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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 2d

Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 2d

Today was the opening day of The #Celtic World - Europe's Lost Legacy on display at Moesgaard, Aarhus, Denmark. With loans from 24 European museums, the exhibition is beyond spectacular. Go see it!
www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/kommende-uds...

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Paper out by Shumon Hussain and Monika Stobiecka on conviviality thinking in archaeology and heritage landscapes. Anthropogenic #heathlands, modified for millennia by wildlife and livestock & fire regimes could be another example of a deep past ecology of #multispecies co-existence, co-shaping.

Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence

www.cambridge.org

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 27

This #PhilTransB issue brings together the major elements of a theory of human #evolution and #sustainability on Earth. It shows how diverse theories and approaches help to understand the past, present and future evolution of the #Anthropocene. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · Aug 27

#CFP: "Climate, arts, and activism: Critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives" for ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (ed. Y. Schmidt, S. Thieme, M. Winkel)

Deadline: 15th of October 2025

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#ecolit #ecocriticism #envhum #envhist

Call - Special Issue - Climate, arts, and activism | H-Net

We wish to draw your attention to a new special issue we are guest editing in the fully open access (and no author fees) journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies on the topic of...

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Jun 27

This symposium looks interesting!

Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources Symposium | H-Net

CALL FOR PAPERSClimate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources SymposiumUniversity of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, April 16-17, 2026We invite papers...

networks.h-net.org

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Jun 2

Toad comeback in recent heathland conservation project

Natterjack toad makes 'wonderful' comeback at national park

It is the first time natterjack toads have been recorded breeding at the Blackmoor site in 50 years.

www.bbc.com

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · May 30

Check out this special issue on "plant humanities".
Deadline August 1 2025.

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · May 27

#CFP: "Plant Humanities". International Journal of Contemporary Humanities.

Deadline for full articles: August 1, 2025

Full call: www.amkrpub.com/ijch/call_fo...

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

Poster for the CFP, featuring a a green cell-like blob on a lighter green background.

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · May 27

#CFP: "Plant Humanities". International Journal of Contemporary Humanities.

Deadline for full articles: August 1, 2025

Full call: www.amkrpub.com/ijch/call_fo...

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · May 20

No#fence collars are becoming increasingly popular as a new grazing management technology, making the use of traditional fences redundant. Will this also be the end of traditional forms of human-livestock and -landscape management practices such as herding?

New technology to enhance landscape management

Lancashire Wildlife Trust has started a new research initiative that will change how landscapes are managed.

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · May 2

250 ha #heathland restoration in The New Forest National Park as part of creating mosaics of varied and interconnected ecosystems: www.countryfile.com/wildlife/res...

Smooth snakes, adders and sand lizards: UK national park to create huge haven for rare reptiles | Countryfile.com

Conservationists are enhancing 250 hectares of heathland – an area roughly the size of 350 football pitches.

www.countryfile.com

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Apr 23

Check out this position at Lyngheisenteret in Norway. A fantastic place that has played a key role in disseminating human-heathland relations and ancient culture-historical landscape practices. Deadline May 4th
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

#HumanDimension #EnvHis #sustainability #nature

Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638) | Museumssenteret i Hordaland

Stillingstittel: Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638), Arbeidsgiver: Museumssenteret i Hordaland, Søknadsfrist: søndag 4. mai 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Mar 31

This paper just landed on my desk, dealing with the #historical dynamics of socioecological 'traps':
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

- a really neat parallel to our writings on deep-time trajectories of entrapment:
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The logics of enclosure: deep‐time trajectories in the spread of land tenure boundaries in late prehistoric northern Europe

Invasive schemes involving the erection of land tenure boundaries are currently spreading quickly across vast areas throughout the globe, turning former unfenced forests and grasslands into closed-of...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Mar 5

This week, I am featuring in a podcast on a deep-time perspective on #heathlands, fences and landscape-based communities by Mads Flinterup, Hedeselskabet. You can listen to it here (in Danish): www.spreaker.com/podcast/hede...

Hedeselskabet

www.spreaker.com

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 20

Super interesting discussion format - extended dialogues - at Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, DK organised by Heidi Merrild & Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen: aarch.dk/acrb-extende.... Check it out! Today on #regenerative #nature and resource use with panel speakers Rasmus Ejrnæs, Uffe Jørgensen and myself.

Extended Dialogues - Arkitektskolen Aarhus

aarch.dk

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 19

f you're looking for a postdoc position in #archaeology this seems to be the perfect place to land:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Extremely interesting, kind and competent team
@uio.no funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Prehistoric Archaeology (274478) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Prehistoric Archaeology (274478), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 13

Fresh from the press: "Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths" in @JRAI by sharp Zac Caple and myself. About #deep-time #entrapment in the relationship between pastoralism, swidden agriculture and manuring:
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment

History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing ...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our conference A place for the heathlands? ended on Friday with a happy crowd. Discussions will continue on
heathland.place
projects.au.dk/anthropogeni...
and #ERC_ANTHEA

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 10

New sharp and inspiring study out from @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social on #collective governance and #landscapes.

Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Feb 9

How do ancient #traditions of #collective governance help societies weather unpredictable change?

🎺Just published! 🎺

'Panarchy & #commons across the longue durée’

Open access via heathland.place/panarchy-and....

📷 Minchinhampton Common (c) Geoff March, Stroud Times, 12.5.2023

White and brown cattle resting on grassland, views over distant hills.

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Feb 9

How do ancient #traditions of #collective governance help societies weather unpredictable change?

🎺Just published! 🎺

'Panarchy & #commons across the longue durée’

Open access via heathland.place/panarchy-and....

📷 Minchinhampton Common (c) Geoff March, Stroud Times, 12.5.2023

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 7

Yesterday was packed with studies of human #heathland entanglements, keynote speakers Doyle McKey & Kari Hjelle. Today's the last day of the conf with yet an impressive line of speakers on #landscape conservation & the panel 'Future of the heathlands?', led by wonderful @dreimear.bsky.social

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thanks for sharing this one!

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Eimear Mc Loughlin @dreimear.bsky.social · Feb 6

A soft landing into the Place for the #Heathlands conference by the wonderful @lovschal.bsky.social who presented the emerging insights of the #ERC_Anthea project.

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 5

Opening lecture by professor Kenneth Olwig on the extensive practices and infrastructures enabling grazing ecologies in DK and GB.
events.au.dk/heathland/co...

The lecture will be followed by our opening reception and book launch. Everything taking place at Aarhus University & Moesgaard, Denmark.

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 4

Preparing the exhibition for our heathland conference tomorrow (5 Feb 25) "A Place for the Heathlands?" with artists Helle Bovbjerg, Lise Frost, Martine Heuser & Birgitte Munk.

events.au.dk/heathland/ar...

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Jan 30

The final program for our #ERC_ANTHEA conference 'A Place for the Heathlands?' is now out on events.au.dk/heathland/pr... with keynote speakers Kenneth Olwig, Kari Hjelle and Doyle McKey. Still a few days to sign up. @au.dk @cc.au.dk

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