• ECHIC 2023 conference Final Programme

    We are looking forward to seeing many of you in Ferrara for the ECHIC annual conference “Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing”. To download the final programme please click here. For the conference website click here

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  • ECHIC 2023 conference – Update

    The submission deadline for the 2023 ECHIC Conference “Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing” has been extended until Thursday, 9 February 2023. We invite papers and panels on theories, methods, and practices of sustainability requiring eco-innovation and technology transfer as well as new cultural frames of mind and forms of education, social engagement, empowerment and agency. We hope…

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  • ECHIC 2023 conference

    ECOLOGICAL MINDEDNESS AND SUSTAINABLE WELLBEINGUniversity of Ferrara, ItalyMay 25-27, 2023 We are very pleased to announce that the 2023 ECHIC conference will take place at the University of Ferrara (Italy), on May 25-27, 2023. Since the World Commission on Environment and Development published Our Common Future (1987), the notion of sustainable development has been continuously scrutinised and redefined. Sustainability…

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  • Macerata Festival of the Humanities

    The University of Macerata, in central Italy, has launched the first edition of the Festival of the Humanities, 29 September -1 October 2022. Part of this initiative is the international conference “Sustainable Humanities: the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Sustainability. Challenges and Perspectives“, organised by the Humanities Department. Please find the call for papers here.…

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  • ECHIC seeks nominations for Board members

    The European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres seeks nominations for members to serve on its Governing Board. Board members nominated in 2022 will serve a three-year term, renewable once. We are seeking candidates, including early career researchers, with a demonstrable commitment to the humanities, who are interested in shaping the future of the organisation.…

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  • Research Grants, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra

    The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra offers grants to researchers who wish to conduct a research stay at the Institute. Location: Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra (Spain).  Open date: Feb 23, 2022.  Deadline: Mar 28, 2022.  Description: The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University…

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  • ECHIC Conference 2022

    We are delighted to announce that registration for the ECHIC 2022 conference is now open. This will be our first in-person gathering since we last met in Athens almost three years ago and we are very much looking forward to seeing many of you at Lund University, from April 21 to 22. To register please…

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  • ECHIC conference 2022

    After a two-year hiatus, we are thrilled to announce that the ECHIC conference “The Many Faces of the Humanities” will take place in Lund (Sweden), on April 21-22, 2022. The conference has a hybrid format, combining in-person and virtual presentations. We appreciate that the pandemic is still generating uncertainty, but we also believe it is…

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  • Rosi Braidotti Summer School

    The 2022 edition of the summer school on posthuman scholarship, organised by Rosi Braidotti, will be themed “The Posthuman Life and Methods”, and will be held from the 18th to the 25th of August 2022. The course is offered online and is sub-divided into five small tutorial groups. The groups are organized by different regional…

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  • SSH in Horizon Europe

    The Social Sciences and Humanities Council of The Netherlands has issued a position paper calling for a true integration of SSH expertise in Horizon Europe. Read the paper here

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  • Revitalising Democracy in Times of Division – The Role of Social Sciences and Humanities

    The German EU council presidency conference “Revitalising Democracy in Times of Division – The Role of Social Sciences and Humanities” will take place on 28 and 29 October 2020 in Bonn. This conference will provide an international platform for academia, research policymakers, and stakeholders from civil society to discuss how research results can be transferred…

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  • Posthuman Convergences: Theories and Methodologies

    Utrecht Summer School course by prof. Rosi Braidotti – 17-21 August 2020 In spite of the difficult and uncertain circumstances at the moment, Utrecht University confirms that 2020 Summer School course ‘Posthuman Convergences’ will proceed as planned, though in a different format, with some students physically present in the classroom, holding the required social distance, and…

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  • The World Pandemic Research Network

    The World Pandemic Research Network (WPRN) is a platform serving research communities. It maintains a searchable global directory of the scientific resources available on the societal and human impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. It shows who works on what, where, in real time, at global level. Designed and maintained by researchers, WPRN is free, non-profit, public-funded, open…

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  • Posthuman Knowledge(s)

    Utrecht summer course by prof. Rosi Braidotti August 19-23, 2019 The aim of this intensive course is to offer a critical overview of contemporary debates about the implications of the ‘posthuman turn’ for knowledge production and research in the Posthumanities. Registration deadline: June 1, 2019 For more information, click here.

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  • Research excellence and cooperation must prevail in Horizon Europe

    Thirteen University Associations and the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH) have published a short position paper to reinforce the importance for Horizon Europe to support high quality, open, international research in all scientific fields, with a strong investment of €160Bn as advocated by the European Parliament. See the statement here  

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