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ArgumentThis two-day international conference aims to highlight recent and challenging interdisciplinary studies dealing with complex historical climate/society interactions in Mediterranean during the last two millennia. Indeed, although issues concerning present and future climate change-related impacts for Mediterranean societies are many and varied, past climatic extremes, like drought episodes, have caught the attention of archaeologists, climatologists, modelers and historians for several decades. This intriguing relationship mainly results from devastating temperature and/or hydroclimatic effects on the balance between climate and natural or agricultural resources essential to the wellbeing of past urban or rural societies. The study of these existing connections can help in better understanding the role played by past climatic events in the eruption of regional conflicts, in forced migration and displacement of people, in periodically appearing infectious disease outbreaks or in subsistence crises like food shortages and famines Similarly, it seems necessary to identify and analyze socio-economic and technological responses (e.g. water supply systems) together with mitigation and general adaptation strategies, insofar as they existed, to cope with climate change.ProgrammeMARCH 89:30&#160;Opening: Sophie BOUFFIER,MMSH director/ Xavier DAUMALIN, Director of TELEMME Lab/ Jo&#235;l GUIOT, Director of Labex Ot_Med/ Brigitte MARIN, Director of LabexMed9:45 General Introduction: Nicolas MAUGHAN/Kevin POMETTISession I&#160;How To Integrate Solar And Volcanic Forcing In Studies Of Historical Climate-Society Interactions?Chair: Martin BAUCH&#160;(Leibniz-Institut f&#252;r Geschichte und Kultur des &#246;stlichen Europa, Germany)10:00 Volcanism and Variability: The Volatile Nile as Driver of Revolt and Socioeconomic Stress in Ptolemaic Egypt, 305-30 BCE,&#160;Joseph MANNING (Yale University, USA), Francis LUDLOW(University of Dublin, Ireland) et al.10:30 Climate and societal impacts of a volcanic double event at the dawn of the Middle Ages,&#160;Matthew TOOHEY (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)11:00&#160;Coffee break11:15 Reassessing the climatic impacts of the 1257 eruption in Europe and in the Northern Hemisphere using historical archives and tree rings,&#160;S&#233;bastien GUILLETet al. (University of Bern, Switzerland)11:45 The 1430s: A period of extraordinary internal climate variability during the early Sp&#246;rer Minimum and its impacts in North-western and Central Europe,&#160;Chantal CAMENISCH (University of Bern, Switzerland)12:15&#160;Questions &#38; discussion12:40&#160;LunchSession II&#160;Sources And Methodologies For Studying Past Climate History: From Natural To Textual ArchivesChair: Nicolas MAUGHAN (Aix-Marseille University, France)14:00 Towards a methodology for reconstructing outstanding extreme events. The example of 1540,&#160;Christian PFISTER (University of Bern, Switzerland)14:30 Multidisciplinary approach to climatic reconstruction. Present research and potentialities in Mediterranean countries (Spain) focusing on hydroclimatic extremes,&#160;Mariano BARRIENDOS (University of Barcelona, Spain)15:00 The earliest meteorological observations: Florence and Vallombrosa in the Medici Network (1654-1670),&#160;Chiara BERTOLIN(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) &#38; Dario CAMUFFO(National Research Council of Italy)15:30&#160;Coffee break15:45 The role of textual archives and first instrumental records to detect optimal periods for vector-borne diseases in late 18thcentury Catalonia,&#160;Kevin POMETTI (Aix-Marseille University, France)16:15 Drought and Crisis in the Classical Ottoman Empire: New Evidence, Confirmation, and Revisions,&#160;Samuel WHITE (The Ohio State University, USA)16:45 The Dantean Anomaly project: A comparative approach to a period of increasing extreme events and their societal impact,&#160;Martin BAUCH (Leibniz-Institut f&#252;r Geschichte und Kultur des &#246;stlichen Europa, Leipzig, Germany)17:15&#160;Questions &#38; discussionMARCH 99:00 Poster session* (60 min)Session III 1stpart&#160;Climate As Catalyst For Subsistence Crises, Epidemics And ViolenceChair: Isabelle RENAUDET(Aix-Marseille University, France)10:00 Late Holocene delta geomorphology and ancient coastal settlements: from Taman Peninsula to the Balearic Islands,&#160;Mathieu GIAIME&#160;et al.(Aix-Marseille University, France)10:30&#160;Coffee Break10:45 Famine, migrations and conflicts 3200 years ago: did climate have an influence on social upheavals?,&#160;David KANIEWSKI&#160;et al. (University of Toulouse, France)11:15 Climate change and the Eastern Roman Empire. Learning from the complex societies of the past,&#160;Adam IZDEBSKI (Jagiellonian University, Poland)11:45 Questions &#38; discussion12:30&#160;LunchSession III 2ndpartChair: Kevin POMETTI(Aix-Marseille University, France)14:00 War, economic crisis and plague: teleconnections between Arid Central Asia and the Mediterranean in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries,&#160;Bruce CAMPBELL(Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)14:30 Droughts and Floods in the Spanish Mediterranean during the Little Ice Age. Thoughts and Proposals,&#160;Armando ALBEROLA (University of Alicante, Spain)15:00&#160;Coffee Break15:15 Socio-economic Resilience to Droughts and Energy Transition in Northwestern Mediterranean during the Dalton Minimum,&#160;Nicolas MAUGHAN (Aix-Marseille University, France)15:45 The Role of Drought and Climate Change in the Syrian Uprising: Untangling the Triggers of the Revolution,&#160;Francesca DE CH&#194;TEL (Radboud University, The Netherlands)16:15&#160;Questions &#38; discussion16:30Conclusion: Christian PFISTER (University of Bern, Switzerland)17:00End of the meetingPosters&#160;A multi-secular database (A.D. 1300-2000) on the historical flood variability in the Lower Rhone Valley,&#160;Georges PICHARDet al. (Aix-Marseille University, France)&#160;Historical climate Data Rescue in the Mediterranean area at M&#233;t&#233;o-France,&#160;Sylvie JOURDAIN &#38; &#201;meline ROUCAUTE(M&#233;t&#233;o-France, France)&#160;Temperature observations in Bologna, Italy, from 1715 to 1815: three centuries of changing climate and methodological procedures to recover and analyze early instrumental series,&#160;Chiara BERTOLIN&#160;et al.(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)&#160;Climate, environment and public health in Catalonia. Endemic and epidemic paludism (1750-1850), from sanitarian policies to environmental issues,&#160;Kevin POMETTI&#160;(Aix-Marseille University, France)&#160;Recent hydrological variability of the Moroccan Middle-Atlas Mountains inferred from sedimentological and geochemical analyses of lake sediments,&#160;Guillaume JOUVE&#160;et al.(Aix-Marseille University, France)&#160;Oxygen isotopes from Sudanese mummies as natural archives for reconstructing long-term and seasonal Nile river fluctuations and past climate in Northeast Africa (3700-500 B.P.),&#160;C&#233;line MARTIN&#160;et al.(Aix-Marseille University, France)&#160;Assessment of post-industrial sea-level rise acceleration along the Mediterranean coastlines,&#160;Matteo VACCHIet al. (Aix-Marseille University, France)&#160;Geoarchaeology of the Danube delta and palaeo-environment of ancient settlements (Histria, Enisala, Babadag and Halmyris),&#160;Alexandra BIVOLARU&#160;et al.(Aix-Marseille University, France)&#160;The ancient harbors of cap Bon (Tunisia): geomorphology, climate context and recent discoveries,&#160;Soumaya TRABELSI et al. (Aix-Marseille University, France)Organizing committeeMr. Nicolas MAUGHAN (AMU, I2M, ECCOREV)Mr. Kevin POMETTI (AMU, TELEMME, LabexMed)Mr. Jo&#235;l GUIOT (AMU, CEREGE, Labex Ot_Med, ECCOREV)Mrs. Isabelle RENAUDET (AMU, TELEMME)Mrs. Agn&#232;s RABION (AMU, TELEMME)Mrs. Caroline TESTANI&#200;RE-CHAGNIOT (AMU, TELEMME)Scientific committeeMr. Nicolas MAUGHAN (AMU, I2M, ECCOREV)Mr. Kevin POMETTI (AMU, TELEMME, LabexMed)Mr. Jo&#235;l GUIOT (AMU, CEREGE, Labex Ot_Med, ECCOREV)Mrs. Isabelle RENAUDET (AMU, TELEMME)Mr. Georges PICHARD (AMU, CEREGE)Mr. Wolfgang CRAMER (AMU, IMBE)Mr. Armando ALBEROLA (University of Alicante, Spain)Mr. Dario CAMUFFO (CNR, Padova, Italy)Co-sponsorshipAix-Marseille University (AMU) www.univ-amu.fr/Labex OT_Med www.otmed.fr/LabexMed http://labexmed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/Research consortium ECCOREV https://www.eccorev.fr/UMR-CNRS TELEMME http://telemme.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/University of Alicante https://www.ua.es/Mediterranean House of Humanities www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/Climate History Network www.climatehistory.net/