Crime, Punishment and Mercy: Granting Pardon from the Early Modern Period to the Present
Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity & Pluralism”, University of Münster, 48143 Münster, Germany, 15 – 16 April 2027.
Organisation: PD Dr. Beate Althammer, Trier University / Humboldt University Berlin.
Deadline for Proposals: 15 September 2026.
Porrentruy/Switzerland and Fribourg/Switzerland
This call for papers invites submissions that examine the contemporary challenges facing feminist and queer anthropology through the lens of the contested circulation of categories of emancipation. It encourages ethnographically grounded analyses of how these categories are appropriated, challenged, and reconfigured across diverse social and political contexts, as well as the methodological and epistemological questions these transformations raise for anthropology.
Paris/France
L’objectif de cette journée d’étude est donc d’explorer, dans une perspective historique centrée sur le XXe siècle, les formes diverses qu’ont pu prendre la confrontation des projets éducatifs en favorisant le double prisme de la confrontation et de la circulation.
The growing appeal of far-right parties and right-wing populist movements especially within the working classes has become a subject of intense debate for both scholars and trade unions alike. Despite the widespread interest in this topic, there are surprisingly few analyses of the long-term trends and historical roots fueling the present-day rise of the far right that take into account the dynamics of the workplace as well as the role of trade unions.
