No dia 19 de Maio, receberemos na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal a Marlon Brandt, que apresentará a palestra "Paisagens Caboclas nas Florestas com Araucária do Sul do Brasil".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/paisagens-caboclas/

#Histodons #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnvHist #Brasil #Brazil #Araucaria #LandcapeManagement #GestãoDaPaisagem #Forests #Florestas

Mesmo mesmo a terminar, o #FIREUSES ainda vai promover mais uma palestra: Marlon Brandt vai estar na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal no dia 19 de Maio para apresentar "Paisagens Caboclas nas Florestas com Araucária do Sul do Brasil".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/paisagens-caboclas/

#Histodons #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnvHist #Brasil #Brazil #Araucaria #LandcapeManagement #GestãoDaPaisagem #Forests #Florestas

Went to Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture at the Saatchi Gallery.

https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/flowers-flora-in-contemporary-art-amp-culture

There’s a lot of interesting things that can be said flowers, what with all the current interest in the human’s entangled relation to the nonhuman, the Planthropocene, the environmental humanities, including elsewhere in the Saatchi gallery:

https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/liminal-gallery-entangled

But the curators here? They draw on very little of it. The concept behind the exhibition is basically: ‘Here’s some works of art that depict flowers.’

That said, some standout pieces make it worth the visit, especially La Fleur Morte by Rebecca Louise Law and The Machinery of Enchantment by William Darrell.

Also: dedicating the final room to emerging artists is a great curatorial move. More shows should copy that.

#art #plants #nature #flowers #environmentalhumanities #nonhuman #culture

The closing conference of the #FIREUSES - Burning Landscapes project will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April. Throughout the day, main results will be presented combined with other perspectives and geographies of fire.

FREE ENTRY

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/burning-landscapes-2025/

@envhum
@envhist

#Histodons #Wildfires #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvHist #EnvironmentalHumanities #HistoryOfScience #RuralHistory #SocialHistory #FireRegimes #FirePolicies #Portugal

Traditional ecological knowledge (Ecology 🏞️)

Traditional ecological knowledge is a cumulative body of knowledge, practice, and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings with one another and with their environment. The application of TEK in the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_ecological_knowledge

#TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #Ecology #TraditionalKnowledge #EnvironmentalHumanities

Happy New Year. I know things feel really hard for a lot of us right now, so let me tell you something important:

In the highland rainforest of NSW, in the Werrikimbe region, there’s a community of superb lyrebirds. Lyrebirds are known for their unparalleled mimicry: they can reproduce the call of any bird they hear (and many other sounds as well). They collect songs like crows collect shiny objects. The variety and complexity of their repertoire, and the skill with which they deliver it, determines their reproductive success.

They also compose songs of their own. These songs vary from region to region; they are learned by lyrebirds when they're young, and passed down from generation to generation with remarkable stability. If a lyrebird finds or produces a new melody that other lyrebirds like, they absorb it into the communal repertoire.

The lyrebirds that live in the Werrikimbe are called flute lyrebirds because in winter, when they're in love, they sing a complex rising melody which sounds like scales played on a flute. This "flute accent" exists nowhere else in the world; it’s unique to this one community. On cold mornings, it floats down through the mists like an enchantment.

How did this haunting melody come about? It's said that a young boy kept a tame lyrebird, and every day the bird listened to him practicing the flute. Then one day the bird escaped. It went to live with its wild brethren, and taught them this new song.

But the truth is much more magical: Lyrebirds composed this song all on their own. It's more complex than any human flautist could ever hope to achieve, and it’s got features unique to lyrebird melody and anatomy.

Lyrebirds live and breathe music. They are built for music. They spend their lives studying the soundscape. They listened to the world around them, all of the pain and suffering and desire and joy, and this is what they sang back into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nrAh2zVWo

#lyrebirds #AustralianBirds #werrikimbe #birds #BirdsOfFediverse #music #song #EnvironmentalHumanities #flute #australia #northernNSW

If you're interested in the relation between the city and the environment, this is worth a read:

https://berlinergazette.de/category/feuilleton-en/kin-city/

'The “Kin City” text series draws attention to the abyss between conversations about ‘the city’ on the one hand and ‘nature’ on the other, and the resulting failure to adequately conceive and politicize the crucial role of metropolitan spaces for human and other-than-human life across the planet. To overcome this cognitive dissonance, the “Kin City” project addresses cities as both drivers and ‘victims’ of ecological collapse, and above all creates a space for exploring the existing and possible connections between urban and environmental struggles.'

#city #environment #ecology #posthumanism #nature #nonhuman #environmentalhumanities

🌾 A primeira actividade da IHC Visiting Scholar, Lavinia Maddaluno (Università Ca' Foscari), será a conferência "Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop", a ter lugar na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal no dia 16 de Julho.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/rice-ersatz/

#Histodons #AgriculturalHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #Rice #LaviniaMaddaluno #OpenLecture #HistóriaDaAgricultura #Arroz #HistóriaAmbiental

📖 In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Marta Macedo examines "how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century." 🇸🇹

🔓#OpenAccess:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02780771231222335

@histodons
@envhum

#Histodons #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #Ethnobiology #AgrarianHistory #HistóriaAmbiental #Angola #SãoTomé #Cannabis #Plantations #HistóriaAgrária

I am organising a workshop on elemental media in Potsdam next week (June 27th - 28th). If you would like to attend in person as a guest, feel free to message me!

John Durham Peters will be giving a virtual keynote, to which you can register separately. The programme and registration link are available at our website: https://winds.report/elementar

#mediastudies #environmentalhumanities #academia

We're delighted to announce the publication from Open Humanities Press of Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales, edited by Prudence Gibson, Sigi Jottkandt, Marie Sierra and Anna Westbrook.

Available in open access and print:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/dark-botany/

Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths about their dark histories and darker contemporary currents, while reflecting on the complexity of texture, movement, memory, compound structure, chemical emissions and rapid evolution of plants and languages. What one discovers is that herbaria are not static: they are as vital, energetic and enigmatic as the plants in their collections.

#OA #OAbooks #humanities #openhumanities #ohp #plants #PlantScience #environmentalhumanities #art

🌟 Nicht verpassen! Am 8. Mai 2024 habe ich @8urghardt von der @unileipzig im #DH-Kolloquium zum Thema "Computational #EnvironmentalHumanities" zu Gast. 🌿

🗓️ Datum: 8. Mai 2024
🕒 Uhrzeit: 17.30
📍 Ort: Zoom, Uni Regensburg & Uni Stuttgart

Mehr hier: https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktuelles/news/Offenes-MA-Kolloquium-Trends-der-Digital-Humanities/

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has a new call for papers for a special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice

https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/149/

Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2024

#publishing #climate #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #justice #anthropocene #environmentalhumanities

Thrilled that the video essay I created with Kathleen Loock, "There is a storm coming!" is in the current issue of [in]Transition. Check it out, comment, and share if you like.

:mastodance:

#video #VideoEssay #VideographicCriticism #EnvironmentalHumanities #TakeShelter #ClimateUnconscious #Extractivism

https://intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/15422/

#CfP für "Büchners Elemente", die #Jahrestagung der Büchner-Gesellschaft 2024, die vom 14. bis 16. November 2024 in Frankfurt am Main stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 15. April 2024

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/buechners-elemente/ #GeorgBüchner #fidavlnews #ecocriticism #EnvironmentalHumanities @litstudies @germanistik

Ecocomposition (Ecology 🏞️)

Ecocomposition is a way of looking at literacy using concepts from ecology. It is a postprocess theory of writing instruction that tries to account for factors beyond hierarchically defined goals within social settings; however, it does not dismiss these goals. Rather, it incorporates them within an ecological view that extends the range of ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocomposition

#Ecocomposition #Ecology #Writing #Pedagogy #Reading #EnvironmentalHumanities

Next week's @universityofgalway history research seminar features Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh on 'Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration'. In-person in Room G010, Hardiman Building, at 4.00pm, 8 November. For the Zoom link, register at https://forms.office.com/e/Ezy9tXU45H

@histodons #histodons #envhist #environment #EnvironmentalHumanities

Folks working in #EnvironmentalHumanities and/or #CuteStudies, here's a webinar to watch!

Featuring my friend and colleague Joshua Paul Dale, who's got a new book coming out soon.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cute-ecologies-tickets-707687611697?aff=oddtdtcreator

📖 Inês Gomes, com Dulce Freire, publicou um artigo na HALAC onde se discute "como fontes históricas escritas podem contribuir para conhecer a biodiversidade do passado e para aprofundar a investigação na área das Ciências da Conservação."

Este trabalho é fruto do rojecto #ReSEED onde a Inês estava integrada antes de entrar no IHC.

🔓 Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2023v13i1.p246-261

@envhum
#Histodons #EnvHist #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #Biodiversity #Conservation