We are inviting submissions for the 12nd Symposium of the Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental. Roundtables, posters, panels are all welcome.
Check out the guidelines at http://www.solcha2025.com.br
Lise Sedrez
International Applicants
International applicants who are not applying to PPGHIS fellowships will be evaluated by the International Affairs Committee in a separate selection process, with rolling admission deadlines.
A. To receive a conditional acceptance letter, which will be confirmed only after the concession of a valid non-PPGHIS fellowship, the applicant must submit to the PPGHIS office the following documentation by email (ppghis.ufrj@gmail.com):
- A digital copy of the undergraduate diploma;
- A digital copy of the undergraduate official transcript, for master applicants. Applicants to the doctoral program must also include a copy of their graduate official transcript;
- Curriculum Vitae or Lattes Curriculum;
- Research project for both master and doctoral applicants, in the style defined in the PPGHIS website (see guidelines for master and doctoral applicants, in the official call for applications for this year);
- Statement of intent declaring the applicant will be available during the period required for completion of the course;
- Statement from the candidate identifying potential advisors at PPGHIS;
- Two confidential letters of recommendation from qualified professionals (preferably faculty), emailed to the PPGHIS address (ppghis.ufrj@gmail.com or ppghis@historia.ufrj.br). In the letter, the writer should include information on how and for how long s/he knew the applicant, as well as evaluate the applicant´s academic performance and potential for graduate studies in history. The email should remain confidential and must be dated before the day scheduled for the meeting of the Master or Doctoral Selection Committee.
B. To register in the Program, applicants must first show proof of concession of a valid international fellowship and/or PEC-PG (CAPES) before the deadline for enrollment for the first semester of the academic year.
C. Deadline for online application is August 29th of the current year. Excepcionally applications after this date may be considered, with reasonable justification.
D. The International Affairs Committee will evaluate complete applications until September 30 of the same year, when the results will be announced.
For further information on fellowships and legal requirements, please consult the following site:
Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Pós-Graduação (PEC-PG)
According to the University regulations, the dissertation or thesis may be presented in English or Spanish.
Oral History, Memory and Political Violence in the Modern World
O Núcleo de História Oral e Memória tem o prazer de convidar a comunidade acadêmica para o seminário “História Oral, Memória e Violência Política no Mundo Contemporâneo”, que contará com a exposição de trabalhos de pesquisadores associados. Este encontro representará uma oportunidade de aprofundar o entendimento sobre a interseção entre história oral, memória e os desafios inerentes à análise da violência política em nosso contexto atual, em suas mais diversas expressões.
Serão três dias de evento onde discutiremos os mais variados temas a partir da exposição das pesquisas de graduandos, pós-graduandos e professores associados ao nosso grupo de pesquisa do CNPQ.
Acesse nosso caderno de Programação: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N5JeaSDQmk5Rqw5z-5GX4zTDZJbwGNm-/view?usp=drivesdk
A Teoria Sociológica para Além do Cânone
O lançamento do livro de Farid Alatas e Vineeta Sinha, que acontecerá na Fundação Marielle Franco, tem a presença do professor Claudio Pinheiro, e está associado ao seu curso “Para Além da Decolonialidade“.
Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental
SOLCHA- the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History – has a new board. Professors Lise Sedrez and José Augusto Pádua are the current vice-presidents of this association they helped to create in 2006.
In the 2023-25 term, Pádua and Sedrez will organize the next SOLCHA meeting, in Rio de Janeiro, an initiative in collaboration with Fiocruz, the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro and PUC-Rio.
Mata Atlântica e Baía de Guanabara: entre história e desafios
Mata Atlântica e Baía de Guanabara em debate no Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
Pesquisadores e especialistas de diversas instituições compõem a mesa que acontece na sexta-feira, dia 2 de junho, às 14h, na Escola Nacional de Botânica Tropical (ENBT), na Rua Pacheco Leão, 2040, Horto. A entrada é gratuita.
O jornalista Emanuel Alencar falará sobre programas de despoluição da Baía de Guanabara. A historiadora Lise Sedrez (mutirão de reflorestamento do Rio), o pesquisador Breno Herrera (pesca artesanal) e o chefe do Parque Estadual da Serra da Tiririca, Ricardo Voivodic (ecossistema da Guanabara), completam o time.
Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire
On next Friday, June 2nd, the syposium Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire begins at the King’s College, organized by Francisco Bethencourt, with the presense of José Augusto Pádua.
Live broadcasting at KODLA7425.
Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire
Programme June 2-3 King’s College London, Strand, Anatomy Museum (King’s Building floor 6). Organised by the Charles Boxer Chair of History with the support of the Camões Institute (Portugal) and the Observatory of Democracy in Latin America
Atlas Miller, 1519, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Friday, June 2
10h00: Opening session – Francisco Bethencourt (KCL)
I. Origins and Infra-structures
Chair: Chloe Ireton (UCL)
10h10 Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) –
Expansion Reconsidered: Eco-Material and Political Transformations in Fifteenth-Century Atlantic Corridors
10h30 Koldo Trápaga Monchet (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) –
Conservation or destruction? Revisiting the environmental impact of the shipbuilding industry of Lisbon and the sugar industry in Madeira Island (15th-17th centuries)
10h50 Amélia Polónia (Universidade do Porto) –
Environmental impacts of the historical uses of the seas. The Portuguese seaports, 1500-1800
12h00 LUNCH
II. Panel of discussion
Chair: José Vicente Serrão
13h30 Cátia Antunes (Leiden University); Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge); Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University) [via Zoom]; Toby Green (KCL); Francisco Bethencourt (KCL)
III. Indigenous and Environmental Rights
Chair: Francisco Bethencourt
15h00 José Pedro Monteiro (CESC, Universidade do Minho) –
Economic development, political integration, cultural and environmental preservation: the promises of Portuguese late colonial reformism (1961-1970)
15h20 José Miguel Ferreira (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) –
Into the Woods. Nature, Forests and Colonialism in 19th Century Goa
16h00 BREAK
16h30 José Vicente Serrão (ISCTE-IUL) –
Colonization, Native land rights and environmental issues: how did all these intersect in the early modern Portuguese empire?
16h50Décio Guzmán (Universidade Federal do Pará) –
Indigenous communities in the Amazon [via Zoom]
Saturday, June 3
IV. Brazil
Chair: Susana Münch Miranda
10h00 José Augusto Pádua (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) –
Perceptions of environmental deterioration in late Portuguese America
10h20 Diogo de Carvalho Cabral (Trinity College Dublin), Ana Lunara Morais (Rio Grande do Norte Federal University/Campina Grande Federal University), Cristiane Barreto (University of Brasília) –
Geoecologies of empire: space, natural resources and the making of the sugar nobility in colonial Brazil
11h00 BREAK
11h30 Miguel Carmo (IHC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Joana Sousa (CES, Universidade de Coimbra), Ricardo Ventura (CEG, Universidade Aberta) –
The strange case of white rice in Maranhão: the plantation and its contraries from a long-term transatlantic perspective
11h50 Vinicius de Carvalho (King’s College London) –
The long-term impact of mining in Minas Gerais
12h30 LUNCH
V. Africa
Chair: Alexandra Lourenço Dias (KCL Camões Centre)
14h00 Susana Münch Miranda (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and João Paulo Salvado (Universidade de Évora) –
Ivory extraction and trade in the Portuguese South Atlantic empire, 1725-1820
14h20 Marta Macedo (IHC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) –
São Tomé plantation ecologies: vulnerabilities and disruptions
15h30 BREAK
16h00 Barbara Direito (CIUHCT, DCSA, NOVA School of Science and Technology) –
“Islands in a sea of flies” – livestock, animal disease and the environment in Mozambique, 1900s-1940s
16h20 Bernardo Pinto Cruz (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) –
The developmental effects of late-colonial coercion: countersubversion at Cunene (Angola) and Cahora Bassa (Mozambique), 1968-1974
Concluding remarks:
Cátia Antunes (Leiden University)Contact Email: francisco.bethencourt@kcl.ac.ukURL: https://www.youtube.com/@kodla7425
Bruno Latour post-doc fellowships – France
I am writing to you because Sciences Po is recruiting 8 postdocs in the environmental social sciences on 36 month contracts starting in 2023. This is the second and final round of applications, and for this second round of application we are especially looking forward to hiring one or two environmental historians. The ideal candidates are those who ask big, fundamental questions about the past in the light of our fraught ecological present (even when they research small places) and can speak to the other social sciences we practice at Sciences Po.
https://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/postdoctoral-fellowships-fonds-bruno-latour.html
Doctoral Program Environment and Society
The Doctoral Program Environment and Society is aimed at graduates from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences who wish to research questions concerning the nature/culture/environment interface. Within the scope of the program, doctoral students acquire the ability to understand the origins and interactions of complex natural and social processes. The doctoral program brings together expertise on environmental research from university and non-university institutions in Munich. The program is based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Its stimulating research environment, intensive supervision, and opportunity to form international networks offer excellent conditions for doctoral students.
RCC, LMM
Application Process
Applicants wishing to be admitted to this doctoral program must hold a Master’s degree from a recognized university, show evidence of excellence in their field of study, and present a plan for a doctoral project in one of the following areas or combination of areas:
- History: Environmental History, History of Science and Technology
- Sociology: Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Sociology of Economics
- Energy and Resource Economics for Sustainability
- Geography: Modeling Social-Ecological Relations and Systems, Historical Geography, Political Ecology
- Geology and Natural Catastrophes
- Bioarcheology, Life Sciences in Society
- Biology: Paleoanatomy and Archaeology
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Policy: Comparative, International, or Politics of Ecological Transitions
- Environmental Ethics
- Anthropology: Environmental, Urban, or Political; especially Latin America and Pacific
- Cultural Studies, Art and the Environment in Historical Perspective
- Environmental Humanities, Literature and Environment
Please submit your application via the online application portal of the LMU GraduateCenter.
You will need the following documents for your online application:
- Copies of university degree(s) held;
- Proof of higher education entrance qualification (high school diploma or equivalent);
- Master’s thesis (if in a language other than English or German, please provide a table of contents and an exposé of max. 5 pages in English);
- An academic curriculum vitae (including publications, if applicable);
- A statement of purpose for your application to the program (up to two pages);
- A research proposal (max. 5 pages, including bibliography, footnotes, and time table);
- The name of a member of the Academic Board whose research interests match the dissertation project;
- Name and contact information for two academic referees (university lecturers), able to give information about your suitability for the program and your academic potential.
Candidates can join the program in either the winter or the summer semester. Applications are due through the online application portal by 15 May for the winter semester and 15 November for the summer semester. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by the end of July (for a start date of 1 October) or by the end of January (for a start date of 1 April). The portal will open ca. 5 weeks prior to the application deadline.
Selection of candidates will be made on the basis of the documents submitted and may additionally include an academic interview with a member of the selection committee. Interviews can be conducted via Skype/Zoom.
The selection committee will base its choice on the following factors: quality and feasibility of the research proposal, qualifications held, communication skills and teamwork ability, and demonstrated willingness and ability to work on interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological questions.
Bolsas de estudo – França
Foi lançado pela Embaixada da França no Brasil um novo edital de bolsas de estudos para a França!
O programa é destinado aos estudantes do primeiro, segundo ou terceiro ano de doutorado no Brasil que estejam pesquisando sobre temas na área de ecologia e ciências ambientais.
Por meio desse programa de bolsas, a Embaixada da França no Brasil tem o objetivo de fortalecer a cooperação científica entre Brasil e França, sobretudo em questões cruciais da crise climática e da perda da biodiversidade.Mais informações no site https://www.bresil.campusfrance.org/
