Fifth lecture of the cycle dedicated to the history of poverty and famine, organised by Ana Isabel Queiroz in the framework of the Thematic Line “Precarious Worlds and Sustainability”.

HISTÓRIA DA POBREZA E DA FOME

Ciclo de oficinas e conferências

A História da Pobreza e da Fome é um tema complexo cuja compreensão convoca investigadores das ciências naturais, das ciências sociais e das humanidades. Visando aprofundar temas, conceitos, fontes e métodos de análise, que congregam dimensões ambientais, culturais, sociais, económicas e políticas, organiza-se um Ciclo de Oficinas e um Ciclo de Conferências sobre o tema. Estes decorrem entre Abril e Novembro de 2019.

O ciclo de conferências é aberto ao público e decorre nas mesmas datas, entre as 18:00 e as 19:30. Tem lugar no Auditório da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.

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📎  PROGRAMA COMPLETO DO CICLO

CONFERÊNCIA #5

Climate signals, famine and livelihoods in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth century

Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex)

Vinita Damodaran is a historian of modern India, interested in sustainable development dialogues in the global South. Her work ranges from the social and political history of Bihar to the environmental history of South Asia, including using historical records to understand climate change in the Indian Ocean World. Her publications include: Broken Promises, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar (1992), Nature and the Orient; the environmental history of South and South East Asia (1998), Post Colonial India, History Politics and Culture (2000), British empire and the natural world: environmental encounters in South Asia (2010), East India Company and the Natural world (2014), and more recently Climate change and the Humanities (2017). She is also the author of several articles in established journals. She is particularly interested in questions of famine, environmental change, identity and resistance in Eastern India.