Human-environment relations

7 Outubro 2026, 16:00 • Mehmet Ali Uzelgun

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Sustainability as a dynamic of Adaptation and Transformation. Ineracting spheres of Nature, Technology, and Culture. Technology as an organized set of practices —material, social, symbolic — through which people transform environments, coordinate conduct, and shape selves. Nature-culture divide and the production of nature.

Environmental discourses

30 Setembro 2026, 16:00 • Mehmet Ali Uzelgun

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Global environmental regime, Climate science and politics, Mitigation, Adaptation, Sustainable development, Form a limits discourse to a futurological discourse

Introduction: having a lens and knowing where to look

23 Setembro 2026, 16:00 • Mehmet Ali Uzelgun

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Introduction to the course content. Creation of workgoups for semester activities. Extreme events as case studies. The case of 2017 Pedógão Grande wildfire.