Workshop - 'Varieties of Urbanism, Settlement Dynamics and Climate Change'

10.30-10.40: Introduction to the workshop - Manuel Fernández-Götz (University of Edinburgh)
10.40-11.10: Perspectives: Explanatory fashions and their role - Roland Fletcher (University of Sydney)
11.10-11.40: The bioarchaeological impact of urbanism: Diet, health and stress in pre-modern Europe - Sam Leggett (University of Edinburgh)
11.40-12.10: Insights from the tropical past as a resource for planning the global urban future - Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute Jena)
12.10-12.40: A message for the megalopolis? - Roland Fletcher (University of Sydney)
12.40-13.00: General discussion

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-14.30: Comparing sustainable cities: The editor’s pick. A view from the Journal of Urban Archaeology - Søren Sindbæk (Aarhus University)
14.30-15.00: How could a Trypillia megasite survive for two centuries? - Bisserka Gaydarska and John Chapman (Durham University)
15.00-15.30: Long before urbanism. Aggregation, monumentality and socialisation in Copper Age Iberia: The Valencina megasite - Leonardo García-Sanjuán (University of Sevilla)
15.30-16.00: Coffee
16.00-16.30: Climate change in Mesoamerica - Timothy Beach (University of Texas at Austin)
16.30-17.00: Farming and early urbanism in Europe - Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford)
17.00-17.30: General discussion

10.00-10.30: Demise of large, low occupation density settlements (LLODS) in contexts of climate change - Kirrily White (University of Sydney)
10.30-11.00: Linking climate forcing to outcomes: Integrated palaeo-environment and palaeo-demographic analysis of low-density settlements - Dan Penny (University of Sydney)
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.00: Persistence, inequality and productivity: Exploring long-term trends in urban sustainability in southwest Asia - Dan Lawrence (Durham University)
12.00-12.30: Archaeology of fluid cities: Amphibious transformations and creative problem solving as pathways to sustainability - Michael Leadbetter (University of Oxford)
12.30-13.00: General discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30: Persistence and fragility in Iron Age urbanism: The role of climate change - Manuel Fernández-Götz (University of Edinburgh)
14.30-15.00: Urban Bourges and environs around 500 BC: From fragile state to failed state? - Ian Ralston (University of Edinburgh)
15.00-15.30: Alternative paths to sustainable urbanism? Examining the resilience of low-density Iron Age oppida - Tom Moore (Durham University)
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.30: Producing for the city: Urbanism and technological change in Iron Age Europe - Beatrijs de Groot (University of Edinburgh)
16.30-17.00: Building the eternal city in a floodplain: Landscape change and urban resilience in early Rome- - Andrea Brock (University of St Andrews)
17.00-17.30 Final discussion