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Narratives and scenarios are now deemed indispensable instruments for imagining and bringing about more sustainable futures to ensure the continued survival of humanity on Earth. But how exactly do we go from narratives and scenarios to actual climate action? How can we see scenarios and narratives as more than instruments, and use them in a sophisticated way for anticipating futures? This workshop focuses on these core challenges. It is specifically concerned with the “then what?” question: how do we go from narratives and scenarios to climate action? https://lnkd.in/e69heTeW Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) Michael Boyden Ann Light Daniel Pargman Sietske Veenman

The call for papers for our panel titled "Transforming Water into Politics: Narratives, Imaginaries, and Practices in the Middle East and North Africa" is now open for the XVI SeSaMO Conference - Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (Cagliari, October 3-5, 2024). We eagerly await proposals from young researchers and scholars across various disciplines to enrich our exploration of hydropolitics and its socio-political outcomes in the MENA region. https://lnkd.in/dZqybqgG

♻️ European banks and their influence on environmental policy This paper by Jacopo Cellini, Research Fellow at the Historical Archives of the European Union, and Thomas Soden, Researcher at the EUI History Department, finds that banks influenced European environmental policy by incorporating the notion of sustainable development into their discourse. 📄 #EUIResearch: https://loom.ly/2pYitaY

📢 CfP: Discussing the Zero Growth and Climate Change in Eastern Europe Before and After 1989 (Panel Proposal for the 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History Conference 2025, “Climate Histories”, August 18th-22th, 2025, Uppsala) ℹ️ The panel will address the controversial interplay of climate change discourse and zero growth theory debates as they were reflected in Eastern Europe. How did changing visions of the climate conditions deal with the reflections on the zero growth theories in the socialist era? Emphasizing the year of 1989 as a watershed of state socialism in Europe, we are also interested in the afterlife and legacies of these visions after the demise of the bloc. In light of our efforts towards the decolonisation of knowledge within the Soviet bloc, we welcome papers on local as well as national, transnational and global histories. ✍ Please submit your paper proposals of up to 250 words by 25 October 2024. For more details, see 👉 https://1url.cz/z1Vi6.

This is a hugely significant declaration, which has been co-led by Professor Jem Bendell and Dr. Pablo Servigne: "Six hundred and seventy-four scholars from 53 countries, believe that 'Only if policymakers begin to discuss this threat of societal collapse might communities and nations begin to prepare and so reduce its likelihood, speed, severity, harm to the most vulnerable, and to nature.' Each signatory, with doctoral degree, endorsed a public warning on societal disruption and collapse due to environmental change. They cover more than 20 major academic disciplines, including ecology and climatology, thereby conclusively demonstrating that preparations for societal collapse are being taken seriously by experts from around the world. The announcement of the final list of signatories concludes a 3-year initiative to promote awareness of the scientific basis for exploring how to reduce the damage from societal disruption, breakdown, and collapse, due to environmental change." https://lnkd.in/ggrHyJvu

Our latest Research Article is available now: https://lnkd.in/dKxbXuRF "Is Green Polics Right or Left?" encompasses discursive progressive and conservative arguments regarding contemporary Anthropocene Politics.

My research considers heritage through an ecocentric perspective. I challenge the Global North’s ideas of heritage by privileging above all else the perpetuation of the interconnected web of life. “The Fairy Council of Ireland at the River Boyne: Heritage and Decolonial Climate Imaginaries” is my first article published since starting my PhD. I confront coloniality in the field of heritage, center the animacy and vitality of the River Boyne, and share how activists engage folklore as an ecosystemic care tactic. https://lnkd.in/e_BjK484

Looks like an exciting conference! Will be submitting a proposal - anyone else also considering going? The 13th European Society for Environmental History Conference will be held August 18th – 22nd, 2025 in Uppsala, Sweden. Submission deadline Nov 15! "The conference theme of “Climate Histories” puts narratives at the center to represent experiences of living with climate uncertainties. These include climate reconstruction and climate-society histories, the historiography of climate research, oral history and storytelling, as well as counter-narratives to the Eurocentric Anthropocene narrative." https://lnkd.in/dsbRVunt