[Aqualist] 3rd Southern Deserts Conference - Molopo Lodge, Kalahari Desert

[Mike Smith]

3rd Southern Deserts Conference
Climate change and the peopling of the Southern Deserts
 
Molopo Lodge, Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa
16th-19th September 2008
 
We warmly invite you to the 3rd Southern Deserts Conference: Climate Change 
and the peopling of the southern deserts in the Kalahari desert, South 
Africa
 
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/events/3sdc/ 
 
This is the 3rd and final conference in the Southern Deserts series and will bring 
together experts in the field on the Atacama and Puna of South America; the 
Australian deserts and the Kalahari, Namib and Karoo of Southern Africa. 
 
Conference themes:

Southern desert science: a history of ideas.
Environmental responses to global Quaternary changes
Evolution of southern desert environments
The peopling of the deserts and the development of desert societies 
Southern desert futures
 
Persons interested in attending the conference should fill in 
the Conference reply form available at 
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/events/3sdc/ 
 
and return it as an email attachment to:kalahari at ouce.ox.ac.uk 
 
Preferably prior to the 31st January 2008 (as places are limited)
 
 
Dr Mike Smith FAHA FSA

Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Historical Research
National Museum of Australia
GPO Box 1901 Canberra ACT 2601 

Adjunct Professor
Fenner School of Environment & Society
Australian National University

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