Welcome to TRACTS Network
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Concluding the TRACTS COST Action
After four years of collaboration, the TRACTS COST Action has officially come to a close. It has been an incredible journey—bringing together researchers, artists, practitioners, and activists from across Europe and beyond to explore how traces—material, social, and digital—shape our understanding of the past, present, and future. Over this period, TRACTS has grown into a vibrant research ecology, fostering new conversations on trace within…
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The (Counter) Atlas is coming!
…but we need your help! We are delighted to announce that the (Counter) Atlas is on its way, and we are now at the point of gathering data to input to the Atlas.So, we come to you and ask for a few minutes of your time. If you have been involved in out Action at all, whether it has been in receipt of a grant such as a…
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Unearthing Collections – Forthcoming publication
We are delighted to announce that the TRACTS edited volume Unearthing Collections: Archives, Time and Ethics will be published by UCL Press in November 2025. This book emerged from the TRACTS workshop “Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Archives,” held in Berlin and Potsdam (27–28 April 2023). The event brought together researchers from the Working Groups on Trace and Social Justice (WG2) and Trace and Climate Change (WG3) of TRACTS COST…
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Spectropia: Experiments in Trace — A New Book Series from TRACTS
We are thrilled to announce Spectropia: Experiments in Trace, a new book series that will stand as a cornerstone legacy of our COST Action—continuing to foster research, collaboration, and critical dialogueon trace well beyond the project’s conclusion in October 2025. The series will be published with De Gruyter and it aims open-up new discussion about the epistemological, methodological, and ethical implications of trace…
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WG2 and WG3 Symposium on Water: Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis
Venice, 5 September 2025 The TRACTS network’s final symposium marks the culmination of three years of collaborative inquiry within the Trace & Social Justice (WG2) and Climate Change (WG3) working groups. Co-hosted by the THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, and organised in collaboration with two networks of the European Association of Social Anthropologists—Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH) and Anthropology of…