Resilience in East African Landscapes

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Paleofire in East Africa presentation at CEREGE

Paleofire and vegetation changes across eastern Africa during the Holocene 05.09.2025 CEREGE, Aix, France Abstract In eastern Africa, humans have modified and interacted with fire regimes for hundreds of thousands of years with a cascade of effects on landscapes, nutrient cycles, biodiversity, plant compositions, and other forms of ecological disturbances (Archibald et al., 2011 PNAS). […]

Scientific video documentary production training

British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kileleshwa, Nairobi June 1-6, 2015 Documenting socio-ecological changes on film within a research framework – from writing to editing REAL : Resilience in East African Landscapes A Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission Instructors: • Arghyro Paouri, CNRS-IIAC, Audiovisual Department of IIAC. • Deborah […]

Call for abstracts: Workshop on anthropocene, Paris

Abstract Historically, anthropology refers to the study of human activities, i.e. as a mirror of interactions between societies and their environment. In the recent past, research on human activities have enlightened new objects that are strongly linked with the “mainstreaming” of an «environmental repository » in public policies and are characterized by the complexity of […]

Christine Adongo

Position: Early-stage researcher: ESR 9 Address: Centre Edgar Morin 22 rue d’Athenes 75009 Paris Email: adongoc@gmail.com, christine.adongo@ehess.fr I am an Early stage researcher based at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris. My research theme is on development, socio-ecological transition and local adaptation in present time, under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo, […]

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Funded PhD opportunities in paleoenvironmental research

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Prof. Paul Lane
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
Uppsala University, and
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