Position: Researcher Address: Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (IIAC) Centre Edgar-Morin 22, rue d’Athènes 75009 Paris France Email: benoit.hazard@ehess.fr Website: Centre Edgar-Morin website
Pastoralists under Pressure exhibit in York
University Of York Open Lectures Date And Time Pastoralists under Pressure: Political, socioeconomic, and climate challenges in East Africa Fri, 8 Nov 2019, 18:30 GMT Add to Calendar Location Stephen Town Meeting Room, JB Morell Library, University of York, York, UK Description Population growth, climate change and environmental degradation are just some of the challenges […]
REAL ITN hosts its final conference in Moshi
Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa– Past, Present and Future On 11 -12 July 2017, the Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) ITN hosted its final conference “Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa – Past, Present, Future” at Uhuru Hotel and Conference Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. The conference provided a forum […]
REAL web documentary preview in Nairobi
On 13 May 2017 the Alliance Francaise in Nairobi, in collaboration with IFRA, the REAL ITN, CNRS and the French Embassy, organized a mini film festival to explore the diversity of scientific documentary films. Part of the film screening was a preview of parts of the REAL web documentary that traces different ways of exploring […]
Call for Applications Scientific Video Training
REAL ITN co-hosts practice based video training for scientists 8-13 May 2017, deadline for applications 10 April 2017 Together with the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) and the French Embassy in Nairobi, REAL is hosting a training session on how to produce scientific movies. In collaboration with the Africa Digital Media Institute in […]
Landscape in the Anthropocene
Symposium in Paris in December REAL researcher Benoit Hazard, together with Ueru Tanaka from Japan, is organizing the exciting symposium Landscape in the Anthropocene, which will take place in Paris 5-8 December 2016. Both Benoit and REAL ESR Christine Adongo will give presentations on their ongoing research on geothermal areas in Kenya. Please find the […]
REAL project management and advisory board meeting
Warwick July 2016 On 7 July 2016 the REAL ITN management and advisory board met at the University of Warwick.
Workshop: Food Security in Eastern Africa
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE On 7-8 July 2016 The REAL team gathered at the University of Warwick to discuss the past, present and future of food security in Eastern Africa. The training workshop was held at the Global History & Culture Centre. The meeting started on Thursday 7 July with sessions on budget planning and research […]
Field Diary Special Issue: Call for Contributions
The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary NGOs, security, graduate students, and academia. The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New […]
REAL& ACC conservation workshop in Nairobi
On 30th March 216, the REAL ITN, in collaboration with the African Conservation Centre, held a workshop on the theme of “Ecosystem Dynamics, Conservation Practices and Land Use in East Africa” at the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi. The idea and aim of the workshop was to look at aspects of land use, […]
REAL Visits Mount Suswa Conservancy
March 31st is one of my most favourite field visits. It was most honourable to have almost the entire REAL group visit one of my field sites – Mount Suswa, after a conservation training in Nairobi. Not only was visiting Suswa a break from the city, it was an opportunity to visit a conservancy, one conservation […]
Field Diary Call for Contributions
The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New Zealand. It is available here: http://www.real-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Field-Diary-issue-1.pdf The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary […]
REAL MID-TERM MEETING
The REAL mid-term meeting was hosted at the University of Ghent by Prof. Dirk Veschuren and his team. A special thanks to Yoeri Torsy for arranging the details that made it such an enjoyable meeting. From the 15th-19th June 2015, the REAL team members spent time together updating each other on their research progress,discussed the […]