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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.

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?

 

AAC- Carcéralité(s) politique(s) en Europe centrale, orientale et balkanique aux XXe et XXIe siècles

La journée d’étude se déroulera le vendredi 7 novembre 2025 à la maison de la recherche de l’Inalco, 2 rue de Lille (Paris, 7e).

Les candidats transmettront le 12 mai 2025 au plus tard, par courriel, aux organisateurs un rapide résumé de la présentation envisagée (2 000 signes maximum) accompagné d’un curriculum vitae académique comportant une notice biographique et bibliographique (2 pages maximum) à : matthieu.boisdron@proton.me et lucie.raskin@inalco.fr. L’examen de la candidature sera réalisé par le comité scientifique.

La privation totale ou partielle de la liberté d’aller et de venir constitue un des moyens les plus courants de la répression politique. Qu’elle prenne la forme d’une relégation stricte ou d’une assignation à résidence, qu’elle se double ou pas de mauvais traitements, elle répond à la nécessité pour un pouvoir de limiter les effets d’une contestation sur le corps social et politique sur lequel il exerce son autorité. La sévérité du régime de privation de liberté dépend donc à la fois du niveau de la menace estimée par les pouvoirs publics, mais aussi de la nature et du degré de répression que ces derniers sont résolus à exercer sur leurs opposants. Si l’existence de prisonniers politiques n’est pas l’apanage des dictatures ou des pays autoritaires, elle reste fortement corrélée à l’affaissement des libertés publiques et individuelles et à l’exercice d’une forme d’arbitraire. Elle est donc plus courante là où la règle de droit, d’essence démocratique, est inexistante ou particulièrement affaiblie. Elle peut néanmoins prendre des formes très variées selon les situations ou les périodes considérées.

Les conflits et/ou les transformations soudaines et radicales des régimes politiques vers des expériences autoritaires – une réalité qui concerne particulièrement l’Europe centrale, orientale et balkanique au XXe siècle – sont ainsi propices au surgissement des prisonniers politiques, que l’on songe aux expériences révolutionnaires communistes de la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, à l’avènement de régimes fascistes, autoritaires et dictatoriaux dans les années 1930, ou enfin à la soviétisation d’une large partie de l’Europe après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Si l’emprisonnement des opposants répond à une nécessité identifiée par un régime politique, il ne s’agit pas d’un jeu à somme nulle. Les victimes de la répression peuvent en effet s’en saisir comme d’un moyen contribuant à populariser avec succès la lutte engagée. L’expérience de la carcéralité contribue également à la politisation des acteurs, que ce soit par la diffusion de pratiques collectives ou par l’élaboration théorique ou doctrinale qu’elle alimente.

Cette journée d’étude a ainsi pour ambition d’interroger :

  • le sens et la nature des carcéralités politiques selon les types de régimes ou les périodes ;
  • le rôle des acteurs des carcéralités politiques, qu’il s’agisse en premier lieu des prisonniers politiques, de leur image ou de leur statut pendant et après leur captivité, de la légitimité que confère la détention politique, ou encore des administrations et des pouvoirs politiques à l’origine de ces mises en détention ;
  • la place des lieux ou anciens lieux de captivité comme espace de politisation ou comme source d’identité politique et/ou de conflits mémoriels ;
  • les productions politiques en milieu carcéral.

En étendant à dessein le champ chronologique au XXIe siècle, les organisateurs souhaitent faire dialoguer histoire et science politique et encouragent les éventuels contributeurs à se saisir des enjeux très contemporains de cette question à travers la situation de certains pays installés aux marges de l’Europe politique (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavie…).

Certains frais, notamment de transport, pourront éventuellement être pris en charge par les organisateurs. Les contributeurs venant de l’étranger seront néanmoins prioritaires au regard des fonds disponibles pour la mise en œuvre de cet événement scientifique. Nous invitons donc les participants à solliciter leur organisme de rattachement.

Partenaires :

  • SFHPo – Société française d’histoire politique.
  • Inalco / CREE – Centre de recherche Europes-Eurasie.

Comité d’organisation :

  • Matthieu Boisdron
  • Lucie Raskin

Comité scientifique :

  • Anne Madelain, maîtresse de conférences (Inalco).
  • Christine Manigand, professeure des universités (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3).
  • Étienne Boisserie, professeur des universités (Inalco).
  • Isabelle Davion, maîtresse de conférences (Sorbonne Université).

Call for Papers : Perspectives on art histories in the Balkans (18-20 March 2026, Paris, INHA)

PERSPECTIVES ON ART HISTORIES IN THE BALKANS
Actors, Networks, and Practices from the Early Modern to the Contemporary
18-20 March 2026, Paris, INHA

/for French, see below/

Vlado Martek, USA – Balkan, 2019, peinture murale, vue d’installation dans l’exposition “With Many Titles”, Rijeka, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2019. Courtesy Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia and the artist. Photo credit: Damir Žižić

Les résumés sont attendus avant le 30 juin 2025, et seront adressés à l’adresse suivante : conferenceartsbalkans@gmail.com
Sélection des communications retenues : septembre 2025

Proposals are due by June 30, 2025, and should be sent to the following address: conferenceartsbalkans@gmail.com
We shall review all proposals during September 2025.

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The symposium “Perspectives on Art Histories in the Balkans: Actors, Networks, and Practices from the Early Modern to the Contemporary” is designed to be a forum for dialogue between academic researchers and cultural players. Devoted to the visual art of the Balkans, this will be the first of a series of triannual meetings bringing together in one place the fields of art research and artistic creation. The symposium is organized by a number of French research centers, and will be held at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. With the goal of stimulating new dynamics of research, it is open to the entire range of topics addressed by such disciplines as art history, the history of architecture, and the history of cinema.

In the absence of a French specific tradition in the art history of the modern and contemporary Balkans, other disciplines (history, sociology, geography, anthropology, political science, and literature and language studies) have filled the void, supplying their various viewpoints on the objects of study. French and Francophone research is, in fact, made up of these contributions, and it is strongly marked by these intersecting methodologies and epistemologies. The same is true geographically, since the art of the Balkans has often been studied as a part of wider areal, political, or confessional frameworks. As a result of these boundary crossings, it has become possible to analyze artistic practices through transdisciplinary and transnational perspectives. Today, a new generation of specialists and researchers, as well as cultural players, are continuing these investigations, with conscious attention given to formal and aesthetic questions.

This conference takes its place, therefore, within the new academic tendency seeking to reevaluate, in terms of content and methodology, the frames of reference underpinning the study of the arts. The approach will be primarily diachronic (following initial artistic creation through its transformations), with the aim of establishing dialogue between studies of imperial dynamics in the modern era and research on the contemporary Balkans. Such boundary crossing will make possible the study of the formal, conceptual, and material development of the artworks by bringing to light borrowings, overlappings, and tensions. By including this wider historical dimension, the conference aims to explore, beyond heritage studies, the multi-faceted materiality of artworks.

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Appel à communications | 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

Mercredi 11 juin 2025
EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2 Cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers

Les personnes intéressées pourront soumettre leur proposition jusqu’au 30 mars 2025 par courriel à l’adresse suivante :

<jdcetobac2025(at)gmail.com>

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, “Made in Turkey II,” (detail), 2,40 x 3,40 m. 2005. Courtesy of the artist

Au XXe siècle, l’effondrement d’empires (ottoman, austro-hongrois, russe/soviétique) ou d’États multiethniques (Yougoslavie) a reconfiguré les territoires de l’Europe centrale et orientale, de la Méditerranée orientale, du Caucase et en Asie centrale. Les (re)délimitations de l’espace ont déplacé des communautés, restreint la mobilité et redessiné des régions, de même que leur réseau de communication. Tout au long de l’histoire, la cartographie n’a pas seulement enregistré les ambitions impérialistes et colonialistes, elle a également joué un rôle crucial dans la construction des nations, à mesure que ces régions se re-définissaient. Bien que les cartes suggèrent un régime visuel basé sur l’abstraction, les expériences vécues et les pratiques incarnées des individus et des communautés affectées par la transformation de ces régions ont refaçonné l’espace de manière différente de ses représentations officielles : les routes migratoires établissant un réseau de lieux autrefois non connectés ; les croquis de mémoire des réfugiés sur leurs patries perdues exprimant des imaginaires cartographiques ; les interventions artistiques dans l’espace évoquant la dérive situationniste, une approche expérientielle de l’espace révélant des connexions et des récits cachés au sein du tissu urbain et social. Ces approches incarnées et phénoménologiques constituent un savoir spatial « situé », tel que l’a introduit Donna Haraway dans son essai fondamental « Les savoirs situés » (1988), ayant un impact significatif sur la discipline de la géographie. Le concept de « savoir situé » a influencé les méthodologies des études spatiales, soulignant comment le savoir géographique reflète souvent des cadres coloniaux, nationalistes, patriarcaux ou capitalistes. De même, l’essor d’un « tournant spatial » dans les études consacrées à l’Europe centrale et orientale, à la Méditerranée orientale, au Caucase et en Asie centrale ouvre la voie à une relecture critique des narrations territoriales et identitaires, tout en valorisant de nouvelles approches multi-situées et décentrées. 

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Call for Papers Central European History Conference (“ASEEES in Europe”) / Appel à communications Conférence sur l’histoire de l’Europe centrale (“ASEEES en Europe”))

Central European History Convention
July 17th—19th 2025, University of Vienna / in person (not hybrid)
Further information: ceh-c.univie.ac.at
Deadline for proposals: January 31st 2025

Notification: February 24th 2025

In July 2025 the University of Vienna and the Institute of Austrian Historical Research will host the first Central European History Convention (CEH-C). This event is dedicated to providing a platform for exchange on Central European History from the late medieval period to the mid-20th century, with a focus on the lands of the former Habsburg Empire and its neighbors (including the territories of the former Ottoman empire).

We want to create a space in Europe where colleagues from many different parts of the world can share and discuss findings, methodologies, and ideas across regions, disciplines, and national/language traditions. We invite scholars from all historically oriented fields at any point in their academic career to submit a paper proposal and/or attend. We particularly encourage PhD students to apply. The goal of this convention is to facilitate international dialogue about the history of this region, with a special focus on building networks and frameworks for comparative research.

Submissions should be done on an individual basis. The Program Committee will organize the panels with an eye toward fostering new networks and conversations.
This convention requires no participation fees and offers extremely economically viable housing costs, with financial support for travel and housing available for those in need.
This year’s three-day conference will feature a keynote by Professor Tara Zahra (University of Chicago) and a panel discussion on the work and influence of Professor Pieter Judson (European University Institute, retired).

English will be the spoken language of conference presentations, but scholars from all linguistic backgrounds are welcome to participate.
The CEH-C invites proposals for contributions on, but not limited to, new approaches to the following subjects as they pertain to Central European Studies:
• Cultural History
• Economic History
• Global History
• Intellectual History
• Political History
• Social History
• Administrative/
Bureaucratic History

• Business History
• History of Diplomacy
• Dynastic History
• Environmental History
• History of Gender and
Sexuality
• Legal History
• Media and Communication

• Military History
• History of Science &
Technology
• Urban History
• Digital Humanities
• Memory Culture

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Call for Papers: “Generations of memory in Turkey and the Middle East” at GIS MOMM 2025: Strasbourg, France: June 25-27 2025

  • Congrès du 24 au 27 juin 2025
  • Propositions de communications à envoyer d’ici le 8 décembre 2024

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à soumettre des propositions de communication pour notre panel Générations de mémoire en Turquie et au Moyen-Orient : comparaisons, transferts, circulations/Generations of Memory in Turkey and the Middle East: Comparisons, Transfers, Circulations, dans le cadre de la sixième édition du Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et l’Islam, organisé par le GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, qui se tiendra à l’Université de Strasbourg (France) du 24 au 27 juin 2025.

Organisé par Lucie Drechselová (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS) et Lorenzo D’Orsi (Università degli Studi di Foggia), cette session (https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/580933/document) invite les chercheurs à explorer les expériences générationnelles au Moyen-Orient et en Turquie à travers le prisme de la mémoire. Nous accueillons des communications en anglais et en français. La description du panel en anglais et en français est jointe.

Merci de soumettre vos résumés via le formulaire en ligne d’ici le 8 décembre 2024. Plus de détails sont disponibles sur le site du GIS MOMM.

Au plaisir de vous lire et de vous retrouver lors du GIS MOMM 2025.

Les organisateurs

Lucie Drechselová, Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC) –  École des hautes études en Sciences sociales (EHESS),

Lorenzo D’Orsi, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università degli Studi di Foggia (UNIFG) – Italia. 

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Congress from June 24 to 27, 2025
Proposals for papers to be sent by December 8, 2024

We are pleased to invite submissions of papers for our panel Generations of memory in Turkey and the Middle East: comparisons, transfers, circulations / Générations de mémoire en Turquie et au Moyen-Orient: comparaisons, transferts, circulations, at the sixth edition of the Congress of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, organised by the GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, taking place at the University of Strasbourg (France) on 24-27 June 2025. 

Convened by Dr. Lucie Drechselová (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS) and Dr. Lorenzo D’Orsi (Università degli Studi di Foggia), this session (https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/580933/document) invites scholars to discuss generational experiences in the Middle East and Turkey through the lens of memory. We welcome papers in both English and French. The panel description in English and in French is attached.  

Please submit your abstracts via the online form by 8 December 2024. More details are available on the GIS MOMM website.

We look forward to your contributions and to an inspiring dialogue at GIS MOMM 2025.

Convenors  

Lucie Drechselová, Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC) –  École des hautes études en Sciences sociales (EHESS),

Lorenzo D’Orsi, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università degli Studi di Foggia (UNIFG) – Italia.