Climate and Food in the Ancient World (and beyond)

Climate and Food in the ancient world (and beyond)’ 

The Roman Society Research Centre (RSRC) will hold a workshop on ‘Climate and Food in the ancient world (and beyond)’

Ghent, Faculteitsraadzaal, Blandijnberg, 20 February 2024, 9:00-13:00

 

Everyone is welcome :

 

1. 9:00 General welcome
2. Climate
1. 9 :05 Paul Erdkamp (VUB), Zooming in on climate and societal change in central Italy (1st–6th century CE) (project with Frank Vermeulen as co-supervisor)
2. 09:15 Devi Taelman (VUB), Agricultural Strategies and Climate in Roman Central Italy
3. 9:45 Luigi Oddo (VUB),  Climate, Harvests, and Price Expectations: A Comparative Analysis across Europe and China from the 16th to the 20th Century'
4. 10:15 Peter Van Nuffelen & Angelo Gargiulo (UGent), Every thunder means something’. Meteorology, culture and the self in Late Antiquity (project with Steven Vanden Broecke as co-supervisor)
3. 10 :45 PAUZE
4. Food
1. 11:15 11:15 Frits Heinrich (VUB-FOST/IMDO) AGROS. Agriculture, diet and nutrition in Greco-Roman Egypt. Reassessing ancient sustenance, food processing and (mal)nutrition. (EoS project, PI's: Paul Erdkamp (VUB-FOST), Frédéric Leroy (VUB-IMDO) Katelijn Vandorpe (KUL), Laura Motta (U. of Michigan), Rene Preys (U.Namur), Marie-Louise Scippo (Uni Liège); Assistant Director/Coordinator: Frits Heinrich).
2. 11:25 Gert Baetens (KUL), Food for Thought: Porridge in Graeco-Roman Egypt
3. 11 :55 Daan Smets (KUL), (βού)τυρος: cheese and butter in Greco-Roman Egypt
4. 12:25 Takashi Hasegawa, An Interdisciplinary Study of North Sea Trading Merchants under the Early Roman Empire

12:55 ‘Last words’