Kolleg-Forschergruppe „Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter“
Africa 500-1000. New Perspectives for historical and archaeological research

14-16 November 2018
Neue Aula, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, Raum “Kleiner Senat”
Wednesday 14 November 2018
18:00-18:10 Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen): Welcome 18:10-19:00 Key Note: Lisa Fentress (Rome): ‘Islamizing the Berbers’
Thursday 15 November 2018
10:00-10:15 Roland Steinacher (Innsbruck) and Paolo Tedesco (Tübingen): Opening Remarks
First Section: History (Chair: Alexander Sarantis):
10:15-10:45 10:45-11:15
Roland Steinacher (Innsbruck): ‘When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa in the first millennium’
Robin Whelan (Oxford): ‘Why aren't there Vandal women? Gender, ethnicity, and power in early medieval North Africa’
Coffee Break
Andrew Merrills (Leicester): ‘‘Corippus' triumphal geography: a new look at Ioh II’ Federico Montinaro (Tübingen): ‘Byzantine Resistance in Roman Africa, 641-668 CE’ Lunch Break
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:15
12:15-12:45
12.45-14.45
Second Section Archaeology (Chair: Roland Steinacher):
14:45-15:15 15:15-15:45 15:45-16:15 16:15-16:45
Philipp von Rummel (Berlin): ‘Simitthu 500-1000: A case study’
Corisande Fenwick (London): ‘The African Renaissance? An Archaeological Perspective on Aghlabid Ifrīqiya’ Coffee Break
Nicolas Lamare (Paris): ‘Water after Antiquity: New Perspectives for Archaeological Investigations in North Africa’

Friday 16 November 2018
Third Section: Economy (Chair: Paolo Tedesco):
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 11:00-11:15 11:15-11:45
1I:45-12:15
Daniel Syrbe (Nijmegen): ‘Nomadic Mobility and Economy in Late Antique and Byzantine North Africa’
Antonia Bosanquet (Hamburg): ‘Changing Trade Patterns in Ifrīqiya. A Comparison between the Eighth and the Tenth Centuries’ Coffee Break
Sam Nixon (London): ‘Monetary system, and metals exchange in the medieval trans-Saharan world: archaeological insights from the mine, the market, and the mint’
Roland Steinacher (Innsbruck) and Paolo Tedesco (Tübingen): Concluding Remarks
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