The Southern African Mountain Conference (SAMC) 2022 will be held from 14 to 17 March 2022 in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains of South Africa-Lesotho. The theme of SAMC 2022 will be ‘Southern African mountains – their value and vulnerabilities.’
Abstract submission deadline 31 October 2021.
Organised by the African Mountain Research Foundation (AMRF), in association with the Afromontane Research Unit (ARU – University of the Free State) and Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS – United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and Eurac Research), SAMC 2022 focuses on mountains in the southern African region – i.e. Angola, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo [southern mountains], Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, La Réunion, South Africa, southern Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe – and will be the first regional conference of its kind. SAMC 2022 is intentionally multi-disciplinary, and seeks to bring together key stakeholders in the scientific, policy, practitioner, and livelihoods sectors, leading to stronger cooperation for mountains, providing a strong science-policy-industry interface.
The Call for Abstracts is open to any discipline (single, multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary). The final programme of sessions will be determined by the subjects of the abstracts received.
Bearing in mind that SAMC 2022 focuses on the mountains of southern Africa, topics of interest could include, amongst others:
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Registration for the SAMC 2022 is now open. More information can be found here.
Key Dates:
- Abstract submission deadline 31 October 2021
- Notification of acceptance 15 November 2021
- Early bird registration closes 15 November 2021
- Regular registration closes 31 January 2022
- Late registration begins 1 February 2022
Image by Marna Buys.
