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• 05 fév 2019

  Call for papers - Africa

  Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa

  IV Cham international conference, Lisbon, July 2019

  The Portuguese Centre for Humanities (CHAM) is an inter-University research unit of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and of the Universidade dos Açores, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. CHAM’s team includes researchers from different disciplinary fields (Archaeology, Art History, Heritage, Literature, Philosophy and History of ideas), different domains of History (Economic, Cultural, Political, Social, Religious, History of Science and History of books and reading practices) and specialists from various geographic spaces. From 2015 to 2020, CHAM’s strategic project will focus on “frontiers”. This multi-disciplinary project considers frontiers as limits that distinguished, throughout history, a plurality of societies and cultures, but also as social and cultural constructs that promoted communication and interaction.

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• 21 sep 2018

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  African Ivories

  In the Atlantic World, 1400-1900

  Since April 2015, the international team working on the project “African Ivories in the Atlantic World: a reassessment of Luso-African ivories” (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: PTDC/EPH-PAT/1810/2014), composed of 27 researchers from the University of Lisbon, the University of Évora and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, has been researching the trade, circulation and production of raw and carved African ivory in the Atlantic area from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The team has identified and listed objects from Portuguese and Brazilian (Minas Gerais) collections, also collecting references and descriptions extant in written Portuguese sources. For the first time a selection of ivory pieces was subjected to lab tests with a view to helping establish their age and origin. The project research team has submitted proposals for re-interpreting material culture in the framework of its African contexts of production. 

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• 20 sep 2015

  Call for papers - Geography

  Beyond the acacia tree: nature, landscape and ecology in Africa

  Africa e Mediterraneo Issue 83/2015

  The empty and uncontaminated landscapes of Africa – that the oriental perspective has idealized with the strong support of the tourism industry, and that have been pictured in stereotypical images (like covers and posters portraying the common acacia tree during the sunset) as opposed to the alienating anthropization of the first world – are nowadays put at risk by a growing and hazardous pollution, as denounced by many.

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• 15 fév 2011

  Johannesburg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Call for Master's bursary application Urban Protected Areas (UPA) Network (South Africa)

  To be allocated to one Master student registered at a South African University

  The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) is pleased to announce that as part of the Urban Protected Areas (UPA) network, it will be offering one Master’s bursary of ZAR 20,000 (2000 euros) for the conduction of research on the history and policies of urban protected areas, with the Table Mountain National park in Cape Town as a case study. The bursary is intended to be allocated to one Master student registered at a South African University

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• 15 jan 2011

  Johannesburg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Call for Master's Bursary Application Urban Protected Areas (UPA) Network (European Union)

  To be allocated to one Master student registered at a European Union University

  The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) is pleased to announce that as part of the Urban Protected Areas (UPA) network, it will be offering one Master’s bursary of ZAR 20,000 (2000 euros) for the conduction of research on the history and policies of urban protected areas, with the Table Mountain National park in Cape Town as a case study. The bursary is intended to be allocated to one Master student registered at a European Union University

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• 27 mai 2009	28 mai 2009	29 mai 2009
  30 mai 2009

  Limoges

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Les fronts écologiques / Eco-frontiers

  Entre terr(itoir)es, paysages et réseaux [Afrique du Sud, invité d'honneur] / Between land(scape), territory and networks [South Africa, invited country]

  Le thème du colloque « les "fronts écologiques", entre terr(itoir)es, paysage et réseaux » s’insère totalement dans les problématiques actuelles de recherches, théoriques et appliquées, sur le développement durable. En effet, un « front écologique » désigne un espace de faible densité de population, doté de valeurs écologiques et paysagères fortes et convoité par des acteurs aux motivations aussi variées que conflictuelles (tourisme, villégiature, protection de l’environnement, énergies alternatives, exploitation forestière etc.). Un « front écologique » est donc traversé par des enjeux multiples et systémiques qui font largement écho aux situations rencontrées aujourd’hui un peu partout dans le monde : question foncière, dynamiques territoriales, valorisation des paysages et protection de la nature et mise en réseau des espaces et des acteurs. Nous concevons donc la région d’accueil de ce colloque autant comme un lieu de débat que comme un terrain d’études et d’observations comparatives.

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