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ANIMALIA Summer School 2024

O projeto ANIMALIA - Animal Biographies: A network of agencies in the making of early modern empires, sediado e financiado pelo CHAM - Centro de Humanidades da NOVA FCSH, tem como objetivo aprofundar o estudo das interacções entre as sociedades humanas e os animais não humanos, reconhecendo o papel de diferentes actores nos processos históricos. Pretende contribuir significativamente para o ‘animal turn’ em várias disciplinas das ciências sociais e humanas, em profundo diálogo com a história e, em particular, com a história ambiental. Num momento em que se reconfiguram discursos sobre o domínio humano sobre o mundo não-humano, a Escola de Verão ANIMALIA é uma iniciativa pioneira na academia portuguesa ao reunir um grupo de estudantes e investigadores que reconhecem os animais como co-construtores de narrativas históricas e mediadores de dinâmicas económicas, culturais e ecológicas.
Esta Escola de Verão é dirigida a estudantes de mestrado e doutoramento e a investigadores em início de carreira. Pretende reunir cerca de 20 estudantes de mestrado e doutoramento, recém doutorados, juntamente com investigadores juniores e seniores.

Convidamos à discussão em torno de diferentes tópicos relacionados com o estudo dos animais, tais como e não limitada a:
Produção de energia e força de trabalho
Alimentação humana
Vestuário
Domesticação e cativeiro
Doenças e saúde
Transporte e animais em movimento
Produção de conhecimento e história natural
História da ciência e da tecnologia
Apropriação, extrações e usos
Mundo urbano e mundo rural
Símbolos, significados e usos culturais
Museologia e coleções
Representações artísticas e arte urbana
Conservação e sustentabilidade

Os trabalhos decorrerão num ambiente informal e de convívio, com apresentações, workshops práticos, masterclasses e uma visita de estudo. Os candidatos devem apresentar uma carta de motivação, incluindo informações sobre o seu percurso académico e profissional (se aplicável), temas de investigação (por exemplo, o tema da tese de mestrado ou doutoramento) e o que esperam obter desta Escola de Verão.

Este evento é gratuito e inclui almoços e snacks. As despesas de deslocação e alojamento serão suportadas pelos próprios participantes.
O prazo para apresentação de candidaturas termina a 30 de junho e deve ser realizado para o seguinte endereço eletrónico: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The project ANIMALIA - Animal Biographies: A network of agencies in the making of early modern empires, based at and funded by CHAM, the Centre for the Humanities of NOVA FCSH, aims at delving deeper into the study of the interactions between human societies and non-human animals, recognising the role of different actors in historical processes. It envisions to significantly contribute to the animal turn in various disciplines of the social and human sciences, in strong dialogue within history and, particularly, environmental history. At a time when discourses concerning human domination of the non-human world are being reconfigured, the ANIMALIA Summer School is a pioneering initiative in Portuguese academia in getting together a group of students and researchers who recognise animals as co-constructors of historical narratives and mediators of economic, cultural and ecological dynamics.


This Summer School is directed at MA and PhD students and early career researchers.
It aims to gather around 20 master and doctoral students or recent post-docs together with junior and senior scholars.

We invite discussion around different topics related to the study of animals, such as but not limited to:
Production of energy and labour
Human nutrition
Clothing
Domestication and captivity
Diseases and health
Transport and animals on the move
Knowledge production and natural history
History of science and technology
Appropriation, extraction, and use
Urban and rural worlds
Symbols, meanings, and cultural uses
Museology and collections
Artistic representations and urban art
Conservation and sustainability

The work will be carried out in an informal and friendly atmosphere through presentations, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and a field trip. Applicants must submit a motivation letter, including information on their academic and professional (if applicable) background, research topics (for instance, the subject of their MA or PhD thesis) and what they expect to achieve from this Summer School.

This event is free and includes lunches and snacks. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the participants themselves.

Applications should be sent until the 30th of June to the following email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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CITCEM R&D Unit (FL-UP, Portugal) welcomes applications to Marie Sklodowska-Curie - Postdoctoral Fellowships

CITCEM R&D Unit (FL-UP, Portugal) welcomes applications to Marie Sklodowska-Curie – Postdoctoral Fellowships

HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01-01

Deadline for acceptance of applications to CITCEM as host institution – July 15, 2024 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Deadline for submitting proposals to the Program Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships: 11 September 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01-01 https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships

 More information at https://citcem.org/citcem-rd-unit-fl-up-portugal-welcomes-applications-to-marie-sklodowska-curie-postdoctoral-fellowships/

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XII Encontro Rural Report | Nova data: 5 de junho

XII Encontro da Rural RePort: “Ruralidade(s) e Ambiente na Longa Duração”  - Évora, 30 e 31 de Outubro 2024
 
Encontra-se aberta a chamada para submissões (comunicações individuais ou painéis) para o XII Encontro da Rural RePort: “Ruralidade(s) e Ambiente na Longa Duração”, a realizar em Évora nos dias 30 e 31 de Outubro de 2024.
 
Linhas Temáticas do Encontro 
 
1. As questões ligadas à sustentabilidade, à multifuncionalidade e à diversidade do mundo rural, que rompem o horizonte estritamente economicista;
 
2. Os temas relativos ao agroalimentar, que sublinham o papel da agricultura na formação da cadeia de valor naquele setor e fazem a ponte para as questões da procura, do consumo e dos impactos ambientais;
 
3. A dimensão institucional que abre para tópicos relativos aos diretos de propriedade, às políticas agrárias e ao papel das organizações;
 
4. A questão das assimetrias, sejam elas territoriais, sociais, económicas, culturais ou políticas, em quadros de ruralidade e da sua relação com outros contextos;
 
5. A inovação e complexidade no plano metodológico, nomeadamente no que diz respeito ao uso do quantitativo, à relevância dos recursos digitais, ou à busca da interdisciplinaridade.  
 
Novo prazo para submissões: 5 de junho
 
Envio de submissões para: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
Para mais informações sobre as submissões, aceder ahttps://ruralreport.sper.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Call-XII-Encontro-Rural-Report.pdf
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ESEH EnvHist Today Seminar Series - Region: Ukraine

May 28, 2024, Tuesday, 17:00-18:30 CET – ESEH EnvHist Today Seminar Series - Region: Ukraine
 
Roundtable discussion titled "Narrating Ukrainian rivers: new perspectives of environmental research of Ukraine"

Presenters: Anna Olenenko, Oleksii Chebotariov, Irene Sywenky, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

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ESEH has 4 x fellowships of €2500 for early-career scholars to work with the Gale digital archives. Apply now!

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) announces four non-residential fellowships funded by Gale. These fellowships provide funding to early-career scholars who are working, or interested in working at the intersection of Environmental History and Digital Humanities. The scheme will support research or/and teaching projects that rely on Gale Primary Sources and apply Digital Humanities methodologies in the context of Environmental History.
 
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CFP - 2024 ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group

The 2024 ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) Conference Organizing Committee invites abstract submissions for paper and poster presentations at the upcoming conference in Toronto, Canada (August 12 to 17, 2024). Toronto is located on the shores of Lake Ontario, one of North America’s large freshwater lakes. Fish and fishing were and are central to the livelihoods of Indigenous peoples in the region and were important for the settler economy in the colonization period.

Abstracts are due by May 15, 2024 (midnight Toronto time, or EST)

More information at ICAZ FRWG 2024 Toronto | Department of Anthropology (utoronto.ca)

 

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Call for session: 2024 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society

Rudolf Brázdil, Fidel Gonzáles Rouco, Ricardo García Herrera (convenors)

Call for participation in the session “UP3.4 Paleoclimatology and Historical Climatology“, which will be running during the Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, 2-6 September 2024 in Barcelona, Spain (https://ems2024.eu/). We believe it is a good possibility to meet in our paleoclimatological and historical-climatological community and present new scientific results achieved. Description of our session is as follows:

„The exceptional amplitude and rate of warming recorded at global, hemispherical and regional scales within contemporary instrumental records should be placed in the context of longer-term multi-centennial and millennial climate variability in order to both assess its uniqueness and better understand the mechanisms that contribute to the background of natural climate variability. Systematic meteorological measurements only span over a relatively short time interval. Thus, documentary evidence and natural climate proxies are used for the reconstruction and understanding of longer term past climate variability.

This session welcomes presentations related to various topics related to this frame:

  • early instrumental meteorological measurements, their history and use for the long-term series
  • documentary evidence and its features (advantages, disadvantages limits)
  • natural climate proxies and its features (advantages, disadvantages, limits)
  • methodological improvements and analysis of climate reconstruction approaches both from documentary evidence and natural climatic proxies
  • results of climate reconstructions over different regions based on various climatic sources
  • hydrological and meteorological extremes (e.g. floods, hurricanes, windstorms, tornadoes, hailstorms, frosts) and their human impacts in relation to climate variability beyond the instrumental period.
  • climate modelling of the last 2K and comparison of model outputs with reconstructed/observed climatological data
  • past impacts of climate variability on natural processes and human society
  • past and recent perception of the climate and its variability
  • history of meteorology and meteorological and climatological knowledge
  • discussion of natural and anthropogenic forcings as well as recent warming at global, regional and local scales in a long-term context.“

Important organisation information concerning of the EMS Barcelona meeting is included on https://ems2024.eu/. We remind you that deadline for abstract submission is 18 April 2024. – see https://www.ems2024.eu/abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html.

We would be really very pleased to have abstract submission to our session from you and particularly to meet you personally in Barcelona. Please contact us if any additional information will be needed.

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