Crossing Boundaries: Ancient History Explores its Future, Part II

Wednesday December 12th

9:15-9:30

Introductory remarks by William Harris and Robin Osborne

1. Genetics, population, health, disease, living standards, part I

9:30-10:30

Robert C. Allen (Oxford), "Real wages in Roman Egypt in the perspective of modern poverty lines and nutrition standards".

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

Saskia Hin (Rostock), "Quantitative interdisciplinary research as the future of ancient history? Insights from spying on demographers"

12:00-1:00

Martin Jones (Cambridge), "From clarity to complexity: ancient history and genetic stories".

2. Environment and environmental sciences.

2:15-3:15

Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), "Between katoikism and cataclysm:  what ancient history can offer the history of the environment".

3:15-4:15

Robyn Veal (Cambridge), "Environmental history and archaeology of the ancient forest economy".

4:15-4:45

Refreshments

4:45-5:45

Susan Alcock (Brown), "Adjusting to a new climate: the need togreen ancient history".

Thursday December 13th

3. Genetics, population, health, disease, living standards, part II

9:30-10:30

Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge), "New medical texts, old medical texts, plague, and maternal mortality".

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

Kristina Killgrove (West Florida), "Embodying the empire: reading bones to understand Roman health".

12:00-1:00

Peter Garnsey (Cambridge), "Bones and History".

4. Ancient economies.

2:15-3:15

Alain Bresson (Chicago), "Economics for the ancient world? The challenge and its difficulties".

3:15-4:15

Walter Scheidel (Stanford), "The future of the Roman economy".

4:15-4:45

Refreshments

4:45-5:45

Kyle Harper (Oklahoma), "Beyond performance:  what other differences do institutions make?"

Final discussion.

5:45-6:15

Invited discussants:  Sitta von Reden (Freiburg), Greg Woolf (St Andrew's), Giusto Traina (Paris Sorbonne), Andrew Wilson (Oxford),  Marco Maiuro (Columbia), and Dorothy Thompson (Cambridge).