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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 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- 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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%