CfP: Knowledge, Resilience and the Environment in the Mediterranean, 1–1000CE - Venice, 8–10 September 2026
Understanding the relationships between knowledge and resilience is essential for examining complex societies and their responses to short-term events and longer-term processes of environmental change. This conference, organised by SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE (ERC Consolidator Grant 101044437), aims to address the relationships between knowledge and resilience in relation to climatic and environmental conditions in the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, particularly focusing on how people in this period responded in different ways to environmental fluctuations and challenges.
We invite proposals for papers and posters which address issues relating to knowledge and/or resilience in relation to the environment in the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and especially encourage submissions which examine social and/or intellectual responses to environmental changes. We aim to open up debate about the extent to which climatic and environmental fluctuations caused significant problems for communities and societies, in order to understand better the causal links between human activity and experience and environmental fluctuations, and to consider how to move away from simple narratives of catastrophe and collapse.
For more information please see the attached pdf.
Confirmed speakers include Prof. Sabine Huebner, Prof. Kristina Sessa and Prof. Athanasios Vionis. Some bursaries may be available.
Please submit proposals for posters or 20-minute papers online by 22 February 2026. In case of questions please contact Prof. Helen Foxhall Forbes.
Prof. Helen Foxhall Forbes. Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici