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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/
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.
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.