International Conference | 23–24 January 2020
Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire: Reconstructing Nile Floods for the Roman Period

Day One: January 23, 2020

14:30–15:00	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 in 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 Break
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	Response by Irene Soto Marín (Basel) General Discussion
20:00	Dinner

09:30–10:00	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 Break
11:30–12:00	Christophe 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	Response by Elio Lo Cascio (Rome) General Discussion
12:30–13:30	Lunch

13:30–14:00	Matthieu Ghilardi (Aix-en-Provence) Nile River evolution during Graeco-Roman times in Egypt: what we learn from sediment archives?
14:00–14:30	Markus Stoffel (Geneva) Tracking changes in Nile floods with tree rings: Possibilities and limitations
14:30–15:00	Coffee Break
15:00–15:30	Kevin Anchukaitis (Tucson) Inference from the periphery: large-scale climate variability and Nile floods during the Common Era
15:30–16:00	Response by Federico de Romanis (Rome) General Discussion