Program
(all times are CET summer time (UTC +2) / 25 minutes talk plus 20 minutes discussion; abstracts can be requested from the organizers)

Day 1 (Thu, 29 July 2021)

10.00–10.30: Introduction (Sven Günther & Roland Oetjen)
10.30–11.15: Key-Note Lecture: George Tridimas (Belfast): Religion without clergy. The case of Ancient Greece
Break
13.00–13.50: Talk 1: Nicolas Krocker (Munich): On the sense and use of the Historical School of Economics for the analysis of ancient Roman economic history
13.50–14.40: Talk 2: Lothar Willms (Heidelberg): Adam Smith, Plato, and the Stoics – The birth of modern economic rationality and the classical heritage
Break
15.00–15.50: Talk 3: José Remesal Rodríguez (Barcelona): Alte Ideale und die Anpassung an die neue Realität: Columella’s de re rustica, ein Überlebenshandbuch für eine Elite?
15.50–16.40: Talk 4: Daniel Silvermintz (Houston): A city fit for business: examining the economic sphere in the Republic's healthy city
Break
17.00–17.50: Talk 5: Constantine Karathanasis (St. Louis): Enter homo oeconomicus: Aristophanes on incentives and civic behavior
17.50–18.40: Talk 6: Kathryn Kelley (Toronto): Trouble brewing in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia 

Day 2 (Fr, 30 July 2021)

8.30–9.20: Talk 7: Roland Ferenczi (Budapest/Hamburg): Trade, markets and money in the Old Tamil Caṅkam literature
9.20–10.10: Talk 8: Patrick Reinard (Trier): Price variations and economic strategies in the Roman imperial period
Break
10.30–11.20: Talk 9: Juan Carlos Moreno García (Paris): The rationale behind land transactions in ancient Egypt: investment, markets and private strategies
11.20–12.10: Talk 10: Bertram Schefold (Frankfurt): Land and credit in the history of economic thought. Traditional China and premodern Europe. Dian and pactum antichriseos
Break
14.00–14.50: Talk 11: Michael Leese (Durham, NH): Hoarding and rationality in Greco-Roman antiquity
14.50–15.40: Talk 12: Alain Bresson (Chicago): The Anonymus Iamblichi and the logic of money supply
Break
16.00–16.50: Talk 13: Michael Kozuh (Auburn): Ancient accounting and rational behavior
16.50–17.40: Talk 14: Jason Hagler (Philadelphia): Are the moderns rational actors? The view from Warring States Qin

Day 3 (Sa, 31 July 2021)

8.30–9.20: Talk 15: Christian Canu Højgaard (Amsterdam): Rational actors and the ancient Israelite jubilee legislation
9.20–10.10: Talk 16: Thibaud Nicolas (Paris): Was the sungod Shamash a deus oeconomicus? Rationality and religion in the management of economic affairs in Old-Babylonian Sippar’s temple «Ebabbar»
Break
10.30–11.20: Talk 17: Hannah Ringheim / Averil Ringheim (Zürich): Rational actors in ancient cult: Egyptian temples as economic hubs in the third century BCE
11.20–12.10: Talk 18: Peter Sarris (Cambridge): ‘The encircling presence of death’ – Governmental responses to bubonic plague in the sixth century AD
12.15–13.00: Final Discussion