Climate and the Roman conquest of Italy

This will be an online meeting taking place 1 - 2 October, 2021. 

Description

The event is being organised by Prof. Seth Bernard and hosted by the Department of Classics, University of Toronto with support from a Connection Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 

For the full conference schedule, please see the pdf here.

For abstracts, please see here. 

Contributions

• Monica Bini, Laura Sadori, Giovanni Zanchetta, Scott Mensing, Anna Maria Mercuri, and Gianluca Piovesan - Climate and environmental evolution between 500 BC and 500 AD in central and southern Italy: the state of the art
• Deepak Chandan, Fengyi Xie, and Richard Peltier - High-resolution climate of the Italian Peninsula
• Caroline Cheung - Food Storage and Resiliency
• Andrea De Giorgi - Water technology in Italy during the Roman conquest
• Marta Mariotti Lippi, and Cristina Bellini - Plant landscape in Roman Tuscany
• Joseph R. McConnell - Volcanism and Effects on Climate During the Roman Republican Expansion (~300 to 1 BCE)
• Fabrizio Michelangeli, Federico Di Rita, and Donatella Magri - Vegetation history of Italy during the Roman expansion
• Claudia Paparella - Ancient sources on climate and environmental phenomena Dan-el Padilla Peralta - Religion and Ecology
• J. Troy Samuels - Disentangling the Roman conquest and rural settlement change
• James Tan - The Politics of Marginal Land and the Ecology of Roman Politics Angela Trentacoste - Stories from seeds and bones: bioarchaeological proxies for farming practices in protohistoric Italy
• Peter van Dommelen - Sa Laurera: Agrarian Practices between Landscape and Environment

Registration and further information

Plase email Seth Bernard: seth.bernard@utoronto.ca or Claudia Paprella: claudia.paparella@mail.utoronto.ca