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/ 
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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
Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland)
Phone: +358 453 181888



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
Venue: Zoom

If you can't join us live, please register to receive a notification when the recording is available.

Register here