VIRTUAL Coping with climate change in past societies
09 July 2021, 3:00 pm–6:00 pm
Our panel will consider how humans in different past societies responded to changes in climate, and how they overcame them – or failed to.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Florian Mussgnug
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Our panel will consider how humans in different past societies responded to changes in climate, and how they overcame them – or failed to. We need to understand how this worked if we are to understand how to manage the climate crisis. History has lessons here, which technologically more complex contemporary societies need to take into account, and learn from.ÌýRegistrationÌývia theÌý
Part of theÌýSustainability as Cultural Practice: Verbal and Visual Art, History and the Environmental Humanities series, aÌýseries of four roundtable events in July 2021, organised in collaboration with theÌýÌýand theÌý. The series will be co-hosted by the newly established Italian Ministry for the Ecological Transition, and will be included in the "All4Climate – Italy 2021" PreCOP26 Programme, promoting 2021 as the Year of Climate Ambition.ÌýBringing together scholars fromÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Cities Partnerships Programme in Rome (GEO),ÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Anthropocene,ÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê SELCS,ÌýSlade School of Fine Art,ÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Global Health,ÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Sustainable Development GoalsÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All events are open to the public.
Organisers
- Professor Florian Mussgnug (Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London).
- Dr Harriet O’Neill (Assistant Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences, British School at Rome; Honorary Research Associate, School of Modern Languages, Royal Holloway, University of London).
- Professor Chris Wickham FBA (Director, British School at Rome; Chichele Professor of Medieval History (Emeritus); Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford).
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