Southern Deserts Conference

The Third Southern Deserts Conference - Kalahari 2008: Climate change and the peopling of the Southern Deserts will be held from 16th-19th September 2008 at Molopo Lodge, Northern Cape, South Africa. Organized by the University of Oxford's School of Geography, the conference will look at the following 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.

Information about registration and presentation of papers can be found on the conference web site.