Alessandra Manzini

Heritage-Sensitive Forest Policies in African context Indigeneity, ecospiritual practices and biocultural conservation of sacred forests and spiritual landscapes in African contexts

Join us for a symposium on

Heritage-Sensitive Forest Policies in African Contexts

📍 CIFOR-ICRAF Nairobi Campus (Board Room) & Online
🗓 28 January 2026 | ⏰ 10:00–18:30 (EAT)
Registration and Agenda: alessandramanzini.com/projects/sym...

🌱 A space for dialogue on spiritual landscapes

Heritage Sensitive Conservation Policies - Alessandra Manzini Heritage Conservation Policies in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot and Southeast Asia’s Terrestrial Ecoregions.

Excited to share the proceedings from the Chiang Mai Symposium on Heritage Sensitive Conservation Policies in the Indo-Burma and Southeast Asia regions now available as a playlist here youtube.com/playlist?lis...
alessandramanzini.com/projects/her...

The event is hybrid and serves as a pivotal step toward our upcoming hybrid symposium in Nairobi on 3 February, featuring distinguished speakers from African and Afro-diasporic contexts.

Looking forward to the conversations ahead!
Join online us06web.zoom.us/j/8723024815...

Excited to share that with David Kuhn, Arnim Scheidel and Markus Rauchecker we are holding a roundtable on alliances between humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans in environmental conflicts at the POLLEN Conference 29 June – 3 July, Barcelona. Deadline 5 December
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

🚀 EPNA2025 is now OPEN!
Submit your 1st-authored paper in 1 of 2 themes by Oct 15:
-Mechanisms of Resilience & Vulnerability in Mental Health
-ELSA of Neuroscience
Award: €3,000 & presentation at a major neuroscience event
More info:
Biomedical: shorturl.at/WWxjm
ELSA: shorturl.at/8DpGE

C’est avec grand plaisir que je vais contribuer au colloque « Forêts et sociétés : dialogues interdisciplinaires », qui se tiendra à Paris les 12'13 novembre au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Quels concepts utilisés pour l'analyse des interactions humains-forêts?
foretsociete.sciencesconf.org

SPIRAL first fieldwork in Thailand has been amazingly intense. The wish is to engage more with Thailandese's biocultural diversity in a long time frame.
It's time to unpack memories and reflect. Gratefully.
@courtesy Haenssgen

#kokunka #fusion #fieldwork #conferencing #projects #kickoff #love

HERITAGE SENSITIVE CONSERVATION POLICIES The symposium offers a space to discuss a state-of-the-art overview of heritage-sensitive conservation policies in Southern Asia

Tomorrow:

Be there at:

1 PM Bangkok

7 AM in Paris

11:30 AM in West Bengal

12 AM (midnight) in Wisconsin

1 AM in New York

www.eventbrite.fr/e/heritage-s...

HERITAGE SENSITIVE CONSERVATION POLICIES IN THE INDO BURMA AND SOUTH ASIA The symposium offers a space to discuss a state-of-the-art overview of heritage-sensitive policies related to spiritual landscapes

🌿Heritage Sensitive Conservation Policies of Sacred Forests and Spiritual Landscapes in the Indo-Burma and Southeast Asia’s terrestrial ecoregions🌿
- 5 November 2025
- 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM (Thai time)
- Chiang Mai University, Thailand (Hybrid format)
Book your spot:
www.eventbrite.fr/e/heritage-s...

Getting ready to fly to Cape Town, for attending the international conference Land Life Society and celebrate PLAAS 30 Anniversary. Here is the programme plaas.org.za/land-life-an...

We are on the third days talking abour living ecosystems of epistemic resistance in Casamance Panel 42 11.30-13.00

Accordo per la concessione dell'isola di Poveglia: «Sarà un parco urbano lagunare» L'Agenzia del Demanio ha confermato l'affidamento per 6 anni all'associazione "Poveglia per tutti"

Leggi la storia completa (tsmtphit.com/tracking/qaR...): una comunità che ha resistito per 11 anni, unita dal metodo del consenso, coinvolgendo oltre 40 associazioni e centinaia di cittadini.
🛶 L’isola torna ai veneziani e a chiunque voglia viverla in modo responsabile, collettivo, aperto.

Salvare Poveglia, una questione di rispetto e di dignità - Vita.it È un cammino lungo e tortuoso quello che ha condotto un'associazione di cittadini a ottenere da parte del Demanio la concessione di una delle tre piccole isole che compongono Poveglia. Vederla all'ast...

Se ne parla ovunque:
[Corriere del Veneto](tsmtphit.com/tracking/qaR...), Il Gazzettino, TGR Veneto, Il Manifesto, La Repubblica, Vita [The Times](tsmtphit.com/tracking/qaR...), The Independent, The Sun, [La Vanguardia](tsmtphit.com/tracking/qaR...), [Naftemporiki](tsmtphit.com/tracking/qaR...)

🌿Poveglia per tutti entra ufficialmente nella storia!
Dal 1° agosto, l’Associazione Poveglia per tutti ottiene la concessione dell’isola di Poveglia: uno dei luoghi più simbolici e dimenticati della laguna di Venezia torna finalmente a vivere grazie a un progetto partecipativo, inclusivo e pubblico.

L’ultima isola senza turisti diventa il parco di Venezia: “Poveglia salvata dai cittadini” Dal 1° agosto verrà gestita da un’associazione che la trasformerà nella prima area verde urbana partecipata: “L’impossibile è successo”

So proud of being part of this lagoon of Venice's amazing project. Associazione Poveglia per tutti shows that people's desire is power to shape processes of bottom up urban regeneration. The lagoon of Venice is amazingly wild and a place that needs good care www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...

Un'altra estate di lotta per salvare il paesaggio Veneziano. Questa demolizione forzata é una violenza sociale ed ecologica, che rimarrà impressa nella memoria dei nostri figli.
Vi invito a firmare la petizione siamo ad oltre 5000 firme in pochi giorni:
chng.it/tpvmKLR56Q

Introduction Lecture Sanjoy Ganguly, Theatre of the Oppressed for socioecological change YouTube video by Alessandra Manzini

Reply Lecture of Sanjoy Ganguly Jana Sanskriti, ToO India.
Intro to #Theater as an act of love for #socioecological transformations and socio ecological justice
youtu.be/eLyQNrEsDy0?...

Theatre for Socioecological Change Jana Sanskriti Masterclass 10 April, CY Maison de research SHS YouTube video by Alessandra Manzini

Reply of the Lecture by Sanjoy Ganguli Jana Sanskriti India at CY MIR SHS Cergy Paris
youtu.be/41J8ec8I2eg

#ECAS2025 just came to an end but connections made will endure until #ECAS2027
we navigate the momentum to follow up after #ENV210 panel full of insights, perspectives and practices with great transformational potentials

Tomorrow #ENV210 is going live

Ecospiritual Practices: Power Dynamics, Cultural Change, and Integrated Landscape Management in African and Afrodiasporic Contexts:
    * Time: 9:00–11:00 & 15:00–17:00
    * Location: Willenbergův sál (217),  Novotného Lávka 200/5, 110 00 Prague 1 
      #ECAS2025

ECAS’s opening plenary just kicked off a four-day conference of dynamic exchange. We’ll be mobilizing perspectives, sharing cutting-edge insights and critical approaches to strengthen European African Studies' capacity to learn and evolve.

Tomorrow our panel #ENV210 is going live at #ECAS2025

I contributed to the special issue of PAGES magazine, "Early Human Traces: Landscape Openness Proxies Across Space and Time," with a short article on the identification of charcoal from archaeological sites to detect human-induced vegetation openings 🪵🔥🌳🌴🌿 1/5
pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

“A lot of the evidence that comes out of Africa informs us about our origins.” He calls for the decolonization of palaeoanthropology and radical, systemic change in who gets to tell the story of human origins, and how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

HUM-PIPF-2025-02 ERC-Funded PhD position on (Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP) Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives One ERC-Funded PhD position on (Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP) Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives

⚠️ #PhD opportunity⚠️ If you are interested in #Archaeology and #Pastoralism, ERC-project CAMP offers a fully-funded PhD position in UPF (Barcelona) to study plant microremains and geochemical signatures in pastoral contexts. Apply by July 10th! More info. below 👇🏼
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669

#italians #expats Si puo votare dall'estero con lo SPID 8-9 Giugno firmereferendum.giustizia.it/referendum/o...

Guest Lecture: Alessandra Manzini | Science, Innovation, and Political Ecology Intersection YouTube video by CY Advanced Studies

replay #political #ecology #intersectional #science&innovation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A4v...

FESTIVAL FEMINISTE D'ART POLITIQUE ET CULTURE LES MARGES EN FEU ! 5-8 juin à Paris

#FESTIVAL | Transeuropa 2025 va embraser Paris !
On y sera, et vous ?

Du 5 au 8 juin, 4 jours d’assemblées politiques, performances, ateliers, projections. Un festival où l’art rencontre l’activisme, où les marges occupent le devant de la scène.

Le programme : transeuropafestival.eu/fr/programme/

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

I wish i was able to meet this giant african man in person. Too late. you will never be forgotten www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

📅 26 June 2025
📍 Willenbergův sál (217) Prague
9:00–11:00 & 15:00–17:00
#ENV219 Panel

Ecospiritual Practices: Power Dynamics, Cultural Change, and Integrated Landscape Management in African and Afrodiasporic Contexts

The ECAS's programme is live!

🔗 Dive into it here: ecas2025.gcon.me/programme

A good report on metal extraction abuses: "if it is not fair, transition is not sustainable". Indigenous people are aware that pattern/ mechanisms of extraction are the same of colonialism's ones. Have a look at this report on 8 transition metals: www.business-humanrights.org/documents/42...

Hier, Badry et moi avons assisté à la contre-enquête sur la mission ethnographique Dakar-Djibouti.

C’était une expérience profondément émouvante. Que reste-t-il de cet héritage colonial dans les pratiques de terrain ?Ces objets seront-ils un jour restitués aux contextes dont ils ont été pillés ?