First Session
Villa Lante
June 15th, 2011

9:15 a.m. - 9:30: Welcoming remarks: Katariina Mustakallio (IRF),
William Harris (Columbia University)

A Framework
9:30-10:00: Paolo Malanima (Napoli), "Energy Consumption: a Quantitative Analysis"

10:00-10:15: discussion

10:15-10:45: William Harris, "Deforestation in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Historian's View"

10:45-11:00: discussion

11:00-11:30: coffee break

11:30-12:00: Lin Foxhall (Leicester), "Farming Out: Greek Agricultural Practices, Overseas Settlement and Environmental Encounters"

12:00-12:15: discussion

12:15-12:45: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), "Mountains and the Problem of Scale in Environmental History"

12:45-13:00: discussion.

13:00-15:00 Lunch Break

Second Session
Villa Aurelia
June 15th, 2011

15:30-15:35: Welcoming remarks: Christopher Celenza (AAR)

Climate
15:30-16:00: Michael McCormick (Harvard), "What We Need to Learn from Climate Scientists to Reconstruct the Roman Climate"

16:00-16:15: discussion

16:15-16:45: Edward Cook (Columbia), "The Climate of the Late Roman Period in Europe from Millennial-Length Tree-Ring Records: Progress and Needs"

16:45-17:15: coffee break

17:15-17:45: Sturt Manning (Cornell), "Available Macro-climate Contexts for History, and the Potentials for Micro-History from High-Resolution Climate Data, in the Mediterranean"

17:45-18:00: discussion

18:00-18:30: Saskia Hin (Rostock), "Climate Trends under the Roman Empire and their Implications for Mortality"

18:30-18:45: discussion

18:45-19:45: Reception.

Third Session
Villa Aurelia
June 16th, 2011

Forests And Rivers

10:00-10:30: Florence Mazier (Toulouse), "Pollen-inferred Quantitative Reconstructions of Holocene Deforestation in NW Europe -- First Results from the Landclim Project"

10:30-10:45: discussion

10:45-11:15: coffee break

11:15-11:45: Brian Campbell (Queen's University, Belfast), "Fertilissimus amnis: Exploiting Rivers"

11:45-12:00: discussion

Site Reports
12:00-12:30: Paula Kouki (Helsinki), "Problems of Relating Environmental History and Human Settlement in the Classical and Late-classical Periods: the Example of Southern Jordan"

12:30-12:45: discussion

12:45-15:00: Lunch Break

Fourth Session
Villa Aurelia
June 16th, 2011

Site Reports (continued)
15:00-15:30: Elda Russo Ermolli (Naples), "Human-environment Relationship in the Southern Tyrrhenian Coastal Area: Hypothesis from Neapolis and Elea-Velia"

15:30-15:45: discussion

15:45-16:00: Robyn Veal (Sydney), "Fuelling Ancient Mediterranean Cities: A Case Study from Pompeii ca 3rd c. BC to AD 79"

16:00-16:15: discussion

16:15-16:35: coffee break

Mentalities
16:35-17:05: Lukas Thommen (Basel), "Environmental Terms and their Impact on Human Behaviour in Antiquity"

17:05-17:20: discussion

Drawing Some Conclusions
17:20-18:00:

Andrew Wilson (Oxford)

Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)