The International Colloquium ‘Colonialism, Colonial Legacy and Environmental Crisis: History and Memory’ will be held from 28th to 29th May as part of the Disciplinary Affinities of the Group 1 - History, Memory, Public Policy, in Amphitheatre 2, Department of Life Sciences (DCV) of the University of Coimbra.
Based on a case study and a perspective that crosses and brings together several disciplines (History, Economics, Ethno-ecology, Sociology, Ecology, Biology, etc.) and a longitudinal temporal framework, the conference aims to identify and examine/study both the environmental impacts resulting from the colonial past exploitation, and the post-colonial legacies and inheritances across various geographies (especially in Africa and Brazil colonized by Portugal), as well as to look into the colonial responses to environmental policy issues, to establish an effective dialogue between the past and the present, between memory and history in a truly interdisciplinary, comparative and critical approach to the colonial and post-colonial realities.
