International Conference

Mediterranean or Mediterraneans?
Plural visions and multiple challenges

December 2 and 3, 2025, 9.00 a.m.

Complesso Monumentale di S. Maria La Nova
Sala Margherita Caputo
Piazza S. Maria La Nova, 44
Napoli

FULL PROGRAMME and POSTER

The Mediterranean region is increasingly recognized as a plural reality of global challenges, where climate change, resource pressures, geopolitical tensions, migration dynamics, and social inequalities intersect, generating complex and interconnected dynamics. Addressing these issues requires integrated, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches capable of capturing their profound nature.

The International Conference, Mediterranean or Mediterraneans? Plural Visions and Multiple Challenges, brings together academics and non-academic stakeholders to promote knowledge co-creation, strengthen scientific dialogue, and support evidence-informed policy- and decision-making for sustainability and peace.

The event will also mark the official launch of the Mediterranean District, a new Naples-based hub dedicated to advancing integrated and transdisciplinary research on the region. The District aims to be a starting point for involvement universities and research centers from all Mediterranean countries to build a shared knowledge of the problems that affect them and their solutions.

Short program

Tuesday, 2 December, 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
GATHERING AND REGISTRATION WITH WELCOME COFFEE

CONFERENCE MODERATOR
Desirée A.L. Quagliarotti
CNR-ISMed

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. GREETINGS

Gabriella Corona
Director, Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean (CNR-ISMed)

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Mediterranean District Launch
Toward a Common Knowledge

Gabriella Corona
Director, CNR-ISMed

Paola De Vivo
Director, Department of Political Sciences,
University of Naples Federico II

Antonio Garofalo
Rector of University of Naples Parthenope

Andrea Mazzucchi
Director, Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II

Paolo Wulzer
Director, Department of Human and
Social Sciences, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

11:30 – 12:00 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Mohamed Behnassi
CESE and CERES
Intersecting Crises in a Region at the Crossroads

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Michele Colucci, Gabriella Corona, Desirée A.L. Quagliarotti, Souadou Lagdaf

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Aniello Barone, Claudia Di Somma, Martina Mattiazzi, Antonio Rossi, Margherita Tancredi

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The conference is open to the public, subject to availability

INFO AND CONTACTS
segreteria.direzione@ismed.cnr.it
www.ismed.cnr.it