11th Annual Conference and Seminar of the Campus Iberus Inter-university PhD Programme

On 22 and 23 October, the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the University of Zaragoza will host the 11th Annual Conference and Seminar of the PhD Programme in Heritage, Societies and Borderlands, which this year is entitled ‘The boundary between the natural and the anthropogenic in the mountains: The impact of livestock farming on the landscape’.

Over the course of two days, researchers and PhD students from the Universities of Lleida, La Rioja, the Public University of Navarre and Zaragoza will examine the relationship between livestock farming, territory and landscape from different perspectives, paying particular attention to the transformations of mountain areas and the interaction between natural elements and human activity over time.

The programme will begin on Thursday 22 October at 10.00 am in the Boardroom of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts with a welcome and introductory session, featuring José Antonio Beltrán Cebollada, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, and Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero, General Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme.

This will be followed by the inaugural lecture, ‘The landscape and its changes as an alternative source of historical information’, delivered by José María García Ruiz, a geographer at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology/CSIC.

The programme will continue with the lectures ‘Grazing, fire and animals: a love triangle in the Pyrenees over the last eight thousand years’, by Graciela Gil-Romera, senior researcher at the CSIC’s Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, and ‘Living off the herd: livestock strategies of the earliest herders’, delivered by Alejandro Sierra Sainz-Aja, a researcher at the University of Pisa.

Thursday’s programme will conclude with presentations by PhD students, which will take place from 4.00 pm to 8.30 pm. 

Livestock farming and the historical transformation of the landscape

On Friday 23 October, the programme will continue at other venues across the city. At 9.30 am, the Casa de Ganaderos will host the lecture ‘The Casa de Ganaderos and 13th-century regulations on transhumance in Aragon’, delivered by Armando Serrano Martínez, of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Luis and the Blancas Group.

Later, at 11.30 am, the Caesaraugusta Theatre Museum will host the lecture ‘Between pastures and mountains: livestock farming and the transformation of the landscape from the Roman world to Late Antiquity’, given by Pilar Diarte Blasco, a senior researcher at the CSIC and a researcher at the Institute of History/CSIC.

The 11th Annual Conference and Seminar of the PhD Programme in Heritage, Societies and Borderlands is designed as an interdisciplinary forum to further the study of heritage, societies and borderlands, with this year’s edition focusing on the evolution of mountain landscapes and the role played by livestock farming in their transformation.

Registration

Registration will remain open until 7 October. It is compulsory for those wishing to present their thesis topic, with priority given to PhD students on the programme; however, both attendance and participation are open to all PhD students who wish to take part.

Further information, the full programme and access to the registration form:
https://www.campusiberus.es/doctoradofrontera/