10th CITCEM Conference
Transdisciplinary Research Centre “Culture, Space and Memory” of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto (CITCEM) invites the academic community to its 10th Conference, centred on the theme of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”, which will take place at the the Casa dos Livros (Palacete Burmester), Porto, Portugal, from 16 to 19 November 2022. The Conference aims to reflect on Cultures of Water, a theme that has been a focal point of the research developed at CITCEM since its foundation, placing the debate under a plural analysis that reflects the research directions and forms of intervention developed by academics and research centres from all over the world.
The 10th CITCEM Conference will focus on the diachronic study of coastlines and riverbanks, which approaches environmental concerns and human relations with oceans, seas, rivers and their ecosystems. The aim is to observe Cultures of Water in their diversity, from a multi-scalar perspective, considering chronological and spatial variations, preferably from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective.
Following a commitment to strong societal involvement and a concern for establishing dialogues between academia and communities that generate and give life to Cultures of Water, the 10th CITCEM Conference will seek to identify and encourage processes of co-creation of knowledge. The objective is to establish bridges between the university and communities, to safeguard a heritage that is global in its diversity.
Sustainability policies have considered the articulation between anthropic factors and the environment crucial. The preservation of ecosystems therefore also implies overcoming disciplinary boundaries and establishing dialogues between university spaces, political decision-makers, associations and local populations – the latter still often kept at a distance in decision-making processes and the co-creation of knowledge. Observing these phenomena from comparative perspectives will allow us to identify elements of contact and difference.
CITCEM invites national and international researchers from different areas of knowledge to reflect on Cultures of Water in diachronic and multidisciplinary dimensions, using different scales of observation, not losing sight of perspectives that bring together local and global perspectives in their multiple dimensions.
About the event
The CITCEM Annual Conference has been held since 2010, as one of the first recurring major events since the founding of the Research Centre, in 2007. The Conference’s central objective is the sharing of plural knowledge generated by Portuguese and international scientific communities, with particular attention to diverse and transdisciplinary themes.
Previous editions covered the following themes:
2010 – 1st CITCEM Conference: Family, Space and Heritage (I Encontro CITCEM: Família, Espaço e Património)
2011 – 2nd CITCEM Conference: The Ocean. Heritage, Uses and Representations (II Encontro CITCEM: O MAR. Patrimónios, Usos e Representações)
2013 – 3rd CITCEM Conference: Landscape (III Encontro CITCEM: Paisagem)
2015 – 4th CITCEM Conference: Crossing Borders, Connecting the Margins of Environmental History (IV Encontro CITCEM: Cruzar Fronteiras, Ligar as Margens da História Ambiental)
2016 – 5th CITCEM Conference: Lines and Letters: Epistolography and Memory of Written Culture (V Encontro CITCEM: As Linhas e as Letras: Epistolografia e Memória da cultura escrita)
2017 – 6th CITCEM Conference: My Mistakes, Our Fortunes (VI Encontro CITCEM: Erros Meus, Fortuna Nossa)
2018 – 7th CITCEM Conference: Mobilities (VII Encontro CITCEM: Mobilidades)
2019 – 8th CITCEM Conference: In Times of War… (VIII Encontro CITCEM: Em Tempos de Guerra…)
2020 – 9th CITCEM Conference: The Construction of Liberty/ies – Comemorative Congress of the Bicentenary of the Liberal Revolution of 1820 (IX Encontro CITCEM: A Construção da(s) Liberdade(s) – Congresso Internacional Comemorativo do Bicentenário da Revolução Liberal de 1820)
Casa dos Livros (Palacete Burmester)
The «Casa dos Livros – Centro de Estudos da Cultura em Portugal» is a cultural space of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, located in the former Palacete Burmester, belonging to the former Quinta Grande, founded at the end of the 18th century, and integrated into the University of Porto since 1961. It was inaugurated in April 2022 and now houses the library and personal archive of Vasco Graça Moura (1942-2014), seeking to encourage dialogue and knowledge sharing between research units and society.
Scientific Commission
Álvaro Garrido
Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, with a focus on Economic and Social History. His main works are situated in the contemporary era, especially in the study of the 20th century, and focus on the Portuguese institutional space, with some comparative incursions. He has vast expertise in the themes of fisheries and the economy of the sea, which has extended to the themes of economic corporatism and, more recently, to the study of ideas and institutions in relation to the concept of social economy.
Andreia Arezes
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal, and integrated researcher at CITCEM – Center for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory». Her research focuses on the altimedievic funerary world and associated materialities, on ethnicity studies and on the historiography of archaeology. She has worked in detail in the area of preventive archeology and currently maintains the connection with field archaeological practice, among others through the coordination of excavation campaigns carried out in the Guifões area (Matosinhos).
Francisco Topa
Associate Professor at the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal. He is an integrated researcher at CITCEM-Center for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory». He teaches in the areas of Brazilian Literature and Culture, Textual Criticism, Portuguese-Speaking African Literatures and Oral and Marginal Literatures. He has developed his work on themes related to Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies.
Gisele C. Conceição
PhD in History from the University of Porto, Portugal. Integrated Researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory – CITCEM, coordinator of the Research Line “Global Exchanges”. In 2021 she was Lecturer of History of Culture in the Modern Period at the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. Between 2018 and 2020, she was a researcher in the Postdoctoral Programme of the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Humanities of the University of São Paulo – USP/FFLCH. She has been working in the History of Science, focusing on the processes of construction and circulation of knowledge in the colonial spaces of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire throughout the modern period, emphasizing the dynamics of knowledge production and the importance of local agents in its historical construction.
Inês Amorim
Phd in Modern and Contemporary History. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal, and integrated researcher at CITCEM – Centre for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory». Her research areas have focused on social and economic history, environmental and climate history, rural history, maritime resources and conflicts, trade and work in coastal communities, prices and credit, consumption, poverty and health. Her most recent interests focus on the connection between cultural behaviours and environmental change.
Vasco Ribeiro
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal, in the areas of communication strategies, journalism studies, political communication, public relations and media relations. He is an integrated researcher at CITCEM – Center for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory», focusing on the areas of changing.
Organising Committee
Ana Clara Roberti
aroberti@letras.up.pt
Integrated researcher at CITCEM, Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and a collaborator of the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+), of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal. She is a specialist in the fields of ethnographic documentary (cinema and photography), image design and cultural studies. Clara leads artistic, social and participatory projects, mostly related to socioeconomically vulnerable urban spaces, cultural heritage, and the environment.
Bruno Lopes
blopes@letras.up.pt
Integrated researcher at CITCEM, Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. He works in the field of long-term societal changes, specifically with respect to the social and economic impacts of repressive institutions, namely considering the case of the Portuguese Inquisition (16th-19th centuries). At the moment, he is interested in problems related to controversial heritage and the way that societies interact and dialogue with the past.
Gisele C. Conceição
gconceicao@letras.up.pt
Integrated researcher at CITCEM, Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal. She has been working on Early Modern History, especially the History of Science, Culture and Knowledge. Her research focuses on knowledge production processes that emphasise the entanglement and dynamics of knowledge forms in their historical making.
Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld
kschonfeld@letras.up.pt
Integrated researcher at CITCEM, Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal. She has been working in the area of social and environmental justice and sustainability, and seeks to address the related challenges through critical and constructive research, creativity, and public engagement. She has published widely on the subjects of participatory governance, streets as public spaces of mobility, social learning in co-creative planning, critical innovation studies, degrowth and post-growth in relation to planning.
CITCEM
Founded in 2007, CITCEM is a Research & Development (R&D) Unit based at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. Anchored in the wider field of the humanities and social sciences, CITCEM operates as a transdisciplinary research platform, exploring the close connections between several disciplines, such as history, archaeology, art history, cultural and literary studies, demography, information, communication and heritage sciences, amongst others.
Briefly put, CITCEM focuses on the transdisciplinary study of memory and heritage themes in connection with the evolving interactive construction of economic, social, political, cultural and territorial identities and spaces, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on North-western Portugal. This focus encompasses the study of identitary memories, cultural heritage in its material and immaterial forms, environmental history, rural and urban landscapes, population mobility, religious practices, and other associated research topics.
CITCEM currently comprises over 400 researchers, a number which includes both integrated and collaborating members. This is a highly-skilled, multi-layered and motivated transdisciplinary team, working towards the mature operations of a Centre which has just completed a decade of successful functioning.
From its inception, CITCEM has been working in close partnership with local authorities, independent institutions and interested parties in general, building strong regional ties which have managed to catalyse further successful national and international collaborations. Drawing upon this solid track record of regional impact and cooperation, and in close contact with policy makers and independent promoters, CITCEM remains fully committed to continuing to foster meaningful engagements between state-of-the-art academic research and local communities.
Consequently, CITCEM aims to retain and expand its fundamental role in the wide-reaching dialogue taking place in North-western Portugal and beyond about the future of the region and its wider links with the overall country and internationally. As a dynamic partner in this dialogue, the Centre is committed to offering vital, interdisciplinary and trans-national contributions from the humanities and social sciences into finding positive responses to the region’s present and future challenges, in close alignment with the priorities of the H2030 Agenda.