ABIDE activities
Refúgios Interespécies: Animais, Cuidado e Recuperação Pós-Fogo
Symposium co-organised by the ABIDE team.
Take a look at the program here.
Watch the recordings here.
02-03/06/2026 @ University of Brasília, Brazil & Online
When Non-humans are not the brief, but shape the outcomes anyway: Reflections on co-designing from-the-wild.
Webinar The Post-Human Animal, co-organised by the ABIDE team
26/02/2026 @ online
Workshop organised by ABIDE team and coordinated by Izadora Acypreste, ICS-ULisboa, and with the collaboration of Odilon Morais, UFT.
04/11/2025-09/11/2025 @ Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil
Workshop organised by ABIDE team and coordinated by Kuai Shen, ICS-ULisboa, with the support of Izadora Acypreste, ICS-ULisboa.
20/10/2025-22/10/2025 @ Indigenous Xerente Territory, Brazil
Challenging anthropocentrism in multi-species governance, law and policy
Dinesh Wadiwel & Kimberly Graham
HAS-HUB International Seminar, coorganised by Verónica Policarpo, ICS-ULisboa, and Maria Saari, University of Oulu.
16/10/2025 @ online
Following the More-than-human: multimodal methods and approaches
Event coorganised with ABIDE, GI LIFE research group and SHIFT research group
See more information about the organisers of the event, the keynote's talk, the biographical notes of the roundable participants, and of the Workshop!
Free registration link here.
02-03/10/2025 @ ICS – ULisboa, Portugal
Socialidades multiespécies no quilombo: práticas cotidianas de coabitação e agência mais-que-humana
by Izadora Acypreste, LIFE Seminar
01/06/2025 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal, and online
Echo of the Abyss: Understanding More-than-human Interconnectedness in the Deep Sea Through Virtual Reality Experiences
Webinar The Post-Human Animal, co-organised by the ABIDE team
29/05/2025 @ online
(In)visible Animals: Exploring narratives and counter-narratives of wildfires
Symposium organised by the ABIDE team
Links for recordings:
- Day 21/05, morning (part 1, part 2) and afternoon
- Day 22/05, morning (part 1, part 2) and afternoon (part 1, part 2)
21-22/05/2025 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal, and online
Weaving and attuning to the rain shelters of tamya añanku: an inverted multisensory experience
by Kuai Shen, LIFE Seminar
20/05/2025 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal, and online
Animal Wonder session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies facilitated by Kuai Shen
23/04/2025 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Studying with Animals: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Seminar Studying with Animals, organised by Verónica Policarpo, PI of ABIDE (ICS-ULisboa), and Jussara Rowland (ICS-ULisboa)
27/02/2025 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Animal Wonder session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies facilitated by Izadora Acypreste
12/02/2025 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Animal Wonder session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies facilitated by Sara Silva
11/12/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Animal Wonder session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies facilitated by Nuno Negrões
13/11/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Critter Connect: wearable sensory technology for more entangled multispecies relationships
Webinar The Post-Human Animal co-organized by the ABIDE team
24/10/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
A origem do fogo e a possibilidade de controle do fogo na queimada de roça (PT)
Roundtable discussion co-organized by the ABIDE team together with the EDGES project
22/10/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
Animal Wonder session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies facilitated by Chiara Beneduce
09/10/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Animals Included: Relationality and Companionship in More Than Human Worlds
Animal day HAS-Hub Conference co-organised by the ABIDE team.
04/10/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
Perspetivas Etnográficas – Colóquio de Estudantes de Doutoramento
Event co-organised by Chiara Beneduce.
Presentation by Chiara Beneduce: “Preparing for fieldwork: reflexions on trust, loss and how to stay with the pain of others”.
01/10/2024 – 02/10/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
Amazon Zoography in Contemporary Indigenous Art (PT)
Opening session of the 3rd edition of the Animals & Society course, co-organised by the ABIDE team
17/09/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Digital Technology & Society + Animal Wonder joint session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies co-organised and facilitated by Filipa Soares
19/06/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
The Creativity And Cultures Of Animals: A Critical And Creative Theory Perspective
HAS-Hub International Seminar co-organised by Verónica Policarpo with Envisioning Sustainability HUB/Oulu University's Biodiverse Anthropocenes
04/06/2024 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Animal Wonder Session
Animal Wonder: reading group on Human-Animal studies facilitated by Verónica Policarpo
13/12/2023 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal (online)
Embodied inequalities of the Anthropocene
Seminar co-organised by Verónica Policarpo with UCL (UK) + Welcome Trust
26/10/2023 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
Amazonian Animals in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Lecture co-organised by Verónica Policarpo with the project ERC – ECO Amazónia
04/10/2023 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
Fire and Flood: a biocultural heritage approach to resolving the polycrisis of climate and biodiversity change
Conference co-organised by Verónica Policarpo with CEF- UCoimbra
26/09/2023 @ ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal
Presentations
Pirofilia espectral: relações sensoriais mais-que-humanas ao fogo
by Kuai Shen @ 10ª ReACT – Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia.
09/10/2025, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Songs, Silence and Noise: Exploring Sonic Narratives of Bushfire Recovery
by Scott Webster and Kuai Shen @ AusSTS Conference 2025.
11/07/2025, Melbourne/Narrm, Victoria, Australia.
Attuning to animal’s experiences of recovering from wildfires: some methodological and ethical considerations
by Filipa Soares @ AGWG Multispecies Methods Workshop
06/06/2024, Royal Geographical Society, London.
Presentations by invitation
Reflexões iniciais para pensar a questão do fogo e a crise ecológica junto com as comunidades quilombolas do Cerrado
by Chiara Beneduce, Sextas no NanSi encounters
17/10/2025 @ IFCS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Espécies ressurgentes: estudando a recuperação pós-fogo a partir das experiências dos animais
by Verónica Policarpo, CHAMA Seminar
29/08/2025 @ LISA – USP, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Entender a recuperação pós-fogo em comunidades mais-que-humanas: o projeto ABIDE
by Verónica Policarpo, NEDAI Seminar
25/08/2025 @ FACE-UbN, Brasil
Fim do mundo, fim do povo: Explorações etnográficas mais que humanas nos quilombos mato-grossenses
by Chiara Beneduce @ Seminários Humanimalia
07/05/2025, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Approaching multispecies (justice) through research
by Verónica Policarpo @ Transdisciplinary approaches to multispecies (justice) research
25/04/2025, University of Oulu, Finlândia (Online)
Understanding recovery with more-than-human communities
by Verónica Policarpo @ Ripple Effect: An Environmental Humanities Symposium
17/03/2025, NOVA-FCSH, Portugal
The Embers of Fogo: The Spectral Signatures of Fire
ABIDE panel presentation at the online conference Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges, made by Kuai Shen
31/10/2024 @ Dundee University, UK (online)
The Embers of Fogo: Following the Energy of Fire: Media Affective Landscapes
ABIDE panel presentation at the online conference Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges, made by Verónica Policarpo
31/10/2024 @ Dundee University, UK (online)
The Embers of Fogo: Fires of Tomorrow – Navigating the Climate Challenge
ABIDE panel presentation at the online conference Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges, made by José Luís Zêzere.
31/10/2024 @ Dundee University, UK (online)
Estudar com e para os animais – notas sobre a construção de uma comunidade (PT)
by Verónica Policarpo @ ANIMALIA Summer School 2024
26/07/2024, Nova FCSH, Portugal .
Animal Ressurgences: studying catastrophes through the perspectives of animals
by Verónica Policarpo @ Animal Studies Day 21/05/2024, Aveiro University, Portugal (online).
Animal experiences: learning from animals how to recover from disasters
by Verónica Policarpo @ Envisioning Sustainability Seminar, Biodiverse Anthropocenes
18/04/2024, Oulu University, Finland (online).
Espécies insurgentes: repensar a recuperação a partir das experiências dos animais nos incêndios florestais
by Verónica Policarpo @ Monocultures: Eco-Cultural Perspectives - EcoAmazonia
16/02/2024, Coimbra University, Portugal.
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