Firepol Seminar – The influence of protected area statuses and transitions on global fire activity
Join FIREPOL’s next seminar “The influence of protected area statuses and transitions on global fire activity” on Monday October 5th at 11.30 AM. In person: Castello del Valentino Torino – Sala ViglianoOnline: Zoom Speaker: VÍCTOR FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍAResearch Fellow at the University of Lausanne. Fernández-García is an ecologist and pyrogeographer. His research focuses on wildfires and […]
UNight 2026
Il team di FIREPOL parteciperà agli eventi organizzati per la Notte delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori.Presenterà due brevi documentari girati in Brasile e Angola per osservare come le comunità affrontano gli incendi. Tra ecofemminismo e teatro partecipativo, scoprirete pratiche che intrecciano ambiente, diritti e conoscenze locali. Al termine, una discussione aperta per ripensare insieme le […]
Lecture – TOAFRICA Summer School
On Tuesday, July 7, the FIREPOL team had the pleasure of contributing to the TOAfrica Summer School with a lecture delivered by our Principal Investigator Lorenza Fontana and our Postdoctoral Researcher Luisa Escobar. Entitled “When War Preserves Ecosystems: Conflict and Fire Regimes in Angola”, the lecture explored how the Angolan civil war reshaped access to […]
POLLEN Conference 2026
FIREPOL will convene a panel at the 2026 POLLEN Conference in collaboration with Michel Valette (Imperial College London) and Kapil Yadav (Royal Holloway, University of London). The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from the 29th of June to thr 3rd of July 2026. Date: July 1st, 2026Location: Universitat de Barcelona, UB-222 Facultat de […]
Llamas de Cuidado: a 110 cum laude thesis project
On Thursday March 12, Giulia Casalini, a student in the AGIC programme at the University of Turin, whose thesis was supervised by our Principal Investigator, Prof. Lorenza Fontana, successfully defended her Master’s thesis. Her work, remarkable for a Master’s-level project and based on extensive field research conducted in Argentina, was awarded the highest distinction (110 cum […]
Conference – The Mushroom and the Haze
On Thursday February 26 our Post Doctoral Research Fellow Alessandro Tinti, gave a talk during the International Seminar on Natural Resource Management & Sustainable Tribal Development at the Department of Anthropology of Utkal University (Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India). His presentation illustrated the micro-politics of fire in northern Thailand through the case of hed thob mushroom harvesting. […]
Conference – Cosmos Talks for the winter
Our Principal Investigator, Professor Lorenza Fontana, will participate in the Winter edition of the Cosmos Talks, where she will deliver a lecture titled “Wildfires as Political Weapons”. She’ll examine how wildfires can be transformed into political weapons, focusing on the case of Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. While fire has long been treated within ecological and disaster-management […]
Conference – Indigeneity and Nature
Our PI, Professor Lorenza Fontana, will be participating at the 14th European Conference on the Analysis of Political Societies.She will be speaking at the “Table ronde 2 – Autochtonie et nature”. → When: December 12, from 11:30AM to 1:15PM→ Where: Sciences Po – Paris, France The imperative of environmental protection and that of safeguarding Indigenous […]
Photo Exhibition – UNIGHT
This exhibition is the expression of a recent action-research project that investigates the phenomenon of forest fires in the Chiquitania region, Bolivia. The region is home to one of the largest and best preserved dry forests in the world: an ecosystem very vulnerable to extreme fires, which violently affect local communities. To learn more about […]
INCENDI: OLTRE AL FUOCO C’È DI PIÙ!
Evento Lancio FIREPOL @ U Night, Notte Europea Delle Ricercatrici e Dei Ricercatori We are excited to announce the launch of our research project, FIREPOL, at UNIGHT 2024. We invite you to join our talk, “INCENDI: OLTRE AL FUOCO C’È DI PIÙ!” which is taking place on September 28 at 17:00 at the Musei Reali […]
