{"id":8016,"date":"2022-02-10T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2022-02-10T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:57:09","slug":"drought-famine-and-portuguese-colonialism-in-africa-history-and-memory-19th-21st-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/drought-famine-and-portuguese-colonialism-in-africa-history-and-memory-19th-21st-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought, Famine and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa \u2013 History and Memory (19th-21st centuries)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8017 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik-550x364.jpg 550w, https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik-272x180.jpg 272w, https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik-453x300.jpg 453w, https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/batik.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/>Call For Proposals:<\/p>\n<p>Symposium &#8220;Drought, Famine and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa \u2013 History and Memory (19th-21st centuries)&#8221; &#8211; Lisbon, 2-3 February 2023<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce\u00a0<b>Drought,<\/b>\u00a0<b>Famine and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa \u2013 History and Memory (19<sup>th<\/sup>-21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0centuries)<\/b>, a two-day international symposium hosted by Instituto de Hist\u00f3ria Contempor\u00e2nea (NOVA FCSH), Centro Interuniversit\u00e1rio de Hist\u00f3ria das Ci\u00eancias e da Tecnologia (NOVA FCT), Instituto de Ci\u00eancias Sociais (UL) and Global Health and Tropical Medicine (NOVA IHMT), and to be held at the Biblioteca Nacional, in Lisbon, on\u00a0<b>February 2-3, 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last decades scholarly contributions have shown to what extent the African continent is particular vulnerable to drought and famine and how the combination of arid soils and irregular rainfall has had dramatic consequences for human and animal populations and ecologies. They have also demonstrated how (post-) colonial policies between the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0centuries impacted upon African populations and their responses to these phenomena, but also how different scientific disciplines attempted to address the particular challenges that African environments posed. Not all regions and historical periods have however received the same scholarly attention, and there is still a significant knowledge gap when it comes to understanding the complex relationship between drought, famine and Portuguese colonialism in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This symposium aims to bring together graduate students and early-career and established scholars from different disciplines to discuss the contexts, the causes and the social, economic and ecological consequences of droughts and famines in former Portuguese colonial Africa. It also aims to promote a debate on the responses that populations and governments developed to drought and famine, while engaging with the relevant scholarship in the field of environmental history, climate history, social history, imperial history, the history of science, the history of health and migration history. It seeks to advance knowledge on drought and famine in these territories in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries, both through site-specific and broader regional or comparative approaches. Recognising the importance of understanding in particular how famines were lived and are remembered in post-independence Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, the symposium also seeks to discuss the question of memory and the lived and transmitted experiences of individuals and communities that faced great loss of life, hardship and trauma.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium organisers invite papers centred on former Portuguese colonies in Africa that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sources for the history of drought and related climatic events;<\/li>\n<li>Local understandings and knowledge on drought and famine;<\/li>\n<li>Local agricultural, social and economic coping strategies to deal with drought and famine;<\/li>\n<li>The history of food systems, food security and of specific crops or practices used to prevent famine;<\/li>\n<li>Colonial responses to drought and famine and their impact upon affected populations;<\/li>\n<li>Demographic, social and economic consequences of drought and famine in the colonial and post-colonial periods;<\/li>\n<li>Drought, famine, human migration and uprooted populations;<\/li>\n<li>Public health, nutrition, drought and famine;<\/li>\n<li>Legacies of colonial responses to drought and famine in post-colonial Africa;<\/li>\n<li>Post-colonial responses to drought and famine and their impact;<\/li>\n<li>Memory of drought and famine in colonial and post-colonial Africa;<\/li>\n<li>Silences and knowledge gaps in the historiography of drought and famine in former Portuguese colonies in Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perspectives from environmental history, social history, imperial history, the history of science and the history of health, but also anthropology, migration studies and post-colonial studies, are welcome. We particularly encourage graduate students and scholars from Portuguese-speaking Africa to apply.<\/p>\n<p><b>Official languages of the symposium: Portuguese and English\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The symposium has no registration fee.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>If on-going restrictions preclude the possibility of a face-to-face meeting, the symposium will be held in a hybrid or virtual format.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Submission process<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Submissions in Portuguese or English should be sent to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:droughtandfaminesymposium2023@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">droughtandfaminesymposium2023@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<u>May 16, 2022<\/u>\u00a0and will include:<\/p>\n<p>Name(s);<\/p>\n<p>Email contact(s);<\/p>\n<p>Institutional affiliation;<\/p>\n<p>A short biography of the author(s) (max. 100 words);<\/p>\n<p>Title of presentation;<\/p>\n<p>Abstract (max. 300 words).<\/p>\n<p><b>Selected contributions will be part of an edited volume<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Timeline<\/b><\/p>\n<p>May 16, 2022: Deadline for submission of abstracts;<\/p>\n<p>June 30, 2022: Notification of decision on acceptance of abstracts;<\/p>\n<p>July 15, 2022: Symposium preliminary programme.<\/p>\n<p><b>Organizers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC-NOVA FCSH); Cl\u00e1udia Castelo (ICS-UL); B\u00e1rbara Direito (CIUHCT- NOVA FCT); Philip J. Havik (GHTM-NOVA IHMT).<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact the symposium organizers at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:droughtandfaminesymposium2023@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">droughtandfaminesymposium2023@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Information about financial support<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The IHC is funded by National funds through FCT \u2013 Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects UIDB\/04209\/2020 and UIDP\/04209\/2020.<\/p>\n<p>This Symposium is supported by FCT \u2013 Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P. (PIDDAC\/OE), through unit CIUHCT under the project UIDB\/00286\/2020.<\/p>\n<p>This Symposium is supported by FCT \u2013 Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P. through unit ICS-UL under projects UIDB\/50013\/2020 and UIDP\/50013\/202.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call For Proposals. 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