Category Archives: Calls for Papers

CFP | Gender Investigations II

European Doctoral Workshop

Fifth Doctoral Workshop organized within the cooperation agreement between EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, on the occasion of the visiting fellowship at CEFRES of Régis Schlagdenhauffen, EHESS, at CEFRES.

Date: June 10 and 11, 2026
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Languages of the workshop: English, French
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026

Convenor and chair: Regis Schlagdenhauffen, sociologist, EHESS
with the participation of:
Ioana Cîrstocea (CEFRES / CNRS)
Lucie Drechselova (EHESS)
Sébastien Roux (CNRS)

Organizers: École Universitaire de Recherche Sciences sociales du genre et de la sexualité (EUR GSST), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Institut national d’études démographiques (Ined) & CEFRES
Contact: rudolphe.mahabo@ehess.fr

Presentation

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CFP | Borders & Walls

EHESS-UMIFRE-EFA Workshop

Organizers: EHESS, EURETES « Faire société », CEFRES (Prague), CRFJ (Jerusalem), IFA SHS (Frankfurt/Main), EFA (Athenes), University of Cyprus (Nicosia)

Date: April 29–30, 2026
Location: 1 Panepistimiou Avenue, Aglantzia 2109, Cyprus, http://library.ucy.ac.cy
Languages of the workshop: English, French
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2026

Coordination:

CFP | Colliding Women

Narratives of Womanhood in the Modernisms of Central and Eastern Europe (1870-1970)

Organization Committee: Naïma Berkane, Mateusz Chmurski, Cécile Rousselet & Clara Royer

When: June 4-5, 2026
Where: Paris
Submission Guidelines: Your proposals (in French or English), in the form of a title, a summary of around 300 words and a bio-bibliographical note, should be sent by December 1, 2025 to: femininenarratives@gmail.com

Scientific Committee: Biljana Andonovska, Arnaud Bikard, Mateusz Chmurski, Alessandro Gallichio, Petra James, Luba Jurgenson, Jean-François Laplénie, Jasmina Lukić, Lena Magnone, Jelena Petrović, Alexandra Wojda Continue reading CFP | Colliding Women

CFP | Gender and Mediation

In German below

Translational and Editorial Practices in the Reception of Belgian Literature in Czech- and Germanophone Cultural Spaces during Modernism (1870–1940)

 Workshop is organised by Petra James, Hubert Roland, Quintus Immisch di Padua and Martina Mecco, MODERNITAS (MSH – Université Libre de Bruxelles)UCLouvain and CEFRES – French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences in collaboration with Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University, Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Institut of Slovak Literature, SAV.

Deadline for submissions: December 30, 2025
Date: April 15 – 17, 2026
Location
: CEFRES, Prague
Languages: English, French, Czech, German
Send an abstract of 300 words to: martina.mecco@ulb.be

(See German below)

The conference is organised as part of the FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) project entitled “Belgium ‘Read’ in German and Czech” (2024-2027), directed by Petra James (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Hubert Roland (UCLouvain). Continue reading CFP | Gender and Mediation

CFP | Queer Bookshelves and LGBTQI+ Literatures

Circulation, Anthologisation And Canon Formation In Comparative Perspective

Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2025
Date
: May 12-13, 2026
Location: Brussels
Language: English and French
Contact email: clement.dessy@ulb.be

Organizers
Mateusz CHMURSKI, CEFRES/Sorbonne Université
Clément DESSY, FNRS/Université libre de Bruxelles
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CFP | Central European Masculinities: Norms and Transgressions

The international conference is organized by the Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, within the framework of the Central European Masculinities research project.

Deadline for the submissions: June 25, 2025
Please send your proposal (title and short description) to Ivana.Taranenkova@savba.sk

Date: September 29–30, 2025
Location
: Bratislava
Conference language: English

Conference Committee

  • Judit Acsády (HUN REN)
  • Marcin Bogucki (IKP WP UW)
  • Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne)
  • Filip Mazurkiewicz (IP WH UŚ)
  • Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR)
  • Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK)
  • Wojciech Śmieja (IL WH UŚ)
  • Ivana Taranenková (ÚSlL SAV)

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