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Friday 10 June

Part I
The First 2000 Years
Debt in the Ancient Near East

4.00pm
John Weisweiler, Tuebingen
Opening Remarks

4.15pm
Michael Hudson, New York
Mesopotamian history vs. Austrian monetary fairy tales

5.15pm
Michael Jursa, Vienna
Debt and Society in Babylonia in the Iron Age and in the Middle Bronze Age: A Comparative Approach

Keynote
Location: Alte Aula

7.15pm
David Graeber, LSE
'Debt' as an Intervention: Ongoing Debates

Saturday 11 June

Part II
The Beginning of the Axial Age?
Ancient Greek Debt

9.00am
Reinhard Wolters, Wien
Münzen: die ersten 500 Jahre

10.00am
Richard Seaford, Exeter
Monetisation and Cosmic Debt in India and Greece in the mid-first Millennium BCE.

11.00am
Coffee break

11.30am
Moritz Hinsch, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Private Debts in Classical Greece: Bond of friendship, curse of hatred?

12.30pm
Lunch break

Part III
Debt, Violence and Empire
The Roman Imperial Economy

2.00pm
Lisa Eberle, Oxford
Debt and Politics in the Late Republic

3.00pm
Neville Morley, Bristol
The Politics and Poetics of Exchange in the Roman Agronomists

4.00pm
Coffee Break

4.30pm
John Weisweiler, Tübingen
Economism in the Later Roman Empire

Sunday 12 June

Part IV
The End of the Axial Age?
Debt in the Late-Antique and Early Medieval Near East

9.00am
Richard Payne, Chicago
Zoroastrian Materialism: Religion, Empire, and its Critics in Graeber's 'Late Axial Age'

10.00am
Arietta Papaconstantinou, Reading
Borrowing, networking, and expediency in early Islamic Egypt

11.00am
Coffee Break

11.30am
Michael Bonner, Michigan
Debt, Slavery and the Early Islamic Economy

12.30pm
Keith Hart, Paris
Concluding Remarks

1.30pm
Lunch

All meetings except the keynote will be held in the Fürstenzimmer, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen.

Attendance at the conference is free, but places are limited, so please register if you wish to attend.