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Economies of the Edge: Frontier Zone Processes at Regional, Imperial, and Global Scales - 19-20-21/0


The conference aims to explore economic processes in ancient imperial frontier zones as part of a larger project of rethinking “Silk-Road” exchange. By taking an expansive view of economic activity, we hope to better understand how the development of frontier zones allowed for the articulation of global-scale networks and how those networks, in turn, shaped the development of inter-imperial regions. We also hope to identify appropriate parameters for integrating evidence from various scales, regions, and scholarly approaches, which will allow us to move from regional analyses to large-scale models of global exchange in the Afro-Eurasian world region.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 19-20-21/09/2019

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Sitta von Reden; Eli J.S. Weaverdyck; Lara Fabian; Lauren Morris; Mamta Dwivedi; Kathrin Leese-Messing.

INFO: web - basar.freiburg@gmail.com

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

Thursday, 19th September

Introduction 13:00 – 13:30


Political Power and Economies I 13:30 – 15:00


Mark Altaweel Revolutionizing a World: From Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East


K. Rajan Emergence of Empires and Economies: Experiencing Early Historic south India


Coffee break 15:00 – 15:45


Political Power and Economies II 15:45 – 18:00


Maxim Korolkov The Southern Contact Zone, Empire Building, and Economic Change in the Eastern Zhou, Qin, and Han Eras (ca. 500 BCE – 300 CE)


Anthony Barbieri-Low Egyptian and Chinese Client-State Empires in the Levant and Central Asia


Shailendra Bhandare Money in Liminal Times: Coin Circulation at the End of the Indo-Greek Kingdom


Friday, 20th September

Nodes: Ports and Border Markets I 9:00 – 10:30


Miguel John Versluys Network Power? Object Flows and Innovation in Hellenistic Eurasia


Sören Stark Between Desert and Oasis: Border Markets and their Role in Economic Networks in Southwestern Central Asia


Coffee break 10:30 – 11:15


Nodes: Ports and Border Markets II 11:15 – 12:45


Stefan Hauser The Arsacid Center of Trade: Charax Spasinou, Capital of Mesene


Steven E. Sidebotham and Marianne Bergmann Sculptural Finds as a Reflection of the Cosmopolitan Life at Berenike: A Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt


Lunch 12:45 – 14:00


Links: People in Motion I 14:00 – 15:30


Paul Kosmin Trading Values: The Southern Sea as Merchant Space


Federico de Romanis Translata Pecunia: The Use of Roman Coins on the Other Side of the Indian Ocean


Coffee break 15:30 – 16:15


Links: People in Motion II 16:15 – 17:45


Roberta Tomber Trade, Barter and Personal Possession: Interpreting Indian Ocean Ceramic Assemblages of the Early Roman Period


Eivind Heldaas Seland Water, Climate and Connectivity in the Roman-Period Syrian Desert


Saturday, 21st September

Centers and Peripheries I 9:00 – 10:30


Andrew Bauer (Re)placing the ‘Hinterland’: Perspectives on Empire and Indian Ocean Trade from the Early Historic Interior Deccan


Luca M. Olivieri Double-Crop Pocket Zones and Empires: The Case of Swat


Coffee break 10:30 – 11:15


Centers and Peripheries II 11:15 – 12:00


Rocco Palermo Challenging an Imperial Borderland: Landscape, Settlements, and Economy in Roman Period Mesopotamia


Inter-imperial Exchange I 12:00 – 12:45


Marek Olbrycht The Parthian Empire and the Long-Distance Trade in the Caspian Basin


Lunch 12:45 – 14:00


Inter-imperial Exchange II 14:00 – 15:30


Joe Cribb The Sino-Kharoshthi Coinage of Khotan: Cultural and Political Links between Gandhara and Xinjiang, First to Second Century CE


Armin Selbitschka Versus the Silk Trade Myth: The Movement of Luxury Goods in China and Chinese Central Asia (Third Century BCE to Third Century CE)


Discussion and volume planning 15:30 – 16:00


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