Don't usually post these, but this looks a cracking conference at King's College, London on March 12-13.
Studies of the late antique economy often stress sea-borne
interregional trade as a motor of prosperity. But why were inland regions
able to flower at this time? Was wealth generated mainly by local production
and exchange? How important was this to the economy as a whole?
FRIDAY
12TH MARCH (in the Great Hall)
*Theoretical Papers*
14.00-14.40 Mark
Whittow (Oxford)
How much trade was local, regional and inter-regional?
Comparative perspectives
14.40-15.20 Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
Rural
production dynamics: autarchy, tax and forms of exchange, seen from
papyri.
16.00-16.40 A. Macmahon (OU) and L. Lavan (Kent)
Specialisation in
artisanal production: what does it mean for local exchange?
SATURDAY 13TH
MARCH (in Safra Lecture Theatre)
*Prosperity in Inland Regions (forms of
production )*
10.40-11.10 Kim Bowes (Cornell)
Spain and
Gaul.
11.10-11.40 Emanuele Vaccaro (Cambridge)
Interior
Sicily.
11.50-12.20 Lynda Mulvin (Dublin)
Pannonia.
12.20-12.50
Elizabeth Fentress (UCL)
Numidia.
14.00-14.30 David Mattingly
(Leicester)
Garamantia.
14.30-15.00 Hannelore Van Haeverbeke
(Burdur)
Pisidia and Lacaonia.
*Regional exchange (forms of
consumption)*
15.00-15.30 Sauro Gelichi (Venice)
Northern
Italy
16.10-16.40 Michel Bonifay (Aix en Provence)
Africa
16.50-17.20
Jeroen Poblome (KULeuven)
Asia Minor
17.20-18.00 TBA
The Near East
Entrance is free, though places are limited. To reserve a place please email info@lateantiquearchaeology.com. Held at the Strand Campus, King's College London.
Location details:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand-det.html.
Temple Tube
station. For flights try www.skyscanner.net. Cheap UK train
tickets can be obtained from www.thetrainline.com. Ask for GroupSave4
tickets: 4 people for the price of 2.
Organised by the University of
Kent (Centre for Late Antique Archaeology) and King's College London (Centre
for Hellenic Studies Dept of Byzantine and Modern Greek
Studies).
Generously supported by Museum Selection and Brill Academic
Publishers
http://www.museumselection.co.uk/
http://www.lateantiquearchaeology.com/
http://www.brill.nl/laa
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