Monday, 19th February
Opening
13:00 Opening by the President of Trier University
Prof. Dr. Eva Martha Eckkrammer
13:30 Keynote: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford) Cabotage, Backwash and the Meeting of Circuits in Ancient Mediterranean Worlds
14:30 Coffee Break
Panel 1: The Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean
Chair: Pascal Warnking
14:45 Ronald Bockius (Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie) Hibernia invenita - archaeological clues for maritime interrelations between the ancient Mediterranean and early Iron Age Ireland
15:30 Sascha Weiler (Trier) Destination Narbonne. Zur Erreichbarkeit römischer Seehäfen
16:15 Coffee Break
17:15 José Remesal Rodriguez (Barcelona) Zwischen zwei Flüssen: vom Rhein zur Rhône über Baetica
18:00 Pierre Poveda (CNRS Aix-en-Provence) From shipwrecks to sailing replicas: assessing the
contribution of reconstructions and experimental archaeology to our knowledge of ancient navigation
Tuesday, 20th February
Panel 2: Changing Patterns in Maritime Transportation: An Archaeological View
Chair: Christoph Schäfer
9:00 Giulia Boetto (CNRS Aix / Marseille) Reconstructing navigation in the northern Adriatic through the discovery of ancient shipwrecks
9:45 Dario Nappo (Naples) How Trajan’s canal started Late Antiquity in the Red Sea
10:30 Coffee Break
10.45 Emmanuel Nantet (Haifa) The Caesarea shipwreck: a large merchantman in the early imperial Levant
11:30 Mateo González Vázquez (Trier) Moving Past Typological Constraints: On the Morphology and Transportability of Amphorae
12:15 Cèsar Carreras (Barcelona) Modelling commercial connections through network analysis: the amphorae indicators
13:00 Lunch
14:00 to 15:30 Visiting the Reconstructed Roman
Merchant Vessel Type Laurons 2 “Bissula”
Panel 3: Maritime Knowledge and Societies in Perspective
Chair: Christian Rollinger
15:30 Patrick Reinard (Trier) Egyptian grain shippers in Ostia. Papyrological insights into long-distance trade
16:15 Philipp Köhner (Eichstätt) The Tabula Peutingeriana - a source of maritime knowledge?
17:00 Coffee Break
17:15 Julian Degen (Trier) Harbours in Strabo’s Geographica: Using Geographical Texts as a Source for Exploring Mediterranean Economies
18:00 Stefan Feuser (Bonn) Maritime Societies and Small-Scale Exchange. Case Studies from the Eastern Mediterranean
Wednesday, 21st February
9:00 Keynote: Robert Rollinger (Innsbruck/Wrocław) The “Indian Ocean” in Achaemenid-Persian time
10:00 Coffee Break
Panel 4: Reconstructing and Simulating Maritime Economies
Chair: Frank Daubner
10:15 Crystal El Safadi (Southampton) Explorations of Maritime Spaces: Meaningful Modelling and Experimenting
11:00 Christoph Schäfer (Trier) Bissula – the Roman merchant ship type Laurons 2 at sea
11:45 Coffee Break
12:00 Julian Heinz (Trier) Simulating maritime Trade with DIMAG
12:45 Pascal Warnking and Ludwig von Auer (Trier) Maritime Economies: Some Thoughts on Quantifying the Effects of Maritime Connections
13:30 Concluding Remarks
Farewell