Changing Climates - Changing Histories: Perspectives from the Humanities

Changing Climates - Changing Histories: Perspectives from the Humanities

October 21-22, 2022

Dumbarton Oaks Symposium

Organized by: Director’s Office and Programs of Garden and Landscape, Pre-Columbian, and Byzantine Studies

This symposium will be live streamed from Dumbarton Oaks, where the speakers will convene in person. Upon registration, registrants will be sent a zoom link to the webinar.

List of Participants

Timothy Beach, University of Texas at Austin - The Trowel and the Laser: Climate and Humanity in the Maya World from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University - The Franklin Stove and Colonial Resource Conservation

José Iriarte, University of Exeter - Understanding Cultural Responses to Climate Change in late Pre-Columbian Amazonia

Matthew J. Jacobson, University of Glasgow - The Science of Climate Change in the Roman and Byzantine Eastern Mediterranean

Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University - Stalked by the “Refuse Winds”: Colonialism, Disease, and Ecological Change in the Pueblo Southwest, 1540–1700

Harriet Mercer, University of Oxford - Expanding Empire and Knowing Climate in the Southern Hemisphere

Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Environment and Society in the Sixth Century Eastern Mediterranean

Jordan Pickett, The University of Georgia - Archaeologies of Climate Change in the Roman and Byzantine Eastern Mediterranean

Bradley Skopyk, Binghamton University - Climate and New World Virgin Soil Epidemics: A Spatio-Temporal Approach to Understanding the Intersection of Mass Mortality, Spanish Imperialism, and the Little Ice Age in Early-Colonial Mexico

Paul Stephenson, Pennsylvania State University - Late Antique Metallurgy and Environmental Violence

Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona - Tree Story: What We Can Learn About Climate History from the Rings in Trees

Dagomar DeGroot, Georgetown University - Discussant