion

12.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. André Krischer, Freiburg i. Br.: Zusammenfassung

Kontakt

zentralstrelle@neuenburg.de

CfP: Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación; INCSA Biennial Conference (English and Spanish)

3 months 2 weeks ago

Date: July 21, 2026 - July 24, 2026
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Subject Fields: African History / Studies, American History / Studies, European History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Literature

The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA)—in collaboration with the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History–invites proposals for its second biennial conference. 

We welcome submissions for individual papers, panels, posters, roundtable discussions, digital humanities projects, and performances exploring the nineteenth century from interdisciplinary, international, and intertemporal perspectives.

July 21-24, 2026

National Union Building, Washington, DC

English and Spanish

In-Person and Online 

Proposal Deadline: October 31, 2025

Join INCSA's mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/f57e81b357af/in-csa-join-us

For more information: https://in-csa.com/2026-call-for-papers-in-english/ 

Contact Information

Shannon Perich
Curator, National Museum of American History
Chair of the 2026 Conference, Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation 

Contact Email

incsa2026@gmail.com

URL

https://in-csa.com/2026-call-for-papers-in-english/

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