The research project ABIDE is organizing a symposium on the 21st and 22nd of may, in Auditório Sedas Nunes at ICS-ULisboa and online. The full program for the event is now available.

This symposium addresses questions around the narrativization of animals in media and policy documents, analysing how animals are represented – or made invisible – in discursive practices related to wildfires.

The team will present preliminary results from the first stage of the ERC ABIDE project – Exploring – in which investigated the national context of three case studies: Australia, Brazil and Portugal. The symposium will also discuss multimodal, multisensorial and multispecies methodologies that can challenge dominant narratives. 

Project ABIDE: Animal ABIdings: recovering from DisastErs in more-than-human communities, coordinated by PI Verónica Policarpo, is funded by the ERC through a Consolidator Grant (ID 101043231).

Registration is required for paticipating in the event. For por information on the project, see this link