Luzes e sombras nos Estudos Ibéricos

Em 2011 teve lugar em Lisboa o encontro Looking at Iberia from a Comparative European Perspective, financiado pela European Science Foundation, no qual foi apresentada uma palestra intitulada “Iberian Studies: a state of the art and future perspectives”. Dez anos depois da apresentação original daquele texto, é provavelmente um bom momento para analisar em que sentido e até que ponto os Estudos Ibéricos avançaram nas linhas previstas em 2011. Trata-se, em definitivo, de realizar uma reavaliação crítica da evolução dos Estudos Ibéricos, depois de uma década de trabalho e desenvolvimento, de forma a identificar as suas forças e fragilidades, focar naquelas áreas nas quais existiu, até agora, um claro défice de investigação, e tentar contrariar as rotinas ou inércias estabelecidas ao longo destes dez últimos anos, para evitar que o campo dos Estudos Ibéricos se transforme, paradoxalmente, num novo mecanismo de consolidação dos cânones, narrativas e discursos dominantes.

Fossils X3 for the 8th time and IPS Meeting in Santo Domingo, April 2019

The Fossil Insect Network was created 33 years ago in 1996 in Strasbourg, France, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. Since then, several meetings were organised: 1998—First International Palaeoentomological Conference in Moscow, Russia; 1998—World Congress on Amber Inclusions in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain; 2000—Brazilian Symposium on Palaeoarthropodology in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; 2001—Second International Congress on Palaeoentomology, Fossil Insects, Kraków, Poland. This Congress in Kraków was also the origination of the International Palaeoentomological Society. The year 2005 was very important as three meetings, i.e. the Palaeoentomological Conference, the World Congress on Amber Inclusions, and the International Meeting on Palaeoarthropodology were decided to merge together as Fossils X3. This decision was made in Pretoria, South Africa. Following the International Congresses on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber, Fossils X3 continued in 2007—Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2010; in Beijing, China, 2013—Byblos, Lebanon; and 2016—Edinburgh, Scotland, where ‘International Fossil Insects Day’ was declared and is now celebrated on each 1st of October.