Calpe Conference

The Calpe Conference is an international academic conference organised by the Gibraltar National Museum on behalf of HM Government of Gibraltar, and held annually on the Rock.

The name of the conference refers to the name given to the Rock of Gibraltar in antiquity, Mons Calpe, which was regarded one of the Pillars of Hercules in classical times.

Previous conference topics have included, human evolution, heritage, natural history and conservation.

	No	Year	Dates	Conference Title
COMING SOON!	30^th	2026	1^st to 6^th September	NEANDERTHAL: The Conference
	29^th	2025	18^th to 20^th September	Gibraltar in the Second World War and in other global conflicts: The importance of geography
	28^th	2024	4^th to 6^th July	Islands in the Sun: Climate change, ecology and evolution on the Atlantic Islands and its continental seaboard
	27^th	2023	21^st to 24^th September	The Three Anniversaries (1783, 1848, 1893)
	26^th	2022	1^st to 6^th September	Palaearctic-African Bird Migration
	25^th	2021	22^nd to 24^th September	Iberian Neanderthals
	24^th	2020	15^th to 17^th October	Natural History of Gibraltar: Past, Present & Future
	23^rd	2019	19^th to 21^st September	Archaeological and Heritage Research in Gibraltar: the past thirty years
	22^nd	2018	13^th to 16^th September	NEANDERTHAL: The Conference
	21^st	2017	21^st to 24^th September	The Rewilding Conference
	20^th	2016	29^th September to 1^st October	Past Worlds: Neanderthal and Modern Human response to climate and environment change
	19^th	2015	24^th to 26^th September	Redefining the Neanderthals
	18^th	2014	18^th to 20^th September	In the footsteps of the ancestors: a universal heritage of everyone
	17^th	2013	14^th to 17^th September	Caves as Archives: The Rock of Gibraltar as a Case Study
	16^th	2012	13^th to 16^th September	The Human niche: Ecology, Behaviour and Culture in the genus Homo
	15^th	2011	22^nd to 25^th September	Bridges and Barriers: A History of the Strait of Gibraltar
	14^th	2010	16^th to 19^th September	Pleistocene Ecological Change and the Evolution of Bird Migration Systems
	13^th	2009	16^th to 20^th September	Human Evolution: 150 years after Darwin
	12^th	2008	17^th to 20^th September	The evolution of identities: Small communities in space and time
	11^th	2007	27^th to 30^th September	People in the Mediterranean: A history of interaction
	10^th	2006	14^th to 17^th September	Straits, Refuges and the Geography of Populations
	9^th	2005	28^th to 30^th October	Sentinel of the Mediterranean: Gibraltar, the Navy and the Strait
	8^th	2004	26^th to 29^th August	Perspectives on Human Origins
	7^th	2003	5^th to 8^th November	The Barbary Macaque: Biology, Management and Conservation
	6^th	2002	27^th to 29^th September	Gibraltar – Malta: History, Heritage & Identity in a Mediterranean Setting
	5^th	2001	16^th to 19^th August	Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Late Pleistocene Eurasia
	4^th	2000	28^th September to 1^st October	Linking the Fragments of Paradise: An international conference on environmental conservation in small territories
	3^rd	1999	3^rd to 5^th September	Gibraltar: Mediterranean History and World Heritage
	2^nd	1998	28^th to 30^th August	The First Europeans – Gibraltar ’98: 150^th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Forbes’ Quarry Skull
	1^st	1997	22^nd to 23^rd August	European Gateway: The Strait of Gibraltar through History

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