Category Archives: Calls for Papers

CFP | Postcoloniality, Decolonisation, and Anticolonial Thought from Non-Western Perspectives

One-day academic workshop hosted by CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague) and co-organised by Dilnur REYHAN, Shaivya MISHRA, and Zbyněk MUCHA (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences).

Dates: September 17, 2026
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Submission deadline: July 31, 2026

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CFP | Tensions : Tradition/Innovation – Authenticity/Alienation

34th Jan Hus Association Summer School

Organizers : Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences & the Department of Roman Languages and Intercultural Communication of the Faculty of Applied Languages, University of Economics in Bratislava.

Date: 1st – 5th July 2026
Location: Smolenice (Slovakia)
Language: French
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026

Coordination:
Andrea Tureková (andrea_turekova@yahoo.fr)
Róbert Karul  (robert.karul@savba.sk)

Abstract 

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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

Acces the event program.

Presentation

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CFP | Walls & Borders

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:

  • Falk Bretschneider (EHESS / IFRA-SHS)
  • Mateusz Chmurski (Sorbonne University / CEFRES)
  • Gilles de Rapper (EFA)

Find here the complete program of the workshop.
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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

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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 the event program here.
Download the offical poster here.

(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