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Call for interest. The Catholic Church and the Environment

Call for interest The Catholic Church and the Environment – CATCH, Funded by the European Union (ERC ADG CATCH, Grant Number 101199683).The ERC research project CATCH - The Catholic Church and the Environment is hiring 5 PhD students, 2 Postdocs, and 1 research assistant. We are looking for committed researchers, passionate co-workers, and dedicated scholars who wish to join our team and build together our new Radical Environmental Humanities Hub. CATCH CATCH will provide the first comprehensive environmental history of the Catholic Church from the 1960s—when Vatican II coincided with new social and ecological concerns—to the papacy of Pope Francis. While scholars have explored religion and the environment from theological perspectives, the historical relationship between th...
  • Workshop: Lands and Territories in Dispute in the Brazilian Amazon

    Workshop: Lands and Territories in Dispute in the Brazilian Amazon  On 7 April at 3.30 pm, the HISTAGRA Group and CISPAC are organising a workshop entitled ‘Lands and Territories in Dispute in the Brazilian Amazon’, as part of the project ‘Socio-biodiverse Territories in Maranhão and Pará:...
  • HISTAGRA and the Memory of Democracy

    Histagra is coordinating the investigation into the mass graves from the Franco regime in Serantes (Ferrol), Orilla (Carral) and Boisaca (Santiago de Compostela) On Tuesday 16 March, the USC and the Provincial Council of A Coruña signed a research agreement under which the HISTAGRA Research Gro...
  • HISTAGRA at the American Encounters in Granell: Mulleres Bravas

    Mulleres Bravas: defending the commons in Galicia and Honduras: María Esther Velásquez, Maygra Isabel Guevara and Mónica Cea Next Thursday, 5 March, at 7 p.m. the Granell Foundation (Praza do Toural, s/n) will host the round table discussion Mulleres Bravas: defending the common good in Galicia...
  • Conference: Uncomfortable Past: The Sahara Question in Historical Perspective

    Conference: Uncomfortable Past: The Sahara Question in Historical Perspective, by Santiago Jiménez and Souadou Mohamed Fadel On Monday, 23 February at 11:30 a.m., Santiago Jiménez, retired professor at the USC, and activist Souadou Mohamed Fadel will give a talk entitled ‘The Sahara Question in...