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Second International Colloquium José Martí: FOR A CULTURE OF NATURE

SECOND CALLING / MARCH 2009
             
The Second International Colloquium José Martí: FOR A CULTURE OF NATURE will be celebrated at the International Conference Center of Havana on June 9-11, 2010 and has as central purpose to reiterate in an urgent way the need to study in depth themes that are essential to the survival of the Planet, favoring the welfare of mankind, preserving the environment and contributing to a sustainable peace, progress and development.

The purpose of the organizers is to achieve a plural and all-including participation without distinctions or exclusions as a form of multiplying the extent and influence of exchanges in Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world, thus granting it universal meaning and content.

Man –main modifier of nature– will be the center of the analyses. The economic and social issues in relation with sustainable development will necessarily have an outstanding place in the Colloquium, as well as the references to the immense cultural wealth and legacy of Mankind.

Other purposes of this meeting will be the impulse to instrument and favor a universal culture that will interpret the dialectic relation between man and nature through the analysis and acquaintance with the most diverse experiences of community work, the teaching programs of environmental education, the role of the mass media, the creation of both regional and international electronic networks and the strengthening of cooperation links between organizations and institutions.

In like manner, the Second International Colloquium José Martí: FOR A CULTURE OF NATURE seeks to make a contribution to the necessary connection among the different disciplines of knowledge, particularly between the so called social and humanistic sciences and the natural and exact sciences, contrasting the inseparable union of the problems and concepts provided by the relations among human beings and the relations of the latter with the natural environment, source of life.

The thematic axles to develop the special presentations, commissions and panels in the Colloquium are the following:

 

 

 1. ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENT

a) Ethics, politics and sustainability in human societies
b) The relation between science, technology and environment
c) Peace and environment: resources for war vs. resources for sustainable development
d) The ethics of Martí in a new relation between society and nature
             
2. POLITICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

a) Outlook, perspectives and experiences of environmental education
b) The role of mass media
c) The political-administrative structures at municipal and local level and their support to a culture of nature
d) The ideas of Martí and the education in favor of a culture of nature
e) Bioethics of the intervention

3. IN FAVOR OF A SUSTAINABLE WORLD

a) Draining and/or contamination of the waters, means and other natural resources
b) Alternative energies in the era of fossil fuels; other sustainable technologies
c) Hunger, unhealthiness and poverty: environmental impoverishment in the Third World
d) Global bioethics of sustainability
             
4. THE ENVIRONMENT FROM AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

a) Integration of philosophical-humanist knowledge and scientific-technological knowledge
b) The environmental issue from the standpoint of the different specialized disciplines
c) The scientific-technical revolution escorted by the protection and preservation of the environment

5. SEMINAR ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SMALL ISLAND STATES AND THEIR COASTAL RESOURCES

The strategy of the Sector of Social and Humanistic Sciences of UNESCO for the development of the small island states was launched immediately after the International Meeting for the checking of the implementation of the Action Program for the Sustainable Development of the Small Island States that took place in the Island of Mauritius in January 2005. In the case of the Caribbean, the thematic emphasis of the UNESCO program has been identified as “Sustainable Development and Coastal Resources of the Small Island States of the Caribbean”. The Caribbean Sea and its coastal resources are the key for the development of the small island countries of the region, and therefore the coastal resources are widely acknowledged as a critical element for the economic, social, cultural and political processes of the Caribbean.

With the celebration of this Seminar, the José Martí Project of World Solidarity makes an effective contribution to this UNESCO program, in coordination with the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean with headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica and the Regional Cultural Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ORCAL), with headquarters in Havana, Cuba.          

Likewise it establishes an active relation with the Movement of Social Transformation (MOST) of that organization.

 

6. YOUTH FORUM: A WORLD AHEAD

Sponsored by the youth and student organizations and the Movimiento Juvenil Martiano.

 

REGISTRATION FEES

*   May be paid ON LINE
** Will pay when they register
                    

The top date for the delivery of abstracts of all papers will be February 1, 2010 in order to be examined by the Scientific Committee and approved for presentation. The abstracts will be sent by e-mail and should not exceed one page, single-spaced.

Email: hpardo@ceniai.inf.cu

The approval of the abstract will be informed to each interested party.

 

FORMS OF PARTICIPATION

 

The Second International Colloquium José Martí: FOR A CULTURE OF NATURE is part of the José Martí Project of World Solidarity approved by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) and has the patronage of that organization.
                                            
           
Oficina del Programa Martiano                                 Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez
                                                                                  de la Naturaleza y el Hombre

Sociedad Cultural José Martí                                                  Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología
                                                                                    y Medio Ambiente (CITMA)
Centro de Estudios Martianos 

Organizing Committee:                                                         Headquarters of the event:
Lic. Gustavo Robreño Dolz                                                  Mireya Mesa 
Coordinador Ejecutivo                                                         Organizadora Profesional
Calzada Nº. 803 entre 2 y 4, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba     Teléfonos: (537) 202 6011 al 19 ext. 1512                                                                                      Fax: (537) 202 8382
Teléfonos: (537) 838 2233 / 838 2297 / 838 2298                E-mail: mireya@palco.cu       Telefax: (537)                                                                                   Convention Center, Havana
E-mail: hpardo@ceniai.inf.cu
                                                                        
Agency of Travel: HAVANATUR                                      Transportista:
Iván Hernández                                                                    Cubana de Aviación
Dpto. Eventos                                                                                   Copa Airlines
Teléfonos: (537) 204 1974 al 75 ext. 112
E-mail: ivanhdez@havanatur.cu

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www.josemarti.cu

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