January 23, 2020
Session 1: The Nile over the longue durée (chair: Markus Stoffel)
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 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 – 13:30 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