CFP: 2026 Conference “Ritualizing Nature, Ritualizing Care”

A conference on the theme of “Ritualizing Nature, Ritualizing Care” will be held at Université Côte d’Azur (Campus Carlone) in Nice, France, October 24–27, 2026.

The challenges of this conference consist of linking current debates concerning the relativization of the notion of “nature” (Descola, Abram, Tsing, Kohn), on the one hand, and those postulating the growing need for a thought of “care” (Gilligan, Mol, Kleinman, Nussbaum), on the other hand.

The conference is organized by the LAPCOS UPR 7278 research unit and the Department of Ethnology-Anthropology at Université Côte d’Azur, in partnership with the French Ethnological Society (SEF), the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), and the FER-Eurethno network (Council of Europe).

Paper proposals (in English or French) should be sent directly to colloquelapcos2026@gmail.com by December 31, 2025, as a Word file indicating the name and institutional affiliation of the author(s), the title of the proposed paper, and a 250- to 500-word abstract specifying the topic, the theoretical framework, and the methodology.