The Built Ocean

EAHN Porto 2025 Thematic Conference

Call for Papers

FAUP Porto, Portugal, Sep 10–13, 2025

Deadline: Jan 18, 2025

The Built Ocean

Thematic Conference of the European Architectural History Network

EAHN Porto 2025

Hosted by the research project Fishing Architecture “The Built Ocean” will take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto 10-13 September 2025.

Architects require solid ground on which to base their practice, yet oceans have always been a key element shaping the history of architecture and the built environment. This themed conference aims to shift the focus of architectural history from the land to the sea. It will address the planet’s bodies of salt water either as areas of increasing urbanization (through the building of structures such as underwater cables, oil rigs, windmills, etc.), as connectors between space and cultures (navigation routes for people and resources, transported in the form of knowledge, labour, and materials), or as an ecosystem functioning, in connection with the land, as an essential life-support system (defining climatic patterns, providing resources from food to raw materials, and securing services from carbon sequestration to large-scale habitats). The conference aims to bring together scholars representing a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge and sets out to cover a broad chronological scope, from deep history and archaeological sources to more recent accounts of ecological decline and potential futures. Where is the architecture of the sea? To what extent does the built environment impact saltwater landscapes? What reciprocal impacts do seascapes have on the built environment?

Proposals are to be submitted using the conference’s online platform, via a link soon available; they should include an abstract of no more than 400 words and an author’s bio (c.200 words per author).

Abstracts will be evaluated primarily on the basis of their relevance to the conference theme; innovative methods, interdisciplinary exploration, and sound research will also be taken into account. Contributions should be the result of original research and should not have been previously published or be in the process of being published elsewhere.

We welcome and encourage proposals from researchers from around the world, at any career stage and representing a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches to architecture and the built environment—including but not limited to marine biology, ecology, literary studies, history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, or media studies.

For further details, please see the conference website: www.thebuiltocean.com

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The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten are pleased to invite applications for our fellowship program based at the Herrmannsdorf Landwerkstätten (an organic farm outside of Munich). The starting date for the next cycle is 1 April 2025 (nonnegotiable), and fellowships will be granted for a period of four months (nonnegotiable).

Launched in January 2022, the Landhaus Fellowship Program is a residential program. Ten fellows live and work together in the newly renovated historic house on the Herrmannsdorfer farm. Fellowships are open to excellent doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars working in the field of environment and society. We accept applications for academic projects in disciplines that are in dialogue with environment and society.

We also offer a fellowship for a writer-in-residence. Candidates should be open to leading occasional writing seminars for members of the RCC community through our Environmental Writing Studio.

We would be thrilled if you could share this with your networks and anyone who might find this call of interest. The full call can be found on our website and in the attachment. The deadline is 15 October 2024. If you have any questions, please direct them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

27 – 28 March 2025 – University Côte d’Azur – Nice, France

Proposal Deadline – 30 September 2024

Call for Proposals for the International Conference, organised at the University Côte d’Azur, 27-28th March 2025, by Léonie Boissière and Simon Dolet.

In June 2025, France will host the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans in Nice, with some 120 heads of state and government, but above all hundreds of specialists and institutional and non-institutional players. This time of debate and sharing on the future of the oceans is an opportunity for the discipline of history to take up these issues. The focus of this international conference is the Mediterranean, not just the sea but the Mediterranean world as a whole.

Proposals in French or English, the languages of this international conference, should be between 1 and 3,000 characters in length and accompanied by a bio-biographical presentation. They should be sent before 30 September 2024 by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This international conference will be published.

More information: https://niche-canada.org/2024/06/27/call-for-papers-environmental-history-challenging-the-mediterranean-16th-to-21st-centuries/

O Instituto de História Contemporânea (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) irá receber a investigadora Lavinia Maddaluno no âmbito do programa Visiting Scholar, no âmbito do qual, irá realizar uma conferência na BNP, e um seminário de investigação, em torno de temas e pesquisas que vão ao encontro dos interesses da comunidade de investigadores que compõem a Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental. 

Lavinia é investigadora em História Moderna no Departamento de Humanidades da Universidade Ca' Foscari de Veneza. Historiadora da ciência interessada nos nexos entre humanos, natureza e economia na Europa do período moderno, tem publicado sobre práticas hidráulicas em Marselha durante o mercantilismo de Colbert, a produção de azeite em Roma no século XVIII, e a saúde pública na Milão renascentista. Lavinia acaba de concluir a sua primeira monografia, intitulada Science and Political Economy in Enlightened Milan (1760 1805), que será publicada pela Voltaire Foundation no outono de 2024. Recebeu várias bolsas após o doutoramento (realizado em Cambridge, Reino Unido, 2018): foi Rome Fellow na British School at Rome, Max Weber Fellow no Instituto Universitário Europeu, e Warburg/I Tatti Fellow em História da Ciência. Recentemente, Lavinia ganhou uma bolsa Atlas, financiada conjuntamente pela Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme e pela Fondazione Einaudi, para trabalhar num novo projeto sobre redes de conhecimento relativas ao arroz entre a França e a Itália no Iluminismo.

CONFERÊNCIA 16 DE JULHO, 10h30/12h30 | AUDITÓRIO DA BNP

"Arroz: ersatz, artefato cultural, objeto de conhecimento, cultura indisciplinada."

Conferência: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/rice-ersatz/

SEMINÁRIO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO 19 DE JULHO, 10h30/12h30 | SALA DE SEMINÁRIOS DA BNP

"A perpetuação da propriedade privada: máquinas e hidráulica na era das Luzes"

Semináro: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/perpetuating-private-property/