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• 08 mar 2017

  09 mar 2017

  Aix-en-Provence

  Conference, symposium - History

  Climate and Societies in the Mediterranean during the Last Two Millennia

  Current State Of Knowledge and Research Perspectives

  This two-day international conference aims to highlight recent and challenging interdisciplinary studies dealing with complex historical climate/society interactions in Mediterranean during the last two millennia. The study of these existing connections can help in better understanding the role played by past climatic events in the eruption of regional conflicts, in forced migration and displacement of people, in periodically appearing infectious disease outbreaks or in subsistence crises like food shortages and famines Similarly, it seems necessary to identify and analyze socio-economic and technological responses (e.g. water supply systems) together with mitigation and general adaptation strategies, insofar as they existed, to cope with climate change.

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• 11 mai 2015

  12 mai 2015

  Bordeaux

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Soi, l’autre et l’ailleurs

  Images et imaginaires des villes portuaires de l’Europe atlantique et méditerranéenne (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle)

  Alors que le marketing urbain s'applique aujourd'hui à cerner l'identité des villes pour mieux la mettre en exergue, ce colloque international propose de réfléchir sur les systèmes de représentations des villes portuaires européennes de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée, du XVIII^e siècle à nos jours. La relation entre ville et port – nous traiterons ici exclusivement des ports maritimes – ne va pas de soi selon les types d'activités et les époques. Le rapport des sociétés urbaines à l'espace et aux activités portuaires a en effet pu varier d'intensité et de nature alors que la longue période considérée permet d'envisager des phases de développement de l'activité, de déclin et de restructuration urbaine.

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• 01 déc 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - History

  Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries

  Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010

  Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries).

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