CALL FOR PAPERS

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The Centre of History (CH-ULisboa) of the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Centre for Global History (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 1st International Meeting on Histories of Nature and Environments: Perspectives and Dialogues, in Spring 2017. 

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Interaction between human beings and the natural world has always assumed the possibility of its use for their own benefit.  Since the dawn of humanity surviving meant to experience, learn, know and recognize potential and diversity of resources that may be used, but also to create conditions and means that allow such use in a variety of geographic spaces with different characteristics which, in turn, determined particular behaviors of the human communities as well as different environmental impacts. Therefore, over the centuries, the relation human beings / nature became the privileged space in which knowledge, technique and science developed.

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In this first meeting we intend to discuss the multiple aspects of this relation with specific focus on the way natural world was seen interpreted and handled by people throughout time, the consequences of the secular manipulation of the natural resources and the importance of recovering historical information related to this process for a better understanding of the present day relation human / environmental changes.

 

Conference main topics:

 - Natural History, Science and Environment

 - Natural and Cultural Heritage

 - Perceptions and Study of Nature in the modern and contemporary world

 - The Anthropocene and the new environmental challenges

 - Ethnobiology and traditional knowledge

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Keynote speakers

Carlos Assis. Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

Patrícia Vieira. Georgetown University

Telmo Pievani. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova

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Closing session

Henrique Leitão. Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Universidade de Lisboa

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Organization

Ana Cristina Roque (CH-ULisboa)

Cristina Brito (CHAM–FCSH/NOVA & APCM)

Cecilia Veracini (CAPP - ISCSP-UL)

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Collaborators

Catarina Garcia (CHAM–FCSH/NOVA)

Maria Manuel Torrão (CH-ULisboa)         

Maria João Soares (CH-ULisboa)

Nina Vieira (CHAM–FCSH/NOVA & APCM)

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