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15 May 2025
Call for Proposals: International Conference “Environmental History challenging the Mediterranean (16th to 21st centuries)”
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A new open call for proposals for the International Conference “Environmental History challenging the Mediterranean (16th to 21st centuries)” has just been launched. In light of France hosting the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans in Nice in June 2025, this time of debate and sharing on the future of the oceans is an opportunity to take up these issues. The Conference will take place Friday 27th June and Saturday 28th June 2025.
The focus of this international conference is the Mediterranean, not just the sea but the Mediterranean world as a whole. Mediterranean studies have been intrinsically linked to the ‘milieu’ since the pioneering work of Fernand Braudel (Braudel, 1949). Today, environmental history no longer looks solely at the Braudelian milieu, but at all the interactions of human and non-human actors with the environment. The aim of this conference is therefore to take a fresh look at the Mediterranean through the lens of environmental history.
Examining the singularity, unity and diversity of the Mediterranean, this conference provides an opportunity to discuss a range of issues, including:
- How does this field of history enable us to reconsider the spectrum of Mediterranean studies, from economic and maritime history to political history, via cultural and social history?
- To what extent does this area have its own specific dynamics?
- How do Mediterranean societies adapt to external models?
- How are practices specific to certain Mediterranean regions integrated into other areas, whether Mediterranean or not?
Thematics
The conference will focus on a number of themes, without aiming to be exhaustive or neglecting their cross-cutting nature:
- Natural resources
- A saturated and polluted environment
- Urban planning
- Tourism
- Societies faced with nature : risk, disaster, resilience, management
All these issues need to be considered in the light of the global changes of the Anthropocene, with their consequences for human societies, flora and fauna.
Scientific commitee
- Xavier Huetz de Lemps (Université Côte d’Azur)
- Lavinia Maddaluno (Università Ca’Foscari)
- Charles-Francois Mathis (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Alexis Metzger (École Nationale de la Nature et du Paysage)
- Émilie-Anne Pépy (Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
- Jan Synowiecki (Université de Caen Normandie)
Submission procedures
- Proposals can be written in French or English and must be:
- Between 1 and 3.000 characters in length
- Accompanied by a bio-biographical presentation
- Between 1 and 3.000 characters in length
- Deadline: 30 septembre 2024
- Proposals should be sent by email to: leonie.boissiere@univ-cotedazur.fr ET dolet.simon@gmail.com
Practical information
- Conference dates: 27th and 28th June 2025
- Conference venue: Université Côte d’Azur
- Languages of this international conference: French & English
- Further information: HERE