Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscapes 2026
Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscapes 2026
RECONCILING CHALLENGES IN LANDSCAPES
7-13 September 2026, Ghent & Spa, Belgium
We hereby welcome you to the PECSRL 2026, the 31st session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscapes (PECSRL). This biannual congress gathers landscape researchers across Europe and beyond who study mainly rural landscapes of the past, present, and future from an interdisciplinary perspective, including historical geography, landscape ecologists, social scientists, human geographers, physical geographers, historians, archaeologists, rural planners, landscape architects, landscape managers, as well as other scholars and practitioners interested in European landscapes.
PECSRL 2026 will be organized in Ghent and Spa (Belgium) as a collaboration of Ghent University and the University of Liège.
We invite you to submit abstracts for paper or poster presentations to one of the sessions.
Important dates
- 1 March 2026
- Call for abstracts
- 15 April 2026
- Deadlines for submission of abstract
- 24 April 2026
- Notification of acceptance of abstracts. Opening conference registrations
- 15 June 2026
- Closing early bird registrations
- 31 July 2026
- Closing late registrations
