Networking in the Ancient World: Tracing, Understanding and Interpreting Trade and Social Connection
We are pleased to inform you about the conference Networking in the Ancient World: Tracing, Understanding and Interpreting Trade and Social Connections in the Ancient World taking place on 6th December 2018, and warmly invite postgraduate students and early career researchers in Classics, Archaeology, Anthropology, Egyptology, Near Eastern studies, and other related disciplines to submit abstracts.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE: Professor John K. Davies
FECHA /DATE/DATA : 06/12/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Liverpool (Liverpool, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Kate Caraway ; Juliet Spedding. University of Liverpool.
INFO: J.V.Spedding@liverpool.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis / Free / Gratuito
Se ruega enviar un email a /please contact /sono pregati di inviare una e-mail a Juliet Spedding (J.V.Spedding@liverpool.ac.uk) or Kate Caraway (k.caraway@liverpool.ac.uk)
Coffee/tea+lunch are provided
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
09.00-09.30 Registration and Coffee
09.30-09.45 Opening Remarks
09.45-11.15 Panel One
Kate Caraway (University of Liverpool): Where are all the People? The Networking in Networks
Richard Phillips (Birkbeck): Networks of Influence: The production of marble sculpture as a basis for Parian regional influence and soft power in the Archaic and Classical periods
Peta Bulmer (University of Liverpool): Challenging the network: social connections and disconnections in Late Bronze Age Greece
11.15-11.35 Break
11.35-13.05 Panel Two
John Haberstroh (University of California, Riverside): The Social Networks of the Persian Satraps of Lydia
Antonia Sarri (University of Manchester): Networking as a Means of Dispute Settling in Greaco-Roman Egypt
Michael Wuk (University of Nottingham): Late antique oath-swearing: a case study into the creation or maintenance of local networks and negotiation of religious change
13.05-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Panel Three
Paul Kelly (Kings College London): Tracing Social Networks in Financial Markets in Roman Egypt
Toon Bongers (University of Ghent): Reconstructing economic connectivity and riverine transport networks in Roman Gaul: the case of the Scheldt basin
Romain Mougenot (Stockholm University): Material interactions and regional groupings in Iron Age North--‐western Balkans (7th--‐1st centuries B.C.)
17.45-16.00 Break
16.00-17.00 Keynote Speaker + Closing Remarks
Prof John K. Davies (University of Liverpool): Title TBC
17.00-18.30 Wine Reception
18.45 Conference Dinner