Seminar and reception in celebration of 3 years of CEH
We welcome all interested staff and students to join us in celebrating the third anniversary of the Centre for Environmental Humanities, as well as to discuss what the future should hold for the environmental humanities at AU.
Info about event
Time
Location
Nobelparken 1451-416; Vandrehallen
Attendance is free, but please register here or by email to ceh@cas.au.dk by 27 May if you plan to attend.
Program:
13:30-14:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE Creatures of the Clearing: Forests, People, and Ants in Imperial Brazil by Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:15 Interactive roundtable discussion about broader developments and challenges in the Environmental Humanities. Panel:
- Anette Vandsø, Associate Professor, Aesthetics & Culture program, Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology, AU
- Joshua Cohen, Postdoc, Heritage and the Anthropocene (HATA) project, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, AU
- Pierre du Plessis, Postdoc, Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, DFF), AU Centre for Environmental Humanities and University of Cape Town
16:30-17:00 Walk and talk in the University Park, if weather permits
17:00-19:00 Reception in Vandrehallen (next to the Aula) with sparkling wine and vegan food
Keynote speaker: Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
Institute of Latin American Studies/Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro and Newton International Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Diogo de Carvalho Cabral is an environmental historical geographer interested in the relations between native ecosystems – especially forest and savannah – and modern Brazilian society. His current research project, which focuses on the intersections of deforestation, leaf-cutting ant infestation and socio-spatial reorganization, is titled “Nested Empires: Human-Ant Negotiated Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.”
A winner of the Journal of Historical Geography Best Paper prize, Diogo also investigates the role of alphabetic literacy in the sixteenth-century Portuguese colonization of Brazilian Atlantic forests and the geography of agricultural production in the late twentieth century.
If the registration link does not work, please send an email to ceh@cas.au.dk to let us know which parts you plan to attend and whether you have any special dietary requirements.