the lecture ‘Citizen Science Talks: How to build an applied history for agro-ecological transition? Living Labs in Galicia’
Dear lecturers and students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv!
We invite you to the lecture ‘Citizen Science Talks: How to build an applied history for agro-ecological transition? Living Labs in Galicia’, which takes place on September 25, 2025, at 14:00 CEST / 15:00 Kyiv time, as a part of the EUniWell Open Lecture Series.
Lecturers: Prof. Lourenzo Fernández Prieto & Prof. David Soto Fernandez, HISTAGRA Research Group, Department of History, University of Santiago de Compostela
About this lecture:
Local knowledge of agricultural practices, landscape management, and collective governance is essential for agroecological transition. The need for adaptation to local conditions in organic management makes it necessary to recover and adapt this vernacular knowledge to current needs. But, unlike other places in the world where it is still a living knowledge, in Europe, this has to be recovered through the tools of rural and environmental history. In this lecture, we will explore several examples of living science work with communities in Galicia, NW Spain.
About the lecturers:
David Soto Fernandez is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His lines of research are in the fields of rural and forestry history, environmental history, agroecology and social history, focusing in particular on the analysis of productive transformations from organic agriculture to industrial agriculture through the development of methodologies for adapting the perspective of social metabolism to the fields of history and agriculture.
Lourenzo Fernández Prieto is Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is the Scientific Director of CISPAC (Galician Research Centre for Cultural Landscapes), coordinates the research group HISTAGRA, and is also President of Agrarian History Studies Society (SEHA). Specializing in the history of rural societies and agrarian technological change, his lines of research include agrarian history, social history, technological change, and memory, more specifically, contemporary forms of production organization in the organic agrarian economies of Atlantic Europe.
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