Newsletter n.º 165 – July 2024

Intervention
PolObs presents the results of a study on advanced training in Communication Sciences in Portugal

PolObs presents the results of a study on advanced training in Communication Sciences in Portugal

The CECS Observatory of Policies on Science, Communication and Culture has finalised the study "Public funding of human resources training: doctoral scholarships in Communication and Information Sciences".

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Research
Call for Research Fellowship | Conciliare Project

Call for Research Fellowship | Conciliare Project

A call for applications for a research grant for a pós-doctoral under the Conciliare project is open until September 4.

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PolObs Seminar: “Changing skin: Body and Ecofeminisms between institution and culture”

PolObs Seminar: “Changing skin: Body and Ecofeminisms between institution and culture”

The seminar ‘Changing Skin: Body and Ecofeminisms between Institution and Culture’ will be held on 10 September at 3 pm as part of the PolObs Culture 2024 Seminar Cycle - Connecting Doctoral Projects with Cultural Policies. The event will take place via Zoom.

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PolObs Seminar: ‘The invention of the possible: policies, knowledge and cultural practices at school’

PolObs Seminar: ‘The invention of the possible: policies, knowledge and cultural practices at school’

The seminar ‘The invention of the possible: policies, knowledge and cultural practices at school’ will be held on 13 August at 3pm as part of the PolObs Culture 2024 Seminar Cycle - Connecting Doctoral Projects with Cultural Policies. The event will be held via Zoom.

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Registrations open for Physical Geography meeting

Registrations open for Physical Geography meeting

Registration is now open for the XX Brazilian Symposium on Applied Physical Geography (SBGFA) and the IV Luso-Afro-American Meeting on Physical Geography and the Environment (ELAAGFA). The event will be held between October 21 and 27 at the Federal University of Paraíba in Brazil.

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bYou conference ‘Children, young people and the media: (un)connected lives?’ with open call for papers

bYou conference ‘Children, young people and the media: (un)connected lives?’ with open call for papers

Until September 30, the bYou project is accepting proposals for papers for the congress it is organising between February 7 and 8, 2025, at the University of Minho in Braga. All abstracts will be subject to blind peer review and the results of the evaluation will be known by 31 October this year. Paper proposals should be submitted using the form available on the congress website.

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Optimization and Wildfire Conference: early bird registration period now open

Optimization and Wildfire Conference: early bird registration period now open

The Optimization and Wildfire Conference will be held between October 1 and 4 at the Grande Hotel do Luso. The early registration period will be held until July 22

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Available: the scientific programme for the IX International Congress for the Study of Mediation and Conflict

Available: the scientific programme for the IX International Congress for the Study of Mediation and Conflict

The scientific programme for the IX International Congress for the Study of Mediation and Conflict is now available. With the theme "Mediation and the Construction of Coexistence and Peace", the congress will be held on October 16 and 17 at the University of Minho (Braga) and on October 18 at the Lusófona University (Porto).

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Call for papers for the 10th International Congress on Cultures: Inclusion, Sensitivity and Development

Call for papers for the 10th International Congress on Cultures: Inclusion, Sensitivity and Development

The call for papers for the 10th International Congress on Cultures: Inclusion, Sensitivity and Development is open until August 15. With the theme ‘Inclusion, Sensitivity and Development’, the tenth meeting will be held in a hybrid format, with face-to-face and online sessions.

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Publication
Education
Training School: “COMICSNeT – Climate, Outreach, Migration, Intersectionality, New Technologies in/through Comics Studies”

Training School: “COMICSNeT – Climate, Outreach, Migration, Intersectionality, New Technologies in/through Comics Studies”

The programme for the Training School: ‘COMICSNeT - Climate, Outreach, Migration, Intersectionality, New Technologies in/through Comics Studies’ is now available. The scientific event will be held between September 9 and 10 in the Sala de Atos of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho.

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Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Call 2024

Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Call 2024

The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) published the Call for Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus (7th Edition) opening notice. According to the information on the FCT website, applications will be held from September 30 to November 29, 2024.

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PhD viva of José Manuel Rocha

PhD viva of José Manuel Rocha

The PhD viva of José Manuel Rocha in Geography will be held on September 26 at 2.30 pm, at Sala de Atos of the Institute of Social Sciences. The thesis, supervised by António Vieira and António Bento Gonçalves, is entitled Dinâmicas do solo em áreas ardidas: alterações nas propriedades físico-químicas e no uso do solo, a curto e longo prazo, no noroeste de Portugal [Soil dynamics in burnt areas: short- and long-term changes in physical-chemical properties and land use in north-west Portugal].

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Eduardo Duque’s aggregation exams

Eduardo Duque’s aggregation exams

Eduardo Jorge Gomes da Costa Duque’s aggregation exams in Sociology were held on July 12 at 10 am in the Sala de Atos of the Institute of Social Sciences, with a lesson entitled “From theoretical concepts to their operationalisation: strategies for measuring and analysing intergenerationality”.

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