Workshop Report “Melting Mountains: Society and the Vertical Climate Frontier in the Mountainous Peripheries”
01.06.2026
In November 2026, the RCC and the GWZO Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe hosted the workshop “Melting Mountains: Society and the Vertical Climate Frontier in the Mountainous Peripheries.” Over three days, the workshop participants discussed and assessed the challenges of climate change in mountain regions from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The scholars examined glaciers, migration, infrastructure, pastoralism, and political ecology, highlighting the concept of the “vertical climate frontier” as a key framework for understanding environmental, social, and economic change.
A workshop report by Mushtariy Mamayusupova from GWZO is now available on H-Soz-Kult.