Tuesday 28 October,
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Theatersaal
18:00
Welcome
Michael Alram - Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Andreas Pülz - Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture
Bernhard Woytek - Head of the Division Documenta Antiqua
Evening lecture
Roger S. Bagnall - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Using papyrus documents for the study of an ancient economy: methods and materials from an Egyptian oasis
Buffet in the courtyard of the Herbert Hunger Haus
Wednesday 29 October
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Clubroom
9:30–9:45
Introduction
Bernhard Woytek - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Section 1: Greek Economies
9:45–10:30 Kaja Harter-Uibopuu - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Decrees and treaties – the legal framework for the successful flow of goods and money
10:30–11:15 Vincent Gabrielsen - University of Copenhagen
“Mankind’s most secure and durable institution”: state, credit, trade and capital accumulation in the classical-early Hellenistic Aegean
11:15–11:45 Coffee break
11:45–12:30 Gerhard Thür - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Michele Faraguna - University of Trieste
Silver from Laureion: mining and minting
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–14:45 Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert - American Numismatic Society, New York
Ruling an empire by controlling a coin standard?
14:45–15:30 Alain Bresson - University of Chicago
Money, trade and prices in the Hellenistic economy
15:30–16:00 Tea break
Section 2: The Roman Economy
16:00–16:45 Simon Keay - University of Southampton
The role of Portus in commercial flows between Rome and Mediterranean ports
16:45–17:30 Annalisa Marzano - University of Reading
Large-scale fishing and the Roman production and trade in salted fish: some organizational aspects
19:30 Speakers‘ dinner (by invitation only)
Thursday 30 October
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Clubroom
Section 2: The Roman Economy (continued)
9:30–10:15 Claude Domergue - University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail
How the Western Mediterranean was supplied with metals towards the end of the Republic and under the early Empire: fluxes, routes and organization
10:15–11:00 Kevin Butcher - University of Warwick
Bernhard Woytek - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Coin production and coin distribution in the Roman empire in the first and early second centuries AD: a general framework and some case studies
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:15 Suzanne Frey-Kupper - University of Warwick
Clive Stannard - University of Leicester
Evidence for the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolete coin in the ancient world
12:15–13:00 Thomas Corsten - Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna
Negotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–15:15 Thomas Kruse - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
The transport of goods through the Eastern Desert of Egypt
15:15–16:00 Ben Russell - University of Edinburgh
Quarry inscriptions, accounting systems, and the Roman stone trade
16:00–16:30 Tea break
Section 3: Ancient Iranian Economies
16:30–17:15 Michael Alram - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Money and coinage in the Achaemenid empire: production and distribution
17:15–18:00 Robert Rollinger - University of Innsbruck — University of Helsinki
Between deportation and recruitment: craftsmen and specialists from the West in Ancient Near Eastern empires (from Neo-Assyrian times until Alexander III)
Friday 31 October
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Clubroom
Section 3: Ancient Iranian Economies (continued)
9:30–10:15 Udo Hartmann - University of Jena
Wege durch Parthien – Straßen, Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenreich
10:15–11:00 Fabrizio Sinisi - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Imperial and local: the organisation of coin production in the Parthian empire
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:15 Nikolaus Schindel - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Sasanian mints – where and why?
12:15–13:00 Final Discussion