Symposium Under the Landscape

Santorini and Therasia
Greece

Boulouki ‘Itinerant Workshop on traditional Building Techniques’ is inviting abstracts for the Symposium Under the Landscape. This two-fold event consists of an open conference day in Santorini and a workshop for young researchers in Therasia. Organizers welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all disciplines that engage critically with landscape and its transformations (architecture, landscape architecture, environmental studies and ecology, geography, ethnography, history, archaeology, arts and art history, etc).

Find out more at https://www.underthelandscape.net/symposium and submit your abstract of no more than 350 words, along with an one-page CV by 16 January 2022. 

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