CISPAC is organizing a new session of the Thesis Discussion series, which reaches its twentieth edition, featuring the presentation of research projects related to urban environmental history and colonial memory.
The first presentation will be given by Leticia Andrade Batista Silva, a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute – Fiocruz, who will present her work Urban Metabolism and Infrastructure: the Paths of Waste in Rio de Janeiro (1880–1940). Her research examines urban waste management as a key lens through which to understand the infrastructural, sanitary, and social transformations of the city of Rio de Janeiro from the late nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Andrade Batista Silva is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in History of Science and Health at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz and has an academic background at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
The second turn of the session will feature Michael Tortorella, a PhD candidate in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics at the University of Bologna, with the presentation Memory and Geographies of Colonialism in Ethiopia: Towards a Critique of Coloniality and the Idea of the Mezzogiorno. His research proposal explores the relationship between geographical knowledge, the colonial construction of the idea of the Mezzogiorno, and Italian colonialism, with particular attention to the experience of settler colonialism in Ethiopia during the Fascist period.
The session will conclude with a presentation by Ida Raunkjaer, from the University of Southern Denmark, who will present her project Reimagining Landscapes. From an anthropological perspective, her research analyses how the Danish Society for Nature Conservation employs post-anthropocentric narratives on nature to mobilise citizens in response to the climate crisis.
The session will take place on Wednesday, February 11, at 11:00 a.m. at the Lar do CISPAC, and is open to the research community and the general public.
