Kiel Conference 2025
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Dates
March 24–29, 2025
Location
Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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A transdisciplinary effort of scientists and scholars is necessary to achieve a better understanding of the roots of social, environmental, and cultural phenomena, as well as processes of transformation in a crucial period of human history, from late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to state societies.
Within this framework, the Johanna-Mestorf-Academy (with the Cluster of Excellence “ROOTS” and the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation”) are pleased to invite senior and junior researchers to the KIEL CONFERENCE 2025: SCALES OF SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN PAST SOCIETIES in the tradition of the “Open Workshop: Socio-Environmental Dynamics Over the Last 15,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes”.Participants
Cluster of Excellence ROOTS
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The Cluster of Excellence ROOTS - Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies explores the roots of social, environmental, and cultural phenomena and processes that substantially marked past human development. In a broad interdisciplinary conceptual framework, we investigate archaeological and historical ‘laboratories’ under the basic assumption that humans and environments have deeply shaped each other, creating socio-environmental connectivities which still persist today. A better understanding of interwoven past socio-environmental dynamics will shed light on the ‘roots’ of current challenges and crises under diverse economic, ecological, and social conditions.
CRC 1266: “Scales of Transformation - Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies”
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The CRC 1266 takes a long-term perspective, from 15,000 BCE to 1 BCE, to investigate processes of transformation in a crucial period of human history, from late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to early state societies.
Funded by the German Research Foundation, the CRC combines research of around 60 scientists from eight institutions and the Johanna-Mestorf-Academy of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel as well as the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) and the Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottorf.