“From New Spain to the Philippines: Circulation of Plants and Socio-environmental Changes in the 18th Century”
April 23 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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“From New Spain to the Philippines: Circulation of Plants and Socio-environmental Changes in the 18th Century”
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Dr. Mario Alberto Roa (El Colegio de México)
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, CAL AVR (TBC)
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ABSTRACT: Since the voyages of the 16th century, the movement of people, fauna, and flora was a constant. Traditionally, historical studies have focused on the plants and animals of the Eurasian and African territories that arrived in the “New World.” However, there are few studies of the socio-environmental processes that occurred through the transfer of plants of American origin to the other end of the Pacific Ocean. In particular, the navigation routes were the links between the Philippines and New Spain. However, the ships also carried a diversity of American species that spread throughout the territories of the archipelago, which then generated transformations in the population groups of the Philippines on a cultural, economic, and social level.
PRESENTER’S BIO: Dr. Mario Alberto Roa is presently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de México. He is also a member of the research group “Historia, Salud y Enfermedad” [History, Health, and Disease] at the University of Sonora, Mexico. His research interests are the environmental history of Mexico City (18th century), the environmental and climate history in the Mixteca (16th-18th centuries), and more recently, the environmental history of the Philippines (18th century).
His publications include “La Mixteca Alta: entre cambios del paisaje y transformaciones ecológicas” [The Mixteca Alta: Between Landscape Changes and Ecological Transformations] in Ichan Tecolotl, 34, no. 364. (2022). He has taught undergraduate courses at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), and the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
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