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The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity

The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity
The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, awarded annually, in the amount of 1 million euros, aims to recognize people, groups of people and/or organizations from all over the world whose contributions to mitigation and adaptation to climate change stand out for its novelty, innovation and impact.
 
Humanity is facing an unprecedented climate crisis with impacts that encompass key sustainable development components such as public health, access to safe drinking water, clean air, food security and secure shelter. Science informs us that the impacts of climate change are advancing at a faster rate than anticipated and may have irreversible effects on our natural systems.
 
Without drastic change, the consequences will continue to be devastating for humankind, particularly to the most vulnerable.
 
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Call for organizers of the ESEH 2020 Summer School

Call for organizers of the ESEH 2020 Summer School

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to announce the call for the 2020 ESEH Summer School.

Guidelines for applicants:

(1) Although multidisciplinarity is highly regarded, there has to be a clear environmental history focus in the planned program of the Summer School. A combination of classwork with fieldwork is strongly encouraged. The ESEH Summer School committee (SSC) advises applicants to select a topic which is neither too narrow nor too broad.

(2) One of the core ambitions of the ESEH is to strengthen the international knowledge transfer, mobility, and international networking among promising young environmental historians. As such, the summer school should be international, in that it has to involve scholars from more than one country or language group. In order to make this feasible, the courses should be taught in English. The selected summer school would preferably host a majority of European participants, but it should be open to members of all countries.

(3) The Summer School must be a PhD-level course, although recent PhD graduates and advanced Master’s students may be invited to attend. Both the duration of the summer school as well as the number of included students and teachers can be decided by the organizers themselves.

(4) There can be no fees for participants. The SSC will privilege proposals that will include free or heavily subsidised accommodation for the participants.

(5) As confirmed official ESEH support may help with obtaining other funding for the proposed Summer School, organizing committees are invited to submit their applications prior to having secured such funding. Please submit your proposal only if it is highly likely that the total funding obtained will be sufficient.

The successful applicant/s will receive the advisory support of the ESEH and a total of 500 EUR to support the Summer School, which will be advertised on the ESEH website as well as through the president’s newsletter. The successful applicant/s will have the right and obligation to use the ESEH logo in announcements, flyers and websites related to the selected summer school.

Deadline for 1st round of applications: March 2, 2020.

The ESEH Board and the ESEH Summer school committee will consider the applications in March 2020 and by April 1st at the latest, all applicants will be informed of the outcome. The ESEH Summer school committee will be happy to advise the successful applicants on the call for participants.

NB: If no summer school is selected in the first round, or there is funding available for a second summer school in 2020, a second round of applications will be held in May 2020.

Deadline for 2nd round of applications: May 15, 2020

The ESEH Board and the ESEH Summer school committee will consider the applications in May/June 2020 and by June 15th at the latest, all applicants will be informed of the outcome.

The ESEH Summer school committee will be happy to advise the selected SSCH organizing committee regarding the call for participants.

Please apply by submitting the application form to Dr. Stefan Dorondel, chair of the ESEH Summer school committee, via e-mail stefan.dorondel[at]antropologia.ro

The Summer School is organized according to the ESEH Constitution (http://eseh.org/about-eseh/eseh-constitution) and Organization of Summer Schools (http://eseh.org/event/summer-school/summer-schools-benefits-requirements/). If you have any further questions, please contact the ESEH summer school committee for clarification and advice. They will be happy to answer.

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CFP: Special Issue - Humanities

CFP: Special Issue - Humanities

 

Special Issue "Peoples, Nature and Environments: Shaping Landscapes"

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2020.

 

Special Issue Information

Over the centuries, different aspects of the human-natural world relationships have shaped a wide range of environments and landscapes. In the broad sense, landscapes mirror the synthesis of interactions between peoples and places, reflect circulation of knowledge and technology and materialize the development, transformation and adaptation of humans’ societies across time and space, in different geographic and cultural contexts. The result of these complex and multifaceted interconnections is the recognition of different environments and landscapes as a structural component of natural, historical, cultural and scientific heritage and a vital element in the creation of each community's identity. As such, this special issue aims to address the interaction between humans and the non-human world by bringing the broad concept of landscape into the discussion, considering that this concept also serves as a historical testimony and a fundamental source for the study of the past. This discussion can shed a light in this long-term relationship and interconnection essential in the current challenging contexts of environmental changes.

We are accepting Research Papers and Reviews in the suggested but non-exclusive main topics:

Animals and landscapes

Environmental and climate change and human impacts

Landscape as a living archive

Literary landscapes and soundscapes

Natural and cultural landscapes

Natural history and science

Society and environment

Waterscapes and littoral changes

Dr. Ana Cristina Roque

Dr. Cristina Brito

Dr. Cecilia Veracini

Ms. Nina Vieira

Dr. Joana Gaspar de Freitas

Guest Editors

 

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/shaping_landscapes?fbclid=IwAR0RZiO7HHsVKupiInrXjxg4vqPniebuxalVPmT6pJPVlNJ5Q5kFl7wvwYE

 

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New Publication: Peoples, Nature and Environments. Learning to Live Together

New Publication: Peoples, Nature and Environments. Learning to Live Together

Peoples, Nature and Environments

Learning to Live Together

Editor(s):Ana Cristina Roque, Cristina Brito, Cecilia Veracini

Book Description

This volume brings together perspectives from scholars of different scientific backgrounds endeavouring to understand and debate the interactions and relationships between humans, nonhuman species and natural ecosystems in order to overcome the classic human/environment dichotomy. Through discussions informed by the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences, the book deals with the way different disciplines approach this relationship. These diverse perspectives are compared to enable a cross-cutting analysis of human/nature interface throughout history. Changes forced by the utilization of resources and habitats, as well as climate changes are analysed and discussed, enhancing the importance of a multifaceted approach got a better understanding of the complexity of both the human/world relationship and diverse interspecies connections and impacts.

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/peoples-nature-and-environments

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Introducing the ICEHOUSE

Introducing the ICEHOUSE
The White Horse Press and ICEHO President Graeme Wynn are delighted to announce a new collaboration between Global Environment/ The White Horse Press and the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations. 
 
The ICEHOUSE Society’ is a vehicle to further the reach and significance of ICEHO. Described succinctly, it is ‘a place’ for friends of ICEHO to come together, to allow us to reach out beyond our base of member organisations to individual environmental historians (and like-minded people) to better serve this important constituency. In 2020 and 2021 ICEHOUSE Society supporters will receive free online access to the current year of Global Environment. 
 
As an acronym, ICEHOUSE represents an amorphous group of friends of our field characterised as the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations’ Underwriters, Supporters and Enthusiasts. More than this, and incidentally, ‘icehouse’ is a term that should resonate with environmental historians. In one sense it refers to the igloo – the epitome of human adaptation to a harsh environment. In another it connotes the Australian rock band whose first US single release was ‘We Can Get Together’. More generally, it offers a euphonious reminder of the vulnerable ice that surrounds the poles of our planetary home. Icehouse is similarly the term applied to structures in which winter ice was stored, before the invention of the refrigerator, to allow the chilling of food and drink during summer months. Varied and imaginative in design, icehouses were expressions of human ingenuity. They were also of the earth: generally partly subterranean; walled with local brick or stone; often covered with a ‘living’ (i.e. vegetated) roof; and making use of straw or sawdust to help insulate and keep frozen ice from lakes and rivers. In modern day terms the icehouse offers a fine example of a low-impact, highly effective, sustainable adaptation that improved the human condition. Surely we can all raise an Icehouse Edge Beer [© Miller Brewing Company] to that and our own ICEHOUSE.
 
With this initiative, ICEHO will redouble its efforts to work with and alongside our established and well-beloved membership organisations (ASEH, ESEH, SOLCHA etc.) to enhance the visibility and allure of environmental history world-wide, and to engage the global community of environmental historians while assisting our other member organisations. Please declare your support (I am tempted to say be USEful) by becoming an Underwriter or Supporter of, or Enthusiast for, our efforts as indicated in the advertisement.
 
There are many reasons to do so. ICEHO will not flourish simply by convening two meetings a decade. We aim to fill the ‘gaps’ between World Conferences by adopting a three-pronged communication strategy. The ICEHO Bulletin will continue, with tighter focus, to appear three times a year, beginning in 2020. We will revamp the ICEHO website, making it more dynamic and adding more robust intellectual content. And we will make fuller use of social media to serve our member organisations and the wider environmental history community. Finally, we plan to continue already established efforts to extend and enhance interest in environmental history, both in those parts of the world where it is less developed and more generally. All of this will require: a strong commitment from ICEHO leadership (already guaranteed); more robust financial foundations (which we will seek to bolster in various ways); and the enthusiastic support and engagement of environmental historians everywhere.
 
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CfP: Terra 2021 - 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 8-11, 2021)

CfP: Terra 2021 - 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 8-11, 2021)
Terra 2021 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage will take place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA from June 8 – 11, 2021. This is the thirteenth international congress organized by the earthen architecture community under the aegis of ICOMOS since 1972, and the second to be held in New Mexico, thirty years after Adobe 90 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Terra 2021 is expected to draw up to 600 specialists in the fields of conservation, anthropology, archaeology, architecture and engineering, scientific research, site management, and sustainable development of earthen architectural heritage. 
 
The four-day program will include presentations, posters and videos / digital media that reflect the latest research and best practice in the study and conservation of earthen heritage around the world. The wealth, variety and significance of earthen heritage in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the greater region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico make it an ideal setting for the congress and will help inform and stimulate conversations around earthen heritage. The program will include sessions presenting technical information, management issues, methodology, advances in research, case studies and guidelines for best practice.
 
Key Dates
 
March 1, 2020 - Deadline for abstract submissions
June 2020 - Second announcement
June 2020 - Registration opens for congress, pre-congress workshops and post-congress tours
August 2020 - Paper / poster / digital media acceptance notice and mailing of guidelines to authors
February 2021 - Early bird registration closes
June 5 – 7, 2021 - Pre-congress workshops
June 8 – 11, 2021 - Terra 2021 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage
June 12 – 15, 2021 - Post-congress tours
October 31, 2021 - Deadline for submission of papers for publication in the Terra 2021 Proceedings
March 2022 - Authors notified of paper acceptance
 
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CfP.: 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference (Madrid, Spain, June 2-5 2020)

CfP.: 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference (Madrid, Spain, June 2-5 2020)
The Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts for the 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference to be held in Madrid, Spain from June 2 – 5 2020. This year’s conference offers major research, information sharing, and networking opportunities for participants who will be able to present and attend paper and poster presentations in the many diverse sessions available as well as attend excursions to several excellent regional examples of Spanish cultural landscapes. LAC2020 is a conference open to contributions from researchers of any level. In order to participate, you are invited to submit a paper/poster proposal as per the guidelines established below. Please see the submission guidelines and important dates below to ensure a successful evaluation.
 
- 14 February, 2020. Deadline to submit an abstract
- 16 March, 2020. Authors notified of abstract submission outcome
- 17 April, 2020. Early registration deadline
- 5 May, 2020. Registration deadline
 
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Capitalism Studies

Postdoctoral Fellow in Capitalism Studies

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow, whose research and teaching will enrich the university’s new interdisciplinary minor, for undergraduates, in Capitalism Studies.

Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment in an appropriate discipline, such as anthropology, economics, geography, history, public policy, or sociology. Applicants must have an active research agenda that engages directly with the specific theme chosen for 2020-22: capitalism and environmental sustainability. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are prepared to teach upper-level topics courses for undergraduates, on subjects related to their own research, as well as an “Introduction to Capitalism Studies” course, required of all minors. Applicants must also show potential for professional development as a scholar and teacher. They must also demonstrate a commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, as values in the college and the university. Applicants should discuss that commitment in the initial application materials; further discussion will be expected at the interview stage.

The postdoctoral fellow will be appointed for a two-year term, with teaching responsibilities of one course per semester. The fellow is expected to reside in the Charlotte area during the academic year and to participate in scholarly activities and programming associated with the interdisciplinary minor, one or more departments that align most closely with the fellow’s training and research, the college, and the university. The salary for the postdoctoral fellow is $50,000 per year, plus benefits, with an additional research and travel account of $2,000 per year.

UNC Charlotte is a rapidly growing doctoral-granting urban university located in the largest metropolitan area between Washington DC, and Atlanta. The University is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement campus. Over 29,000 culturally diverse students currently are enrolled at the University. As the largest college at UNC Charlotte, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences houses 21 departments in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and military sciences, as well as 25 applied research centers and interdisciplinary programs. It offers eight doctoral degrees, 24 master's degrees, 12 graduate certificates, and 32 undergraduate degrees.

As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups.

Screening of applications will begin February 15, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be made electronically at https://jobs.uncc.edu. Applicants should be prepared to submit three letters of recommendation, but these will be requested only after the initial rounds of screening. The candidate chosen for this position will be subject to a criminal background check.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59749

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