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CFP: Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop (University of Cambridge, Michaelmas 2025)

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. 

It is welcome presentations on all aspects of Oceanic and Maritime History across all periods, including (but not limited to):
 
- Encounters (maritime "worlds," cross-cultural interactions, the subaltern sea)
- Spaces (littoral, coastal, and insular communities, the terraqueous globe, sacred maritime geographies)
- Exchanges (migration and trafficking, flows of goods and ideas, maritime knowledge networks)
- Cultures (maritime identities, seafaring traditions)
- Environmental Histories (human-sea ecologies, oceanic transformations)
 
Call for papers deadline: 1st October 2025
 
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Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal

In 1966, Albert Silbert published his thesis on Portugal’s early modern rural economy. A landmark in the development of Portuguese economic and rural historiography, Silbert’s work detailed the widespread use of fire in agriculture in Beira Baixa and Alentejo. The publication of this work in the 1960s coincided with the demise of this fiery rural economy, through policies that promoted afforestation, monoculture, and the erasure of traditional burning practices. Despite these efforts to exclude fire, however, there has been an increase in destructive wildfires. Experts now look at the traditional uses of fire depicted by Silbert as a possible solution.

 

Available at: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/rocas-and-queimadas-changing-landscapes-fire-twentieth-century-portugal?fbclid=IwY2xjawM2it9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiewHXc_Hzq-REsyQVHAiFK3uIYnkSMs7BHr4RKablEx5ngG9peWUC1T7_ZB_aem_uZ7Z0VWZTxIiy0IbIncYcw

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Vulnerabilidade e resiliência nas comunidades costeiras do Noroeste de Portugal (final do século XVI - meados do século XIX)

Este estudo analisa os movimentos dunares no Noroeste de Portugal (séculos XVI–XIX) e a forma como as comunidades costeiras enfrentaram as alterações ambientais. Os resultados mostram a ligação entre o avanço das areias, a instabilidade climática e a ação hidrodinâmica, bem como o papel ativo das populações na gestão das dunas, através da fixação de vegetação e outras práticas adaptativas. Estes esforços refletem a resiliência social e a construção de uma consciência de risco face às transformações costeiras.

https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/168666

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