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

Inserat

4 et 5 juin 2026

Université Rennes 2 / UMR ESO CNRS 6590

Programme Jeudi 4 juin

Accueil café : 9h

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

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

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

Session 1 : 10h45-12h45

1.1 Alternatives dans l’habitat

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

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

1.2 Enquêter sur le logement et l’habitat : méthodes, sources et défis

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

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

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

Session 2 : 14h-16h

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

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

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

2.2 Habiter aux différents âges de la vie du logement au quartier

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

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

Pause : 16h-16h15– Hall du bâtiment S

Session 3 : 16h15-18h15

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

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

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

3.2 Foncier et stratégies résidentielles entre héritages, choix individuels et mutation des modèles de propriété

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

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

3.3 Logement et transition énergétique : des systèmes d’acteurs en recomposition

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

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

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

Vendredi 5 Juin

Accueil café : 9h-9h30

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

Le GIS Recherche Habitat Logement (REHAL) : organisation et actualités

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

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

Session 4 : 10h15-12h30

4.1 Innovations et adaptations locales face aux crises du logement

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

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

4.3 Habiter la précarité : circulations, légitimités et agentivités dans les marges urbaines

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

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

Déjeuner : 12h30-13h30

Session 5 : 13h45-15h45

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

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

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

5.2 Appropriation de l’espace domestique et construction du « chez-soi »

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

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

Café - 15h45

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

Comité scientifique

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

Comité d’organisation 

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

Lieu

• Rennes, France

Format de l'événement

• Événemet sur place

Dates

• Jeudi 4 juin 2026
• Vendredi 5 juin 2026

Mots-clés

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

Contact

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

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

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

LAWCHA Conference 2027
Working Across Divisions
June 24-26
UMass Boston

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

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

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

·       migration and mobility

·       coercion and unfreedom

·       care work and social reproduction

·       labor and the environment

·       disability and work

·       religion and labor

·       labor and incarceration

·       higher education and academic labor

·       public history and pedagogy

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

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

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

by Assata Shakur

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

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

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

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

JHES 10/2025 - Environmental History at a Crossroads

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

Available for free consultation in Open Access

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

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

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

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

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

Programme

10.15–10.30: Introduction, Sandra Bott, Francesca Falk

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

10.55–11.00: Break

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

11.25–11.30: Break

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

11.55–12.00: Break

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

12.30–13.45: Lunch break

13.45–15.15: Organisations and Initatives
Chair: Sandra Bott

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

15.15–15.30: Launch of the NCH-Website

15.30–16.00: Break

16.00–17.00: The Current Situation in the United

Contact

info@sgg-ssh.ch

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

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

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

Programme

Monday, June 22, 2026

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

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

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

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

Chair: Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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

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

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

Chair: Denis Scuto (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chair: Pauline Spychala (GHI Paris)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chair: Joanna Wojdon (University of Wrocław)

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

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

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

Chair: Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS)

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

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

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

6:00 pm Keynote Lecture at the GHI Paris

Chair: Mareike König (GHI Paris)

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

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

Chair: Christoph A. Rass (University of Osnabrück)

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

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

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

Chair: Machteld Venken (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

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

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

1:00 pm End of Conference

Contact

Dr. Mareike König

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

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

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

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

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

Programme

Program Thursday, 11 June 2026

08:45 Arrival
09:00 Welcome and introduction

Keynotes on Intersectional Approaches

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

10:20 Response organisers
10:30 Coffee break

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

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

Panel 1 “Epistemology, Visibility and Justice”

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

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

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

15:00 General discussion
15:30 Coffee break

Panel 2 “Gender, Race, and Power”

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

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

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

17:30 General discussion

Program Friday, 12 June 2026

Panel 3 “Politics, Hierarchies and Social Structures”

08:45 Arrival and welcome

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

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

10:00 Coffee break

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

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

11:30 General discussion
12:00 Lunch break

Panel 4 “Status, Identity, and Pedagogy”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Submission guidelines

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

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

2. Title (max. 15 words);

3. Abstract (max. 200 words);

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

5. PhD completion date (past or expected).

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

Organizers

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

Location

• Philadelphia, USA

Event format

• In attendance

Deadline

• 1 July 2026

Keywords

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

Contact

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

Montpellier/France

Agumentaire

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

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

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

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

Axe 1 : Les diasporas, publics de cinéma

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

Axe 2 : Cinéastes et cinémas diasporiques

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

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

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

Modalités de contribution

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

• Shakila Zamboulingame s.zamboulingame@hotmail.com
• Amandine D’Azevedo amandine.d-azevedo@umpv.fr

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

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

Comité d’organisation 

• Shakila Zamboulingame (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
• Amandine D’Azevedo (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)

Comité scientifique 

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

Lieu

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

Format de l'événement

• Événement hybride

Date

• Lundi 15 juin 2026

Appendice

• AAC, CFP, Cinema & diaspora - SZ_V4.pdf

Mots-clés

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

Contact

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

by Sabrina Álvarez, Gabriela González Vaillantm Dahiana Barrales, Ramiro Bosca, Lucía Siola, Diego Grauer, Lucía V. Martínez Hernández and Julián Reyes

 

Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda, revista de acceso abierto, es una publicación científica de historia social, política, cultural e intelectual, que tiene como objetivo impulsar la investigación, la revisión y la actualización del conocimiento sobre la clase trabajadora, el movimiento obrero y las izquierdas, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, propiciando el análisis comparativo. Es una publicación semestral (marzo-agosto y septiembre-febrero) y todos sus artículos son sometidos a referato externo con el sistema doble ciego. Las colaboraciones deben ser originales y no estar sometidas simultáneamente a evaluación en ninguna otra publicación.

Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda se encuentra indizada en el Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas, en SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), en Dialnet (Universidad de La Rioja), en el catálogo 2.0 de Latindex, en CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, dependiente de la UNAM), en el DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) y en la REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico). También es parte de las siguientes bases de datos, indexaciones y directorios: EuroPub, Journal TOCs; MALENA (CAICYT); BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine); CIRC (Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas, de España); MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas, Universitat de Barcelona); BIBLAT (Bibliografía Latinoamericana en revistas de investigación científica y social, UNAM); BINPAR (Bibliografía Nacional de Publicaciones Periódicas Registradas); REDLATT (Red Latinoamericana del Trabajo y Trabajadores); Latinoamericana (Asociación de revistas académicas de humanidades y ciencias sociales) y LatinREV (Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de FLACSO Argentina). El CEHTI es miembro de la International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI).

Archivos es una publicación del Centro de Estudios Históricos de los Trabajadores y las Izquierdas (CEHTI)

Director y Editor Responsable: Hernán Camarero

Secretarios de Redacción: Martín Mangiantini y Diego Ceruso

LABOUR HISTORY

New issue on women's labour available

The Special Issue New Essays on Women’s Labour History in Europe: Gender, Work and Activism, edited by Leda Papastefanaki & Eszter Varsa, in Labour History, A Journal of Labour and Social History (Number 130, May 2026) can be found here.

This special issue is an outcome of the activities of the Feminist Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN).

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Die Diskussionsrunde besteht aus folgenden Teilnehmenden:

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

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

Programm

ab 18:30 Uhr: Einlass

19 Uhr: Programmbeginn: Begrüßung + Podiumsdiskussion zum Veranstaltungsthema

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

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

In Kooperation mit dem radio3/rbb

Kontakt

info@leobaeck.de

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

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

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

Programm

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

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

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

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

Kontakt

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

Ratingen/Germany

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

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

Programm

Dienstag, 2. Juni 2026

09:00 Uhr
Anmeldung und Begrüßungskaffee

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

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

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

10:40 Uhr
Kaffeepause

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

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

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

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

12:45 Uhr
Mittagspause

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

14:50 Uhr
Kaffeepause

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

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

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

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

Fragen und Diskussion

17:00 Uhr
Ende des ersten Veranstaltungstages

18:00 Uhr
Come together

18:30 Uhr
Gemeinsames Abendessen

Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2026

8:30 Uhr
Begrüßungskaffee

9:00 Uhr
Gesprächsrunden: Aktuelle Projekte

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:20 Uhr
Kaffeepause

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

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

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

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

Fragen und Diskussion

12:45 Uhr Ende des Archivtags 2026

Im Anschluss Parallele Führungen

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

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

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

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

Organizers

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

Argument

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

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

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

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

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

Submissions guidelines

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

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

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

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Location

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

Event format

• In attendance

Date

• 06 June 2026

Attachments

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

Keywords

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

Contact

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

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

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

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

 

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