Na próxima segunda-feira, dia 23 de Abril, pelas 15h30, em colaboração com o Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar «Cultura, Espaço e Memória» e a Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental, o Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto acolherá na Galeria da Biodiversidade – Centro Ciência Viva a palestra “Environmental history and South Africa”, por Jane Carruthers, Professora Emérita do Departamento de História da Universidade da África do Sul (Unisa) e Investigadora Associada do Centro de Biologia da Invasão da Universidade de Stellenbosch.

 

Jane Carruthers é membro da Royal Society of South Africa, da Academy of Science of South Africa e do Clare Hall, na Universidade de Cambridge. Tem vindo a ocupar cargos de liderança em diversas sociedades e em corpos editoriais, entre os quais se destacam o de Fundadora e Presidente do International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, sedeado na Universidade de Duke, e o de Presidente do Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, em Munique. Reconhecida internacionalmente pelo trabalho acerca da história da conservação da natureza, ornitologia, botânica e biologia na África do Sul, publicado em numerosos livros e revistas académicas, realizou várias estadias no estrangeiro e recebeu vários prémios e distinções, incluindo o 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award, promovido pela American Society for Environmental History. A sua tese de doutoramento, “The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History (1995)”, tornou-se um trabalho de referência mundial. O seu projecto de investigação mais recente deu origem a um livro -  “National Park Science: a century of research in South Africa” - acerca da história das ciências naturais nos parques naturais de África do Sul, ao longo do século XX.

 

Entrada livre e gratuita, limitada à capacidade do espaço. A língua oficial da sessão será o inglês.

The Centro de História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (CH-FLUL) co-organizes and welcomes the International Seminar Food, Health and Environment: Sustainability and Challenges, which will take place in October 2018. This seminar stresses the beginning of the scientific agenda of the Working Group on Transições Tecnológicas: Memórias, Saberes e Práticas created within the scope of the Colégio F3.

 

The relationship between food, health and environment unequivocally expresses the basic relationship between humans and nature. Privileging a multidisciplinary approach this meeting intends to be a forum for discussion on the basic issues of the everyday life of the human communities related to food, health and well-being in their relationship with the environment considering, on the one hand, a perspective of historical analysis that includes geographical, cultural and technological diversity and, on the other, the current challenges facing globalization and the scarcity of resources, as well as the overexploitation of these and the technological innovations to overcome the difficulties and / or negative consequences of this exploitation.

 

Over the centuries, life and human development depended on the relation man / nature and on the strategies used to take advantage of natural resources. Appropriation and domestication of nature was progressive, encompassing coppice strategies to provide firewood as well as hunting and collecting of plants and herbs for food and medical purposes prior to the development of herding, farming and grazing practices and the subsequent techniques designed to ensure their effectiveness.

 

The increase in population, the need to organize and manage rural and urban spaces and the process of industrialization have introduced factors of imbalance in this relationship. Subsequently, imperial and colonial contexts have turned it into an enabler of segregation and social inequalities, with direct implications for access to essential goods and services while committing rights now considered fundamental.

 

Over time, this relationship became a privileged space where knowledge, technique, science and power meet, reflecting pathways marked by innovations, adaptations and profound changes, due to human curiosity, needs and economic and political interests, as well as to environmental changes, which condition or result from them. All of them contributing to shaping and configuring the world as we know it today. A world in which most countries are overusing resources to meet people's basic needs, making it increasingly necessary to find alternatives for a rational and sustained use of the planet’s resources.

 

In this context, by incorporating the component of memories, traditional knowledge and practices it is also intended to draw attention to the importance of archives and the interdisciplinary recovery of historical information as well as to its contribution to rethinking actions and behaviors in order to help solve or minimize some of the current problems and contribute to an Intelligent Future.

 

Therefore, special attention will be given to the different solutions found by the communities over time and in accordance with the specific situations that each one had (has) to face, regarding to water and sanitation, the irrigation and distribution of food species, the organization and management of rural areas and urban spaces or the relation between food and health, aiming at stimulate also the discussion on technologies, sustainability and human rights.

​

The association of the Overseas Historical Archive (AHU) to this meeting will allow the presentation of an exhibition of archival documents related to the conference topics, to be visited during the event.

 

Potential but not exclusive topics:

- Water: traditional technologies of management, storage and distribution

- Food and health: sustainable food consumption

- Climate change: impacts on health, production and consumption of food; Impacts on the landscape and the way of life of the populations

- Demography, urban concentration and rural depopulation: social and economic constraints and impacts

- Metropolis, empires and colonies: geographical spaces and economic policy strategies in a compared perspective

- Organization and use of historical information on food, health and environment

- Cultural and social responses: civil society, involvement and participation

- Health and disease: environment and health policies, sanitation, epidemics...

- Other topics

 

Submission of abstracts:

Proposals should be sent by June 15, 2018, through the form available at: http://www.centrodehistoria-flul.com/semintasasd#Form

 

Approved proposals can be presented as posters (10 minutes) or oral presentations (20 minutes), in Portuguese or in English, although simultaneous translation is not possible.

 

Oficial language:

Portuguese and English

 

Main deadlines:

Reception of abstracts: 30 March – 15 June 2018

Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2018

Confirmation/Registration: 15 July – 1 September

Provisional Program: 1 October 2018

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

The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) invites proposals for the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History, to be held in 22-26 July 2019 in Florianópolis, Brasil.

 

Host: The Federal University of Santa Catarina (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC)

 

The 3rd World Congress of Environmental History invites scholars from different disciplines to situate environmental history in a planetary perspective. The categories “Global South” and “Global North” are historically-charged, created in the 20th century. They point to the diversity and the inequality of past and present human societies, and how they have transformed their landscapes, exploited natural resources, and connected with each other. The challenges posed by these connections and the dynamics of human and non-human communities have gained urgency in what has been called the Era of Great Acceleration. From their historical studies of rivers, cities, mountains, forests and plantations, to world transmigration narratives for plants, animals, diseases, people and commodities, historians and other environmental humanities scholars add to the debate on how to address the environmental challenges of the 21st century. The program committee seeks to further discussions that cross disciplinary or conceptual divides in new ways. We especially invite proposals that span gender, generational, and geographic differences among presenters as well as topics.

 

 

The program committee invites panel, roundtable, individual paper, and poster proposals for the congress. We prefer to receive complete session proposals but will endeavor to construct sessions from proposals for individual presentations. Sessions will be scheduled for 1.5 hours. No single presentation should exceed 15 minutes, and each roundtable presentation should be significantly shorter than that, as roundtables are designed to maximize discussion among the speakers and with the audience. Commentators are allowed but not required.

 

The program committee encourages non-conventional sessions that experiment with creative formats, such as hands-on workshops, tool demonstrations, and open discussion forums. To submit a proposal for an experimental session, please provide a 300-word abstract describing the activity.

 

To maximize participation, we encourage session proposals with more participants giving shorter presentations (e.g., four presenters at 12 minutes each). Please note that individuals can be a primary presenter in only one panel, roundtable, or other session proposal, but can also serve as chair or commentator in a second session proposal.

 

A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for students and junior scholars.

 

To submit a proposal, see: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/iceho/iceho19/