August 25–27, 2022
Environmental History I
Climate, environment and human activity: shall we rethink History?
The symposium examined the concept of the environment as a constantly evolving set of unstable data. It explored how the environment changes through multiple circumstances, often involving the human species. Environmental History was presented as a rich framework for understanding the transformation of societies within the environments they created or with which they evolved.
The symposium also addressed how societies develop their understanding of the environment through processes of interdependency, why it is essential to analyze the past and present of environmental thought at this moment in time, and how the notion of non-human agents—whether animals, forests, soil, air, or bacteria—might be repositioned as key protagonists in historical processes.