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Conference

Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries

Date
Saturday 26 October 2024 - Sunday 27 October 2024
Address
Leiden

On 25 and 26 October 2024, the first biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries is scheduled to take place at Leiden University. This symposium, organized by the Research School for Medieval Studies and Leiden University in collaboration with Flemish colleagues, focuses on sharing recent research, ongoing projects, and points of discussion in the field of environmental history in the Netherlands and Belgium. Environmental history is a rapidly growing research area that the symposium aims to put centre stage.

The symposium will conclude with a keynote by Richard Hoffmann, titled ‘Bringing in the Catch: Three European Fisheries Evolutions of the Later Middle Ages', followed by a tour of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden by Paul Keßler. The keynote and the guided tour are open to the public.

Programme

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Registration

Interested in joining? Please sign up via the registration form, which you can access via the button below. You may also register by sending an email to ehlc@hum.leidenuniv.nl. Registration is open until 23 October.

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