The Forbidden Garden of Europe

The European legislative act from 2016 instated a list of 35 invasive plant species which are to be eradicated and banned from European soil. This means that these plants have been degraded to a minority that cannot be traded, imported, sold or grown within the borders of the European Union. Studio Wild wants to question this European legislation, provoking a discussion on whether spatial, legal and social restrictions contribute to a more inclusive society.

Studio Wild’s exhibition space at the Venice Biennale Architettura will host a garden of ‘invasive alien plant species’, which have been listed for their ethnic and biological characteristics and pose a threat to European native species. Their aim is to create a parallel between the fate of these species and the fate of many of our neighbors who struggle to find common ground in Europe just because they are different.

 

Studio Wild will enclose a garden in a cave like space. A forbidden garden with a secretive or hidden atmosphere in which these forbidden plants can live in a salvaged environment. Slim bundles of light illuminate individual species which grow on small hills. This organisation portrays a protective and monumental feel, strongly contrasting their current cultural and social environment depicted by exclusion.

 

The Forbidden Garden of Europe

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Call for Rachel Carson - Simone Veil Fellows 2022

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Project House Europe, both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, invite applications for their joint fellowship.

The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) fosters innovative research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Project House Europe (PHE) promotes cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of Europe during the 20th and 21st centuries.

As international and interdisciplinary research centers, they award one joint fellowship to a postdoctoral or senior scholar working across disciplines and striving to contribute to the public dialogue on contemporary European environmental history.

Applicants’ research and writing should encompass the central themes of both the RCC and the PHE: Research at the RCC is concerned with questions of the interrelationship between environment and society, and the social, political, cultural, and environmental factors shaping this interrelationship. PHE focuses on the history of Europe’s inner (dis‑)entanglements and its place in the world since 1918, in particular forms of trans- and international cooperation and their crises.

Terms

Fellows will be based in the heart of Munich at either the RCC or PHE and have no teaching obligation. They are expected to spend their fellowship in residence, to work on a major project, and to participate actively in life at RCC and PHE, including a presentation of their work. The fellowship does not support field trips or archival research. Fellowships can be granted for a period of one to three months. Fellowships may begin on 25 April 2022, or the first day of any of the following months; they end on or before 29 July 2022. RCC and PHE offer time, guidance, and space for dialogue to conduct excellent research. We provide an office space and access to LMU’s facilities. The fellowship also covers economy travel to and from Munich, a monthly living allowance and an accommodation allowance. Health insurance and other social benefits are not part of the fellowship and remain the responsibility of the fellow.

How to apply

Applications must be received by 29 July 2021. The application (in English) should include the following:

  • Cover letter (750 words maximum), including preferred dates and duration;
  • Curriculum vitae (3 pages maximum);
  • Project description (1,000 words maximum);
  • Names and contact information of three scholars as references. These should be people who know you and your work well. Please note that we do not initially require letters, and we will not necessarily contact your referees.

Please send all application documents electronically as a single PDF file to Thomas Süsler‑Rohringer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.AND to Arielle Helmick (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

 

Enquiries should be directed to Thomas Süsler-Rohringer or Arielle Helmick.

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Sintidus - chamada para artigos

Sintidus,

Prolonga o prazo para o envio de artigos para aquele que virá a ser o número especial natureza-sociedade.

A chamada para artigos permanecerá aberta até 15 de julho de 2021.

Mais informações: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A interface natureza-sociedade tem sido amplamente discutida através de diferentes perspetivas interdisciplinares e tem merecido renovada atenção no âmbito do presente contexto climático. Este número especial pretende refletir sobre o cruzamento entre a sociedade e a natureza no contexto dos desafios socioecológicos contemporâneos tendo a Guiné-Bissau como foco agregador.

A contemporaneidade guineense é marcada por fenómenos, processos e contextos que servem de inspiração a esta chamada para artigos, mas que não esgotam as possibilidades de análise. Entre eles nomeamos alguns que julgamos importantes para contribuir para pensar a sustentabilidade, a justiça ambiental e a coexistência, tais como: (a) a pesca, diversa relativamente aos tipos e esforços de captura, é uma importante fonte de receita nacional e importante fonte de alimento e de renda, (b) a produção de castanha de caju, também relevante do ponto de vista da geração de receita nacional e familiar, transformou consideravelmente as paisagens socioambientais, (c) a desflorestação e a exploração capitalista de recursos florestais, mencionada várias vezes nos meios de comunicação, tem merecido menos atenção pela academia, (d) as dimensões socioecológicas das áreas protegidas, que atualmente representam uma parte considerável do território guineense, aparecem como fundamentais para a continuidade dos modos de vida rurais, (e) a interação entre humanos e não-humanos em contextos agroflorestais é relevante para delinear futuros de coexistência, (f) a expansão urbana apresenta desafios à ecologia e agricultura urbanas,  (g) a gestão de resíduos formal e informal, e as suas possibilidades de processamento, são cruciais à salubridade do espaço público, (h) o aquecimento global e as alterações climáticas colocam sérios riscos à agricultura e modos de vida tais como os conhecemos, (i) o extrativismo e os grandes empreendimentos infraestruturais acarretam impactes socioambientais e, por fim, (j) os saberes ecológicos locais e tradicionais, e sua relação com outros saberes, merecem ser perspetivados através da noção de justiça cognitiva. Perspetivas da ecologia política, ecologia humana, história, antropologia e sociologia ambientais, e outras afins são bem-vindas.

Solicitamos envio de artigos para This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. As normas para autores podem ser consultadas em http://sintidus.blogspot.com/p/instrucoes-para-autores.html

A organização deste número especial conta com a participação de Ilsa Cá e Sá (Centro de Estudos Sociais Amílcar Cabral, CESAC), Joana Sousa (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, CES-UC), Raul Fernandes (Universidade Amílcar Cabral, UAC) e Rui Sá (Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas - Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa, CAPP/ISCSP).

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Website of the IV Meeting of REPORT(H)A (14-16 October 2021)

Caros membros da REPORT(H)A

é com grato prazer que os convidamos a visitar o site do IV Encontro da REPORT(H)A - Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental, entre 14 e 16 de outubro de 2021. O encontro adota, numa perspetiva interdisciplinar, o título Sapiens, Saúde e Ambiente - Limites Naturais e Artificiais https://www.reporthameeting2021.com/

 

A data limite para envio de propostas de comunicação e posters é 6 de julho.

O encontro é organizado pelo Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura (CHSC), em parceria com o Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Coimbra (iii- UC) e outros Centros de investigação da Universidade de Coimbra.

 

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Dear members of REPORT(H)A

 

We invite you to visit the website of the IV Meeting of REPORT(H)A - Portuguese Network of Environmental History, between 14 and 16 October 2021.

The meeting adopts, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the title Sapiens, Health and the Environment - Natural and Artificial Frontiers https://www.reporthameeting2021.com/

Deadline for abstract and posters submission 6 July 2021

 

The meeting is organized by the Centre for History of Society and Culture (CHSC), in partnership with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra (iii-UC) and other research centers of the University of Coimbra.

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THE NETWOOD ONLINE CONFERENCE 24-25 JUNE 2021

"NETWOOD”: WOOD NETWORKS IN EGYPT FROM ANTIQUITY TO ISLAMIC TIMES / LES RÉSEAUX DU BOIS EN ÉGYPTE DE L’ANTIQUITÉ AUX PÉRIODES ISLAMIQUE

The "NetWood" conference aims to study in a diachronic and transdisciplinary way the economic and social networks that have developed in Egypt around the use of wood, from the Predynastic to the Ottoman period.

Initially planned for 2020, the NetWood conference will be organised online via the Zoom platform on 24 and 25 June 2021 during two
mornings of conferences that will follow the original programme, which you may find at

<http://www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/Online_NetWood_2021.pdf>

Participation in the conference is free but requires prior registration. To do so, please send an email to the following address:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


The NetWood team


J. Auber de Lapierre (Collège de France, BnF / CéSor),
G. Eschenbrenner Diemer (Université de Jaén / ArScAn),
V. Schram (MF University, Oslo / Orient & Méditerranée)

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CFP: The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference

Call for Papers - The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference

Aarhus University, Denmark

29 june –1 July 2022

Conference theme: Technology, Environment and Resources

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2021

The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference will as usual be open to all topics and themes. The special theme of this conference will be the history of interactions between technology, the environment and resources. It aims to explore connections between aspects such as scientific exploration, technological development, resource exploitation and use, resource markets and environmental change by investigating both scientific and technological practices as well as narratives and perspectives related to natural resources and environmental issues. The conference places particular emphasis on processes of circulation and appropriation of knowledge, ideas, technologies and resources across space and time in all historical periods and at local, regional and global scales.

Proposals can be submitted via the conference website (https://conferences.au.dk/toe10/) from 1 September 2021.

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CfP: IV Meeting of REPORT(H)A 14th to 16th October

Call for papers - IV Meeting of REPORT(H)A – the Portuguese Network of Environmental History, between 14th to 16th October 2021. The meeting adopts, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the title Sapiens, Health and the Environment - Natural and Artificial Boundaries.

 

6 July 2021 – Deadline for abstract submission

30 July 2021 – Notification of proposals acceptance

1 August 2021 – 10 October 2021 – Registration for attendance 

15 September 2021 – Registration deadline for people with accepted communications

 

Callpaper_ IVReport(h)a Meeting.pdf

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ESEH next biennial ordinary general meeting (OGM) Announce

Dear members of the ESEH,

I'm writing today to announce our next biennial ordinary general meeting (OGM), which will take place as an online event despite the fact that we postponed the Bristol conference to 2022. There are indeed a number of institutional duties that we have to accomplish independently of the fact that we will not have a physical meeting: approve the activities of the outgoing board, assess the society's finances, decide possible changes to the membership fees and vote for a new board, some regional representatives, and the financial control committee.

The OGM will take place on July 9, 2021 at 11:00 CEST as a Zoom webinar. The outgoing board will present the relevant reports for the past two years and the candidates for the new board will briefly introduce themselves. Questions will be taken in written form on Zoom's chat and answered live during the webinar.

Elections will take place as a Surveymonkey poll. Details about all candidates running for the different open positions are available on our website: http://eseh.org/events/eseh-nominations-page-2021/<https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=bce3f5efed&e=ea0772fc2f>. Current members will receive an email invitation that will allow them to anonymously vote once. The email will be sent right after the OGM. Please make sure to check your spam folder for emails from Surveymonkey.

The poll will stay open for 5 days so as to allow the greatest possible participation. A further email will be circulated a week after the OGM to inform you of the results.

Please attend the OGM. In case we don't reach the quorum we will have to call another OGM on a later date and postpone the elections as well.

If you want to participate in the OGM and vote and you haven't paid your dues for 2021 yet, please make sure to do so by June 25, 2021. All information in this regard is also available on our website: http://eseh.org/membership/renew-your-membership/<https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=53239b75e7&e=ea0772fc2f>.

The link to the Zoom webinar will be shared with members in good standing with membership fees in a separate email after the cut off date for renewals mentioned above.

The GA will be included in an exciting two-day program of events and discussions we will announce with a separate message. Stay tuned...

All best,
Marco Armiero
President of the European Society for Environmental History

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