VIRTUAL Coping with climate change in past societies

With John Haldon (Princeton), Christopher Loveluck (Nottingham), John Sabapathy (UCL) and Chris Wickham (BSR; Oxford)

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. Registration via the BSR website

Part of the Sustainability as Cultural Practice: Verbal and Visual Art, History and the Environmental Humanities series, a series of four roundtable events in July 2021, organised in collaboration with the British School at Rome and the British Embassy in Italy. 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. Bringing together scholars from UCL Cities Partnerships Programme in Rome (GEO), UCL Anthropocene, UCL SELCS, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Institute of Global Health, UCL Sustainable Development Goals and UCL 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).

Image credit: Photo by Sarah Dorweiler on Unsplash