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CfP: III Meeting of REPORT(H)A - "Dynamics and Resilience in Socio-Environmental Systems" (University of Évora, March 28-30, 2019)

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The Centre for Research in Political Science (CICP) and the Interdisciplinary Center for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS) of the University of Évora are pleased to be hosting the III Meeting of the Portuguese Network of Environmental History, to be held in Évora, between 28 and 30 March 2019.

The meeting adopts, in an aggregating perspective, the title "Dynamics and Resilience in Socio-Environmental Systems". It welcomes panels, roundtables sessions, papers and posters that focus on the interception between the environment and human and non-human societies, inscribed in the history of climate and biodiversity. It focuses on the way human societies have resisted and adapted to environmental changes in the long term (desertification, afforestation/deforestation/reforestation), disasters (fires, famines and epidemics), environmental degradation (pollution), environmental changes caused by social dynamics (animal and plant migration, changes in land, water and sea uses, energy transitions, management of urban and industrial waste, new cultural landscapes) and how they have developed ways of managing resources and risks. In this perspective, contributions to the construction of knowledge and human representations about the natural world, conflicts of appropriation and environmental justice movements are also welcome.

PANELS AND ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

Proposals for panels or roundtable sessions should be submitted with title and abstract (up to 500 words) in Portuguese and English. Each panel proposal must contain between 3 and 4 papers or 4 participants at a roundtable. Paper proposals should have title and abstract in both languages. All proposals should be submitted by the session organizer and should include author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), short CV(s), as well as their e-mail address(es), by 15th October 2018.

PAPERS

Paper proposals should be submitted with title and abstract (up to 500 words) in Portuguese and English. Submissions must be made by 15th November 2018, together with author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), short CV(s), as well as their e-mail address(es).

In order to make the meeting more productive and discussion richer, the organization recommends the delivery of provisional version of papers, by 15th February 2018. This version will be distributed through our platform to all participants.

The organization also welcomes other themes and proposals in the context of environmental history.

POSTERS

The organization accepts proposals for posters on ongoing research projects. Submissions should be submitted with title, together with author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), short CV(s), as well as their e-mail address(es) by 15th November 2018. During the meeting there will be a space for posters presentation.

ORGANIZING COMMITEE

Paulo E. Guimarães – CICP, Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, Universidade de Évora (PT)

Sónia Bombico – CIDEHUS, Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, Universidade de Évora (PT)

Armando Quintas - CIDEHUS, Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, Universidade de Évora (PT)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Ana Cardoso Matos – CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades) - Universidade de Évora (PT)

Ana Cristina Roque – CH (Centro de História) - Universidade de Lisboa (PT)

Antonio Ortegas - Universidade de Granada (ES) Arnaldo Sousa Melo - LAB2PT, Departamento de História, ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais) - Universidade do Minho (PT)

Cristina Brito — CHAM (Centro de Humanidades) - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)

Cristina Joanaz de Melo, IHC (Instituto de História Contemporânea) - Universidade de Lisboa (PT)

Fernando Reboredo - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)

Hélder Adegar Fonseca – CICP (Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política) – Universidade de Évora (PT)

Inês Amorim – CITCEM (Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar “Cultura, Espaço e Memória”) - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (PT) José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro – CICS.NOVA.UMinho, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Minho (PT)

José Manuel Mascarenhas – CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades) - Universidade de Évora (PT)

Juan Diego Pérez Cebada - Universidade do Huelva (ES)

Maria de Fátima Nunes - IHC (Instituto de História Contemporânea) - Universidade de Évora (PT)

Stefania Barca – CES (Centro de Estudos Sociais) - Universidade de Coimbra (PT)

Yussuf Adam - Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo (MZ)

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

15th October 2018: submission of proposals for sessions/panels and roundtables

15th November 2018: submission of papers and posters

15th December 2018: acceptance notification

15th December 2018 – 15th January 2019: registration

15th January: provisional programme

15th February 2019: delivery of the provisional version of papers

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

CONTACTS

Proposals should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CfP (extended until 23 of April): Oceans Past VII (Bremerhaven, Germany, 22-26 October 2018)

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Oceans Past VII - Tracing human interactions with marine ecosystems through deep time: implications for policy and management

Bremerhaven, 22 - 26 October 2018

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) & the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany

Rationale: Knowing the past is vital for developing a vision of the future. The oceans and inshore seascapes of the world are rapidly changing, and understanding the human and marine ecosystem forces, trajectories and responses – sometimes over centuries or millennia – is vital for their informed management. Understanding, quantifying, and predicting humanities interactions with the world’s coastal seas and oceans requires examination of our practices of consumption, transportation, extraction and pollution, as well as our values and governance systems. The conference aims to bring together the vast knowledge pool of two decades of marine historical ecology and environmental history to inform the policies of the Anthropocene.

Invitation: The conference welcomes researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students of all disciplines under the unifying view of our oceans as networks of social-ecological or coupled human-nature systems. If you have an interest in the history of human interactions with life in the ocean and implications for policy and management, this is the 2018 conference you must attend.

Call for papers: The submission of oral and poster papers encompassing, but not limited to, the following topics is encouraged:

❖ Oceans prior to contemporary exploitation

❖ Drivers of environmental use and change across historical time frames

❖ The significance of marine resources for human societies over time

❖ Factors that have encouraged societies to exploit or leave the oceans

❖ Development of indictors

❖ Implications of past and present human ocean activities for coastal and marine policy development

Call for special sessions, mini-symposia or exhibitions:

As organisers of the conference, the Oceans Past Initiative offers you the opportunity to suggest or organise a special session, mini-symposium, or exhibition of relevant artefacts, artwork, or documentary film screenings during the conference within the broad theme of the history of human impacts with life in the ocean. Send your suggestions to the convenors below.

Contacts:

Conference convenors: Alison MacDiarmid This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Poul Holm This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Chair local organising committee: Gesche Krause This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Chair of the conference Scientific Steering Committee: Henn Ojaveer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Folow the link (updates soon in the website):

https://www.awi.de/forschung/besondere-gruppen/wissensplattform-erde-und-umwelt/opp7.html.

For any contact regarding the Oceans Past VII Conference use this email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

III International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt

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As part of the organising committee, we are delighted to invite you to the 3rd International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt to be held in the capital city of The Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from the 12th to the 15th of September 2018.

Salt is the only edible rock in nature. It is not only essential for the survival of living creatures, but also to increase knowledge of our past. The study of salt has become in the last few decades an extremely valuable source of information.

The discipline of Anthropology of Salt was born in 2002 when Dr Marius Alexianu (AICU, Romania) decided to unite under the same framework all the studies about salt that had been developed.

The creation and establishment of this discipline initiated in the symposium held at the University of Lasi (Romania) on the same year and continued in 2015 at the same university where the 1st Congress of Anthropology of Salt was held.

The success of the initiative made possible the organization of the second Congress in 2017, in Los Cabos (Mexico). There, it was announced that Valle Salado de Añana would be responsible for organising and holding the third edition in 2018.

The Valle Salado de Añana Foundation is proud to undertake this task. Its aim, in addition to providing a future for the Valle Salado and the people who work and live there, is to show to the world that the culture and agriculture of salt practised all over the world is of great inherited value acquired from our ancestors that needs to be passed on to future generations.

The Foundation endeavour has already been recognised by the European Union and awarded the Europa Nostra prize in 2015. It has also been classified as a Global Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

For more information visit: http://www.vallesalado.com/congressalt

CFP: Environmental History World Congress 2019

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The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) invites proposals for the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History, to be held in 22-26 July 2019 in Florianópolis, Brasil.

Convergences: The Global South and the Global North in the Era of Great Acceleration

Host: The Federal University of Santa Catarina (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC)

The 3rd World Congress of Environmental History invites scholars from different disciplines to situate environmental history in a planetary perspective. The categories “Global South” and “Global North” are historically-charged, created in the 20th century. They point to the diversity and the inequality of past and present human societies, and how they have transformed their landscapes, exploited natural resources, and connected with each other. The challenges posed by these connections and the dynamics of human and non-human communities have gained urgency in what has been called the Era of Great Acceleration. From their historical studies of rivers, cities, mountains, forests and plantations, to world transmigration narratives for plants, animals, diseases, people and commodities, historians and other environmental humanities scholars add to the debate on how to address the environmental challenges of the 21st century. The program committee seeks to further discussions that cross disciplinary or conceptual divides in new ways. We especially invite proposals that span gender, generational, and geographic differences among presenters as well as topics.

Submission Guidelines

The program committee invites panel, roundtable, individual paper, and poster proposals for the congress. We prefer to receive complete session proposals but will endeavor to construct sessions from proposals for individual presentations. Sessions will be scheduled for 1.5 hours. No single presentation should exceed 15 minutes, and each roundtable presentation should be significantly shorter than that, as roundtables are designed to maximize discussion among the speakers and with the audience. Commentators are allowed but not required.

The program committee encourages non-conventional sessions that experiment with creative formats, such as hands-on workshops, tool demonstrations, and open discussion forums. To submit a proposal for an experimental session, please provide a 300-word abstract describing the activity.

To maximize participation, we encourage session proposals with more participants giving shorter presentations (e.g., four presenters at 12 minutes each). Please note that individuals can be a primary presenter in only one panel, roundtable, or other session proposal, but can also serve as chair or commentator in a second session proposal.

A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for students and junior scholars.

To submit a proposal, see: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/iceho/iceho19/

Call for Proposals: Small Workshop Funding 2018

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For the fifth year in a row, the ESEH Board has decided to issue a Call for Proposals for Funding for small workshops and conferences to increase support for environmental history activities in Europe. The Board intends to award 500€ to up to two proposals. Environmental history workshops and conferences of no more than 100 participants which will be held in Europe during 2018 and are organized by an ESEH member are eligible.

A proposal of up to 2 pages should include (1) the name, date, location and theme of the conference/workshop, (2) an overview of the program, (3) a projected number and type of attendees, (4) an overview of the total budget, other financial sources, and a description of how the 500€ would benefit the activity, and (5) a short biographical paragraph about the organiser (who must be an ESEH member).

The deadline is March 31, 2018. Submit proposals to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Call for Applications for the ESEH Next Generation Action Team

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The Board of the European Society for Environmental History is seeking applications by doctoral student and post-doctoral researchers to join ESEH’s Next Generation Action Team 2018-2019 (NEXTGATe).

NEXTGATe’s mission is to strengthen the presence and influence of next generation scholars on the environmental history field in Europe and beyond. Successful applicants will collaborate with ESEH’s Next Generation Coordinator, Viktor Pál (University of Helsinki) and jointly plan pre-conference and on-site activities primarily for doctoral and post-doc researchers at the ESEH 2019 biennial conference in Tallinn, Estonia. Activities will include social media campaigns, virtual and live events, outreach activities, as well as career planning and publishing industry related events.

Depending on the strength of applications, three to five NEXTGATe members will be selected by the selection committee. Successful candidates who fill their tenure with NEXTGATe will be offered personalized travel grants to participate in the ESEH 2019 Conference in Tallinn.

To apply, please send the following documents to viktor(dot)paal(at)gmail(dot)com.

1) CV and possible list of publications

2) A short text describing the goals that you think NEXTGATe should tackle in 2018-2019 and how you could contribute to these activities.

Deadline for applications is 31 March, 2018

Questions regarding the application should be sent to viktor(dot)paal(at)gmail(dot)com

CFP: CONCHA 1st Workshop: Crossing seas, Rising islands, Connecting people (14-16 November 2018, Lisbon)

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Call for Papers

CONCHA is a project focused on “The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An approach via Ocean’s Cultural Heritage. The main goal of this 1st Workshop is to join researchers from CONCHA’s partner institutions, but not exclusively, and to highlight the ongoing scientific debate on the topic. We invite all researchers from different fields of expertise and countries to participate in this forum focusing on the understanding of how early settlements in the Atlantic Islands developed (15th to 17th century) in relation to differing regional and local ecological and economic environments. Main scientific areas are:

Atlantic History; Archaeology; Environmental History and History of Science; Ethnography and Ethnobiology; Maritime History; Oceans Imaginary; Seaports and Port Cities.

Please submit your proposal with title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail for the lead author and abstract with max. 300 words to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Important Dates

Deadline: April 30

Communication of results: May 31

Final programme: July 31

Organising Committee

Cristina Brito; Patrícia Carvalho; Nina Vieira; Catarina Garcia

(CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa).

Scientific Committee

João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (FCSH); Juan Marchena Fernandez (UPO); Cristina Brito (FCSH); José Bettencourt (FCSH); Poul Holm (TCD); Juan Martin Rincon (UNINORTE); André Teixeira (FCSH); Carla Alferes Pinto (FCSH); Inês Carvalho (APCM); Carla Dâmaso (OMA); Hamilton Jair Fernandes (IPC); Manuel Jorge do Rio (MARAPA); Gilson Rambelli (LAAA-UFS); Ingo Heidbrink (ODU); Thomas Creissen (EVEHA).

For more information visit: http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/ext/catedra/assets/cfp_concha-1st-workshop_final.pdf.

IGU thematic conference dedicated to the centennial of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences "Practical geography and XXI century challenges" (Moscow, Russia, 4-6 June)

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The conference which will be held under the auspices of the International Geographical Union (IGU) is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) - the largest world-renowned geographical research organization in Russia. This occasion provides an opportunity to make an overview of the domestic and international trends in geography’s development to analyze the growing impact of scientific research internationalization, the aggravation of global problems, changing theoretical paradigms, radical renewal of research methods and predictions’ validity, as well as to strengthen the integration between social and environmental branches of geography. The main task of the conference is to consolidate the Russian and international experience in practically oriented studies in the field of social and environmental geography meeting the diverse and critical challenges of the XXI century.

Program of the Conference:

- 100 years of Russian geography

- Environmental challenges

- Socio-environmental challenges

- Social challenges

- Geopolitical challenges

- Technological challenges

- Informational challenges

- Challenges to geographical education

The section of “Environmental challenges” includes follow topics:

- Climate change: environmental security, vulnerability and adaptability of territorial systems.

- Water use and the reducing of hazardous hydrological phenomena risks.

- Geochemical processes of natural and anthropogenic substances transfer.

- The geographical basis for the creation of the territorial environmental framework: multi-scale analysis and harmonization.

All information about the Conference is available on the web-site: http://100igras.ru/en/.

CfP: III Meeting of REPORT(H)A - "Dynamics and Resilience in Socio-Environmental Systems" (University of Évora, March 28-30, 2019)

CfP (extended until 23 of April): Oceans Past VII (Bremerhaven, Germany, 22-26 October 2018)

III International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt

CFP: Environmental History World Congress 2019

Call for Proposals: Small Workshop Funding 2018

Call for Applications for the ESEH Next Generation Action Team

CFP: CONCHA 1st Workshop: Crossing seas, Rising islands, Connecting people (14-16 November 2018, Lisbon)

IGU thematic conference dedicated to the centennial of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences "Practical geography and XXI century challenges" (Moscow, Russia, 4-6 June)

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