International Conference
Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures
14-15 January 2025
The conference Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives, a unique scholarly opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration, aims to explore how the attitude towards environmental challenges, natural disasters, and calamities might be affected by contextual factors related to the socio-political scenario, ideological trajectories, or religious beliefs. The conference, covering the pre-modern era, focuses on the MENA region, the Mediterranean, and Europe. It gathers distinguished scholars from Europe, the MENA region, and the US to explore a wide range of thematic issues, from the challenges of mapping, reconstructing, and studying diverse sets of epistemic and ideological views used to interpret environmental phenomena, to the different conceptualizations of the relationship between humans and nature across time and place.
This conference is convened under the EU-granted project (NextGenerationEU - PRIN 2022): "Environmental Anomalies & Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia, 12th-14th century."
The project results from an inter-university collaboration between "L’Orientale" University of Naples, the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and Calabria University.
- PI (National Level), Antonella Guida, L’Orientale University of Naples
- PI (Local Unit Bologna), Ines Peta, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
- PI (Local Unit Calabria), Luca Parisoli, Calabria University
Financed by the European Union
NextGenerationEU under PNRR
PRIN 2022 PETA –20225NNWWE_002 - D.D. 104/2022
CUP J53D23019620006 "Environmental Anomalies &
Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia, 12th-14th century"
