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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 22, 2019 12:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PAPY - the list for papyrologists <papy@lists.hum.ku.dk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sabine Huebner <sabine.r.huebner@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Papy] Conference Announcement: "Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire" January 23/24, 2020 in Rome</font>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<br>
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I am happy to announce</span></font><span class="gmail-st"> </span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">the multidisciplinary conference "Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire: Reconstructing Annual Nile Flood Levels for
 the Roman Period". This event brings historians, archaeologists, and paleo-environmental scientists together to discuss the possibilities of reconstructing annual Nile flood levels for the Roman period based on multi-proxy evidence. It will be held at the
 Swiss Institute in Rome (Villa Maraini, Via Ludovisi 48, Rome, Italy) on January 23/24, 2020.
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">For a preliminary program see below. Guests are very welcome. There is no conference fee but advance registration is requested as space is limited (</span><span><a href="mailto:sabine.huebner@unibas.ch" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US">sabine.huebner@unibas.ch</span></a></span>).</span></font><br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sabine Huebner</span></font></div>
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Prof. Dr. Sabine R. Huebner | Professorin für Alte Geschichte | Fachbereichsleitung Alte Geschichte<br>
Universität Basel | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät  | Departement für Altertumswissenschaften<br>
Petersgraben 51 | 4051 Basel | Schweiz<br>
Tel. +41 61 207 12 51<br>
Email <a href="mailto:sabine.huebner@unibas.ch">sabine.huebner@unibas.ch</a>  | <a href="https://altegeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/sabine-huebner/">
https://altegeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/sabine-huebner/</a><br>
<a href="https://unibas.academia.edu/SabineRHuebner">https://unibas.academia.edu/SabineRHuebner</a></span></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire:
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<div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Reconstructing Annual Nile Flood Levels for the Roman Period</b></span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u><span lang="EN-US">January 23, 2020</span></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Session 1: The Nile River over the longue durée (chair: Markus Stoffel)<span></span></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">14:30 – 15:00 Sabine R. Huebner (Basel) Welcome and Introduction<span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">15:00 – 15:30 Henry F.<span> 
</span>Lamb (Aberystwyth) <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Lake Tana and the Blue Nile: the last 150,000 years</span><span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">15:30 – 16:00 Cecile Blanchet (Potsdam)
</span><span style="font-variant:small-caps" lang="EN-US">Flood dynamics during the last Saharan Humid Period: clues from a laminated record from the Nile deep-sea fan</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span></font></p>
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</span><span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:black" lang="EN-US">Precipitation variability and changes in monsoonal Africa - Associations with northern Egyptian hydroclimate in new comprehensive earth system models prior to CE 700
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</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="EN-US">Historical case studies of Nile flood extremes during Roman times (chair: Irene Soto)</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span></font></p>
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</span><span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:black" lang="EN-US">The Nile breaks the banks: unfavorable floods in some documents from the 1st century BC Herakleopolite</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">10:00 – 10:30 Katherine Blouin (Toronto)
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Nile River evolution during Graeco-Roman times in Egypt : what we learn from sediment archives?</span><span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jürg Luterbacher</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> (Giessen)
</span><span style="font-variant:small-caps" lang="EN-US">Multiproxy hydroclimate evidence from the Eastern Mediterranean and challenges to statistically reconstruct Nile flood variability prior to CE 700<span></span></span></span></font></p>
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