You are invited to a one-day conference, “Ligurian landscapes”,
to be held at the University of Nottingham, 1 May 1999.
You can find an interactive map showing
the campus and how to reach us from the railway station on the
web. The URL is
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/univ/campus-plan/
Organisers: Ross Balzaretti (History), Mark Pearce
(Archaeology) & Charles Watkins (Geography)
Friday 30 April - A48 Social Sciences - Public lecture
19.30 h Oliver Rackham (Cambridge): Landscape history of the
Mediterranean
Saturday 1 May – Seminar Room, Archaeology
10.00 h Diego Moreno (Genova): Escaping from 'landscape':
the historical and environmental identification of local land
management practices in the post-medieval Ligurian mountains
10.30 h Ross Balzaretti (Nottingham): History and the
environment in sixteenth-century Varese Ligure
11.00 h Coffee
11.30 h Charles Watkins (Nottingham): Recent landscape
changes in the Val di Vara
12.00 h Edoardo Grendi (Genova): Provisioning "ancien regime"
Genoa
12.30 h Lunch
14.00 h John Lowe (RHBNC): Climate change in Italy during the last
14,000 years
14.30 h Nick Branch (RHBNC): Holocene vegetation history
and human activity in Liguria
15.00 h Roberto Maggi (Soprintendenza archeologica della
Liguria): Population dynamics in Neolithic and Bronze Age
Liguria
15.30 h Michael McCullagh (Nottingham): Surveying
archaeological Liguria
16.00 h Tea
16.30 h Stephen Keates (Birmingham): Performing Figures in the
Landscape: the Lunigiana Statue Stelae in Context
17.00 h Mark Pearce (Nottingham) & Roberto Maggi (Soprintendenza
archeologica della Liguria): The fourth millennium copper mines at Libiola
and Monte Loreto
17.30 h Ralph Haussler (Oxford): Meaningful Landscapes of
Identity
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Dr Mark PEARCE,
Dept of Archaeology, University of NOTTINGHAM, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
tel. +44.(0)115.951.4839; fax. +44.(0)115.951.4812; email [log in to unmask];
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/mpearce.htm
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