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download PDF a TRACTS symposium hosted by the Helsinki Research Pavilion  September 11-12, 2025 Helsinki, Finland  Chairs: Otso Aavaranta (Uniarts Helsinki), Lee Douglas (Centre for Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths UoL), Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University Berlin)  The TRACTS Network and Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion invite researchers and artists to participate in a two-day symposium to be in Helsinki on September 11-12, 2025. This event […]

The TRACTS Cost Action is pleased to announce an open call for participation in the symposium “Water: Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis”, organized by its Working Groups 2 and 3 in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. The aim is to offer a platform for interdisciplinary exploration and dialogue, bringing together scholars, practitioners,

Building on the questions about the relationship between violence and traces on one hand, and affects, knowledge, art, and social justice on the other, this seminar focuses on tracemaking, border deaths and co-memoration. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, practices, and experiences, as well as to provide a space for reflection on alternative imaginaries and possible future direct actions.

Download PDF The TRACTS COST Action is creating this special issue in collaboration with the journals. The call is open to everyone, and the rules for submissions are described on the website of the journal. We are inviting members of this COST action and other colleagues with an interest in the topics of the action, to propose an abstract. Selected abstracts

The conference was late spring space of thoughts and experiences exchange. It took place in Tartu (European Capital of Culture 2024). Two keynote speakers were David B. Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) and Linda Knight (RMIT University, Australia) were performing great lectures. Participants visited University of Tartu Natural History Museum where is presented very inspiring exhibition „Unknown” (available until 29 September).

We are now able to offer a small number of our network members the opportunity to attend the Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery conference in Tartu, Estonia on June 5–7 2024.

We are seeking proposals from network researchers to provide a Training Needs Assessment of early career researchers within the TRACTS COST Network. Project Overview: The purpose of the Needs Assessment is to provide a thorough understanding of the current state of training needs among early career researchers within the TRACTS Network. The assessment aims to

25 & 26 April 2024Museum of Modern Art Auditorium, LjubljanaKrater, Ljubljana With global warming hitting record highs each year, unprecedented climate disasters emerging in unexpected locations, and the prospects of more and more climate refugees, it has become clear that climate and social issues are intrinsically intertwined. These pressing conditions, manifested in different cultural practices, (re)articulate the relationships between human and non-human

The Cornwall Hotel & The Eden Project22–24 February 2024 The event will draw on local expertise on tracing technologies of the past, with a focus on Cornwall’s history and heritage in maritime activities and mining. Convened in historic sites of Cornwall’s technological past in St Austell (The Cornwall Hotel was a site of tin mining and treasure hunting. The Eden Project was previously a