RESTORY

Small Communities Facing Danger. Strategies of Solidarity and Resilience Before the Modernity

University of Coimbra, Portugal (30-31 October 2025)

Due by 31 May 2025

We invite you to propose a paper for the International Conference RESTORY on Small Communities Facing Danger. Strategies of Solidarity and Resilience Before the Modernity, to be held in the University of Coimbra (October 30-31, 2025). In this RESTORY meeting, we aim to focus on small communities, their approaches to education and knowledge transmission, and their internal solidarity practices at different stages of life, including preparations for death. In addition, we seek to examine the strategies employed by small communities to confront climatic, economic, or conflict-related hardships across diverse geographical and chronological contexts. We also wish to reflect on human resilience in overcoming adversity, as well as human responses to pain, famine, death, and loss, in order to contribute to the historical characterisation of individual and collective trauma in the past.

Please read the call in the following link: https://chsc.uc.pt/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RESTORY-COIMBRA-MEETING-CFP.pdf

To formalise the application to participate in this meeting and editorial project, we request the submission of a title and abstract (c. 500 words) of the proposed paper, accompanied by a detailed curriculum vitae of the candidate, to the email address, restorycoimbra25@gmail.com, by May 31.