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Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970)

International Writing Workshop

Paris, 3-5 December 2025

Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970)

This call for papers aims to prepare a collective publication focused on the actors and practices of assistance to migrant populations in Europe and the Middle East between 1945 and 1970. The project adopts an innovative perspective, emphasizing on-the-ground dynamics and the interactions among the various actors involved in migration-related aid, between cooperation, competition and entanglement. It also seeks to shed light on lesser-known figures—third-party actors in the field of displacement assistance—whose roles, though significant, have often remained marginalized in historical scholarship. An editorial workshop, designed to coordinate and refine the submitted texts, will be held at the German Historical Institute in Paris on December 3-5, 2025. Selected contributors will have reviewed the draft papers of the other participants ahead of time, so that the workshop can be fully dedicated to collectively aligning and revising the contributions. All participants will be expected to submit their draft papers prior to the event to enable in-depth collaborative work during the workshop.

Call for contributions

Proposals for papers, preferably in English, should be no longer than 500 words, and accompanied by a short bio-bibliographical note of maximum one page. Please send both documents as a single PDF file to anm@francemel.fr by 30 June 2025. As the workshop aims to produce a coherent edited volume, selected contributors will be asked to submit a first draft of their paper (20,000-30,000 characters, including spaces) ahead of the meeting, by 1 November 2025. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered in full or in part, pending final funding confirmation.

Fall 2025 Kurdish Language Instruction Program

Fall 2025 Kurdish Language Instruction Program

As a key part of its humanistic approach to Kurdish studies, Zahra Institute is committed to offering Kurdish language instruction. Students can enroll in Kurdish language offerings (Kurmanji and Sorani) as standalone courses or take them as electives in MA and Certificate programs. Application deadline is 15 July and financial aid is  available. To apply, scan the QR code on the flyer or visit the webpage: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/KLIOverview.html

Zahra Institute intends to provide an open, collaborative environment for learning, teaching, and scholarship in the fields of Kurdish Studies and Critical Muslim Studies. 

Migrant Work beyond Categorization: Migrants and Refugees at Work in the 20th Century East Central Europe

Migrant Work beyond Categorization: Migrants and Refugees at Work in the 20th-Century East Central Europe

Prague, 19-20 November 2025

The workshop is organized by the project “Migration and Us: Mobility, Refugeedom and Border from the Humanities Perspective (MyGRACE)”, registration number CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008741, supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic within the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Programme (OP JAK), and co-financed by the European Union.

Call for Papers

The separation of refugees from other migrants into a distinct legal category manifested in the institutional and administrative practice of refugee protection and its narrative framing. Accomplished by the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and reasserted in the following decades by the growing number of signatories, thus featuring in international and national refugee law, our understanding of who refugees are has endowed them with a set of civil, social, and political rights. However, conditioning refugee protection on the grounds of persecution “for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion”, the contemporary definition of refugees also bears implications for conceptualizing other migrations, including economic migration.

This workshop seeks to extend the scholarly debates on work in various migrant and refugee contexts. It focuses on the 20th-century East Central Europe as both a region of substantial emigration and immigration, yet, until recently, evading the academic spotlight. The workshop strives to explore the various motivations of people on the move, including social and economic reasons, reflecting their more and less voluntary choices. Conceptually, it thus advocates for bringing refugee and migration studies closer together and encourages a more inclusive analysis of migrant and refugee situations. First, it recognizes the impracticability of separating economic reasons for migration from political ones. Second, it highlights the essential role of labor integration and social welfare in refugeedom, both as an initial motive and a solution to the refugee situation.

Paper proposals (max. 250 words) and short bios (200 words), as well as any questions, should be directed to Nikola Tohma (tohma@mua.cas.cz).

Submission deadline: 31 July 2025

The decision on acceptance will be communicated by the end of August. The organizers will offer financial support for travel and accommodation.

Appel à contributions/Call for Papers Workshop : JE Épistémologies féministes et « études aréales », PRI Sciences sociales et le monde

 

“privilege of the partial perspective”?
On feminist epistemologies and “area studies”

October 10, 2025, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Aubervilliers

The workshop will be held in English and French. Submissions should include a 500word abstract as well as a short bio, in English or French, to be emailed to the following three members of the organizing team before June 30, 2025:
Dimitra Douskos: dimitra.douskos@wanadoo.fr

Lucie Drechselová: lucie.drechselova@ehess.fr

Camila Pastor: camila.pastor@cide.edu

The authors of selected submissions will be notified before mid-July. Limited funds are available to support travel to participate in the workshop in particular for early career scholars.

Donna Haraway’s essay on “the science question in feminism” became a reference as soon as it was published, in 1988, through its call to dislodge a supposedly disembodied and omniscient epistemic viewpoint, a patriarchal “God’s trick”, ideally set above contingencies and capable of seeing through materialities. It argued for replacing this paradigm “tied to militarism, capitalism, colonialism and male supremacy” by something different than its relativist flip side, the erstwhile discourse
theories: a necessarily corporeal and thereby positioned, one-sided and partial “feminist objectivity”, one that leaves purportedly universal or relativist science behind to the benefit of the advent of “situated knowledges”. Such knowledges would be revolutionary, insofar as they might at last challenge the long incontestable masculine
monopoly on science.
A travelling concept par excellence, a notion that can leave much of its body, its soul, or both of them behind without entirely dissolving in the hands of other disciplines, temporalities, geographies and power differentials, the term “situated knowledges” did noticeably well, in contexts strongly marked by feminism. Or less so. In this workshop,
we set out to explore its numerous and diverse “contact zones” with other scholarly worlds also engaged in the epistemic challenges of producing “situated knowledges”.
Nearly forty years after the publication of this essay, we wonder whether there is any sort of common ground between “the privilege of partial perspective” and the paradigm of so called “area studies”. Do the latter’s aspirations to spatial neutralisation elide the feminist concerns with finitude, corporeality, situated difference, and inequity at the
heart of the concept’s formulation? Or do they hold their own, stand their ground, find a place? How do scholars working on the geographical, sexual or gendered margins see it?

For the 2025 workshop of the EHESS Interdisciplinary Research Program Social
Sciences and the World, we invite a collective discussion on questions such as:
1. Situated knowledges as an epistemological tool: usage, scope, limits
The concept of situated knowledges deeply marked western feminist
epistemologies, but does it have a history in area studies debates? What do scholars with research defined by a geographical location other than Euro-American « centers » and for whom gender constitutes a fundamental category of analysis think of the encounter of a militant concept and a long-established problematic category? Do they notice it? Are situated knowledges explicitly mobilized and what epistemological reconfigurations do they undergo and/or imply in different contexts?

2. Circulation of concepts: translating for the South, from the South?
Concepts need mediation to circulate, and their contours are shaped by
linguistic and theoretical translations – too often into or from English in north Atlantic academic circuits. Which languages and concepts emerge when one “South” looks at another “South”, de-centering earlier legitimating circuits and the cardinal role of the English language? Which are the intended and actual audiences and routes of circulation of such knowledges? Do they find their way into research agendas privileging inter-areal formations, such as transregional studies, connected histories or mobility studies?

3. “Situated” feminist approaches and epistemic injustice
When trying to think over epistemic parallels and gaps between area studies and situated knowledges one cannot help wondering whether partial perspective is a privilege, as Donna Haraway claimed, or perhaps also still a form of confinement. How do researchers bridge the gap between the extraterritoriality of their institutional affiliation and their field location? How does it shape the understanding of their work by their academic and lay publics, and the subjects discussed and represented by research? Is it really different from Haraway’s “God’s trick” and is there an institutional career impact of the situated position?

4. Feminist studies, secularisms and religious contexts
How does feminist research on confessional contexts and practices successfully engage (or not) with a concept with a significant secular
genealogy? Noted publications show that there is room for feminist scholarship in clusters that bring together in their questioning the compatibility of spirituality, religious normativity and secular analytic frameworks. But how do feminist concepts and science-making travel within such lay-and-religious assemblages? Which strategies do scholars mobilize to achieve this?

5. Fictions, arts and the production of situated knowledges
Works of fiction – visual, literary or performative – can extend, displace or contest the production of scholarly knowledge. When does artistic/fictional production “complete” the blind spots of scientific discourse? Can one consider such work as forms of situated knowledges in their own right?

 

“Cretan Tragedy”: Ideas and Networks of an Ottoman Imperial Provincial Elite at the Turn of 20th century by Antonis NASIS (CETOBaC & Université de Crète)

Date : Lundi 16 juin 2025 à 13h30
Lieu : EHESS, 54 boulevard Raspail, salle A07_37, Paris
Distanciel : https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/mar-gmv-hb9-onc

Jury :
Marc Aymes, CNRS/EHESS, directeur
Elias Kolovos, Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, directeur
Merih Erol, Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Istanbul
Murat Şiviloğlu, Trinity College, Dublin
Eleftheria Zei, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης, Rethymno

Le festival Printemps tsigane célèbre les Balkans le 14 juin au Point Fort !

Samedi 14 juin 15h-00h

Point Fort d’Aubervilliers

Le samedi 14 juin prochain se tiendra au Point Fort d’Aubervilliers la 3e édition du festival Printemps Tsigane qui célèbre les cultures tsiganes et d’Europe de l’Est et retrace la magnifique et longue route musicale des gitan·es, depuis les origines, du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde en passant par la Transylvanie, la Roumanie, la France et l’Espagne.

Véritable osmose entre le chant, la danse et la musique du peuple rom, d’où jaillit l’émotion, le Printemps Tsigane raconte la soif de liberté et la force des musiciens errants, souvent multi-instrumentistes, faisant la quête de ville en ville avec toujours les mêmes instruments qui leur permettent de naviguer entre la musique folklorique, le jazz et la musique classique.

Ouverture de ce grand bal tsigane avec Samy Daussat et une restitution de sa masterclass en public, puis les Kawa Gypsy Brothers qui jouent une musique profonde et intense, qui prend racine dans la tradition soufie et la culture Rajasthani.
Nadara Gypsy Band accompagnera la troupe de danse RomaFest Gypsy Dance pour un moment unique avec toute la force et la beauté des chants, des danses et musiques tsiganes, hongroises et roumaines de Transylvanie.
Antoine « Tato » Garcia
 nous enflammera avec ses rumbas andalouses et catalanes. Une immersion dans les traditions ancestrales et populaires dans les quartiers gitans de Séville et de Barcelone, une belle fusion entre le flamenco et le son cubain.

15h-00h · TSIG’UP sous la Halle [ animations, jeux, marché ]

Pour sa première édition, Tsig’up intègre le Festival Printemps Tsigane ! Une collaboration qui célèbre la richesse et la diversité de la culture tsigane. Artisanat traditionnel, sapes seconde main, pièces upcyclées, mobilier réinventé, art récup, vinyles, plantes, ateliers upcycling, food, exposition, mais aussi tir aux fléchettes, lancer de cerceaux, barbe à papa, manèges et créatures fantastiques : soit une mini foire par la compagnie Laforaine !

18h-00h · PRINTEMPS TSIGANE sous le chapiteau [ concerts ]

ANTOINE “TATO” GARCIA [ rumba catalane ]
• ROMAFEST GIPSY DANCE & NADARA GYPSY BAND [ musiques & danses tsiganes ]
• KAWA GYPSY BROTHERS [ qawwali, jazz ]
• SAMY DAUSSAT [ masterclass jazz manouche ]

Infos concerts : https://www.lepointfort.com/events/festival-printemps-tsigane-2025/
Infos marché & fête Tsig’up : https://www.lepointfort.com/evenement/tsigup/

Réservation Printemps tsigane : https://www.billetweb.fr/festival-printemps-tsigane-3

Journée d’étude des doctorant·e·s du CETOBaC | Imaginaires cartographiques : Espaces et images de l’Europe centrale et orientale, de la Méditerranée orientale, du Caucase et de l’Asie centrale

Imaginaires cartographiques : Espaces et images de l’Europe centrale et orientale, de la Méditerranée orientale, du Caucase et de l’Asie centrale

Informations pratiques :
11 juin 2025
EHESS, Salle 50, Campus Condorcet, 2 Cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers.

Formulaire d’inscription

Comité d’organisation :
Nathalie de Kaniv (CETOBaC – EHESS)
Elif Karakaya (University of Rochester, CETOBaC – EHESS)
Esther Pedarros (CETOBaC – EHESS)
Melody Robine (CETOBaC – EHESS, Sorbonne Université)
Clotilde Scordia (CETOBaC – EHESS)

Programme : 

9h30-10h : Accueil café / Welcome Coffee

10h-10h30 : Mot de bienvenue de Marc AYMES, directeur du CETOBaC / Opening remarks by Marc Aymes, director of CETOBaC

10h30- 10h45 : Introduction, Alessandro GALLICCHIO (Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis)

10h45-11h45. Visions urbaines et architecturales dans l’espace (post-)soviétique / Urban and Architectural Visions in the (Post-)Soviet Space

  • WOLKENSTEIN Paul, CREE, INALCO « De la conception à la réception : représenter l’architecture brejnévienne en Asie centrale »
  • PACHEO – VASCONCELLOS Rachel, CERCEC- EHESS/ CNRS, Université de Sao-Paulo, Labur-USP, « Pour une critique de l’urbanisme prospectif : propositions théoriques et méthodologiques pour l’analyse de projets de “villes du futur” en Russie »

11h45-12h : Pause-café / Coffee break

12h-13h. Fabriques spatiales du pouvoir et mémoire en Turquie contemporaine / Spatial Constructs of Power and Memory in Contemporary Turkey

  • YAKARLAR Tuğberk, University of Ottawa, « Mapping Civilization: Turkey’s Cartographic Imaginary and Intra-Civilizational Tensions »
  • KİLAVUZ PİNAR Elsa, EHESS – CETOBAC / CESOR, “Cartographier la mémoire : visibilité et sécurisation du Musée juif d’Istanbul dans l’espace urbain

13h-14h30 : Pause déjeuner / Lunch break

14h30 -15h30. Cartes en tension : récits militaires et reconfigurations de l’espace / Maps in Tension: Military Narratives and Reconfigurations of Space

  • RAZAVI Roxanne, CESPRA, EHESS, « Cartographies terrestres et célestes en Iran : temporalités religieuses et reconfiguration des espaces pendant la « Défense sacrée » (1980-1988) »
  • PHELIPPOT Geoffrey, EHESS – CAK, Le Danube fortifié : cartographie et vues urbaines de l’Europe centrale et orientale au XVIIe siècle

15h30-16h : Pause-café / Coffee break

16h-17h30. Espaces contestés : contre-cartographies et gestes artistiques contemporains / Contested Spaces: Counter-Cartographies and Contemporary Artistic Gestures

  • REHERMAN Judith, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie – KIT, « Present Tense, Absent Homeland: Mona Hatoum and the Politics of Mapping »
  • KARADAĞ Althea, CERMOM-INALCO, « Traverser, performer, transgresser: contre-cartographies des artistes femmes contemporaines de Turquie »
  • DE MARTINO Anna, Centre Georg Simmel – EHESS/ Université de Catane, « Performer la frontière, enquêter le geste cartographique »

17h30-17h45 : Conclusion de la journée / Closing remarks 

18h-19h I’m glad you’re still here. Performance artistique par Saša Tatić suivie d’une discussion / Artistic performance by Saša Tatić followed by a conversation

19h-21h : Cocktail dinatoire (Faculty Club, campus Condorcet) / Dinner reception

Continuer la lecture de Journée d’étude des doctorant·e·s du CETOBaC | Imaginaires cartographiques : Espaces et images de l’Europe centrale et orientale, de la Méditerranée orientale, du Caucase et de l’Asie centrale

GIS MOMM – Chantier prioritaire Struc-Tur : Aide à la participation à des colloques internationaux

Le GIS MOMM souhaite encourager la participation à des colloques internationaux (hors de France), afin de renforcer la présence collective des chercheur·es de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche française à l’international. 
 
Cet appel est destiné à accompagner les doctorant·es et jeunes docteur·es (jusqu’à cinq ans après la soutenance), associé·es à une structure relevant de l’enseignement et de la recherche en France (université, laboratoire, institut) et dont les travaux concernent les régions couvertes par les domaines turc, kurde et ottoman. 
 
La participation à des manifestations collectives (par exemple, la participation à des ateliers dans des congrès ou des conférences) est privilégiée par rapport à des présentations individuelles.

Date limite de candidature : 15 juin 2025