Call for interest

The Catholic Church and the Environment – CATCH, Funded by the European Union (ERC ADG CATCH, Grant Number 101199683).

The ERC research project CATCH - The Catholic Church and the Environment is hiring 5 PhD students, 2 Postdocs, and 1 research assistant. We are looking for committed researchers, passionate co-workers, and dedicated scholars who wish to join our team and build together our new Radical Environmental Humanities Hub.

V Congreso de la Red Universitaria Española de Historia Ambiental (RUEDHA)

Universidad de La Laguna. 18-20 de noviembre de 2026

Segunda Circular

Entre el 18 y el 20 de noviembre de 2026, la Red Universitaria Española de Historia Ambiental (RUEDHA) celebrará su V Congreso en la Universidad de La Laguna. Con esta Segunda Circular queremos, en primer lugar, agradecer el apoyo y la ilusión concitadas por el anuncio de los ejes temáticos que vertebrarán el encuentro. Se han recibido más de una quincena de propuestas de mesas-taller temáticas y otros espacios de debate y encuentro, como presentaciones de libros. Este documento anuncia, en segundo lugar, las propuestas de mesas-taller aceptadas que concretarán el congreso. Cada una de ellas aparece con el nombre y filiación institucional de las personas encargadas de su coordinación, así como una dirección e-mail de contacto. Los resúmenes de cada sesión pueden encontrarse en la página web del congreso: https://ruedha2026.hypotheses.org/.

Call for a thematic dossier to be published in 2027
Deadline: 18 April 2026

HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology, recently indexed by Scopus, is a diamond open access, on-line peer-reviewed international journal devoted to the History of Science and Technology, published in English by a group of Portuguese research institutions and De Gruyter Brill/Paradigm. HoST encourages submissions of original historical research exploring the cultural, social and political dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (STM), both from a local and a global perspective.
Past thematic issues have dealt with topics as diverse as circulation, science communication, natural history, or the relation between science, technology and politics. Future issues might deal with both established and emerging areas of scholarship. The editors of HoST are looking for proposals for a thematic dossier to be published in 2027 (HoST, Volume 21, issue 2–December).
Each thematic dossier should be prepared by the guest editor(s) and include four research papers along with an introduction.

Submission guidelines Proposals should include the following items:

1. An abstract describing the topic for the thematic dossier and its significance (500 words);

2. A list of the contributors along with the titles and abstracts (300 words) of the four research papers;

3. Brief CVs (300 words) of the guest editor(s) and authors;

The guest editor(s) and the contributors must be prepared to meet HoST’s publication schedule:

Abstract and titles submission: 18 April 2026

Submission of complete research papers: 8 January 2027

Publication: December 2027 (Issue 21.2) Proposals will be subject to approval by the Editorial Board and authors will be informed of the outcome by the end of May 2026. Submissions should be sent as an e-mail at tachment (preferably in one single .odt or .docx file), to the Chief Editor: chiefeditor@johost.eu

We invite you to submit abstracts for the upcoming special issue of Svetovi / Words titled “Fragile Environments and Emergent Vulnerabilities in the Age of Capitalocene” (tentative title) (eds. Nežka Struc & Sandi Abram).
In this issue we seek to thematize and explore intersections as well as disentanglement between environmental fragility and vulnerabilities that emerge in the lives of (more-than-)human beings. In the era of Capitalocene (Moore 2017; 2018) when contemporary climate change ebbs and flows across the Earth as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, severe storms, floods, and air pollution and crises become part of everyday lives (Fassin 2012, Podjed 2024) and constant urgency (Schwell 2023), the once reassuring narrative about the world, as Domínguez Rubio (2025) writes, is all but gone: “ontological security” is giving way to “a sense of ontological fragility, […] a fragility that is felt as the inescapable condition of life on this planet”. One condition shared, albeit unequally, across plural words.
If this horizon of planetary fragilities might index global “capitalogenic flows” (Lawson 2025), where ceaseless accumulation of capital depends on the production of “systemic harm to socio-ecological infrastructure” (Wojnarowski 2025: 3) in particular contexts, then vulnerability names the  conditions through which those harms are inscribed in bodies, landscapes and multispecies “lifeworlds” (Ingold 2000) - as feelings, affects and lived experiences. What remains, in many places, are debilitated bodies and damaged environments, where “debility” (Levine 2025, Mohamed 2023, Puar 2017) – injury and exclusion produced by economic and political forces – disrupts the category of disability as not something that is inscribed into lives, but created by violent social arrangements. It describes the ongoing conditions of exposure, and damaged environments in which (more-than-)human beings must continue to live.

Proposed timeline:

- 6 March 2026: deadline for abstracts

- 1 August 2026: manuscript submission deadline

- October 2026: peer reviews

- July 2027: publication

For submission please visit our registration page: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/X6k3tWBQR4 .

Convite à apresentação de artigos nº 45, 2027 – Dossiê Temático: Culturas do Fogo

Prazo de entrega 30 de setembro de 2026

Coordenadores: Frederico Ágoas (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH) e Miguel Carmo (IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

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Dopo i congressi internazionali di Évora (2024) e di Jaén (2025), la sede di Milano del CNR Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo con l’Università degli Studi di Milano hanno accolto l’invito ad organizzare il III Congresso Internazionale Agua y Territorio, che si terrà l'8 e il 9 giugno 2026 a Milano.

PROPOSTE DI COMUNICAZIONE

•    Data limite: 30 gennaio 2026.

•    Accettazione: 15 febbraio 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Commodities of Empire Annual International Workshop

2-3 September 2026, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid

Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers

Organisers: ‘Commodities of Empire’ British Academy Research Project, ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST, and the AMBTEC project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 14 February 2026.

The scientific and technological dimensions of commodity history have long attracted attention, with recent work offering comprehensive accounts of the transnational movement of experts, technologies, and scientific ideas. Yet the skills, techniques, and expertise required for resource extraction and processing in and around commodity frontiers remain less thoroughly explored. This workshop seeks to redirect attention to these frontiers of commodity production as sites of knowledge generation, codification and exchange from early modern times to the present. While remaining attentive to imperial, trans-imperial and transnational knowledge networks, the primary aim of this workshop is to examine commodity frontiers themselves as key locations for the development of techno-scientific knowledge and practice by both local and transnational actors. We are especially interested in historical research on indigenous technologies and traditional practices of commodity production, many of which held central economic and cultural significance.

The workshop also welcomes works that reflects on the historiographical and epistemological implications of recognizing local protagonists –such as indigenous peoples, colonized populations, and migrants at commodity frontiers– as active contributors to the production and circulation of knowledge. The workshop further examines the role of institutions and associations (cooperatives, workers’ unions, botanic gardens, agricultural stations, etc.) that operated in these regions as generators, intermediaries, translators, and sometimes gatekeepers of knowledge.

The workshop aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to make the history of science and technology less Eurocentric and US-centric by explicitly broadening inquiry into knowledge histories in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, while remaining open to cases from all geographical regions. By placing local knowledge at the center of global commodity history, it frames commodity frontiers as complex technological landscapes and sites of experimentation shaped by plural socio-economic and ecological contexts as well as by unequal power relations. The workshop therefore invites papers that critically engage with these trans-local dynamics and local-global articulations, while also illuminating alternative histories of the making of scientific and technological knowledge.