At the intersection of disciplines: History of Science and Environmental History
At the intersection of
disciplines: History of Science and Environmental History
International workshop
Univeristat Autònoma de
Barcelona (UAB)
Barcelona, 8-9 de June 2017
How to
write an ‘environmental’ history of science today? To what extend environmental
historians and historians of science can establish a fruitful collaboration?
What kind of narratives could emerge at the intersection of both disciplines?
In order to find new answers to these questions, the Centre d’Història de la
Ciència (CEHIC), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has organized
a 2-day workshop on 8-9 June 2017. Environmental historians and historians of
science will explore common topics such as militant history, expertise,
scientific authority, popular knowledge, scientific controversies, among other
issues, to raise common questions and share methodological reflections. The
workshop also aims to become a starting point for further academic
collaboration.
Programme
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 (Centro de Estudos Sociais,
Universidade de Coimbra): “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 (IHMC,
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”
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 (Centro de Estudos
Sociais, 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)
For further
details, contact Agustí Nieto-Galan at agusti.nieto@uab.cat
All welcome