S. 10. 1. – Biodiversity and Environmental History

Chair: Inês Amorim (FLUP-CITCEM)

• Michael-W. Serruys (Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions – Individual fellow (Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France)) – The shipworm epidemic in the Austrian Netherlands in the 1730s. The social effects of an environmental crisis on a coastal and maritime society
• Cristina Brito/Nina Vieira (CHAM, NOVA FCSH) – Whales, manatees, sea turtles, and their products, as early modern oceanic teleconnections