RESPONSES TO CLIMATE AND WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY

RESPONSES TO CLIMATE AND WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY


For people and all living beings in all ages, meteorological factors have conditioned their biological success, social organization, land use, and standards of well-being. For humankind, these factors have also influenced his vision of the territory and the relationship with the divine.


Aiming to go beyond concerns with recent and forthcoming changes in climate conditions which have dominate research in environmental studies, but without excluding them, this conference adopts a long term perspective on living beings adjustment to nature. Although framed by Environmental History the conference also assumes an holistic vision, establishing a dialogue with other fields of knowledge not only within the Humanities, but also the natural sciences, as Ecology and Biogeography.

Within this interdisciplinary approach, participants will reflect upon responses to weather and climate, as well as upon their consequences over ecological, economic, social and cultural contexts.

The program is organized around four topics:

- Erosion and population: how society deals with erosion effects and responses to changed landscapes;

- Imagined landscapes: how literary weather descriptions influence perceptions of the territory and, at the same time, how those perceptions are influenced by feelings, experiences and values;

- Space and climate: how species distribution and life history evolved in relation to climate changing conditions;

- Human responses to weather - building and praying: how humans react upon natural hazards by building material shelters and calling for divine protection.

segunda-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2012

Programme


5th May


9:00 – 9:15
Welcome, morning coffee
9:15-9:30
Opening session

- Luís Espinha da Silveira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
9:30 – 11:00
1st panel: Erosion and population

Chair: Luís Espinha da Silveira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

- Watershed management and afforestation  between the 19th and 20th century in Italy – Mauro Agnoletti, Universita di Firenze 

- Erosion processes and past climate condition in the South Alentejo - Maria José Roxo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
2nd panel: Imagined landscapes

Chair: Inês Amorim, Universidade do Porto

– A fear of nature: images and perceptions of heath, moor, bog and fen in England – Ian Rotherham,  Sheffield Hallam University

– Wintering in the mountains: how difficulties became economical opportunities –   Ana Isabel Queiroz, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
13:00-14:30
Lunchtime
14:30- 16:00
3rd panel: Space and climate: adaptations of animals and humans

Chair: Ana Isabel Queiroz, – Universidade Nova de Lisboa

– Climate change and responses of biological diversity – James Harris, CIBIO, Universidade do Porto.

- Prehistoric and medieval mobile pastoral strategies: an archaeozoological perspective - Marta Moreno-Garcia, Centro de Ciências Humanas y Sociales, Madrid and Carlos Pimenta, Instituto  de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico, Lisboa.
16:00-16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45
4th panel: Human response to weather: building and praying

Chair: Stefanea Barca, Universidade de Coimbra

–The shield protectors for rain, cold, heat and dry: shelters for people, cattle and food in 19th century - Cristina Joanaz de Melo,  Universidade Nova de Lisboa

– Houses of God:  supernatural protection against natural threats in the south of Portugal in the Middle and Modern Ages - Pedro Picoito, Instituto Superior de Investigação e Ciência
17:45 – 18:30
Closing session
 
– Climate Change as the key issue for our historical future - Viriato Soromenho-Marques, University of Lisbon
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