III Meeting of REPORT(H)A / III Encontro REPORT(H)A

(English version below)   
 
Concluído o III Encontro Report(h)a que decorreu na Universidade de Évora sob o tema agregador "Dinâmica e Resiliência em Sistemas Sócio-ambientais", é altura de vos fazer um breve balanço dos três dias intensos de trabalho rico e estimulante que tivemos graças à vossa participação.
 
A nossa primeira nota realça o elevado nível de internacionalização deste encontro, com destaque para a participação de grupos de investigação espanhóis e italianos, para além dos portugueses. Assim, foram apresentadas 48 comunicações (58 autores), sendo menos de metade (22) de portugueses. Tivemos 8 comunicações subscritas por investigadores e académicos brasileiros, outras 8 por espanhóis e 8 por italianos. No conjunto, os participantes apresentaram vínculos a 23 centros de investigação e instituições diferentes, com destaque para o CITCEM – Porto, CIDEHUS – Évora, Universidade do Minho, a par de outros centros de universidades brasileiras (PUC – Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia), espanholas (Granada, Alicante, Murcia, Huelva, Extremadura) e da Suécia (KTH). Da parte portuguesa, houve ainda representação do IHC (UN Lisboa), ISCTE,  ICS (U Lisboa).  O encontro constituiu, por isso, uma oportunidade para reforçar laços pessoais e profissionais entre diferentes grupos de trabalho. 
 
A nossa segunda nota, também muito positiva, prende-se com a participação de jovens investigadores, doutorandos e pós-doutorados, enquadrados em equipas de investigação em história ambiental.
 
Finalmente, salientemos a diversidade temática das sessões com comunicações que fizeram a ponte entre a história ambiental e os regimes políticos, a construção de novas paisagens no período moderno e contemporâneo, a construção normativa da sustentabilidade ambiental no passado, a história do clima, a legislação ambiental, as pescas, as florestas, as heranças tóxicas, os novos ambientes urbanos, os conflitos ambientais, as questões sanitárias e de saúde associados aos meios industriais, as humanidades ambientais, etc. O livro de resumos que publicámos fica como testemunho.
 
Embora não esteja prevista a publicação de um livro de actas, refira-se a este respeito que o Cidehus, através da sua linha de publicações, em parceria com a Open Edition Books (http://books.openedition.org/cidehus) acolhe propostas de edição de livros no âmbito da história ambiental.  
 
A reunião da rede, realizada no dia 29 de Março, garantiu a continuidade dos encontros Report(h)a, sendo o próximo acolhido pela Universidade de Coimbra, em 2021. Um resultado que muito deve ao esforço da Prof.ª Inês Amorim.
 
Para memória futura, publicámos algumas fotos no sítio do encontro, aqui: https://encontroreportha2019.weebly.com/photos.html. Façam-nos chegar as vossas fotos, caso tenham interesse em que sejam partilhadas no nosso website. Convidamos à leitura e partilha de uma pequena notícia sobre o evento, no site do CIDEHUS: https://www.cidehus.uevora.pt/atividades/noticias/(item)/27118
 
Os nossos agradecimentos finais aos membros da Comissão Científica que nos apoiaram na construção deste evento e ao Dr. Marco Armiero, do Laboratório de Humanidades Ambientais do Instituto Real de Tecnologia da Suécia, pela sua disponibilidade e apoio.
 
Agradecemos, ainda, o apoio do CIDEHUS, da Escola de Ciências Sociais e do CICP, assim como ao Rafael Vasques, Nevena Tatovic e Guilherme Vinicius pelo apoio no secretariado.
 
A todos vós, que desejamos tenham tido uma boa estadia em Évora e uma boa viagem de regresso, agradecemos o v/ contributo para este encontro da rede.
 
A comissão organizadora,
Paulo E. Guimarães
Sónia Bombico
Armando Quintas
 
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At the conclusion of the 3rd Meeting of REPORT(H)A held at the University of Évora under the theme "Dynamics and Resilience in Socio-Environmental Systems", it is time to take stock of the three intense days of rich and stimulating work that we have had to your participation.
 
Our first note highlights the high level of internationalization of this meeting, especially the participation of Spanish and Italian research groups, in addition to the Portuguese. Thus, 48 communications (58 authors) were presented, with less than half (22) of Portuguese. We had 8 communications subscribed by Brazilian researchers and academics, 8 by Spanish and 8 by Italians. On the whole, the participants presented links to 23 different research centers and institutions, in particular CITCEM - Porto, CIDEHUS - Évora, Universidade do Minho, and other centers of Brazilian universities (PUC - Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia), spanish (Granada, Alicante, Murcia, Huelva, Extremadura) and Sweden (KTH). From the Portuguese side, there was also a representations of the IHC (UN Lisboa), ISCTE, ICS (U Lisboa). The meeting was therefore an opportunity to strengthen personal and professional ties between different working groups.
 
Our second note, also very positive, is the participation of young researchers, phd students and post-doctorates, framed in research teams in environmental history.
 
Finally, we highlight the thematic diversity of the sessions with communications that bridged environmental history and political regimes, the construction of new landscapes in the modern and contemporary period, the normative construction of environmental sustainability in the past, climate history, legislation environment, fisheries, forests, toxic heritages, new urban environments, environmental conflicts, health and health issues associated with industrial environments, environmental humanities, etc. The book of abstracts we published is a testimony.
 
Although the publication of a book is not foreseen, it should be mentioned that the CIDEHUS, through its line of publications, in partnership with Open Edition Books (https://books.openedition.org/cidehus/) welcomes proposals for book publishing in the context of environmental history.
 
The meeting of the network, held on March 29, ensured the continuity of the REPORT(H)A a meetings, the next being hosted by the University of Coimbra in 2021. A result that much owes to Prof. Inês Amorim's effort.
 
For future memory, we have posted some photos on the meeting wesite, here: https://encontroreportha2019.weebly.com/photos.html.Please let us have your photos, if you have an interest in sharing them on our website. We invite you to read and share a little news about the event, on the CIDEHUS website: https://www.cidehus.uevora.pt/atividades/noticias/(item)/27118
 
Our final thanks to the members of the Scientific Committee who supported us in the construction of this event and to Dr. Marco Armiero of the Laboratory of Environmental Humanities of the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden for their availability and support.
 
We are also grateful for the support of CIDEHUS, the School of Social Sciences and CICP, as well as Rafael Vasques, Nevena Tatovic and Guilherme Vinicius for their support at the secretariat.
 
To all of you, who wish we had a good stay in Évora and a good trip back, we thank you for your contribution to this meeting of the network.
 
The organizing committee,
Paulo E. Guimarães
Sónia Bombico
Armando Quintas
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CfP: ESEH 2019 Summer School in Environmental History: Non-human agency in historical environments (University of Tartu, Estonia, August 17-20, 2019)

Non-human agency in historical environments
ESEH 2019 Summer School in Environmental History University of Tartu, Estonia
August 17-20, 2019
 
The Departments of History and Semiotics at the University of Tartu and KAJAK, the Estonian Centre for Environmental History at Tallinn University, with the support of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden are pleased to announce a four-day graduate school in environmental history hosted at the University of Tartu, Estonia. This graduate school will precede the ESEH biannual conference in Tallinn (August 21-25), and offers intermediate to advanced graduate students the opportunity to present and discuss their work, to network with other researchers from across the world, and participate in practical workshops.
 
Application deadline: April 1, 2019.
 
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REPORT(H)A III - Book of abstracts and registration

(English version below) 
Estimados/as participantes, 
Informamos que podem consultar o programa no site do evento.
Segue em anexo o livro de resumos que está, também, disponível para download aqui: https://encontroreportha2019.weebly.com/programme.html
 
Para quem ainda não efectuou o registo no evento ou não procedeu ao pagamento do jantar ou da visita cultural, pedimos que o façam o mais breve possível. 
 
Reenviamos as informações relativas ao REGISTO:
A participação no encontro é isenta de pagamento de inscrição, no entanto, o registo é obrigatório.
No âmbito do encontro será realizada uma Visita Cultural e um jantar convívio, que carecem de registo e pagamento
TAXAS DE INSCRIÇÃO:
Visita Cultural | 15,00 euros
Jantar convívio | 20,00 euros
 
Encontram toda a informação relativa ao registo aqui: https://encontroreportha2019.weebly.com/registration.html
 
Estamos disponíveis para qualquer esclarecimento. 
 
A Comissão Organizadora, 
Sónia Bombico
Armando Quintas 
Paulo Guimarães
 
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Dear all, 
 
We inform you that the program is available online.
 
The book of abstracts is attached and is also available for download, here: https://encontroreportha2019.weebly.com/programme.html 
 
For those who haven't yet registered for the event or haven't paid for the dinner and cultural visit, we ask you to do so as soon as possible.
 
 
REGISTRATION:
Participation in the meeting is free of payment, however registration is mandatory.
During the meeting, there will be a Cultural Visit and a social dinner, which need registration and payment.

FEES:
Cultural Visit | 15,00 euros
Social dinner | 20,00 euros  
 
You will find all the information related to the registration here:https://encontroreportha2019.weebly.com/registration.html
 
We are available for any clarification.
 
The Organizing Committee,
Sónia Bombico
Armando Quintas
Paulo Guimarães
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CFP: 8th IMHA International Congress of Maritime History

IMHA – International Maritime History Association and CITCEM –U. PORTO (Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory – University of Porto) are proud to announce that IMHA’s 8th International Congress of Maritime History will be held in Porto between June 30 and July 03, 2020.

This International meeting follows the successful congresses that have been held, every four years since 1992 in Liverpool, UK (1992), Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1996), Esbjerg, Denmark (2000), Corfu, Greece (2004), Greenwich, UK (2008), Ghent, Belgium (2012) and Perth, Australia (2016).
The main theme will be “Old and New Uses of the Oceans”, and the aim is to investigate the many aspects of the relationship between humans and the oceans.

As with previous congresses, ICMH8 adopts a broad concept of maritime history, treating it as an interdisciplinary field that covers all historical periods and areas and all aspects of humankind’s relationship with the sea.

Call for Papers

It is now open the period for abstract submission for the 8th IMHA International Congress of Maritime History.

+ info: https://imha2020.com/ 

 

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Ciclos de oficinas e conferências sobre "Historia da Pobreza e da Fome"

HISTÓRIA DA POBREZA E DA FOME

Ciclo de oficinas e conferências

A História da Pobreza e da Fome é um tema complexo cuja compreensão convoca investigadores das ciências naturais, das ciências sociais e das humanidades. Visando aprofundar temas, conceitos, fontes e métodos de análise, que congregam dimensões ambientais, culturais, sociais, económicas e políticas, organiza-se um Ciclo de Oficinas e um Ciclo de Conferências sobre o tema. Estes decorrem entre Abril e Novembro de 2019.

Ciclo de Oficinas

Sala de Formação da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

As oficinas desenvolvem-se em ambiente informal e de co-aprendizagem. Cada uma debruça sobre um tema específico: (1) Fundamentos, práticas e representações; (2) Calamidades – impactos das pragas, extremos climáticos e epidemias; (3) Desigualdades e assimetrias territoriais; (4) Condições de vida (5) Contextos coloniais; (6) Da exclusão à equidade.

Têm a duração de um dia de trabalho, entre as 9:30 e as 17:45. Incluem duas sessões de três intervenções (seguidas cada uma de um debate). Os participantes (máx. 30) são chamados a intervir ativamente num processo de análise e reflexão, discutindo textos de ca. 1000 palavras, preparados pelos intervenientes, e distribuídos com 8 dias de antecedência.

Ciclo de Conferências 

Auditório da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Em paralelo com o ciclo de oficinas, decorre um ciclo de conferências, aberto ao público, nas mesmas datas, entre as 18:00 e as 19:30.

PROGRAMA COMPLETO DO CICLO

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Articles: "The Wonder Whale" and "The Voice of Skogula in ‘Beasts Royal’ and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale’s-Eye View"

"The Wonder Whale" (Cristina BRITO, Nina VIEIRA & Joana G. FREITAS)
Anthropozoologica: http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica (artigo publicado com o apoio da APCM, OPP e CHAM - NOVA FCSH)
 
"The Voice of Skogula in ‘Beasts Royal’ and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale’s-Eye View" (Cristina BRITO)
Humanities: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/bayscapes (artigo publicado com o apoio CHAM - NOVA FCSH)
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CFP: Session on Env. risk and Env. justice in Europe at the next ISSEI conference

ABSTRACTS ARE EXPECTED BY MARCH THE 31TH

 

ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS IN EUROPE  

 

Chairs: Pedro Baños Páez*, Sofia Bento**, Christelle Gramaglia*** & Ivan Lopez****

* Murcia University

** Lisbon University

*** IRSTEA Montpellier

**** Zaragoza University

Europe's industrial past, as well as its current position as a global industrial power, generate numerous negative externalities that are poorly known, evaluated and controlled. Although Air and Water Directives were promulgated in the 1990s and 2000s, there are still numerous infringements in these domains in the countries of the Union. And for soils, no standard yet allows to monitor its quality. Uncertainties, risks and controversies proliferate, giving a particular acuity to the society of the risk described by Ulrich Beck (2001).

It in this context that "contaminated communities" (Edelstein 2004) developed, that is, groups of residents exposed to pollution and facing various environmental and health hazards. In North America, this lead to strong mobilizations for environmental justice in the wake of civil rights movements, pointing to cumulative inequalities (Gordon 2002). In Europe, claims are raised, but not in the same way. Other interpretative frameworks seem necessary to study what is really going on.

The session we propose will deal with the European specificities of environmental and environmental health mobilizations. It will also look at all the social consequences of pollution on the social fabric, either in public spheres or in private spheres, from the point of view of various actors:

(1) What makes some social movements possible while some others do not work out in sites with major contamination risks? What role does the EU and the member states play in risk regulation in this area? What place do European civil societies hold? What hinders mobilizations?

(2) What constraints do pollutions have on social and environmental practices? How residents of polluted sites resist and cope with particularly adverse toxic situations, sometimes silently? How to better account for the hidden social costs of pollution?

The expected communications will have to focus on industrial and agricultural pollution, but may also offer openness to other environmental issues. The idea is to reflect together on the effects of alerts on collective and individual behavior, but also on the issues of responsibility so as to promote resilience, in the sense that Anna Tsing could give to this term, i.e. finding together the force to imagine survival in the ruins of productivism (2016).

Proposals (350-500 word abstracts) in English or Spanish should be sent by February, the 28th 2019, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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II International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: Shaping Landscapes

The Centre for History (CH-ULisboa) of the University of Lisbon, the Centre for the Humanities (CHAM) of the NOVA University of Lisbon and the Centre for Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) of the University of Lisbon are pleased to be hosting the 2nd International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: Shaping Landscapes in Autumn 2019.

Over the centuries, different aspects of the human / natural world relationship have shaped a wide range of landscapes. In the broad sense, landscapes mirror the synthesis of interactions between peoples and places, reflects circulation of knowledge and technology and materialise the development and adaptation of human's societies across time and space. They are geographic realities, but also cultural ones. From these complex and multifaceted interconnections results the recognition of landscapes as a structural component of natural, historical, cultural and scientific heritage and a vital element in the creation of each community's identity.

Following the first meeting in 2017 and the discussion on the interaction between humans and the natural world, this second reunion aims to address this relationship by bringing the broad concept of landscape into the discussion, considering that landscape also serves as a historical testimony and a fundamental source for the study of the past. A knowledge that can shed a light in the long-term relationship between humans and nature, essential in the current challenging contexts of environmental changes.

Suggested but not exclusive main topics:

Animals and landscapes

Environmental and Climate change and Human impacts

Landscape as a living archive

Literary landscapes and soundscapes

Natural and Cultural Landscapes

Natural History and Science

Society and Environment

Waterscapes and Littoral changes

 

Submission of abstracts The conference is open to submissions from any discipline with interests in these fields. Potential participants should submit a proposal filling out the online form available at this page by May 15, 2019.

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2019. The abstracts accepted in the conference will be published on-line. Maximum allotted time for presentations is 15 minutes. ​

For further information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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