The MSH will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025–2026 and will mark the occasion by organizing its first Spring of the Social Sciences and Humanities, featuring an exhibition and a series of workshops focused on the places where knowledge in the social sciences and humanities is produced and disseminated.

The aim is to show how SSH researchers ground their work in everyday settings, addressing major societal issues in collaboration with a wide range of actors, and to share research outputs intended for a broad audience.

In this context, we are launching a call to all SSH researchers who would like to contribute to the exhibition in the following format:

• 2 or 3 photographs of places that are representative of your research: a field site, an object, people (with image rights respected), an event, etc.

• A short text of around half a page commenting on the photograph(s), describing and contextualizing the chosen location, and briefly outlining the key issues of your research.
  
  

Some examples:

• You are working on social movements and gender and have powerful photos of feminist protests at the heart of your research;

• Your research focuses on tools of cultural resistance in South America and you have striking images of street art in Brazil;

• You study literature of exile and have a photo of a rare handwritten document from a writer and a map of their exile journey;

• and so on.

Feel free to send your proposal to Vanessa.frangville@ulb.be. Research doesn’t only happen in lab coats with test tubes—this is a great opportunity to showcase your work and the essential role of the social sciences and humanities!

Best regards,
The MSH