Conference

Climate, Crops, and Crisis? Workshop

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Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Tuesday 6 May

Location: Turret Room at CAS

09:00-09:30      
Arrival & coffee 

09:30-09:45
Rosie Bishop: Introduction

09:45-10:05
Ingrid Mainland and Sean Denham (online): Zooarchaeological evidence

10:05-10:20
Rosie Bishop and Amy Bogaard (in person/online): Archaeobotanical evidence

10:20-10:35
Questions

10:35-11:00
Break

11:00-11:20
Kenny Brophy and Astrid Nyland (in person): Artefacts and physical traces of agriculture

11:20-11:40
Daniel Fredh, Scott Timpany and Anette Sand-Eriksen (in person/online): Pollen evidence for agriculture

11:40-11:55
Questions

11:55-13:15
Lunch at Gabelshus hotel

13:15-13:35
Anne Bjune, Pete Langdon, Rob Wilson, Kayleigh Letherbarrow, and Andy Dugmore (in person/online): Palaeoclimate evidence

13:35-13:55
Dan Hill (in person): Climate modelling

13:55-14:10
Questions

14:10-14:30
Break

14:30-15:00
Small group discussion: Discussion of plans for individual/small group working - split into groups to discuss

15:00-15:30
Discussion: Overall discussion and discussion of plans for individual/small group working

15:30-16:30
Group/individual working session 1

 

Day 2, Wednesday 7 May

Location: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

08:30-09:00      
Arrival & coffee 

09:00-09:15
Rosie Bishop: Introduction

09:15-09:30
Break

09:30-11:30
Individual/small group work session 2

11:30-11:50
Presentation and questions: Doria De Souza Etchells (University of Edinburgh, UK): The challenge of inferring palaeoweather patterns

11:50-12:50
Lunch

12:50-13:10
Discussion: Meet in the lecture hall to discuss how individual/small group work session is going 

13:10-14:30
Individual/small group work session 3

14:30-14:50
Break

14:50-16:30
Individual/small group work session 4

16:30-17:15
Presentation and questions: Kevin Edwards (University of Cambridge/University of Aberdeen, UK): Scotland, the North Atlantic, pollen data and assorted thoughts

18:30-19:00
Pre-dinner drinks in the Academy

19:00-22:00
Dinner in the Academy

 

Day 3, Thursday 8 May

Location: Turret Room at CAS

09:00-09:15      
Coffee 

09:15-09:30
Discussion of yesterday's individiual/group work and plan for the day

09:30-10:30
Individual/small group work session 5

10:30-10:45
Break

10:45-12:00
Individual/small group work session 6

12:00-13:20
Lunch at Gabelshus hotel

13:20-13:40
Presentation and questions: Mark Peaple (University of Southampton, UK): Extracting the signal from the noise - quantifying uncertainty in spatial proxy networks

13:40-14:45
Group discussion updating what has been done during individual and small group work sessions. Discussion of next steps for the project. Discussion of AEA conference in Stavanger December 2025

14:45-15:05
Break

15:05-15:45
Group discussion (continued)