Conecta. Desde 1995

Guest editors:  Gabriel Târziu (LMU Munich) and  Borut Trpin (LMU Munich, University of Maribor and University of Ljubljana) Submission Deadline: 1 December 2025   Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Addressing it requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and engagement between scientists, the public, and policy-makers. A central but underexplored theme in this context is the role of  understanding . The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (2023) emphasizes that proper responses to climate change are facilitated when key actors share a basic understanding of its causes and consequences. But what kind of understanding is needed, and by whom?   This topical collection seeks to examine the multifaceted role of understanding in successfully addressing climate change, focusing on scientific understanding, public understanding, and the epistemic needs of policymakers. We invite contributions that engage with any of these three focal area...

This special issue explores the intersection of ecology and disability. Recognizing the materiality of both human and more-than-human bodies, we invite articles that consider the possibilities afforded by eco-crip theory to examine the marginalizing cultures of normalization, ableism, and speciesism and to positively value wide- ranging understandings, experiences, and contexts of embodied disability and environment. We invite the submission of internationally diverse articles that bring a cultural studies approach to the representation of disability and ecology. Topics may include: representations of tensions, synergies, toxicity, and health of spaces (urban, natural, accessible, etc.) and bodies (human, nonhuman, hybrid) cultural texts that posit the replacement of extractive economic and cultural models that focus on quantitat...

A conference taking place on 20 March 2026 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG, London 9.30 am – 5.00 pm   Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 September 2025   Many long-established learned societies and academic organisations have collections of portraits, and the Royal Society is no exception, with extensive holdings of primary images (such as oil paintings, watercolours, and sculpture busts) and secondary material (including engraved prints and photographs). Very little recent research has been undertaken on such artworks, and what it meant to scientists in this, and in similar collections, to have their images recorded and displayed for posterity.   The Society is interested in how portraits have been created, used and collected by scientists in the course of their work. Most obviously, this may have been for medical purposes (as part of case studies, for example); within images captured as part of expeditions; or for other reasons. Since science...