Thursday, 19th July
9.00–9.15
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION: Mischa Meier (Tübingen)
9.15–10.30
KEYNOTE: Jean-Pierre Devroey (Brüssel): 'Manentes', 'forenses', 'vagantes`: Occupation du sol, mobilité et contrôle social au prisme de la seigneurie domaniale
carolingienne.
11.00–12.30
MIGRATION AND LOCAL SOCIETIES I: FRONTIER AREAS IN THE NORTH
Irene Bavuso (Oxford): Shaping Political Power in Frontier Areas: the Scheldt-Lower Meuse During the Merovingian Period (6th-8th c.)
Vince van Thiemen /Ewoud Deschepper (Ghent): Towards a Differentiated View on Mobility and Migration in the Transformation of Local Societies in Late Antiquity: the Archaeological Case of the Low Countries
Christopher Landon (Toronto): Decem milia hominem ex his ... transtulit: Forcible Migration in the Frankish Conquest of Saxony
14.00–15.30
MIGRATION AND LOCAL SOCIETIES II: THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
Andrea Colella (Wien): The Jewish Migration Waves in the Mediterranean Area: the Case of Southern Italy
Reuven Kiperwasser (HU Jerusalem): Galilean Micropolitics of Mobility
Hagith Sivan (Kansas): Naturalizing Gothicness in Spain: Children,
Acculturation and Alienation
16.00-18.15
CONFLICT, LAW AND IDENTITY
Ralph Mathisen (Urbana): The Reception of Arian-cum-Homoian Migrants in a Nicene World
Stefan Esders (FU Berlin): Legal Identity and Mobility in the Early Medieval West (5th-10th cent.)
Edward Schoolman (Reno/Tübingen): The Micropolitics of Greekness in Early Medieval Italy
19.00
EVENING LECTURE
Ulrich Wiemer (Erlangen): Wenn aus Helden Greise werden: Die letzten Jahre Theoderichs des Großen
Friday, 20th July
9.00–10.30
MIGRATION AND ECONOMY
Pavla Drapelova (Athen): Antioch on Orontes in the 6th Century: Some Remarks on Connections Between the Migration and the Local Economy and Numismatics
Elena Gritti (Bergamo): Syrian Migration towards Milan and Surrounding Areas in the 4th and 5th century AD
Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen): Agrarian Economy and the Visigothic Settlement
11.00-12.30
ARCHEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND METHODS
Angelo Barba (Palermo): New Incomers and the 'New Shape of the World': the Afterlife of Roman villas in Western Empire (300 – 800 CE)
Susanne Brather-Walter (Tübingen): Migration und Mobilität in der
frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie - Eine Vergleichsstudie am Beispiel
frühmerowingerzeitlicher Gräberfelder
Maite Iris García-Collado (Univ. of the Basque Country): Small Scale Mobility in Early Medieval Rural Communities from Visigothic Iberia (6th-8th c. AD) Based on Strontium Isotope Analyses
14.00–16:15
BORDER REGIMES AND THE MILITARY
Alexander Sarantis (Tübingen): State Control, Migration and Mobility in the Transcaucasian and Mesopotamian Frontier Regions of the Eastern Roman Empire, ca. 502-602
Ekaterina Nechaeva (Tübingen): John of Tella and the Micropolitics of the Roman-Persian Border
Aaron Beek (Memphis): Manipulating Social Status, the Army, and
Immigration in Late Antiquity
Jeroen Wijnendaele (Ghent): Mallobaudes and the Genesis of Military
Kingship
16.45–18.15
FORCED MIGRATION AND REFUGEES
Helen Kaufmann (Oxford): The Micropolitics of Migration in Latin Poetry (4th to 6th c.)
Tina Sessa (Ohio): Local Refugee Crises and the Church in the Late Roman West
Geoff Nathan (New South Wales/San Diego): The Accidental Migrant:
Paulinus of Pella and the Physical Dislocation of Roman Citizens in Late Antiquity
19.00
KEYNOTE
Bernhard Palme (Wien): Military mobility and migration in Late Antique Egypt
Saturday, 21st July
9.00–10.30
CLERICAL REFUGEES I: CLERICS AND BISHOPS
Samuel Cohen (Sonoma/CA): North Africans Exiles and the Bishops of Rome: Clerics, Heretics and the Politics of Belonging in Late Antiquity
Andrea Verardi (Rom): Migration and Social Mobility in an
Ecclesiastical Milieu: the case of Rome in the 6th Century.
Steffen Patzold (Tübingen): Mobile Priests in the Carolingian World
11.00–12.00
CLERICAL REFUGEES II: MONKS
Federico Montinaro (Tübingen): How Many Byzantine Monks Emigrated During Iconoclasm?
Marc Malevez (Büssel): Monastic xeniteia and Flight in the Desert,
or How to Become a Foreigner Outside or in its Own Country
12.15–13.30
KEYNOTE
Campbell Grey (UPenn Philadelphia): Finding Meaning in Mobility: Power, Politics, and Collective Identity in Constantius’ Vita Germani