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The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension

L’île et la dimension archipélagique

La isla y la dimensión archipelágica

A Ilha e a Dimensão Arquipelágica

1st Archipelagic Studies Symposium

I Simpósio de Estudos Arquipelágicos

1er Symposium d’études archipélagiques

I Simposio de Estudios Archipelágicos

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Published on Monday, June 16, 2025

Abstract

The 1st Archipelagic Studies Symposium ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’ aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics. Thinking about islands and archipelagos, in all their trans- and inter-material dimensions, equivalences and disparities, influences the conception not only of these discontinued worlds from their continental matrix (in some cases), but also of territories which are assumed to be outside the continent, with ontic possibilities of a truly archipelagic context.

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Argument

The 1st Archipelagic Studies Symposium ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’ aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics. Thinking about islands and archipelagos, in all their trans- and inter-material dimensions, equivalences and disparities, influences the conception not only of these discontinued worlds from their continental matrix (in some cases), but also of territories which are assumed to be outside the continent, with ontic possibilities of a truly archipelagic context.

We invite the academic community to some reflection, also of epistemological kind, on the operative concepts of ‘Island’, ‘Insularity’, ‘Archipelago’ and ‘Archipelagicity’, which addresses the treatment of images, practices and discourses around the dimensions of the archetypes of the notions of island and archipelago in contemporary academia, based on the following thematic axes: 

- Epistemology(ies) of Islands and Archipelagos

- Islandness, Insularity and Identity: Cultural and Social Practices, Identity and Communities

- Islands, Archipelagos and Literary and Artistic Representations

- Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Crises in Island Territories

- Politics, Economics and Geopolitics of Islands and Archipelagos

- Mobilities, Borders and Territorial (Dis)Continuity

- Digital Archipelagos and New Spatial Configurations

Submission guidelines 

DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2025

Communication proposals should be sent (in word format) to simposioarquipelagicos.madeira@gmail.com

Organizing Committee

  • Paulo Figueira (CEComp)
  • Francisco C. Marques (CEComp)
  • Ana Isabel Moniz (UMa et CEComp)

Scientific Committee

Event attendance modalities

Full on-site event


Date(s)

  • Monday, June 30, 2025

Keywords

  • arquipélago, ilhas, insularidade, identidade, sustentabilidade, epistemologia

Contact(s)

  • Ana Isabel Moniz
    courriel : ana [dot] moniz [at] staff [dot] uma [dot] pt

Information source

  • Ana Isabel Moniz
    courriel : ana [dot] moniz [at] staff [dot] uma [dot] pt

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Monday, June 16, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/144rg

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