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Media and outreach

  • Scientific Workshop 'Cultural Fire and Fire Culture". Complutense University of Madrid, April 15th, 2025.
  • Lecture of Prof. Katie Holmes: Rivers, relationships and the more-than-human in Australia's Murray Darling Basin. March 20th, 2025.   
  • International Seminar on Sustainable Forest Management, Community Governance and Fire Risk. Montreal (Canada), September 4th, 2024. Programme. Join the Seminar here
  • Eavesdrop on Experts interview, University of Melbourne (Australia): “Learning to live with fire”, December 19, 2018

  • Firevoice - Cristina Montiel Molina, Preparedness and resilience to wildfires (in Spanish)
  • PhD Workshop on "European Forests - Iberian Peninsula Forests. Wildfires: land-use changes, human aspects, modelling for fire risk prevention and management applications", by Dr. Lara Vilar del Hoyo. Complutense University of Madrid - Spanish Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, December 11th 2018. Download poster    

  • Lecture by Prof. Cristina Montiel on "Historical fires reconstruction in the inner and mediterranean regions of the Iberian Peninsula". III National Meeting of Fire-Fighters, El Espinar - Segovia (Spain), 5 May 2018. Video (in Spanish) 
  • Lecture by Prof. Cristina Montiel on "Historical presence of fire on the territory". Workshop on Ecology of Restauration of Burned Areas, Sevilla (Spain), 21 March 2018
  • Workshop on documentary resources for research in Archaeobotany, Complutense University of Madrid - Spanish Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, February 6th and 8th 2018. Download poster
  • Advanced Training Seminar on the evolution of the forest of the Central Mountain Rainge throughout the Holocene, Complutense University of Madrid- Spanish Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, January 10th 2018. Download poster

VIDEO first lecture: "Climate and cultural change in the massifs of the Central Mountain Range throughout the Holocene".  VIDEO second lecture: "History of fires and their influence on the configuration of landscapes in the Central Mountain Range"

  • Lecture by Prof. Eduardo Araque on "Territory and wildfires in Sierra Morena mountains. Past and present". Complutense University of Madrid, November 15, 2017. Download poster.

  • Radio 5 interview with Prof. Cristina Montiel "Wildland fires: beyond a question of guilt or innocence", 20/10/2017 PODCAST
  • MedWildFireLab International Workshop "Fire risk at the wildland urban interface in the European Mediterranean countries (UCM, March 7th 2017):
    • Programme (download)
    • Oral presentations, morning session: Video 
    • Oral presentations and round table, afternoon session: Video
  • Lecture by Prof. Antonio Gil Olcina: "Drough and flood risk in the Southest region of the Iberian Peninsula" (Los riesgos de sequías e inundaciones en el Sureste Ibérico), UCM, November 2015. Download summary
  • Lecture by Oskar Karlsson: "Assessment of territorial vulnerability to wildfires risk" (Evaluación de la vulnerabilidad territorial frente al riesgo de incendios forestales), UCM, May 2015 Download summary
  • Lecture by Gregorio Canales Martínez: “The role of the eclesiastic institution in spatial planning: the case study of the Low Segura Valley region, Alicante" (El papel de la Iglesia en la Ordenación del Territorio: el caso de la Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante), UCM, diciembre 2014 Download summary
  • Presentation of the book Presencia histórica del fuego en el territorio. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Abril 2014. Press new
  • Universitary movement "La Complu en la calle", 2013 Download summary
  • Science Week Madri+d 2010. Download summary and presentation

  • Summer Cours “Past and present fire scenarios in Spain" (Viejos y nuevos escenarios del fuego forestal en España). Complutense University of Madrid, El Escorial (Madrid),16-20 July 2012. Download poster. Download summary
  • Scientific Workshop on "Geo-historical sources for the fire history in the region of Madrid" (Fuentes Documentales para la Historia de los Incendios Forestales en la Comunidad de Madrid), 13-22 February 2012. Download programme. Download summary
  • Summer Cours "Wildfires: an unavoidable summer catastrophe?" (Incendios forestales: ¿una catástrofe estival inevitable?) 21-25 July 2008. Poster. Programme

Social movement
Social movement "La Complu en la calle", March 9, 2013