Quantifying Problems in Ancient History: Working with Numbers from the Distant Past

Conference Program

Friday May 6, 2016 – 9:30am-6:30pm

28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106

Hosted by the Economic History Program

9:30am: NOEL LENSKI / JOE MANNING (Yale) - Opening Remarks

10:00am: HARVEY WEISS (Yale) - Quantifying mega drought, collapse, and resilience: an archaeological perspective

11:00am: CHRISTELLE FISCHER-BOVET (USC) - Assessing incomes in Hellenistic Egypt

12:00pm: LUNCH

1:00pm: JUSTIN LEIDWANGER (Stanford) – Time-capsules and bar graphs: working with shipwreck data for the Roman maritime Economy

2:00pm: KYLE HARPER (Oklahoma) - Quantifying the impact of epidemic mortality in the Roman Empire: Evidence and Epidemiological Boundaries”

3:00pm: GILLES BRANSBOURG (ANS / ISAW) - How fourth-century CE papyrological and numismatic dataset-convergence reveals a major coinage reform Roman authorities were smart never to mention

4:00pm: COFFEE

4:30pm: MICHAEL McCORMICK (Harvard) - Exploring a new dataset from late antiquity

5:30pm: CHRISTOPHER LOVELUCK (Nottingham / Harvard) - Networks, numbers and macro-societal trends: archaeological approaches to modelling social and economic change in western Europe, c. AD 500-1100