We are delighted to have been selected as a COST Association success story. Read the COST long read on TRACTS – Traces That Connect Us, which highlights the project’s aims, activities, and impact.👉 https://www.cost.eu/long-read-tracts/
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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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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
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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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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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