APHELEIA REÚNE ESPECIALISTAS DO MUNDO EM MAÇÃO HÁ 12 ANOS
The 12th APHELEIA International Seminar on Humanities and Landscape Management…
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12th International Seminar · Mação, Portugal
Imagination
and Landscaping
represent · experiment · play · perform · transform
18–27 March 2026 · Mação, Portugal
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About Apheleia Seminar
The APHELEIA International Seminar is an annual interdisciplinary event held in the city of Mação, Portugal, bringing together researchers, artists, and students from diverse academic backgrounds. Since its first edition in 2015, the seminar has aimed to foster dialogue between the humanities, environmental studies, cultural heritage, and the arts.
The event explores how landscapes are shaped by cultural practices, historical processes, and environmental transformations. Through lectures, workshops, artistic performances, and field visits, participants examine the relationships between knowledge, imagination, and sustainability.
Over time, the seminar has evolved into an international platform promoting collaboration across disciplines and institutions. Its themes have progressively addressed issues such as cultural governance, social transformation, community engagement, and the role of imagination in interpreting and shaping landscapes.
By integrating academic research with artistic and community-based approaches, the APHELEIA Seminar contributes to a broader understanding of cultural landscapes and their role in contemporary global challenges.
Keywords: cultural landscapes, heritage, imagination, interdisciplinary research, sustainability
How to Become a Member
Any researchers (including junior researchers, research students, project based leaders, individuals that are starting a training process in the field of cultural landscape management) may apply to become Individual affiliate members. They must complete the online application form and be approved by the Executive Committee.
Individual full members are scholars involved in projects of the Apheleia network of partners, having current leading responsibilities of projects in the framework or in association with Apheleia. They must be proposed by two members of Apheleia and be approved by the Executive Committee.
How to arrive to Seminar
The APHELEIA International Seminar takes place in the town of Mação, located in central Portugal. The venue can be reached by car from Lisbon in approximately two hours. Participants travelling by public transport can reach the region via Abrantes and continue by local connections.
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Apheleia International Semniars Time Line
12 editions · 2015 – 2026
2026
12th Seminar
Imagination and Landscaping
Current
2025
11th Seminar
Communities in Transformation
2024
10th Seminar
Museums, Landscapes and Governance
2023
9th Seminar
Adaptation and Transformations
2022
8th Seminar
Cultural landscapes and social change
2021
7th Seminar
Reconnection of research networks
2020
6th Seminar
Online edition
2019
5th Seminar
Cultural sustainability
2018
4th Seminar
International network consolidation
2017
3rd Seminar
Culture and territorial transformations
2016
2nd Seminar
Heritage and landscape interpretation
2015
1st Seminar
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Prof. Dr. Juliano Bitencourt Campos
Professor of the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences (PPGCA), University of the Extreme South of Santa Catarina (UNESC). Criciúma/SC, Brazil. Researcher at the Instituto Terra e Memória, Centre for Geosciences (ITM/CGEO/Portugal). PhD in Archaeology.
email : editorial@apheleia.org
Prof. Dr. André Soares
Professor of the Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage (PPGPC), Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria/RS, Brazil.
Researcher at the Instituto Terra e Memória, Centre for Geosciences (ITM/CGEO/Portugal). PhD in Archaeology.
Prof. Dr. Luiz Oosterbeek
President of Apheleia – Humanities Association for Cultural Integrated Landscape Management. Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT), Portugal. Co-director of the international PhD program on Heritage, Technology and Territory, at IPT and the Autonomous University of Lisbon.
Prof. Dr. Nuno Guimarães
Secretary-General, Apheleia – Humanities Association for Cultural Integrated Landscape Management. Full Professor of Business Ethics and Sustainability at Excelia Business School, France. Associate-Editor Business and Society Review.”
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