Dates:
Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July 2023
Location:
Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero and the Gran Corta de Fabero, El Bierzo, León.
Institutions involved:
Town Council of Fabero, León.
Fabero Palaeobotanical Classroom.
Art for Change “La Caixa” Foundation.
R+D+i project: HUMENERGE of the CSIC.
Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation, León.
The Conference Imaginaries of the Carboniferous in times of energy transition will take place in the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero and the Gran Corta de Fabero (El Bierzo, León) on 1 and 2 July 2023. It is a multidisciplinary meeting with talks and workshops between specialists, professionals, enthusiasts and neighbours of the town of Fabero about this mining area in the midst of social, economic and environmental transition. The aim of the conference is to reflect together on the potential of culture as an engine of social and environmental transformation. And to put into practice new cultural imaginaries based on the interaction and dialogue between contemporary art and museology, eco-social history and mining memory, and geological science or palaeobotany with the popular knowledge and traditions of the landscape agents themselves.
PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, 1 JULY
Place: Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero, El Bierzo, León.
10:00 h.-10:30 h.:
Welcome and presentation of the conference.
María Paz Martínez Ramón (Mayoress of Fabero Town Council), Joaquín Ramón Gancedo (president of the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero Association), Amparo L. Corral (independent collaborator for the direction of cultural projects of the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero), Alfredo Puente (curator Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia), Jaime Vindel (art historian and researcher at HUMENERGE, CSIC)
10:30 h.-12:00 h.:
A cultural walk through the Carboniferous forests: Esperanza Fernández (geologist and lecturer at the University of León)
The classroom of wonders: Bárbara Fluxá (artist and researcher Art for Change «la Caixa» Foundation and HUMENERGE of CSIC) and Amparo L. Corral (project coordinator).
Palaeobotanical records of a mining landscape in transition: Jorge Yeregui (artist and researcher at HUMENERGE, CSIC)
...in conversation with the members of the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero.
Moderators: Zaida Llamas and Alfredo Puente (FCAYC).
12:00-12:30 h.
Coffee break
12:30 h. - 13.30 h.
Temporary fossils: cultural history, imaginaries of coal and energy extractivism: Jaime Vindel.
History, memory and heritage in the Fabero mining area: Alejandro Martínez Rodríguez (Historian from the University of León and teacher of Secondary Education in Fabero).
...in conversation with the members of the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero.
Moderator: Jaime Vindel.
13:30 h. - 16:00 h.
Lunch break
16:00 h. - 18:00 h.
Beyond extraction: community, cabinets and curiosity [talk/workshop]: Aurora Fernández Polanco (Professor of History of Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid) and Pablo Martínez (Art historian and researcher at HUMENERGE, CSIC).
Mediation: Ana Andrés Cristóbal (FCAYC), Bárbara Fluxá and Amparo L. Corra, with the members of the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero.
SUNDAY, 2 JULY (9:00 - 13:00 h.)
Visit to the “Gran Corta de Fabero” (El Bierzo, León), an open-cast mining site currently undergoing environmental restoration.
* It is necessary to wear hiking shoes, sun protection, water and clothing suitable for the high summer temperatures.
INFORMATION ON ATTENDANCE AT THE CONFERENCE
Saturday, 1 July:
Fabero Palaeobotanical Classroom
Calle Guzmán el Bueno, 9
Free entry until full capacity is reached
Sunday, 2 July:
Great Fabero Cut
Prior registration is required before 15/06/23 at:
https://forms.gle/82trBVqKYtm3gNrv6
+ INFORMATION:
aulapaleobotanicafabero@gmail.com
Free admission
