Selected Conferences and Seminars ( * By invitation)
St Andrews Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies * (University of St Andrews, forthcoming Zoom workshop, Oct/Nov TBC 2020). 'Archaeobotany in ancient environmental studies: critiquing data sources, avoiding interpretive pitfalls, and future promise for integrated studies.'
Institute for Classical Studies (University of London, 13 October, 2016). 'From ecology to economy" ancient forests and Rome 2.'*
37th AEA (Association for Environmental Archaeology) conference (Rome, 28 Oct-1 Sept, 2016). Main organiser, session chair and presenter. SCOPE: Synthesis and Change in Palaeo-Environmental studies in the Mediterranean. Themes: 1. Scope, scale, theoretical and methodological issues in combining environmental data; 2. Environmental studies and heritage manaagement, see www.aea2016Rome
Resources, Environment, Exchange and Power in Classical Antiquity (Entretiens at the Fondation Hardt, Geneva, August 23-27, 2016). 'The politics and economics of ancient forests: timber and fuel as levers of Greco-Roman control.’ *
'Economy to Environment in Ancient Campania: moderating and modelling the data' (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, March 11-13, 2016, conference organiser, session chair, speaker.
Digital Classics Workshop (Institute for Classical Studies, London, Dec 1, 2015).
Anthropocene Working Group workshop (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Nov 24/25, 2015). 'Dating the Anthropocene from an archaeological viewpoint: fuel use and the rise of metals'.*
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (Jan 28, 2015) 'Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn? Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world' *
Public and Private in the Roman House, (Finnish Institute, Rome, Nov 7-8, 2014), 'Fuelling Roman private houses'
Economic Utility of Olive (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 27-28 September, 2014). Workshop co-organiser with Charlene Murphy (UCL), session chair, speaker.
Project workshop 'Finding the limits of the Limes': (VU University Amsterdam, 19-20 June 2014). 'Modelling the fuel supply to Pompeii and its applicability to the Limes.' *
New York Universities Speaking Tour: Columbia, Brown, Penn, Princeton, April 4-11, 2014 (see Academia.edu site for program). Lectured on ancient forest and fuel economy, and environmental archaeology.*
Roman Archaeology Conference, (University of Reading, March 28-31, 2014). ‘Regional environmental economics: fuel for Pompeii and Campania 3rd c. BC to AD 79’ in the session: ‘In the Shadow of Vesuvius.’ *
University of Leicester, UK (Feb 5, 2014): ‘Fuel in the Roman economy: the case of food production and consumption.’ *
AIA Chicago (Jan 2-5, 2014): Session chair: Food and fuel: new approaches to environmental exploitation in the ancient Roman economy (session # 10220). Presenter: 'Fuel in food production and consumption in the Roman economy.’
Royal Dutch Institute in Rome: Rural communities in a globalizing economy: new perspectives on the economic integration of Roman Italy (28/29 November, 2013). ‘From Hinterland to City, the Fuel Economy of Campania.’ *
Brigham Young University (London): Otium et Negotium in Vesuvius’ Shadow: a colloquium on latest research trends on economy and culture of Roman villas (British Academy, London, August 5, 2013). ‘Provisioning the Roman villa: management of land resources to support urban and country villas.’ *
Cambridge Archaeological Field Group Seminar, 6 November, 2013, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 'Fuel and the forest economy of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, UK).' *
TRAC (Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference), King's College, London, April 4-6, 2013, 'Beyond Wood Gathering: toward a typology for archaeological charcoal.'
'Fuel and Fire in the Ancient Roman World,' British School at Rome and Finnish Institute of Rome, March 8/9, 2013. Conference co-organizer and speaker: 'History and science of fuel in the Roman World'.
Wood and Charcoal Research in Italy Workshop, British School at Rome, (Organiser and speaker), March 7th, 2pm-7pm, including Association for Environmental Archaeology sponsored seminar by Dr Elda Russo Ermolli (Naples).
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Series Seminar, 20 February, 2013. 'Forest exploitation in province and empire from the (archaeological) ground up.' *
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Palaeoecology, 4 February, 2013. Invited speaker. 'Examining forest exploitation in the ancient Mediterranean.' *
University of Cambridge 'Classics D Caucus Seminar', Jan 29, 2013, 'Rome's Forest Economy: history, archaeology, economics.' *
Crossing Boundaries II: Ancient History Explores its Future, University of Cambridge, December 12/13, 2012. 'Environmental history and archaeology of the ancient forest economy.' *
Institute for Classical Studies (University of London, 13 October, 2016). 'From ecology to economy" ancient forests and Rome 2.'*
37th AEA (Association for Environmental Archaeology) conference (Rome, 28 Oct-1 Sept, 2016). Main organiser, session chair and presenter. SCOPE: Synthesis and Change in Palaeo-Environmental studies in the Mediterranean. Themes: 1. Scope, scale, theoretical and methodological issues in combining environmental data; 2. Environmental studies and heritage manaagement, see www.aea2016Rome
Resources, Environment, Exchange and Power in Classical Antiquity (Entretiens at the Fondation Hardt, Geneva, August 23-27, 2016). 'The politics and economics of ancient forests: timber and fuel as levers of Greco-Roman control.’ *
'Economy to Environment in Ancient Campania: moderating and modelling the data' (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, March 11-13, 2016, conference organiser, session chair, speaker.
Digital Classics Workshop (Institute for Classical Studies, London, Dec 1, 2015).
Anthropocene Working Group workshop (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Nov 24/25, 2015). 'Dating the Anthropocene from an archaeological viewpoint: fuel use and the rise of metals'.*
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (Jan 28, 2015) 'Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn? Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world' *
Public and Private in the Roman House, (Finnish Institute, Rome, Nov 7-8, 2014), 'Fuelling Roman private houses'
Economic Utility of Olive (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 27-28 September, 2014). Workshop co-organiser with Charlene Murphy (UCL), session chair, speaker.
Project workshop 'Finding the limits of the Limes': (VU University Amsterdam, 19-20 June 2014). 'Modelling the fuel supply to Pompeii and its applicability to the Limes.' *
New York Universities Speaking Tour: Columbia, Brown, Penn, Princeton, April 4-11, 2014 (see Academia.edu site for program). Lectured on ancient forest and fuel economy, and environmental archaeology.*
Roman Archaeology Conference, (University of Reading, March 28-31, 2014). ‘Regional environmental economics: fuel for Pompeii and Campania 3rd c. BC to AD 79’ in the session: ‘In the Shadow of Vesuvius.’ *
University of Leicester, UK (Feb 5, 2014): ‘Fuel in the Roman economy: the case of food production and consumption.’ *
AIA Chicago (Jan 2-5, 2014): Session chair: Food and fuel: new approaches to environmental exploitation in the ancient Roman economy (session # 10220). Presenter: 'Fuel in food production and consumption in the Roman economy.’
Royal Dutch Institute in Rome: Rural communities in a globalizing economy: new perspectives on the economic integration of Roman Italy (28/29 November, 2013). ‘From Hinterland to City, the Fuel Economy of Campania.’ *
Brigham Young University (London): Otium et Negotium in Vesuvius’ Shadow: a colloquium on latest research trends on economy and culture of Roman villas (British Academy, London, August 5, 2013). ‘Provisioning the Roman villa: management of land resources to support urban and country villas.’ *
Cambridge Archaeological Field Group Seminar, 6 November, 2013, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 'Fuel and the forest economy of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, UK).' *
TRAC (Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference), King's College, London, April 4-6, 2013, 'Beyond Wood Gathering: toward a typology for archaeological charcoal.'
'Fuel and Fire in the Ancient Roman World,' British School at Rome and Finnish Institute of Rome, March 8/9, 2013. Conference co-organizer and speaker: 'History and science of fuel in the Roman World'.
Wood and Charcoal Research in Italy Workshop, British School at Rome, (Organiser and speaker), March 7th, 2pm-7pm, including Association for Environmental Archaeology sponsored seminar by Dr Elda Russo Ermolli (Naples).
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Series Seminar, 20 February, 2013. 'Forest exploitation in province and empire from the (archaeological) ground up.' *
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Palaeoecology, 4 February, 2013. Invited speaker. 'Examining forest exploitation in the ancient Mediterranean.' *
University of Cambridge 'Classics D Caucus Seminar', Jan 29, 2013, 'Rome's Forest Economy: history, archaeology, economics.' *
Crossing Boundaries II: Ancient History Explores its Future, University of Cambridge, December 12/13, 2012. 'Environmental history and archaeology of the ancient forest economy.' *
