Agenda

Knowledge, Resilience and the Environment in the Mediterranean, 1-1000 CE
8–10 September 2026
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

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) of Ca' Foscari University of Venice in cooperation with Durham University and University of Basel, 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.

Information and programme: https://pric.unive.it/projects/sse1k/conference-2026

Organisers: Helen Foxhall Forbes, Isidora Freris, Michele Abballe, Vicky Manolopoulou, Jakub Sypiański, Massimiliano Borroni

The conference will be held in a hybrid format, with the option to attend in person or online. Registration for in-person attendance is open until 2 August 2026. Online registration is open until 7 September 2026.

This work is supported by ERC grant (SSE1K, GA 101044437, DOI 10.3030/101044437). Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.