Sustainable Development and Health
Universidad El Bosque
Bogota, Colombia
June 18-21,
2019
Conference Program
Theme
Health at large is a most important issue in our
world. It concerns both human beings and ecological nature –
rivers, oceans, plants, animals, drinkable water, etc. As it
happens, health is closely related to ongoing discussions
about development, sustainability, peace and war. From the
first report to the Club of Rome until more recent reports,
the relationship between health and human development
becomes a crucial issue that defies both social sciences and
humanities, such as medicine, biology, sociology,
philosophy, political science and education.
There
is an increasing concern about what it means to live-well (suma
qamaña, and sumak kawsay) among
Andean peoples and cultures, and know-how-to-live. Our
relations with nature, others and especially himself/herself
are at stake, not to mention, what we eat and how we eat.
Against pessimist views, we find that there are new ways of
living-together emerging all around the world in local
experiences. Living-well is a deepest philosophical subject,
indeed.
The goal of this seminar entails a cross-disciplinary
approach, for it is after all about knowing how to live well
in a healthy environment both human and natural.
Reductionism of any kind fails to cope with sound answers
and brand new proposals. The call for a dialogue between
cultures and civilizations, local and universal experiences,
practices, knowledge, wisdom, as well as sciences and
technologies arises unavoidably. The future of human beings
and of life on earth is ultimately what is at stake.
Based on the above, this conference intends
to be conducted in the following directions:
1. Health as an issue that pertains to both human
beings and nature.
2. Human and social development is about problematizing what
it means to live-well.
3. The future of humankind and of life on earth is not only
desirable but also possible. Hence the concern about healthy
environments.
4. Whilst the focus has been placed, until now mainly on
sickness and disease, it is time that we should focus on
health, both human and nature.
5. Personal, social, political, and cultural threads
arise necessarily calling thus for cross-disciplinary
approaches on the conference theme.
Abstract
Please send 300 words and a
brief CV to Carlos Eduardo Maldonado Castaneda [carlos.maldonado@urosario.edu.co], Luis
Alejandro Gomez Barrera [gomezluis@unbosque.edu.co], and [cua-rvp@cua.edu]
by May 1, 2019. Full paper will be due on June 10, 2019.
Well-developed papers will be considered to be published by
the RVP in its publication series "Cultural Heritage and
Contemporary Change."
Logistics
There is no registration fee. Participants will cover their
own travel costs and accommodations. The local organizers
will provide meals and help find less expensive hotels near
the campus.
Contact
Carlos Eduardo Maldonado Castaneda & Luis
Alejandro Gómez Barrera
Facultad de Medicina
Carrera 7b Bis N° 132-11
Bogotá D.C., Colombia
gomezluis@unbosque.edu.co & maldonadocarlos@unbosque.edu.co
