The international conference Small Cities and Environment (from the Middle Ages to Contemporary Times) will be held in Castelo de Vide (Portugal) between 14 and 16 March 2019. Its organisation is the result of a joint initiative by the International Network_ Small Cities in Time, Castelo de Vide Local Authority, the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the NOVA University of Lisbon, IEM, CHAM, IHC, and the School of Hispanic and Iberian Studies (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), through the CIDADES programme. 

Researchers are invited to submit sessions or individual papers proposals, addressing this problematic, from a monographic or comparative point of view, based on a historical period or in several chronologies, according to the following thematic axes: 

  1. The impact of small cities on the natural and cultural environment. 
  1. The impact of the natural environment on small cities. 
  1. Society’s responses to the changes in the urban environment and to urban environmental problems. 
  1. The environmental aspects of small cities’ relations with their surroundings, and possibly with their area of influence. 

The Call for Papers is open until 31st October 2018. 

Organization: Rede Internacional das Pequenas Cidades no Tempo; Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide; IEM – Instituto de Estudos Medievais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; CHAM – Centro de Humanidades da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e da Universidade dos Açores; IHC – Instituto de História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)
Organizers: Adelaide Millán da Costa, Sara Prata, Patrícia Martins