History Department
Central European University Budapest
&
Institute of Croatian History
History Department-Faculty of Philosophy
Zagreb University
in co-operation with
Department for Southeast European History
Graz University
The third international conference of the research project
“Triplex Confinium”
Eco-history of the Triplex Confinium (c. 1500-1800)
Zadar (Croatia), May 3-7, 2000
LETTER OF INVITATION
The conference will discuss topics in eco-history of the triple border (the Triplex Confinium) between the Habsburg Monarchy, Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire (c. 1500-1800) with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and comparative approaches and methods. As far as interdisciplinary aspects are concerned, preference will be given to applications bringing together eco-historical and historical-anthropological approaches as well as those grounded on new archival, library and fieldwork researches. The invitation is open to researchers, as well as postgraduate students and doctoral candidates, in social sciences and humanities.
Papers will include the following topics and areas of study:
- eco-history of the triple border: essential problems
- socio-cultural distinctions regarding the eco-history of the triple border
- differences in the natural environment: Adriatic-Dinaric-Pannonian
determinants
- climate, flora and fauna of the early modern Triplex Confinium
- historical demography and eco-history of the triple border: the area of
human settlements and terrae desertae
- rural and urban history of the triple border
- fortifications and human settlements
- limits of human existence on the triple border (wars, famines, diseases)
- perceptions of the triple border environment in the oral and written
heritage (i.e. epics, travelogues, reports, etc.)
- visual perceptions of the triple border from Renaissance to Early
Romanticism
- problems of eco-historical multilingual terminology of the triple border
CONTACTS
Professor Drago Roksandić
CEU, History Department, Nador utca 9, H-1051 Budapest; Fax: +36-1-327-3191
E-mail addresses: roksandi@ceu.hu and drago.roksandic@zg.tel.hr
Conference was sponsored by the
European Cultural Foundation from Amsterdam
and the
Central European University Budapest
Triplex Confinum web pages are created and maintained by Nataša Štefanec
