In cooperation with Ghent University, we organize the international and transdisciplinary conference Ancient Weather Perspectives: Perceptions, representations and realities (400–700) in order to retrieve late antique reflections on weather, the distribution and transmission of meteorological sources from Antiquity, religious representations (literary and visual) of weather and the agency of weather in late antique sources. The results from this wide-range of case-studies are linked to the actual weather conditions in several climate zones of the Ancient world.
Programme
A programme of the conference may be found here.
Registration
The number of places is limited (costs: €25,- for lunch). Please register asap at ancientweather [at] ru.nl (ancientweather[at]ru[dot]nl).
You can also join us online via Teams. Register via these links, whereupon you will receive links to participate: Wednesday 24 June | Thursday 25 June | Friday 26 June.
List of participants
- dr. Amedeo Raschieri (Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Angelo Gargiulo MA (Universiteit Gent)
- ir. Annette Hansen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- prof. dr. Christian Rohr (Universität Bern)
- prof. dr. Edward Schoolman (University of Nevada Reno)
- dr. Ellen Fenzel Arnold (Ohio State University)
- prof. dr. ir. Frits Heinrich (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- prof. dr. Helen Foxhall Forbes (Ca’ Foscari Venice)
- dr. Joop van Waarden (RU)
- prof. dr. Kristina Sessa (Ohio State University)
- prof. dr. Lucinda Dirven (RU)
- Mariechristine Garcia MA (University of South California, Dornsife college)
- prof. dr. Marjolein Oele (RU)
- dr. ir. Maurits Ertsen (TU Delft)
- dr. Péter Kovács (Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem)
- prof. dr. Peter van Nuffelen (Universiteit Gent)
- Rachel Singer MA (Georgetown University)
- dr. Roald Dijkstra (RU)
- Sanne de Jong MSc MA (RU)
- prof. dr. Steven Vanden Broecke (Universiteit Gent)
