International Association of Landscape Archaeology

IALA already in formed last July of this conference. Well, now it has been officially launched. Uncertain Landscapes 2: Beyond the Resources will take place on November 24-26. 2026. Visit their website for more information.

1. BEYOND HERITAGES: Invisibility of Memories and Visibility of Process
2. BEYOND PARADIGMS: Complexity, Epistemological Ruptures, and the Untold Story
3. BEYOND (AB)USE: Landscapes of Care
4. BEYOND THE URBAN: Old Geographies with New Ways of Making
5. BEYOND THE SURFACE: Regenerative Practices
6. BEYOND PROGRESS: Embracing Cooperation, Slowness, and Indeterminacy

 CFP | SSE1K International Conference – Venice, 8–10 September 2026 

Please consider submitting a paper to the conference “Knowledge, Resilience and the Environment in the Mediterranean, 1–1000 CE”, organised as part of the ERC project #SSE1K – Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE.

We welcome abstracts for 20-minute papers and posters (see Call for Papers)

 Deadline for abstract submission: 22 February 2026
 Submissions via online form

Please feel free to circulate this call for papers widely 

IALA has become a founding member of the European Landscape Consortium, an association of associations whose role is to envigorate and promote the European Landscape Convention, marking the 25th anniversary of its creation. The members of the Consortium include:

• European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools
• International Association of Landscape Ecology – European Chapter
• International Association of Landscape Archaeology
• International Federation of Landscape Architects – European Region
• Landscape Research Group
• LE:NOTRE Institute – Linking Landscape Education, Research and Innovative Practice
• UNISCAPE – European Universities Network for Landscape Studies

The Consortium has drafted and sent a statement to members of the EU Parliament and European Commission, as well as other institutions and representatives including, of course, the Council of Europe. You can find the Statement here: European Landscape Consortium_EU Statement September 2025

IALA was represented at the 2025 ECLAS conference in Nitra (Slovakia), titled agriCULTURAL landscapes – 30 years of landscape architecture educ

ation in Nitra. Landscape Architecture has always been about understanding, managing and designing the landscape, so it is a natural fit for Landscape Archaeology of any type. Future collaboration between IALA and ECLAS is being planned, so make sure to stay informed.

I hope to see ECLAS represented in Bamberg for LAC2026.

The second joint session between IALA and the IALE Europe Working Group on Historical Landscape Ecology, as well as the IHOPE network, has taken place on September 4th a the IALE2025 conference (https://iale2025.sav.sk/) in Bratislava (Slovakia). It is a continuation, or rather second iteration of the session that took place in LAC2024. The session, titled Tracing Back Historical Land-Use and its Legacies: Common Insights and Perspectives of Landscape Archaeology and Historical Landscape Ecology was designed by Marianna Biró, Sjoerd Kluiving, Valentina Pescini, Giovanna Pezzi and Guillermo Reher, and chaired by Guillermo Reher and Rebekka Dosche.

The papers presented were:

• “Legacy of historical charcoal production in vegetation and soils of pine forests” (Anna Kowalska; Ewa Kołaczkowska; Krzysztof Szewczyk; Jerzy Jonczak; Vincenzo Barbarino; Barbara Gmińska-Nowak; Agnieszka Gruszczyńska; Agnieszka Halaś; Dominika Łuców; Mateus).
• “Analysing long-term environmental change driven by post-medieval crofting in the uplands of north-east Scotland” (Louise Smith; Jeffry Oliver; Gill Plunkett; Kate Britton; J. Edward Schofield).
• “Tracing back historical changes in a Medieval rural landscape: a case study of Staffarda Abbey (Piedmont, North-West Italy)” (Paola Gullino; Federica Larcher; Paola Greppi; Enrico Pomatto; Fabio Meloni; Andrea Nasi; Vincenzo Lombardo; Luigi Provero).
• “Layers upon layers. Past, present and future trends of the landscape in the World Heritage site of Las Médulas” (Guillermo Reher).
• “Historical cultural landscapes in the Czech Republic” (Markéta Šantrůčková).
• “Enhancing the identification of cultural heritage in relic landscapes using GeoAI and landscape characterisation approaches” (Akseli Tolvi; Niina Käyhkö; georg.haggren@utu.fi; Veerle Van Eetvelde).
• “Exploring causality and legacy effects in land use dynamics using oral history interviews (OHI) within a mixed methods approach: a case study from Terras de Trás-os-Montes, Portugal” (Lien Imbrechts; Rebekka Dossche; João C. Azevedo; Peter H. Verburg).
• ““Tell me about the landscape…” – landscape management and transitions in local memories: the Sudetes case study, SW Poland” (Agnieszka Latocha-Wites).
• “Archaeobotanical and Archaeological Analysis of a Pit Feature from the Hradisko-Neštich Site” (Natália Hurajtová; Július Vavák; Ivanka Hristova).

In addition, there were an array of short poster presentations.