Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027

Following the success of the current edition, the Entangled Histories Seminar Series invites abstracts for its 2026–2027 cycle: 

"Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space."

This edition explores sustainability not as an exclusively environmental concern but as a multifaceted concept that intersects with borders across diverse cultural, material, and ecological contexts. 

The series adopts a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective, spanning from prehistory to the contemporary world.

Sustainability and Borders: A Broad Perspective. We seek to investigate sustainability in its multiple dimensions:

• Material sustainability: recycling of resources (manuscripts, architectural structures, waste, and landscapes).
• Ecological sustainability: relationships between humans, animals, and environments; balance between preservation and exploitation.
• Social, linguistic, and cultural sustainability: transmission of knowledge, endangered languages, healing practices, migration, and community resilience.
• Symbolic sustainability: representations of ecological limits, hybrid beings, and cultural imaginaries of nature and borders.

Conceptual Framework At the heart of the series lies the concept of borders, understood as dynamic thresholds that shape access to resources and regulate interactions. Borders are not only physical or political: they can be ecological, cultural, social, linguistic, political and material. While we encourage long-term temporalities and global spatial entanglements, we also offer the elements (earth, water, air, fire, ether, wood, etc.) as a possible heuristic framework to explore these dimensions across different historical strata.

Topics of Interest: We encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to:

• Archaeology and Prehistory: Resource use, landscapes, indigenous practices, and environmental interactions over time.
• Medieval Studies, Philology, and Manuscript Cultures: Material sustainability of manuscripts, palimpsests, intellectual ecologies, literatures and languages, and the transmission of knowledge.
• Art History and Visual Culture: Representations of nature, landscapes, borders, and material practices across different periods.
• Anthropology and Folklore: Vernacular ecological knowledge, oral traditions, liminal beings, and environmental imaginaries.
• History of Science and Medicine: Healing practices, scientific knowledge, and environmental understanding across cultures.
• Environmental Humanities and Ecology: Human–non-human relations, ecosystems, climate, and resilience.
• History of Economy, Trade, and Food Systems: Circulation of resources, subsistence, scarcity, and sustainability practices.
• Architecture and Infrastructure Studies: Built environments, water and soil management, roads, and material borders.
• Geography, Cartography, and Media Studies: Spatial representation, mapping, and communication of environmental knowledge across borders.

? High-Impact Publication Opportunity: A selection of the most significant contributions will be published in a dedicated edited volume or a special issue with a leading international publisher (past collaborations and ongoing projects include prestigious venues such as Brill, De Gruyter, and Routledge). This ensures that the research presented reaches a global audience of specialists.

Submission Guidelines

• Format: Online seminar (approximately 30-minute talk + discussion).
• Schedule: October 2026 – Summer 2027.
• Required: Title, Abstract (250–300 words), Short Bio (100–150 words), Affiliation, email address, and preferred months of availability.
• Deadline: 31 August 2026.
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Dopo i congressi internazionali di Évora (2024) e di Jaén (2025), la sede di Milano del CNR Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo con l’Università degli Studi di Milano hanno accolto l’invito ad organizzare il III Congresso Internazionale Agua y Territorio, che si terrà l'8 e il 9 giugno 2026 a Milano.

PROPOSTE DI COMUNICAZIONE

•    Data limite: 30 gennaio 2026.

•    Accettazione: 15 febbraio 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Commodities of Empire Annual International Workshop

2-3 September 2026, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid

Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers

Organisers: ‘Commodities of Empire’ British Academy Research Project, ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST, and the AMBTEC project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 14 February 2026.

The scientific and technological dimensions of commodity history have long attracted attention, with recent work offering comprehensive accounts of the transnational movement of experts, technologies, and scientific ideas. Yet the skills, techniques, and expertise required for resource extraction and processing in and around commodity frontiers remain less thoroughly explored. This workshop seeks to redirect attention to these frontiers of commodity production as sites of knowledge generation, codification and exchange from early modern times to the present. While remaining attentive to imperial, trans-imperial and transnational knowledge networks, the primary aim of this workshop is to examine commodity frontiers themselves as key locations for the development of techno-scientific knowledge and practice by both local and transnational actors. We are especially interested in historical research on indigenous technologies and traditional practices of commodity production, many of which held central economic and cultural significance.

The workshop also welcomes works that reflects on the historiographical and epistemological implications of recognizing local protagonists –such as indigenous peoples, colonized populations, and migrants at commodity frontiers– as active contributors to the production and circulation of knowledge. The workshop further examines the role of institutions and associations (cooperatives, workers’ unions, botanic gardens, agricultural stations, etc.) that operated in these regions as generators, intermediaries, translators, and sometimes gatekeepers of knowledge.

The workshop aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to make the history of science and technology less Eurocentric and US-centric by explicitly broadening inquiry into knowledge histories in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, while remaining open to cases from all geographical regions. By placing local knowledge at the center of global commodity history, it frames commodity frontiers as complex technological landscapes and sites of experimentation shaped by plural socio-economic and ecological contexts as well as by unequal power relations. The workshop therefore invites papers that critically engage with these trans-local dynamics and local-global articulations, while also illuminating alternative histories of the making of scientific and technological knowledge.

The Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is inviting submissions to deliver papers during Michaelmas Term 2025 (October to December). This Workshop offers a supportive and informal setting for graduate students and early career researchers (ECRs) to discuss their research. 

Chamada de artigos para dossiê temático: Crises climáticas e consequências sociais: teoria, história, historiografia

Revista Tempo & Argumento

Submissão de propostas: Até 15 de dezembro de 2025

Mais informações em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/dossie2026-1