Joe Manning, (Yale University), “Investigating the Role of Climate in Ancient History” (Climate Change Learning Community)

Please join the Climate Change Learning Community for a conversation with Dr. Joe Manning, William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics & History.

Professor Manning’s current research is situated at the intersection of paleoclimatology and the economic history of the premodern world. He is particularly interested in ice core geochemistry, a very exciting and dynamic science. Manning is part of a small team that has been working on understanding the impacts of explosive volcanic eruptions on the Nile watershed.  The team has so far focused on the Ptolemaic period but plan on extending the study through Late Antiquity and examining the inter-regional impacts of climate change across the Mediterranean world, with particular focus on the Nile and Euphrates rivers.

 

All are welcome! Pizza and tea will be served.