We invite you to the conference Our Common Present 2016. Great expectations, projects and mistakes – efforts to understand and control nature in the past and the present. The conference will be held on March 31 – April 1, 2016, at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, square Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1, room 104 (1st floor) – the programme see here.
The aim of the conference is to provoke transdisciplinary discussions between ecology, society and culture to explore not only disciplinary, but also spatial and most importantly temporal overlaps – thus to reflect the human/nature relationship from a historical perspective, and to examine the possibilities and efforts to transform and coexist with nature. The Charles University Environment Center (this institution is the main organizer of this year's conference) in cooperation with other institutions, mainly the Institute for Contemporary History, wants to highlight historical experience in the context of current discussions about the contemporary complexity of and risk to world and attempts to find a way to remedy it.
Our Common Present (OCP) is a powerful metaphor that since 2011 has provided a framework for conferences organized by an interdisciplinary team from various academic centres – it focuses each year on combining practical interest in current social issues with an attempt to describe and analyse them more precisely. Involving a variety of experts and practitioners has always led to inspiring discussions whose themes are further developed in subsequent publications. Detailed information on the five conferences that have taken place so far can be found here: http://www.ecoology.org/.
Information about co-organising institutions (more about organizing team se here ) :
Charles University Environment Center (CUEC)
The Institute of Contemporary History , Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Faculty of Economics , University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
The Faculty of Arts , Charles University in Prague
Transcultural Communication , Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Králové
Society for Sustainable Living
Envigogika , specialist peer-reviewed professional periodical published by the Charles University in Prague.
