“Research” is something that until very recently has seemed so self-evident as to deserve no comment. Across Europe and North America there has been only scattered attention to the subject and even less to comparing research as practiced in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. This conference, bringing together historians and practitioners of research, aims to show how our understanding of this important subject is expanded by treating it comparatively; by putting different aspects of it into conversation; and by looking both to the past and the present in order to think better about the future.
On 28 April, the American Academy in Rome will host an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how riverscapes changed in the centuries of the Roman empire and afterwards and what those changes meant for human societies and their economies. The conference, River Ecologies and Exchange, draws on geology, archaeology, and history to reconstruct major river systems and trace their evolving relationships with the communities that lived alongside them.
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