Álvaro Aragón Ruano, miembro de este grupo, es uno de los organizadores –junto con Koldo Trapaga Monchet, de la URJC– del congreso internacional Convergences and divergences in the relationship between industries and forestry in Europe: conservation, management, uses and environmental impact (14th-19th centuries), que tendrá lugar en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (sede de Aranjuez) los días 22 y 23 de octubre de 2025.

El programa del congreso es como sigue:

Conference Program

October 22^nd 2025

Conference inauguration, 10:00-10:30 hours

Key-note speaker, 10:30-11:15 hours

Péter Szabó (Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Science): The management, uses and conservation of European woodlands in the 14th to 19th centuries

Coffee-break, 11:15-11:45 hours

11:45-13:00 hours, Session 1

• András Vadas (Eötvös Loránd University): Political Changes and Forest Management in Sixteenth-Century Hungary
• Koldo Trapaga Monchet (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos): Forestry policies, strategic industries and environmental impact: case-studies of sugar in Madeira and shipbuilding in Lisbon (15^th-17^th centuries)

13:00-14:00 hours, discussion

14:00-16:00, lunch break

16:00-17:45, Session 2

• Keith Pluymers (Illinois State University): “Memory, Chronology, and Causation in the Deforestation of Ireland”
• Abigail Dowling (Mercer University): “Pour le Were”: Conservative Natural Resource Practice during and after the Franco-Flemish Conflict in Artois, 1302-1305
• Sebastian Poublanc (Universitè de Toulouse II): Social configurations and their impact on forest management in the South of France during the modern era

17:45-18:30, Discussion

October 23^rd 2025

10:00-11:15, Session 3

• Katia Occhi (FBK- Instituto Storico Germanico Italico): The forest from ecosystem to capital: conflicts over natural resources on the borders of the German Habsburg Empire (15th and 16th centuries).

• Giacomo Bonan & Claudio Lorenzini (Università degli studi di Torino): Continuity and Change in Woodland Management during the Industrial Transition: A Case Study from the Northeastern Italian Alps

11:15-11:45, Coffee-break

11:45-13:30, Session 4

• Nigel Nayling (Swansea University): Scientific Approaches to Dendroprovenance and Identification of Forest Management – Challenges and Opportunities?
• Aoife Daly (International Dendrochronology Research Laboratory): Timber resource exploitation for shipbuilding – shortage, surplus and regionality
• Rafal Reichert (University of Warsaw): Locating Timber Cutting and Storage Sites in 18th-Century Pomerania: Historical Data Analysis and GIS-Based Mapping

13:30-14:30 hours, Discussion

14:30-16:30 hours, Lunch break

16:30-17:40, Session 5:

• Sebastian Felten & Sebastian Leitner (University of Vienna): Was Mining Once Sustainable? Resource Management as a Case of Applied History 
• José Antonio Bettencourt (CHAM-Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Abandoned on the beach, reused and recycled in the port: timber, ships and ship finds in Lisbon waterfront (16^th-19th centuries)

17:40-18:30 hours, Discussion

October 24^th 2025

10:00-11:45 hours, Session 6

• John Wing (The City University of New York): Political Forestry and Spanish Naval Resurgence in the Early Eighteenth Century: Juan Valdés y Castro’s Forest Inspections in Context
• Álvaro Aragón Ruano (Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea-Universidad del País Vasco): Ironworks’ and shipbuilding’s impact on forestry pattern changes in the Basque Country (14th-17th centuries)
• Ana Rita Trindade (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas): Domestic timber and imports in the Maritime Department of Cádiz (1717-1759): alternative or complementary resources for the Spanish Navy?

11:45-12:45 hours, Discussion and conference closing.

12:45-14:30 hours, lunch