Tag: FMSH

FMSH: Themis Programme 2026 (France)

FellowshipsThemis Mobility Programme, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 28 November 2025.

The FMSH supports the intellectual community in countries affected by various obstacles to academic freedom. The THÉMIS mobility programme is dedicated to researchers whose fields and research are subject to restrictions.

The programme offers mobility grants for stays in France of 1 to 3 months to researchers of all nationalities facing obstacles to their academic freedom in their countries of origin.

The grant is intended for research work in France: fieldwork, library, and archival work. An allowance of €2,000 is awarded to grant holders to cover travel and living expenses.

Only the profiles of Thémis researchers who request it are published on the FMSH website.

FMSH: DEA Programme 2026 (France)

FellowshipsDEA Programme, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 28 November 2025.

The DEA Program offers university professors from around the world the opportunity to carry out research in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) in France during stays of four to six weeks. Each year, the programme supports up to 30 projects, with a selection rate of approximately 30%.

Particular consideration is given to applications from countries where funding opportunities for the humanities and social sciences are limited, as well as to scholars for whom a stay in France would provide a significant opportunity to foster scientific collaboration.

Established in 1975 at the initiative of Fernand Braudel, the “Directeurs d’Études Associés” (DEA) Programme is the oldest international mobility scheme of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

FMSH: Themis Programme: US Scholars (France)

FellowshipsThemis Mobility Programme: Researchers residing in the United States, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 30 June 2025.

Given the current context in the United States, the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) is creating a specific programme of mobility grants to France for researchers residing in the United States. Launched as part of the Themis mobility programme, active for the past three years, this call aims to support intellectuals operating in environments marked by obstacles to academic freedom. It offers a 2- to 3-month research stay in France, enabling selected candidates to pursue their work in the humanities and social sciences—whether through fieldwork, library research, or archival investigations—within a free and intellectually stimulating academic environment.

Target Audience: Researchers currently residing in the United States. Status and Diploma: Applicants must be attached to a private or public higher education research institution / research institute and hold a research doctorate. Candidates must be under 65 years of age at the time of their stay. Discipline: candidates must be engaged in research in the humanities and social sciences. French Host Institution: Before submitting their application, applicants will have to find a French research institution to host them for the time of their stay.

CFP: FMSH: Bibliothèque allemande (France)

“Publication

Call for proposals: Collection Bibliothèque allemande, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France. Deadline: 31 May 2025.

To foster intellectual exchange between France and German-speaking countries, the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, supported by the Goethe-Institut Paris, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Centre Georg Simmel – Franco-German Research in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, promotes the translation of significant German-language contributions in the humanities and social sciences into French.

The « Bibliothèque allemande » collection, published by the Éditions de la MSH rcompiles key texts from the humanities and social sciences that have made fundamental contributions to academic discourse in their respective fields. The translation program aims to make important scholarly works from German-speaking countries accessible to a French-speaking audience.

The program seeks monographs (up to 800,000 characters) that have had a significant impact on intellectual thought and academic debate in German-speaking countries in recent years or offer innovative and original responses to current issues. The works should appeal to a broad, intellectually curious readership; purely qualification-based works (such as PhD theses) are excluded.

FMSH: Trilateral “Villa Vigoni” Workshops (France, Italy, Germany)

GrantsTrilateral “Villa Vigoni” workshops (France, Germany, Italy), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 13 April 2025.

In order to promote the exchange between researchers active in France, Germany, and Italy and the construction of scientific networks within the humanities and social sciences, as well as to explicitly encourage the use of French, German, and Italian as scientific languages, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and the Villa Vigoni have set up the “Trilateral Workshops” program. Applications for this program can come from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. They will be selected on the basis of a competitive evaluation procedure.

Each trilateral workshop consists of a series of three scientific meetings, organized at the rate of one meeting per year. They will all take place at Villa Vigoni (located on the shores of Lake Como). The participants in the Workshops form a core group of 12 (minimum) to 16 (maximum) researchers coming, if possible in a balanced way, from the three partner countries and from different institutions within the same country. This group will remain the same for all meetings.

The submission of the project and the coordination of each workshop are ensured by a group of three researchers active respectively in France, Germany and Italy. The project leaders guarantee that they have an institutional affiliation (university, research organization, etc.) for the duration of the proposed project.

The participation of researchers at the beginning of their career is highly desirable. In order to facilitate the submission of a project, postdocs (up to 6 years after the defense of the thesis) may choose to submit their application in a reduced format. This variant is only possible if at least two of the three project leaders and at least half of the participants are in the post-doctoral phase defined above. In this case, the conditions are as follows: support for two years for two (instead of three) meetings and with a group of 9 (minimum) to 12 (maximum) participants; each of the three partner countries must be represented by at least 2 (if there are more than 9 participants, by at least 3) persons.

FMSH: Franco Nordic Program Grants (France, Norway)

GrantsFranco Nordic Program grants, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 11 April 2025.

This program, led by the University Centre of Norway in Paris (CUNP) and the FMSH, aims to promote research collaboration in the field of human and social sciences and support the development of new scientific cooperation projects between French and Nordic researchers (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic). The call is open to researchers of all disciplines in the human and social sciences, starting at the doctoral level, for trilateral projects with a duration of 3 years (2026-28).

  • The project team must involve at least 3 researchers from 3 higher education institutions: 1 from Norway, who will be the project coordinator, 1 from France, and 1 from another Nordic country (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden).
  • Only the norwegian coordinator has to have a permanent position and be attached to one of the following universities which will host the project during its entire duration: University of Oslo (UiO), University of Bergen (UiB), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norwegian Arctic University (UiT).
  • The other members of the team can be PhD students, post-doctoral fellows or researchers, either statutory or associated with a higher education institution in France or in another Nordic country.
  • The activities presented must take place in the countries of the project teams.
  • If necessary, it is possible to integrate a 4th partner from outside the Nordic countries: in this case, the relevance of its participation must be detailed in the project and the latter must provide co-financing.

MOOC on Racism and Antisemitism

This just came to my attention. I’m publishing the notice in French because the course will be in French, so if you can’t read this, you probably can’t benefit from the course. 

Le racisme et l’antisémitisme

Un Mooc pour réfléchir à l’action antiraciste
offered by FMSH: fondation maison des sciences de l’homme

Le racisme et l’antisémitisme sont des notions sujettes à bien des interprétations, analyses et discours. Elles nous sont familières, mais les difficultés surgissent dès qu’il s’agit de les définir avec précision.

Ce Mooc propose d’abord un état des lieux, d’une part historique, et d’autre part consacré à l’actualité de ces phénomènes, avant de réfléchir à l’action antiraciste.

Dans quelle mesure le racisme et l’antisémitisme sont-ils indissociables des mutations de nos sociétés occidentales ? Comment les crises politiques et économiques, la fracture sociale et la fragmentation culturelle ou encore l’hypermédiatisation influencent-elles l’évolution de ces phénomènes ? Quel type d’actions peut-on entreprendre pour lutter ?

Original, ce Mooc repose en majorité sur des entretiens initiés et conduits par le sociologue Michel Wieviorka. Ces entretiens donnent de l’épaisseur, de la vitalité et un certain dynamisme à la réflexion sur ces questions très délicates. Dans ce cadre, les intervenants sont en position de préciser leur pensée à travers le dialogue et non pas seulement de délivrer un savoir. Le public a de son côté, la possibilité d’entrer dans leur réflexion et d’observer leur cheminement intellectuel.

Les plus grands spécialistes français et internationaux ont été sollicités pour discuter des expressions et des formes que peuvent prendre le racisme et l’antisémitisme, mais aussi pour parler des doctrines et théories qui en sont le socle. L’action antiraciste est également au cœur des questionnements de ce Mooc, son développement et son renforcement par la connaissance en sont un des objectifs principaux.

Format
Ce Mooc se construit en 5 semaines thématiques. Chaque semaine est composée de vidéos et d’un module complémentaire (infographies, images d’archives, extraits de films documentaires, documents sonores, graphiques etc.) qui permettra d’aller plus loin dans la réflexion. A la fin de chaque semaine, vous pourrez tester vos connaissances.

Prérequis
Ce Mooc ne nécessite aucun prérequis spécifique, il est adapté et ouvert à tout public désireux d’élargir ses questionnements et de renforcer ses connaissances sur le racisme et l’antisémitisme. Il vise néanmoins plus particulièrement à former des éducateurs exerçant au sein de l’enseignement supérieur et de recherche. Les référents « racisme et antisémitisme », récemment désignés dans les établissements d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche, et caractérisés par une grande variété de profils (enseignants-chercheurs, responsables de ressources humaines, responsables vie étudiante, directeur à la formation et à la pédagogie, etc.), sont également tout particulièrement concernés par cette formation.

Toute personne intéressée par la thématique pourra aussi y trouver des ressources et des informations pour enrichir ses connaissances.

Informations pratiques
Fin d’inscription : 22 avr 2017 | Début du Cours : 15 mar 2017 | Fin du cours : 23 avr 2017 | Effort estimé : 3 h/semaine | Langue : Français

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant !

Ce Mooc a été réalisé par FMSH-Production et se trouve en ligne sur la plateforme Fun mooc

L’enseignant
Michel Wieviorka est connu à l’échelle internationale pour ses ouvrages sur la violence et le terrorisme, mais aussi sur le racisme et l’antisémitisme, dont certains sont traduits en plusieurs langues. Il a dirigé de vastes enquêtes ayant abouti notamment à ses livres sur La France raciste (éd. du Seuil, 1992), ou sur La tentation antisémite (éd. Robert Laffont, 2005), et il a publié aussi bien des ouvrages théoriques sur ces thèmes (notamment : L’espace du racisme, éd. du seuil, 1991) que des synthèses destinées à un plus vaste public (Le racisme, une introduction, La Découverte, L’antisémitisme expliqué aux jeunes, éd. du Seuil, 2014). Docteur d’Etat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, directeur d’études à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, il est le Président du directoire de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH). Il a été directeur du Centre d’analyse et d’intervention sociologiques (CADIS, EHESS-CNRS) entre 1993 et 2009.

Les intervenants

  • Etienne Balibar : philosophe, professeur émérite de l’université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La-Défense, professeur associé à l’Université de Kingston (Londres) et Visiting Professor à l’université Columbia (New York).
  • Philippe Bataille : sociologue, directeur d’études à l’EHESS. Membre du Centre d’éthique clinique de l’hôpital Cochin.
  • Gwénaële Calvès : professeur de droit public à l’université de Cergy-Pontoise, spécialiste du droit français et européen de la non-discrimination.
  • Jean-Yves Camus : politologue, chercheur associé à l’IRIS, spécialiste des nationalismes et extrémismes en Europe. Directeur de l’Observatoire des Radicalités Politiques (ORAP), Fondation Jean Jaurès.
  • Teun Van Dijk : linguiste néerlandais, spécialiste de l’analyse critique du discours, professeur à l’Université Pompeu Fabra de Barcelone.
  • Pierre Haski : journaliste et chroniqueur international, Cofondateur de Rue89.
  • Joël Kotek : historien et politologue. Professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles et chargé de cours à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
  • Hervé Le Bras : directeur d’études à l’EHESS, directeur de recherches émérite à l’INED.
  • Nonna Mayer : directrice de recherche émérite au CNRS, rattachée au Centre d’études européennes de Sciences Po, membre de la Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme.
  • Edgar Morin : sociologue et philosophe, Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS
  • Pap N’Diaye : professeur des universités à l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Histoire nord-américaine) et directeur du département d’histoire de Science Po Paris.
  • Gérard Noiriel : directeur d’études à l’EHESS. Il conduit des recherches sur la sociohistoire de l’État-nation et de l’immigration.
  • Odile Quintin : ancienne Directrice Générale de l’Emploi et des Affaires Sociales, et de l’Education, la Jeunesse et la Culture de la Commission Européenne. Professeur à ESCP Europe et Présidente du Cercle Erasmus.
  • Andrea Rea : sociologue, professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Directeur du Groupe d’étude sur l’Ethnicité, le Racisme, les Migrations et l’Exclusion (le GERME).
  • Daniel Sabbagh : directeur de recherche à Sciences Po (CERI), co-animateur du groupe de recherche “Politiques antidiscirminatoires” et membre du comité de direction de l’Alliance de Recherche sur les Discriminations (ARDIS)
  • Jacques Sémelin : professeur à Sciences Po Paris et directeur de recherche au CNRS affecté au CERI.
  • Zeev Sternhell : historien et penseur politique israélien, titulaire de la chaire Léon-Blum de science politique à l’université hébraïque de Jérusalem.
  • Lilian Thuram : membre du Haut Conseil à l’intégration, fondateur de la Fondation Lilian Thuram-Éducation contre le racisme. Footballeur international français à la retraite.

FMSH DEA Programme (France)

Associate Research Directors (DEA), France
Deadline : June 6th, 2016

Created in 1975 upon the initiative of Fernand Braudel, in collaboration with the French Secretary of State for Universities, Department for Higher Education and Research, the DEA Programme (Directeurs d’Études Associés, or Associate Research Directors) is the oldest international mobility programme at Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme. It provides funding to invite international scientific experts from across the globe for one month to six weeks and enables them to carry out work in France (field enquiries, library work and archives).

Participation requirements
The programme is intended solely for professors and senior researchers with a PhD, or equivalent, working in institutions of higher education and research.
Applicants must be no older than 65 at the time of their stay.

Benefits
An allowance of 3 300 € is awarded for transport and stay expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries).

Applications and deadline
Applications must be submitted online the latest June 6th 2016.

Content of the application
A curriculum vitae (with date of birth)
A list of scientific publications
A research project of 4-5 pages with the dates of stay, and a bibliography
A letter of support by a French researcher is welcome

Applications should be sent via our online platform.

Once on the platform, in your online application for DEA, please select for the year of the call: 2017 and for the session of the call: Avril-Juin 2016.

For further information or if you encounter difficulties, contact us via email.

After a scientific expertise of the research projects, decisions regarding invitations are made by a commission made up of the administrator, scientific directors of the FMSH, as well as various specialists.

Results will be communicated directly to applicants by the end of October 2016.

The research stay must start no later than November 1st 2017.

CFP Transatlantic Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects

Transatlantic program for collaborative work in the field of digital humanities – Call 2016
Deadline : 16 May 2016

The Fondation Maison des Science de l’Homme has published the third call of its grant program in digital humanities. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH will co-finance transatlantic collaborative projects in the field of the digital humanities.

To strengthen its activity in the broad sphere of Digital Humanities, the FMSH seeks at present to implement a new international program of “digital philology”. To date, funded interactions in this area have been limited to exchanges within Europe. The purpose of this proposal is to create a formal organizational and funding structure for collaboration between the US and Europe in “digital literary studies”. For too long, Europe’s major projects in the digital humanities have been on a different track, as it were, from American projects. The present initiative is intended to help US and European researchers work together in an entirely new way in the field of digital literary studies, to share knowledge and methods, disseminate common practices and tools, and publicize their works.

The Program will support only research projects whose goal is to set up or to strengthen collaborations between US and European universities. It will co-finance up to 80% of the total cost of the research project per year.

Deadlines:
Applications due –  16 May 2016
Notification given – September 2016
Grant period commences – October 2016

Before submitting a proposal, potential applicants are encouraged to contact the FMSH.  Applications must be submitted electronically via the online application form

Associate Research Directors (France)

Associate Research Directors (DEA) | Second call for proposals 2016
Deadline : November 9th, 2015

Created in 1975 upon the initiative of Fernand Braudel, in collaboration with the French Secretary of State for Universities, Department for Higher Education and Research, the DEA Programme (Directeurs d’Études Associés, or Associate Research Directors) is the oldest international mobility programme at Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme. It provides funding to invite international scientific experts from across the globe for one month to six weeks and enables them to carry out work in France (field enquiries, library work and archives).

Participation requirements
The programme is intended solely for professors and senior researchers with a PhD, or equivalent, working in institutions of higher education and research.
Applicants must be no older than 65 at the time of their stay.

Benefits
An allowance of 3 300 € is awarded for transport and stay expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries).

Applications and deadline
Applications must be sent before November 9th 2015.

Content of the application
• A curriculum vitae (with date of birth)
• A list of scientific publications
• A research project (4-5 pages) with the dates of stay, and a bibliography
• A letter of support by a French researcher is welcome
• Applications should be sent via our online platform

Once on the platform, in your online application for DEA, please select for the year of the call : 2016 and for the session of the call : November 2015.

For further information or if you encounter difficulties, contact candidatures.dea@msh-paris.fr

After a scientific expertise of the research projects, decisions regarding invitations are made by a commission made up of the administrator, scientific directors of the FMSH, as well as various specialists.

Results will be communicated directly to applicants by the end of March 2016.

The research stay must start no later than November 1st 2016.