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The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University is a vibrant community of 8 lecturers, 12 postdoctoral scholars, and 40 PhD students. 

This doctoral project explores the links between African migration, genetics, and public health, by focusing on chronic kidney disease (CKD), a major and growing global health burden. 

A call for proposals to field a module of questions in Round 14 (2029/30) of the European Social Survey (ESS) is now open until Monday 27 April. This open competition offers teams of researchers the chance to include up to 30 questions on a single academic area and/or policy concern within Europe. 

The Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) is now accepting expressions of interest for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Survey Methodology. All details are available here. 

Yonsei University, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE), Bank of Korea and the Asian Development Bank, together with the World Bank Development Economics Group and the French Development Agency (AFD) request paper submissions for the 19th International Conference on Migration and Development to be held on 16-17 April 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. 

Transformations in the world of work have been supported by technological advances and, most recently, changing socio-cultural norms accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Expanded acceptance of – and desires for – remote working have underpinned the growth of ‘location-independent’ work, or ‘anywhere jobs’: skilled and relatively well-paid jobs that can be done from any location, facilitated by digital technologies. 

This book chapter provides an overview of trends in high-skilled migration policy in 31 European countries, elucidating how these policies, along with other drivers of migration, shape high-skilled migration using a multi-disciplinary approach.

In dominant Western European discourse, migration continues to be framed through the language of emergency: as a humanitarian crisis, a geopolitical threat, or an exception to the “norm.” This framing narrows the horizon of analysis and response. From oral testimony and archival recovery, to embodied methods, health justice and beyond, we invite researchers across disciplines to submit papers that challenge migration as a permanent state of emergency. We welcome contributions that explore the lived and collective experiences of migration as sites of knowledge production, cultural formation and political struggle, through the following themes: 

We are delighted to announce the track “From Geopolitics to Digital Frontiers: Rethinking HRM and Global Mobility of Labour” as part of The 14th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network 2026, taking place on 9-11 November 2026 in Ghent, Belgium. 

Livable Cities 2026 is an international and interdisciplinary conference and publication series. Bringing together universities and scholars globally, it examines diverse readings of the history, culture, design, management and experience of life in cities. Previous conferences in have been held in New York, London, Bangalore, Lisbon, Barcelona, Calgary and elsewhere. The 2026 annual conference to be held on 17-19 June, 2026, is organised with the University of Salford, Manchester, UK. It is subtitled ‘Critiquing the Urban Renaissance’. 

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Papers, Panels, and Workshops for the IRIS 2026 international conference, titled Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism. 

You are invited to submit a paper proposal for the conference ‘Identities and Law: How the Law Shapes the Senses of Belonging.’