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Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review Issue #8

Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review Issue #8

The newest issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review is now live! It opens with a dive into the world of comics, before embarking on a fieldtrip across an Arctic research station, Finland’s boreal forests, and the eroding riverbanks of Bangladesh. Three essays, a visual narrative, a short story, and an interview join forces to uncover missing pieces in our quest to understand human–environment interactions. 

CFP - Colonial Sanitation Workshop 2 June 2026

CFP - Colonial Sanitation Workshop 2 June 2026

Colonial Sanitation Workshop

Modern sanitation has long been tied to systems of power, governance, and social hierarchy. Sanitation is not only about treating sewage, waste disposal, and the supply of fresh water – it involves economy, technology, planning, regulation, and much more. Sanitation also represents cultural values, social justice, and Human-Nature relations. During the 19th-20th centuries, European sanitary ideology spread worldwide, often as a direct product of the colonial project. Sanitation reinforced European notions of “undeveloped” civilizations and legitimized colonial rule by demonstrating European control over territories and living conditions. While sanitary systems improved living conditions for some, they came with environmental and social costs.
This online workshop brings together scholars of any sanitation aspect under colonial rule across the globe in the 19th-20th centuries. We will discuss works in progress, identify common patterns, examine the uniqueness of each study, and gain inspiration and academic feedback on our work. Eventually, we will discuss future collaborations in projects, writing, and conferences. All scholars are welcome to participate in the workshop; however, we especially encourage early-career scholars during their PhD or Postdoctoral studies to apply.



CFP: Jornadas de Jovens Investigadoras em História da Ciência, da Medicina e da Tecnologia (CIMETEC)

CFP: Jornadas de Jovens Investigadoras em História da Ciência, da Medicina e da Tecnologia (CIMETEC)

7–9 de maio de 2026

Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (Universitat de València)

Temos o prazer de partilhar esta chamada para as Jornadas de Jovens Investigadoras em História da Ciência, da Medicina e da Tecnologia (CIMETEC), que terão lugar no Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (Universitat de València) entre os dias 7 e 9 de maio de 2026.

O encontro é organizado por jovens investigadoras e investigadores com o apoio de diversas sociedades e instituições de Espanha e Portugal, e inspira-se — entre outros exemplos — na conferência bienal de doutorandos neerlandesa-belga.

O principal idioma de trabalho será o castelhano, mas serão igualmente bem-vindas comunicações em catalão, galego e português.

Envio do resumo (máx. 250 palavras) e uma breve biografia a jornadasjoveneshcmt@gmail.com
Data limite: 20 de dezembro de 2025.

Mais informação em JORNADAS: CIMETEC Del 7 al 9 de mayo de 2026

CFP - Petrocultures 2026

CFP - Petrocultures 2026

PETROCULTURES IS COMING TO DRESDEN! Under the theme "Situating Energy," we will be hosting the 2026 international conference of the Petrocultures Research Group. Date: Aug 26-28, 2026.

Organizing Team: Moritz Ingwersen & Anja Lind, with Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Susann Wagenknecht, and Özgün Eylül İşcen. A collaboration of the Chairs of North American Literature and Future Studies, Digital Cultures, Microsociology and Techno-Social Interaction, and the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden.

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

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
 

CFP - Animals History at CHAM Conference 2026

CFP - Animals History at CHAM Conference 2026

Chair:

Nina Vieira, CHAM-NOVA FCSH

Carla Vieira, CHAM-NOVA FCSH

Catarina Simões, CHAM-NOVA FCSH

 The interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies is bringing forth a growing scholarly interest in the subject of human-animal relationships across the humanities and social sciences at large. Animal-centred approaches argue for the vital role of nonhuman animals in people’s individual and collective lives, acknowledging historical entanglements of mutual dependency between human and nonhuman actors.

This panel aims to discuss how animal movement shaped human practices and ways of life throughout different historical periods, and in diverse cultural and geographical contexts. In one hand, debating the importance of the ecological movement of animals, i.e. their natural activity and mobility in shaping people subsistence, settlement and wealth, animal management practices, transhumance, or animal domestication; on the other hand, highlighting the impact of the forced movement of animals, namely their displacement, circulation and involvement in regional and global trade networks.

We encourage the submission from scholars at different career levels, from history and archaeology, but also literature and the arts, in the following topics, or others that fall within the scope of this panel:

  • energy generated by the movement of animals;
  • animal-human historical migrations;
  • animal transport and transport through animals;
  • diasporic thinking applied to animals;
  • circulation of preserved species, animal body parts and by-products;
  • spatial analysis and digital humanities.

Keywords: Animal History; Animal Studies; Multispecies Entanglements; Migration; Diaspora

New publication! Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal. 

New publication! Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal. 

New article in Environmental & Society Portal (Rachel Carson Center):  Ferreira, José; Silva, Marta Nunes; Carmo, Miguel; Gomes, Inês. Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal. Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2025), no. 9.

Available at:https://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9983.

 

 

 

CFP - 7th International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network

CFP - 7th International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network
University of Zadar, Department of History announces the 7th International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN), which will take place at the University of Zadar in Zadar from the 25th to the 29th of May 2026.
 
CfP opened until 30th September 2025
 
All the details are here: https://conference.unizd.hr/mmhn2026/

Announcing OPI XI: Vancouver Island, Canada 15-19 June 2026

Announcing OPI XI: Vancouver Island, Canada 15-19 June 2026

Oceans Past XI

Ocean-connected communities: 

Historical perspectives inform modern relationships.

15 – 19 June 2026, University of Victoria.

Our hosts will be Professors Jason Colby, Loren McClenachan and Iain McKechnie.

Abstract submissions will open in early Autumn 2025, with decisions expected in January 2026. Further details will be made available on our website and social media channels (see below) from September.

2026 OPI XI - Oceans Past Initiative

CFP: CER 2025 - 40 ANOS DA SPER

CFP: CER 2025 - 40 ANOS DA SPER

Convida-se toda a comunidade académica, técnica e científica para o envio de propostas de resumos de comunicações, Congresso Comemorativo dos 40 anos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Rurais (SPER)- Memórias e PerspetivasX Congresso de Estudos Rurais e XIII Encontro Rural RePort terá se realizará em Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Agronomia (Tapada da Ajuda), nos dias 27 e 28 de novembro 2025.  

Submeta a sua proposta de resumo até 25 de julho de 2025

Mais informações em: https://sper.pt/cer2025/

 

Organização:

Instituto Superior de Agronomia 

Rede de História Rural em Português (Rural RePort).

Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Rurais 

Writing Not Typing | Thomas Weaver | FAUP | 22 Maio, 18.30h

Writing Not Typing | Thomas Weaver | FAUP | 22 Maio, 18.30h

Writing Not Typing

Quinta-feira, 22 Maio 2025, 18h30

Sala da Mesa Comprida, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

Entrada livre

Conferência em Inglês, sem tradução

Thomas Weaver é escritor, editor, e professor convidado de crítica de arquitetura na Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio e na Universidade de Princeton. Apresenta na FAUP uma conferência em Inglês que discute a longa, ainda que por vezes tensa, relação da arquitectura com a escrita.

Na sessão, organizada no âmbito do projecto Fishing Architecture, coordenado pelo investigador André Tavares e em curso no Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, serão analisados os raros casos em que a escrita de arquitectura se revelou evocativa e inspiradora, mas também alguns dos seus momentos literários menos auspiciosos. Será também discutida a pertinência do ensaio em relação à monografia ou ao manifesto, com referência a projectos editoriais recentes que procuram tornar a escrita de arquitectura tão significativa quanto as suas formas.

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