Upcoming Lectures
Basel September 2021
Joe Morgan, Francis Ludlow, Joe Manning and Zan Stine presented (Via ZOOM) an overview of the Nile History historical database just recently completed. The project has been lead by Project Assistant Joe Morgan, an advanced graduate student in Ancient History at Yale.
King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology (KAUST), October 2021:
“Volcanic forcing of the Nile watershed & Ancient History”
Joe Manning will present a lecture WEDNESDAY October 6 4:30 PM/ 1:30 PM GMT in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (Via ZOOM) giving an overview and some preliminary results of the Yale Nile Initiative project to an audience of MS and PhD students in the Earth Science and Engineering program at KAUST, as well as students in Energy Geosystems and Petroleum Engineering.
Ain Shams University, Cairo October 30-31 2021
“Environmental History and the papyri”
Joe Manning will present a paper in Cairo (Via ZOOM) on the value of Greek and Egyptian language papyri for the reconstruction of the environmental history of pre-modern Egypt for the conference Social Life and Economic Systems in Ptolemaic Egypt that celebrates the New Start of the College of Archaeology, and 40 years of the Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions at Ain Shams University