Visualising the Eastern Mediterranean landscape
The conference seeks to bring together historians of the environment, art, archaeology and classical reception to discuss the importance of images for shaping perceptions of the region's varied environments.
We invite papers focusing on the period 1750-1920 and exploring topics including but not limited to:
- representations of urban and rural space
- relations of agricultural production, consumption and ‘improvement'
- infrastructural or industrial impacts on landscape, for example, railways, urbanisation
- intersections of extractive practices, such as mining and archaeology
- state, private and common land ownership
- territories contested by local, national or imperial actors
- land, travel, tourism and mobility
- Eastern Mediterranean climates, environmental Orientalism
- landscapes as sites for mythology, stories and memory
- (dis)continuities between ancient or pre-modern and modern land use
- geomorphological features such as rivers, coasts, deserts, mountains
- images which conform or subvert pastoral, picturesque or sublime tropes
Please submit proposals for 20-minute papers, including a title, an abstract of 200 to 300 words and a short bio, by Tuesday 1 September 2026 to both:
- Dr Alexandra Solovyev at [email protected]
- Dr Sebastian Marshall at [email protected]
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Thursday 1 October 2026.