EATS 2016 (Ecology of ancient and traditional societies)
Tyumen State University, Institute of problems of development of the North, SB RAS (Tyumen) and the Institute of Plants and Animalsecology, UB RAS (Yekaterinburg) invite you to our regular conference «Ecology of ancient and traditional societies», which will be held in November 2016 in Tyumen, Russia.
The meeting will consist of four main themes (sections):
1. Historical human ecology (S. Slepchenko)
2. Reconstruction of natural environment and life-support systems of ancient and medieval peoples (N. Ryabogina, A. Yakimov)
3. Ecological anthropology (V. Adaev)
4. Cultural landscapes (S. Kozlov)
The EATS conference aims at bringing together researchers working on problems of human ecological adaptation from different perspectives. We expect to pay special attention to interdisciplinary research methods, revealing the process of interaction between man, nature and society in a broad chronological framework, to share results of studies of natural changes and catastrophes, variations in adaptation strategies, the cultural components of human impact on the natural environment, and practice of landscape transformation by human populations in different epochs.
The Cultural program of the EATS conference suggests visiting the local famous historical sites: The old parts of Tyumen (the first Russian Siberian city), The Rasputin Museum at Pokrovskoye and the Tobolsk Kremlin.
Pre-registration deadline (see form 1) – 1 September 2015; paper submission – 15 April 2016.