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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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• 15 jui 2017

  Vanves

  Call for papers - Geography

  Waste Sciences, Knowledges and Practices

  European, North and Latin American perspectives

  Waste has emerged as a main environmental, economic and social issue in the last fifty years. The convergence of interests from various fields of reflection and action suggests a potential and fruitful “epistemological turn”. Yet this process is still on the verge of formalization. Research and decision on waste organizational and representational systems remain either fragmented or dependent on local context though some waste management recommendations arise from worries on the global consequences of discard. Hence this international symposium aims at opening transatlantic conversations between academic, technical and artistic areas in order to clarify how waste challenges our everyday sciences, knowledges and practices.

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• 29 mai 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Destruction and Conservation in debate : Brazil's environmental history in a global perspective

  Ce workshop europeén vise à la fois à réaliser un état des lieux de l'histoire environnementale brésilienne et à discuter des nouvelles perspectives qui se présentent à ce champ d’études. La discipline de l’histoire environnementale y sera envisagée au sens large, impliquant tout à la fois les études sur les représentations, les politiques, et les changements matériels qui résultent de l'interaction entre « humains » et « non-humains ».

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• 30 mar 2014

  Evora

  Call for papers - Economy

  Family Farming and Sustainable Development: 2014 and beyond

  We are pleased to invite you to contribute papers for a Special Session on Family Farming and Sustainable Development: 2014 and beyond, which we will organize at the 20th APDR Congress on 10-11 July 2014. The Congress will take place at the University of Évora, in Évora (Portugal) and will be a major international event.

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