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In the second half of the 20th century, the concept of sustainability came to the fore in political, economic, social, and scientific discussions. The climate crisis, population growth, the depletion of non-renewable natural resources, among other factors, led all sectors of society on a global scale to ask themselves: how to satisfy the needs of our species in the present, without irreversibly affecting our planet or the quality of life of future generations. The discourses and practices of sustainability were nourished by contributions from different disciplines and geographical contexts. The discourses and practices that have emerged in Latin America have brought about a whole current of proposals to approach but also to question notions of sustainability and, particularly, sustainable development. During this workshop, various aspects of the discourses and practices of sustainability in Latin America will be discussed in a local, national, and global context.

University of Bern, May 25 & 26 2023
Location: UniS, A -119 and via Zoom

The change in terminology in the title of this conference — from nature to cosmic regularity — should help to break new ground in the description of the concept of nature in the Roman imperial period. At the same time, the term «laws of cosmic regularity» maintains the focus on what is at stake in modern laws of nature: regularity and control. Thus, the conference will address the range of fundamental ideas from which people during the roman imperial period drew to explain natural processes. It will explore the reasons for the momentum of certain ideas and concepts as well as inquire whether and how the sweeping persuasion of these rules can be linked to other rules governing people’s reason at the time, such as grammar, rhetoric, strategic thinking, or technology.

14 and 15 September 2023 at Unitobler and Münstergasse Library. Registration until 1 September.
Organisation: Monika Amsler (monika.amsler@unibe.ch)

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Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions on earth. At the same time, the one with the highest social inequality indexes in the world. This workshop will investigate how Latin American cities are altered and spatially transformed by consumption related processes, transforming Latin American cities into laboratories for experimenting with new possibilities of sociality. Wealth (re)distribution and social policies seem to relate to urban consumption in a particular reproduc-tion of social inequality in which values, attitudes, ideas and political measures influenced urban struggles and definitively changed the fu-ture of the city as a social device.

Location: Universidade Federal Fluminese | Campus do Gragoatá – Auditório do PPGH, Bloco O, 5° andar

To sign up, please send an email to: melina.teubner@unibe.ch

Organisation: Institute of History (Chair of Modern History) and Center for Global Studies, University of Bern 
Convenor: Sibylle Marti (Bern) 

29 March 2023: Research Colloquium History Post-1800
30 March 2023: Workshop / CGS-Forum: Contested Concepts of Labor: Slavery and Informality 

Are you about to change from a bachelor's to a master's degree program and still have a lot of questions? We will inform you on site and online during this year's Master's open days!
We look forward to welcoming you on the following dates:

March 21, 2023 (on site) | March 22, 2023 (on site) | March 23, 2023 (online)

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Publication of Moisés Prieto:

Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution. Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space
Routledge, 2023

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On August 28–29, 2023, the Ambizione project led by Moritz von Brescius (Bern) will organize a major international conference on the theme of «Natural Resources, Sovereignty and Markets: Revisiting Socio-Economic Histories of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries», with confirmed keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Corey Ross (Birmingham). Applications can be submitted until February 28, 2023.

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