Development Studies Workshops 2025 | Ecocrítica: teorias e práticas
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in Development Studies of the University of Lisbon
Development Studies Workshops 2025
Topic: Ecocrítica: teorias e práticas
Date: 15 May 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Venue: Amphitheatre 1, Quelhas Building – ISEG (Ed. Quelhas, 4th Floor, Rua do Quelhas 6, 1200-781, Lisboa, Portugal)
Organisers: Professor Jessica Falconi and Professor Ana Mafalda Leite
Presentation 1: O Ambientalismo Literário do Pobre. Notas para uma ecocrítica pós-colonial das Literaturas Africanas (speaker: Elena Brugioni, CEsA & UNICAMP, Brazil)
Presentation 2: Pensar com a Natureza, Perspectivar um Caminho Académico (speaker: Isabel Alves, online, UTAD-CEAUL, Portugal)
Presentation 3: Pensar as Atmosferas do Antropoceno a partir da Ecopoética (speaker: Nuno Marques, Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Presentation 4: Projeto ECO: Vida mais-que-humana na cultura humana – uma perspectiva amazónica (speaker: Patricia Vieira, CES-UC, Portugal)
Presentation 5: Das Máquinas no Jardim: Imaginar o Fim do Mundo (speaker: José Duarte, Universidade de Lisboa-CEAUL, Portugal)
Presentation 6: Ecocrítica do Crescimento Económico (speaker: Carlos Manuel Antunes, Faculdade de Ciência-UL, Portugal)
Presentation 7: Navegar nas Humanidades e Derivas Azuis dos Estudos de Língua Inglesa (speaker: Margarida Vale de Gato, Universidade de Lisboa-CEAUL, Portugal)
Presentation 8: Poesia Entoada e Chamanismo, uma Reaproximação entre Chamamentos (speaker: Maurício Vieira, poet, Brazil)
Presentation 9: A Hidroficção em Perspetiva: Leitura ecocrítica de A Arca de Não é, de Bento Baloi (speaker: João Fernando André, FLUL/HUMA/Alliance Frainçaise, Portugal)
Presentation 10: Resistência e utopia, do corpo ao território: cruzamentos entre arte, ecologia, educação e ativismo (speaker: Rebecca Mateus, Associação Dunas Livres, Orchidaceae collective, Coletivo HortaFCUL, Portugal)
Free admission, in-person event
About the Workshop
The workshop aims to discuss the broad theme of human impact on the planet through the various critical perspectives and analytical categories that have emerged within the field of ecocriticism and, more broadly, the environmental humanities, which regard climate change as a crucial topic across multiple areas of study. These perspectives and categories allow for a reassessment of diverse forms of cultural production originating from distinct geographical and epistemological contexts.
The goal is to foster dialogue and theoretical-critical debate across areas and disciplines that have afforded more or less space to environmental concerns. Indeed, while Anglo-American Studies have been pioneers in the theoretical domain of ecocriticism, the same cannot be said of studies focused on Portuguese-language African literatures and cinemas. These cultural productions have only recently begun to be examined through environmentalist and ecocritical lenses.
To what extent are ecocritical approaches to various cultural and literary productions dominated by Western perspectives? How can different forms of knowledge be brought together? What can we learn by listening to thoughts and positions emerging from the Global South? How can we foster dialogue and the exchange of knowledge and practices towards a multifaceted approach that is not exclusively centred on the West?
The workshop seeks to address these questions by bringing theory and practice into dialogue through the contributions of scholars and activists.
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Author: CEsA Communication (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
Images: CEsA/Reproduction
