Climate and Society in Ancient Worlds. Diversity in Collapse and Resilience (SDEP Conference) -22-23
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 22-23-24/05/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: 22-23/05/2019: Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Bruxelles, Belgium) ; 24/05/2019: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Bruxelles, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Paul Erdkamp; Joseph G. Manning; Koenraad Verboven
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: email to perdkamp@vub.be
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA: (aquí/here/qui)
Wednesday 22 May
Morning session: 9:15-13:00 h.
Erdkamp, Paul & Koenraad Verboven (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Universiteit Gent), Welcome
Heinrich, Frits & Annette Hansen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective
Malanima, Paolo, Population and climate in Italy 1650-1913
Lee, Harry F. (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Making sense of the climate-war nexus in history
Hafner, Albert, and Caroline Heitz (Universität Bern), Concepts of collapse, resilience and mobility in prehistoric archaeology
Afternoon session: 14:00-18:00 h.
Maher, Lisa A. (University of California, Berkeley), [The Near East in the epipaleolithic and early Neolithic]
Ertsen, Maurits (Delft University of Technology), Gone water does mill again. Comparing How Two Irrigation-Based Societies Dealt with Climate
Moreno García, Juan Carlos (Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV), Climate, state building and political change in Egypt during the Early Bronze Age
De Graef, Katrien (Universiteit Gent), Chronicle of a Collapse Foretold. The End of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
Weiss, Harvey (Yale University), Global megadrought, societal collapse and resilience at 4.2-3.9 ka BP
Thursday 23 May
Morning session: 9:30-13:00 h.
Weiberg, Erika & Martin Finné (Uppsala University), Contextualizing climate variability in Late Bronze Age Peloponnese (Greece)
Brysbaert, Ann & Riia Timonen (Universiteit Leiden), Saving up for a rainy day? Climate events, human-induced processes, and their potential effects on people’s coping strategies in the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Argive Plain, Greece
Bonnier, Anton & Martin Finné (Uppsala University), Peloponnesian land-use patterns, settlement dynamics and climate variability in the first millennium BC
Manning, Joe (Yale University), Volcanoes, Nile variability and the course of Egyptian history. The historical and human dimension of climate change
Afternoon session: 14:00-17:30 h.
Franconi, Tyler V. (University of Alberta), The Environmental Imperialism of the Roman Empire in northwestern Europe
Bannon, Cynthia (Indiana University, Bloomington), Seasonal Drought on Roman Rivers: Transport v. Irrigation
McDonald, Brandon (University of Oxford), The Antonine Crisis: Climate change as a trigger for epidemiological and economic turmoil
Friday 24 May
Morning: 9:30-13:00 h.
Erdkamp, Paul (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Climate change and the productive landscape in the Mediterranean in the Roman period
Kelly, Paul (King’s College London), Risks for farming families in the Roman Empire
Marzano, Annalisa (University of Reading), [Climate change and wine cultivation in Italy]
Van Limbergen, Dimitri & Wim De Clercq (Universiteit Gent), Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world: evidence and problems
Afternoon: 14:00-17:30 h.
Daems, Dries et al. (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), The social metabolism of past societies. A new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (Turkey)
Maranzana, Paolo (University of Michigan), Resilience and adaptation at the end of Antiquity: an evaluation of the impact of climate change in Late Roman Central Anatolia
Xoplaki, Elena et al. (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen), Late Antiquity hydrological changes: spatio-temporal characteristics and socio-economic impacts in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean
Horden, Peregrine (Royal Holloway, University of London), Climate, resilience and disease in the post-Roman north west