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.

Call for Papers “Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability”

Organizers: Lijuan Klassen and Christof Mauch

Venue: Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Schloss-Str. 2+4, 82327 Tutzing, Germany

Date of the workshop: 2–4 October 2024

Submission deadline: 15 May 2024

More information at https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_events/2024-news/cfa_planetary-health/index.html

FELLOWSHIPS AT THE KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE FOR APOCALYPTIC AND POST-APOCALYPTIC STUDIES (CAPAS)

CAPAS is a Centre for Advanced Studies and offers up to 10 scholarships for a maximum period of twelve (12) months per academic year. Respectively, the calls for fellowship applications will be publicly advertised once a year on our website. International scholars and scientist from a variety of academic fields in the humanities and sciences are encouraged to apply, if they hold the rank of Assistant Professor or equivalent. The remuneration and length of a fellowship appointment will be agreed upon by CAPAS and each individual fellow.

Call for Applications - CAPAS (uni-heidelberg.de)

March 22, 2024, Friday, 10:00-12:00 WET - Portugal

Roundtable: New Horizons for Portuguese Environmental History: An overview of REPORT(H)A and the new #envhist generation by 6 PhD candidates.

Presenters:

Sara Pinto (CITCEM/FLUP) – “REPORT(H)A: reporting what is new in Portuguese Environmental History.”

Ana Isabel Lopes (CITCEM-FLUP/ FCT Studentship 2020.04817.BD) – “Coping with Drift Sands in Historical Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Northwest Portugal and European Communities Collective Action (16th-19th centuries).”

Paulo Vasconcelos (CITCEM-FLUP/ FCT Studentship UI/BD/152807/2022) & Manuel Fernandes (CEGOT/FLUP) – “Agents, motivations for dispersal and early impacts of eucalypti and acacias in Portugal.”

Rebeca Baptista – “Marine ivory in medieval Europe in the 10th-13th centuries. Hunting, circulation and utilisation of whale, walrus and narwhal raw materials.”

Brígida Baptista – “The socio-economic and environmental history of tuna fisheries in Algarve (Portugal).”

Jaime Silva – “Into ancient watery worlds: a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to maya and mesopotamian aquatic symbols.”

Commentator: Nina Vieira

Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOurrDojGdFnpMgjy4YQqWJE2d3OR5uQ

Extended deadline: 16 February 2024

HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, recently indexed by Scopus, is an open access, on-line peer-reviewed international journal devoted to the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, published in English by a group of Portuguese research institutions and Sciendo. 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 two thematic dossiers to be published in 2025 (HoST volume 19, issue 1-June; issue 2-December).

Each thematic dossier should be prepared by the guest editor(s) and include four research papers along with an introduction.

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 each) 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:

Proposals will be subject to approval by the Editorial Board and authors will be informed of the outcome by March 2024. 

Submissions should be sent as an e-mail attachment (preferably in one single .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file), to the chief-editor: chiefeditor@johost.eu

Oceans Past brings together scholars and practitioners interested in documenting and understanding changes in marine systems and human maritime interactions in past decades, centuries and millennia.

Conference themes include:

1.  How the sea has changed us / how we have changed the sea
2.  Physical and biological drivers in marine ecosystems and populations
3.  Scales of sustainable and unsustainable marine harvesting throughout time
4.  Multidisciplinary perspectives on social and ecological consequences of change 
5.  Trajectories and repercussions of management interventions on marine social‐ecological systems through time
6.  Lessons from the past for management of coastal zones and the high seas

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2024

To qualify for an oral or poster presentation please visit https://oceanspast.org/opx.php and follow the instructions for submission to info@oceanspast.org.              

Attendance subsidies are available for some early career researchers, please check the website for eligibility and how to apply.

Link para submissões: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/index

O RURAL, A CIÊNCIA E O MEIO AMBIENTE: UM DEBATE NECESSÁRIO

Prazo para envio: 1 de março de 2024

 THE RURAL, SCIENCE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A NECESSARY DEBATE

Deadline for submission: march 1st, 2024

Editores de seção / Directors:

Dr. José Luís Garcia (Universidade de Lisboa); Dr. Marcio Antônio Both da Silva (Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná); Dra. Nívia Pombo (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro)