Dear ISHers,

I am slowly improving my handling of the listserv.
Here is the list of this week announcements:
1- ISHPSSB 2025 in Porto: 14 days left to apply
2- ISHPSSB social media - Call for volunteers
3- Call for PhD and Post-doc positions
4- Talk announcement

Have a good day,
Lucie


*1- ISHPSSB 2025 in Porto: 14 days left to apply*
*The deadline for application to ISH 2025 in Porto *is approaching
fast: *November
1st. 14 days left*. All the informations you need are on the dedicated
website: https://ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/
<https://ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/>
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*2- ISHPSSB social media - Call for volunteers*
We are still searching for
a volunteer to take over the role of communication on social media, which
has been handled by Sophie for several years.
Please contact us if you are interested.

*3- Call for PhD and Post-doc positions*
Dear Colleagues,

A new research project (ERC Consolidator Grant) with the title “Whose
Sustainability? Understanding and redefining just sustainability
transformations through disability and queer perspectives” (WEIRD) just
started in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Discipline of Social and Public
Policy) at the University of Helsinki (Finland). I am the Principal
Investigator on the grant (Guido Caniglia).

With this email I want to let you know that there will be two PhD positions
and two Post-doc positions opening on disability and queer perspectives for
just sustainability transformations in the upcoming days and weeks.  We are
now seeking expressions of interest and later on we will circulate the
official calls.
About WEIRD: With an intersectional approach to justice and equity, WEIRD
wants to bring the voices, experiences, and initiatives of disabled and
queer people front and center in the way we think and make decisions about
sustainability transformations. The project will leverage the
transformative potential of disability and queer perspectives for more
sustainable and just futures. WEIRD aims to: (1) understand the
often-neglected contributions of disability and queer scholarship and
societal initiatives around sustainability from local to global; (2)
 redefine the theories, methodologies, and ethics of just and emancipatory
sustainability transformations from disability and queer perspectives.

You can find some more information about WEIRD and about the positions in
the pdf document attached.

Please, get in touch if you are interested in learning more about the
project or if you would like to know more about the positions that are
going to be out in the upcoming days.

Thanks and all the best,

*— — — — *
*Guido Caniglia (he/him), PhD PhD *
Associate Professor of Social Policy
<https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/guido-caniglia>
Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland)
Phone: +358 453 181888
LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/guido-caniglia-ab70b6333/>


*4- Talk announcement*
*[RESCHEDULED] **Kelly Bannister, 'People-Plant Interrelationships and the
Law – but whose law? Expanding the conversation through Ethnobiology and
Biocultural Ethics ', 23 October 2024*
Hello everyone,

Very sorry, but we had to reschedule Dr Bannister's lecture. Hopefully that
gives you another chance to join us. There will be a recording if you can't
join us live. If you register we'll let you know when recording is ready.
Please note: the talk will be happening on the morning of the 23rd for
Australians but on the evening of the 22nd for many other people.

Cheers,
Berris

*Abstract: *“Variety is the spice of life” is a well known phrase that can
be traced back to a poem called The Task published in 1785 by William
Cowper. Little did Cowper know that he was onto something bigger than just
pleasure! A couple of centuries later, scientists tell us that variety – in
the form of biological diversity or ‘the variety of life on earth in all
its forms and interactions’ – is essential for the very continuance of
humankind. We also know from interdisciplinary fields such as ethnobiology
that cultural diversity and linguistic diversity (specifically Indigenous
cultures and languages) are inextricably linked with the world’s biological
diversity – and that all are facing imminent risk amid the complex
social-and ecological crises of our time.

Recognizing the vital role that diversity has in our future on earth
necessarily invites complexities into conversations about entanglements of
“people, plants and the law.” For example, how might the conversation
diversify by adding an “s” to “law” and to “people,” intentionally
considering Indigenous laws and laws of Nature alongside colonial law? And
what of the entanglements between law and ethics, given in some legal
traditions there is no distinction? The conversation might shift, in ways
that are messy, difficult, inconvenient – but perhaps also interesting and
productive?

This presentation offers a conversation-widening perspective on plants,
peoples and laws based in biocultural diversity research and ethics policy
development in Canada, drawing from recent spicy decades in ethnobiology
and related fields seeking to collaborate across Western and Indigenous
systems of knowledge, laws and ethics.

*Date:* Wednesday 23 October 2024
*Time:* 9am-10am AEST / 10am-11am AEDT / Time in your location
<https://comms.plantsuccess.org/ch/99508/17s9v/1117/Q1FZNzSB71SghnO2N3tTVR0_JPyRczDCgceCrcMA.html>
*Venue: *Zoom
<https://comms.plantsuccess.org/ch/99508/17s9v/1118/Q1FZNzSB71SghnO2N3tTny5FGenPyMQCYaoxcyTE.html>

If you can't join us live, please register to receive a notification when
the recording is available.
Register here
<https://comms.plantsuccess.org/ch/99508/17s9v/1118/Q1FZNzSB71SghnO2N3tTny5FGenPyMQCYaoxcyTE-2.html>