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This workshop is part of the activities of the CALC 2 project (https://www.casadevelazquez.org/recherche-scientifique/politique-scientifique/patrimoine-heritages-et-reecritures/calc-2-1)) and COST Action COS-MICs (CA24160) (https://cosmics.hypotheses.org/) within Working Group 2 and Working Group 4. It is conceived as a collaborative environment…
Events & Training
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The Instituto Franklin-UAH, the Sociedad Académica de Estudios de Cómic, and the European project COST Action CA24160 COS-MICs are organising the 2nd International Conference of the SAEC in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference…
The workshop and seminar ‘Cultural Heritage and Visual Representations of India,” co-organised by ESIND (CostAction23144) and ID-SCAPES (ERC/COG/101125057), addressed the study of India’s visual heritage within broader debates on colonial knowledge, artistic exchange, and the making of global cultural histories. Over the centuries, the Indian subcontinent has been represented through a wide range of media—including…
On June 29th and 30th, the workshop “Cultural Heritage and Visual Representations of India” will take place at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal. The workshop is co-organised by the European Research Council Project ID-SCAPES – Building Identity: Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in India and Bangladesh and the COST…
From the mid-16th to the mid-18th century, Jesuits played a major role in shaping European perceptions of India, influencing much of what Europeans read and discussed about the region. No other European institution in the early modern period produced as many texts, published as much material, circulated as many ideas, and shaped more concepts about…
Titled “Develop and standardise early-phase archival acquisition protocols,” this hybrid workshop addressed the transition from scattered fieldwork data and private collections to professional archival management. Contributing to WG1’s Tasks T1.3 and T1.4 (Deliverables D3 and D4), the session used the Yalıboyu Evleri (Riverfront Houses) Digital Inventory in Amasya as a case study. Discussion centred on…
Working Group 2's one-day policy workshop, Great Power Politics and the Future of Alliances, took place at Bilkent University in Ankara on 13 September 2026. Scholars and policy practitioners spent the day examining how alliance politics is evolving under intensifying great power competition, and what that evolution means for European security. Accommodation in Ankara and…
The European Security Studies Conference 2026 came to a close on 12 June at Stockholm University, after two days of panels and roundtables jointly hosted by NetSec, the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), and Stockholm University. It was the first edition to run under the ESSC name, following the NetSec Early-Career Scholars Summer School…
This two-day event brought together experts and practitioners to explore the future of collaborative archives in landscape architecture, heritage preservation, and beyond, with 11 participants attending onsite and 10 joining online. The meeting focused on advancing WG1’s collaborative inventory roadmap through metadata and technical planning for the online archive map, brainstorming second-year activities and STSM…
Between August 31st and September 7th, 19 PhD and MSc students, from 12 countries, participated to the first PermaCOST Training School in Trafoi (Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy). During seven intense days of field excursions, lectures and exercises, the participants learnt about the periglacial context of the area and were trained to apply various tools…
