Organisation of scientific events

Member of the Organizing Committee of V Conferência Internacional Bienal de Antropologia do Ambiente, Sociedade de Geografia, Lisboa, 29 to 30 January by 2025 (com Santos, Gonçalo; Casanova, Catarina; Van Vossole, Jonas; Roque de Pinho, Joana).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Colóquio internacional: Pessoas, Arrozais e Mangais na Guiné-Bissau: Futuros de Coexistência, Bissau, 12 to 13 December by 2024 (com Sousa, Joana Vaz; Campos, Rita ; Duarte Lopes, Paula; da Costa, Dania; Mendes Fernandes, Raul; Catarino, Luis; Indjai, Bucar).

Organization of Colóquio: As Paisagens de Fogo de Monchique: História e memória dos incêndios nas serras do sul, Alferce, Serra de Monchique, 26 to 26 October by 2024.

Member of the Organizing Committee of A Crise Climática e a Guiné-Bissau: Ruturas, Continuidades e Incertezas, Coimbra (CES), Bissau (Universidade Amílcar Cabral) + online, 02 to 03 November by 2023 (com Sousa, Joana Vaz; Campos, Rita; Infande, Adilson ; Có, Benício ; Indjai, Bucar ; Tavares, Dionísio; Camala, Djone; Catarino, Luis; Acabado, Luisa; Matias, Madalena ; da Costa, Maira; Luís, Naninquio ; Mendes Fernandes, Raul).

Organization of Membro da Comissão Científica da 8th International Wildland Fire Conference, "Governance Principles: Towards an International Framework", Porto, Portugal, 16 to 19 May by 2023.

Member of the Organizing Committee of Humanidades Ambientais e Naturezas contestadas", Ciclo de Metodologias "Roda de Saberes" (Org.: Rita Campos & Patrícia Taborda), Coimbra (CES) + online, 02 to 01 February by 2022 (com Vieira, Patrícia Sousa, Joana Vaz).

Presentations in scientific events

Campos, Rita; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Jalo, Sumaila; Tavares, Dionísio (2024), "Pessoas, arrozais e mangais. Aprender em conjunto sobre alterações climáticas e transformações no espaço costeiro", paper presented at Pessoas, Arrozais e Mangais na Guiné-Bissau: Futuros de Coexistência, Hotel Coimbra, Bissau, 12 to 13 December.

Có, Benício; Camala, Djone; Sousa, Joana (2024), "O abandono da produção de arroz em Biombo: Trabalho forçado, a força do mar e a fuga de várias gerações", paper presented at Pessoas, Arrozais e Mangais na Guiné-Bissau: Futuros de Coexistência, Hotel Coimbra, Bissau, 12 to 13 December.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Silva, Marta (2024), "Vozes de vida com o fogo: enfrentamento e coexistência", paper presented at Colóquio: História do fogo nas Serras da Lapa e Leomil, Casa das Novenas, Aldeia da Lapa, Sernancelhe, Portugal, 17 to 17 November.

Silva, Marta ; Sousa, Joana Vaz (2024), "O fogo e os incêndios nas serras de Monchique e de Lapa e Nave: Acelerações e dissonâncias temporais", paper presented at XII Encontro Rural Report: Ruralidade(s) e Ambiente na Longa Duração, Casa Cordovil, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 30 to 31 October.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Silva, Marta (2024), "Memória e representações sobre o controlo do fogo na serra de Monchique", paper presented at Colóquio: As Paisagens de Fogo de Monchique: História e memória dos incêndios nas serras do sul, Alferce, Serra de Monchique, 26 to 26 October.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Silva, Marta (2024), "Fire acceleration and dissonances in forest plantation economies", paper presented at 4th World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland, 19 to 23 August.

Jimenez, Andrea; Doezema, Tess; Babo, Sam; Purvis, Ben; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Girei, Emanuela (2024), "Embedding a decolonial lens within JUST2CE? Some collective reflections", paper presented at 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, Embedding a decolonial lens within JUST2CE? Some collective reflections, 17 June 22 July.

Gonçalves, Jorge; Sousa, Joana Vaz; D'Alisa, Giacomo (2024), "Degrowth and circularity shape alternative livelihoods: Perspectives from within an integral cooperative in Alentejo, Portugal", paper presented at 10th International Degrowth Conference, 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics. , Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, 17 to 22 June.

Sousa, Joana Vaz (2024), "Aceleração do fogo e da plantação e o lugar das pessoas em contratempo: Notas para discussão a partir da memória os últimos incêndios da Serra da Monchique", paper presented at Conferências-Debate "Economia Política no Centro": Incêndios Florestais e Modelo Socioeconómico, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra (ESAC-IPC) + Online, 10 to 10 April.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Có, Benicio; Camala , Djone (2023), "A natureza e as alterações climáticas a partir da Guiné-Bissau: Exclusão, violência colonial e suas continuidades", paper presented at Natureza e Crise Climática. Universitários pelo Futuro: Rede de Debates, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra + online, 28 to 28 November.

Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Ágoas, Frederico ; Portela, Joana ; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Carmo, Miguel (2023), "The literary arsonist", paper presented at Uncertain Landscapes - International Congress, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Teatro Jordão, Guimarães, 22 to 24 November.

Gouveia, António; Veronez, Arthur; Freitas, Helena; Sousa, Joana Vaz (2023), "Os mangais enquanto ecossistemas de transição ecológica e lugares de profusão cultural através de fontes portuguesas dos séculos XVI-XX", paper presented at 7º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e Tecnologia (ENHCT), Colégio do Espírito Santo da Universidade de Évora, Évora, 15 to 17 November.

Matias, Madalena ; Catarino, Luis; Antunes, Carlos; Cabral, Ana; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Catita, Cristina; Redweik, Paula (2023), ". Análise geoespacial da dinâmica histórica da vegetação costeira e potenciais efeitos da subida do nível do mar na costa da Guiné-Bissau.", paper presented at X Conferência Nacional de Cartografia e Geodesia, Guarda, 02 to 03 November.

Có, Benício; Camala, Djone; Sousa, Joana Vaz (2023), "As bolanhas do Chão de Biombo: Um percurso longínquo de abandono da produção de arroz", paper presented at A Crise Climática e a Guiné-Bissau: Ruturas, Continuidades e Incertezas, Coimbra (CES), Bissau (Universidade Amílcar Cabral) + online, 02 to 03 November.

Silva, Marta; Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Oliveira, João; Carmo, Miguel (2023), "Uma caminhada na serra, um percurso de investigação. ", paper presented at V Encontro Report(h)a, Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental: Energia e Desafios Socio-ambientais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 19 to 21 October.

Sousa, Joana Vaz (2023), "Engaging people in knowledge production", paper presented at The Digital with Purpose Global Summit: Digital Tecnhology Solution aimed at Creating a Sustainable and Inclusive Future, Altice Arena, Lisboa, Portugal, 27 to 29 September.

Carmo, Miguel ; Ágoas, Frederico; Sousa, Joana Vaz (2023), "The burning landscapes of Monchique: In search of a people's history of extreme fires in the mountains of southern Portugal", paper presented at 12th European Society for Environmental History Conference: Mountains and Plains, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 22 to 24 August.

Esteves, Denise ; Pato de Carvalho, Cláudia; Campos, Rita; Sousa, Joana Vaz (2023), "Citizen science approaches in educational contexts: Sharing experiences from a initiative in social sciences", paper presented at CONNECT International Conference on Open Schooling 2023, Museu de la Ciència, Barcelona, Espanha, 06 to 07 July.

Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Carmo, Miguel; Ágoas, Frederico; Portela, Joana (2023), "Pyrostories: New Historical Insights from Portuguese Literature", paper presented at Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Literary Landscapes: Forms of knowledge in the Humanities, Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Lettres, Paris, France, 28 to 30 June.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Luz, Ana Luísa (2023), "Co-production and the politics of hiding in an action-research project on mangrove rice farming in Guinea-Bissau", paper presented at Development Studies Association 2023 Conference, Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking connection and agency for development., University of Reading, UK, 28 to 30 June.

Sousa, Joana Vaz (2023), "Ciclo de Seminários CRIA: Diálogos de Antropologia Pública", paper presented at Mesa-redonda: Crítica e Prática da Conservação da Natureza, Instituto Universitário (ISCTE), Lisboa, Portugal, 15 to 15 June.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Mendes Fernandes, Raul (2023), "Rice technology, strength and the making of the mud", paper presented at Shifty Muds: Land, Workshop: Water, and Life in a "Patchy Anthropocene, Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest, The Institute for Southeast European Studies Bucharest, New Europe College, Buchrest, Romania, 08 to 09 June.

Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Ventura, Ricardo (2023), "The strange case of white rice in Maranhão: the plantation and its contraries from a long-term transatlantic perspective", paper presented at Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire, Anatomy Museum, King's College London, UK, 02 to 03 June.

Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Ventura, Ricardo (2023), "The political economy of the colour of rice: Reconstructing a process of Atlantic significance", paper presented at Riso. Colture e culture in Europa e nel Mediterraneo, University of Venice, Italy, 30 to 30 May.

Infande, Adilson; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Proença, Vânia (2023), "Rupturas na reprodução tecnológica da orizicultura de mangal em Cacheu, Guiné-Bissau", paper presented at XII Congresso Português de Sociologia - Sociedades Polarizadas? Desafios para Sociologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 04 to 06 April.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Campos, Rita; Mendes Fernandes, Raul; Indjai, Bucar; Duarte Lopes, Paula; Rosa, Ana Paula; Mendes, Orlando; Infande, Adilson; da Costa, Maira; Cruz, Cristina; Matias, Madalena; Lourenço, Juelson; Tavares, Dionísio; Ainslie, Andrew; Catarino, Luis (2022), "Mangrove forests and mangrove rice in Guinea-Bissau: Stories of (dis)entanglement", paper presented at III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: More Than Just Biodiversity, Peniche, Portugal, 24 to 26 November.

Catarino, Luis; Indjai, Bucar; Matias, Madalena ; da Costa, Maira; Barai, A; Sierra-Baquero, P; Queta, U; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Romeiras, M M ; Monteiro, F (2022), "Algumas linhas de investigação em ecologia, recursos naturais e sustentabilidade ambiental na Guiné-Bissau", paper presented at XXIII Encontro de Estudos Ambientais dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, Tomar, Portugal, 11 to 15 October.

Carvalho, Cláudia; Campos, Rita; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Esteves, Denise; Martins, Vasco (2022), "Exploring methodological approaches for citizen science: sharing experiences from a pilot initiative in the social sciences. ", paper presented at European Citizen Science Association (ECSA 2022) Confere, Carvalho, C. P., Campos, R., Sousa, J., Esteves, D., & Martins, V., 05 to 08 October.

Campos, Rita; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Esteves, Denise; Martins, Victor; Pato de Carvalho, Cláudia (2022), "Challenges and opportunities for citizen science in education: preliminary results from a pilot citizen social science project", paper presented at Porto International Conference on Research in Education, Porto, Portugal, 20 to 22 July.

Ripa, Maddalena; Pansera, Mario; Barca, Stefania; Bimpizas-Pinis, M; Doezema, Tess; Genovese, Andrea; Girei, Emanuela ; Jimenez, Andrea; Soto, David; Sousa, Joana; Sousa, Joana Vaz; Airoa, Brais (2022), "Assessing transitions to a just Circular Economy through humility. A multidimensional framework.", paper presented at XIV International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, 14 to 17 June.

Sousa, Joana Vaz (2021), "Farming rice at the margins in West Africa", paper presented at 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona, Spain and Virtual, 31 August 03 September.

Sousa, Joana Vaz (2021), "Catastrophic tales of blame in nature conservation and climate change", paper presented at RAI2021: Anthropology and Conservation. , Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK., 25 to 29 October.

Sousa, Joana Vaz; Dabo, Ansumane ; Luz, Ana Luísa (2020), "Colonialismo e clima afogando arroz: Vulnerabilidade e resistência nos mangais do sul da Guiné-Bissau", paper presented at International Seminar on Environment and Society: Current Challenges and Pathways to Change, Lisbon, Institute of Social Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal. , 02 to 03 March.

Casanova, Catarina; Sá, Rui; Sousa, Joana Vaz (2018), "Wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) attacks on children in Guinea-Bissau. ", paper presented at VI Iberian Primatological Conference, Burgos, Spain, 04 to 19 October.

Sousa, Joana (2016), "Local understandings of soil fertility, rainfall and conservation agriculture in Laikipia, Kenya: A qualitative analysis", paper presented at Tropentag, Solidarity in a competing world - fair use of resources, Vienna, Austria, 18 to 21 September.

Sousa, Joana (2016), "Accessing resources in protected areas: An example from Guinea-Bissau", paper presented at L'Afrique émergente. Dynamiques politiques de la croissance et du développement, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, Switzerland. , 22 to 23 August.

Sousa, Joana (2016), "Narratives about chimpanzees: Bush, kin and witchcraft in southern Guinea-Bissau", paper presented at Pathways Kenya: Integrating human dimensions into fishery and wildlife management, Nanyuki, Kenya, 10 to 13 January.

Sousa, Joana (2015), "Being anomalous and ambiguous: Encountering animals in a protected area in Guinea-Bissau", paper presented at Animals in the anthropocene: Human-animal relations in a changing semiosphere, Stavenger, Norway, 17 to 19 September.