Curso integrado na edição 2025 da Escola de Verão da NOVA FCSH, sobre a história global da extração de diamantes, particularmente da gestão e dos trabalhadores das minas. ONLINE

A Global History of Diamond Mining

Docente: Tijl Vanneste

Datas e Horários: 4 a 12 Agosto  |  Dia 4 de Agosto, das 8h00 às 11h00; restantes dias, das 08h00 às 10h00

Duração: 15h

Modalidade: online

Objectivos:

Students will develop an understanding of the global history of diamond mining, particularly the management of the mines and the mineworkers. They will also be able to connect this history to the larger histories of slavery, colonialism, labour, technology and capitalism. Secondly, studying diamond mining allows for students to improve their skills in comparative history, and will expand their know-how on relating the present to the past. A number of issues that have been crucial in diamond mining are still extremely relevant today – child’s labour in dangerous circumstances, ecological damage, the mixing of private and state interests. Diamond mining offers an historical interpretation of these phenomena.

Programa resumido:

1. Session 1 – Introduction
2. Session 2 – Diamonds from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
3. Session 3 – The History of Diamonds in Brazil
4. Session 4 – The Discovery of Diamonds in Africa
5. Session 5 – The De Beers empire
6. Session 6 – Mining in the Post-Colonial World
7. Session 7 – Ecological Concerns & Roundtable

O curso será ministrado em inglês

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