[Antiquitas] Fw: [Papy] Conference Announcement: "Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire" January 23/24, 2020 in Rome

[Vierros, Marja K]

Hei,
tiedoksenne kiinnostava konferenssi Roomassa tammikuussa.
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Marja
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Subject: [Papy] Conference Announcement: "Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire" January 23/24, 2020 in Rome

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce 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.

For a preliminary program see below. Guests are very welcome. There is no conference fee but advance registration is requested as space is limited (sabine.huebner at unibas.ch<mailto:sabine.huebner at unibas.ch>).

Best wishes
Sabine Huebner
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 Program
Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire:
Reconstructing Annual Nile Flood Levels for the Roman Period

January 23, 2020

Session 1: The Nile River over the longue durée (chair: Markus Stoffel)

14:30 – 15:00 Sabine R. Huebner (Basel) Welcome and Introduction

15:00 – 15:30 Henry F.  Lamb (Aberystwyth) Lake Tana and the Blue Nile: the last 150,000 years

15:30 – 16:00 Cecile Blanchet (Potsdam) Flood dynamics during the last Saharan Humid Period: clues from a laminated record from the Nile deep-sea fan

16:00 – 16:30 Elena Xoplaki (Giessen) Precipitation variability and changes in monsoonal Africa - Associations with northern Egyptian hydroclimate in new comprehensive earth system models prior to CE 700

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee

17:00 – 17:30 Judith Bunbury (Cambridge) Evidence for Graeco-Roman Climate and environment; tying climate records to observations from the field

17:30 – 18:00 General Discussion

20:00 Dinner


January 24, 2020

Session 2: Historical case studies of Nile flood extremes during Roman times (chair: Irene Soto)

9:30 – 10:00 Anna Arpaia (Pavia) The Nile breaks the banks: unfavorable floods in some documents from the 1st century BC Herakleopolite

10:00 – 10:30 Katherine Blouin (Toronto) Good Flood, Bad Flood: Environmental entanglements in the Roman Northeastern Delta

10:30 – 11:00 Sabine R. Huebner  (Basel) Did shifts in the African Monsoon lead to the decline of the Roman Fayum from the third century CE?

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee

11:30 – 12:00 Christopher Corona (Clermont) Multi-proxy approach provides insights into climate variability in Central Italy at the End of the Roman Empire: Insights of Work in the Nile river

12:00 – 12:30 General discussion

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Session 3: Natural proxies for reconstructing Nile floods during the Roman period (chair: Sabine R. Huebner)

14:00 – 14:30 Matthieu Ghilardi (Aix-Marseille) Nile River evolution during Graeco-Roman times in Egypt : what we learn from sediment archives?

14:30 – 15:00 Markus Stoffel (Geneva) Tracking changes in Nile floods with tree rings: Possibilities and limitations

15:00 – 15:30  Jürg Luterbacher (Giessen) Multiproxy hydroclimate evidence from the Eastern Mediterranean and challenges to statistically reconstruct Nile flood variability prior to CE 700

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 16:30 Kevin Anchukaitis (Tucson) Inference from the periphery: large-scale climate variability and Nile floods during the Common Era

16:30 – 17:00 General Discussion


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