From June 30 to July 1, 2025, the 2nd International Congress on Ecological Humanities will take place in Barcelona, under the title: “Pathways Toward Planetary Well-being through Ecological Humanities.” Members of the Energy Humanities research group will participate in the panel: “Iberian Ecological Cultural Studies: Dams and Plates Between Past and Present.”
Attendees are encouraged to read the abstracts of the presentations in advance.
Moderator: Alberto Berzosa
- From the Submerged Atlantic to the Spiritual Reserve of the West: Seven Theses on the Political Unconscious of Electro-Francoism Germán Labrador Méndez, Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- From Testimony to Memory: Literature and the Francoist Hydraulic Colonization. Diego Zorita Arroyo, Autonomous University of Madrid
- In/visible Hydromodernity: Water Extractivism and Agricultural Development in Francoist Visual Imaginaries of Almería. Loreto García Saiz, Carlos III University of Madrid; Ariadna Cordal, Pompeu Fabra University
- Images of the Lake: Dams and Plates Between Catastrophe and Progress Jaime Vindel, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- The Promises of Autarkic Landscape: Property, Energy, and Redemption in the Visual Culture of Francoist Hydromodernity. Carmen Martín-Luquero Rodríguez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
The full congress program is available here.
For more information about the congress: https://eventum.upf.edu/124629/detail/ii-congreso-internacional-en-humanidades-ecologicas.html