International workshop

 

Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC)

Mòdul de Recerca de Ciències (MRC),
Carrer de Can Magrans

Univeristat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Barcelona, 8-9 de June 2017

 

Thursday, 8 June 2017

CEHIC, Seminar room, L3-05

10:00: Agustí Nieto-Galan (CEHIC, UAB): “Introduction: how to write an ‘environmental’ history of science”

10:30: Marco Armiero (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm): “Seeing Like a Protester: Nature, Power, and Environmental Struggles”

11:45: Coffee break

12:15: Case Studies:

Santiago Gorostiza (ICTA, UAB): “Beyond ‘Socially Constructed’ Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams”

Marta Pujadas (ICTA, UAB): “La història de l’Electroquímica de Flix. Qui pagarà els seus deutes socioambientals?”

13:30: Lunch (Restaurant de Ciències)

15:30: Ximo Guillem /José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez (Universitat de València): “Following Poisons through Society (1800-2000) : Current trends and narratives”

16:45 Coffee break

17:15: Case Studies:

Mar Grau, (ICTA, UAB)”Prudent peasantries: multilevel adaptation to drought during the early modern period (NE Spain, 1600-1715)”

Judit Gil-Farrero (CEHIC, UAB), “La protecció de la natura a Catalunya: Del Franquisme a la Transició democràtica”

Workshop dinner (Barcelona, city centre)

 

Friday, 9 June 2017

CEHIC, Seminar room, L3-05

10:00: Fernando Vidal (ICREA, CEHIC): “Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture”

 11:15: Coffee break

 11:45: Stefania Barca (Universidade de Coimbra), “The Anthropocene as meta-scientific narrative, and the alternate pasts of environmental history”

13:00 Joan Martínez-Alier (ICTA-UAB): “Concluding remarks”

General discussion

14:00: Lunch (end of the workshop)