Forest Cities - Multidisciplinary approaches to urbanism in the Amazon

Forest Cities - Multidisciplinary approaches to Urbanism in the Amazon

Veranstalter
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Ausrichter
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Veranstaltungsort
V.14 + V.03 seminar rooms in MPI Gea Villa (Jena-Germany)
Gefördert durch
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
PLZ
04479
Ort
Jena
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
27.11.2023 - 28.09.2026
Deadline
27.11.2023
Von
Danielle Viegas, May Planck Geoanthropology

During a two two-day hybrid Workshop, we will welcome at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology researches, professors, and young scholars from different backgrounds based in the United States, Brazil, England, Portugal, Switzerland, and Germany to promote a critical analysis of urbanism in the Amazon on long-term (centuries to millennia) and short-term (decades to years) timescales.

Forest Cities - Multidisciplinary approaches to Urbanism in the Amazon

Research on urbanism in tropical forests has played a pivotal role in challenging the enduring envision of pristine nature. On the other hand, the term evokes a specific definition that constantly requires attention to avoid anachronistic approaches. In light of this, we intend to promote a critical analysis of urbanism in the Amazon on long-term (centuries to millennia) and short-term (decades to years) timescales.

During a two two-day hybrid Workshop, we will welcome at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology researchers, professors, and young scholars from different backgrounds based in the United States, Brazil, England, Portugal, Switzerland, and Germany. The program includes multiple presentation formats from lectures to book and paper talks.

If you are keen to participate online only, here is the Zoom link.
You are welcome to join spontaneously at your convenience:
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/65940986112
Meeting ID: 659 4098 6112

If you are planning to come to MPI Gea in person, you should fill out the form below.
We are offering a limited number of slots to join us for lunch on both days.
https://forms.gle/WLPDQDSFE8vLjxrE8

Programm

Monday - November 27th
9h - 12h30
V014 room

INTRODUCING & CORRELATING FOREST CITIES:
concepts, frameworks, approaches

09h - 9h10
Welcoming & Introducing
Danielle Viegas and Patrick Roberts

9h15 - 9h45
Tropical urbanism and land use – past and present
Patrick Roberts (MPI GEA)

9h50 - 10h20
Writing History in the Anthropocene
Antoine Acker (Geneva University)

10h30-10h45: questions & comments

10h45m-11h: Coffee-break

11h - 12h15
Project launch
RESILIENT: forest cities, development and utopia in Modern Amazon
Danielle Viegas (MPI GEA)
PhDs candidates project’s presentation:
Henrique Gasperin (Geneva Graduate Institute) Julia de Medeiros (MPI GEA)

12h15-12h30m: questions & comments

12h30-13h30: lunch-break offered at MPI Library Area

Monday - November 27th
13h30 - 17h30
V014 room

ESTABLISHING & COMPARING FOREST CITIES:
Amazonian industrial and Indigenous urbanism

13h30-13h55m
Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia (Peru and Brazil)
Adrián Lerner (University of Cambridge)

14h-14h25
Amazonian natural rubber and the making of plantationocene
Tiago Muniz (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, via Zoom)

14h30 -14h55m
Agropastoral landscapes in the 'yungas' of NW Argentina during the first mille- nia A.D: center-peripheries debates in the southernmost Amazonian dominion of South America
Verónica Zuccarelli (MPI Gea, via Zoom)

15h-15h30: questions & comments 15h30-15h45m: Coffee-Break

15h50 - 16h30
Paper talk
More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Vinícius Peripato (National Institute of Space Research, Brazil, via Zoom) Yoshi Maezumi (MPI GEA)
16h30-17h10
Book talk
Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil
Antoine Acker (Geneva University)

17h15 -17h30: Final comments & closing

Tuesday - November 28th
10h - 12h
V03 room

CHALLENGING & CONSERVING FOREST CITIES:
indigenous resistance and biodiversity protection

10h-10h25m
The long-term effects of Indigenous resistance on deforestation in the Amazon
Freg Stokes (MPI GEA, via Zoom)

10h30-10h55h
Global biodiversity agreements and possible futures for Amazonian forest cities
Eduardo Relly (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

11h-11h25m
Contemporary Amazonian Cities: Urban Drainage and Environmental Design
Juliano Pamplona (Federal University of Pará, Brazil, via Zoom)

11h30-12h: questions & comments

12h-13h: lunch-break offered at MPI Library Area

Tuesday - November 28th
13h - 17h
V03 room

ENVISIONING & EXPANDING FOREST CITIES:
cosmological alternatives and Amazonian culture

13h-13h25
Amazonian Indigenous Art in the Anthropocene
Patrícia Vieira (Coimbra)

13h30-13h55m
Visualizing and Narrativizing Hydropower: The Case of Belo Monte
Vitória Saramago (Chicago University)

14h-14h25m
Imagining Amazonian Cities: from El Dorado to The Falling Sky
Charlotte Rogers (Virginia University, via Zoom)

14h30m-15h: questions and comments 15h-15h15: Coffee-break
15h15-15h45
Making and Unmaking the Earth: from Anthropogenic Forests to Lost Cities

Fernando Silva e Silva ( Association for Research and Practice in Humanities, via Zoom)
Final talk

15h45- 16h: Final comments & workshop closing 16h-17h

Kontakt

dhviegas@gmail.com
viegas@gea.mpg.de

https://www.shh.mpg.de/2369882/workshop-forest-cities-multidisciplinary-approaches-to-urbanism-in-the-amazon-project-launch-resilient
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