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Dear all,

The is the last call for registration for the international colloquium “Land & Natural Resources in the Roman World”, Brussels May, 26-28th.  

Please don’t wait any longer:
Registration with Paul Erdkamp ( perdkamp@vub.ac.be) 
Participation : € 10,- a day  (students free)
Lunch (on Thursday and Friday): € 15,- per lunch
Dinner (on Friday): € 50,-

Further information on our website: http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/LNR_Colloquium_2011
(apologies for cross-posting)

Program

Thursday 26th May, 2011
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten

9:00 Welcome
9:30 General Introduction (organizers)

Session I. Agriculture & elite wealth: the fruits thereoff…

9.45 Paul Erdkamp: Agriculture and the various paths to economic growth
10.05 Annalisa Marzano: The varieties of villa exploitation, from agriculture to aquaculture
10.25 discussion
10.55 coffee break

Session II. Availability and accessibility of natural resources

11.15 Colin Adams, Moving Natural Resources
11.35 Jordan Pickett, Construction and the Roman Economy: Five Logistical Case Studies from  Roman and Late Antique Cappadocia in Comparison
11.55 Ray Laurence, State and Road Building in the Roman Empire
12.15 discussion
12.55 lunch

Session III. Organisation and modes of exploitation

Agrarian economy
14.00 Daniel Hoyer, Diverse crop harvesting and the Maghrebi agrarian economy
14.20 Hilali Arbia, Rome et l’agriculture en Afrique. L’aménagement de l’espace et la gestion des  ressources naturelles
14.40 Julia Hoffmann-Salz, The local economy of Palmyra – Organizing agriculture in an oasis  environment
15.00 discussion
15.40 coffee break

Animal husbandry
16.00 Tony King: Regional factors in production and consumption of animal-derived food in the  Roman Empire
16.20 Michael McKinnon, Changes in animal husbandry as a consequence of changing social and  economic patterns
16.40 discussion
17.10 end of sessions


Friday, May 27th 2011
Free University of Brussels (VUB)

Session IV. Ownership and control of natural resources

Elite property
9.30 Kyle Harper, Patterns of Landed Wealth in the Long Term
9.50 Elio Lo Cascio, The development of imperial property
10.10 Rens Tacoma, Imperial wealth in Roman Egypt. The Julio-Claudian ousiai
10.30 discussion
11.10 coffee break

Law and landed property (I)
11.30 Eva Jakab, Property and profit in Roman law and economy
11.50 Dennis Kehoe, Property Rights over Land and Economic Growth in the Roman Empire
12.10 discussion
12.40 poster presentations / lunch ¨

Posters by:
Kim Van Liefferinge (Phd project, UGent) Water management in the Laurion mines (click here for abstract)
Dimitri Van Limbergen (PhD project, University of Pisa), Towards a more diversified Roman economy: a working hypothesis for Central Adriatic Italy (click here for abstract)
Patrick Murray (University of Melbourne), Veteran settlements under Sulla
Devi Taelman (UGent), Ancient Quarryscapes: Stone Supply of Roman Ammaia

Law and landed property (II)
13.45 Peter Temin, The Terms of Land Tenure in the Roman Empire (click here for working paper)
14.05 Egbert Koops, Absentee landowners and bailiffs: the legal framework
14.25 discussion 
14.55 coffee break

Water (I)
15.15 Christer Bruun, Ownership and legislation concerning water resources
15.35 Adam Rogers, Controlling waterscapes. A study of towns and water in Roman Britain 
15.55 discussion
16.25 coffee break

Water (II)
16.45 Toni Naco del Hoyo & Dario Nappo, When the waters recede. Economic recovery and public  policies after the AD 365 tsunami and some earlier precedents
17.05 Yuri Marano, Management of water resources in Ostrogothic Italy (end of the 5th - first half  of the 6th century A.D.)
17.25 discussion
17.55 end of sessions
 

Saturday May 28th 2011 Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Free University of Brussels (VUB)

Session V. Exploitation and processing of natural resources

Natural resources (I)
9.30 Shawn Graham, Areas of logging and agent-based models of resource extraction
9.50 Isabella Tsigarida, Salz in der Provinz Asia. Eine Untersuchung staatlicher Interessen an der  Ressource
10.10 discussion
10.40 coffee break

Natural resources (II)
11.00 Alfred Hirt, The Roman Army, Imperial Quarries and the Emperor 
11.20 Fernando Lopez Sanchez, The mining, coining and obtaining of gold  in the Roman Empire
11.40 Discussion
12.10 coffee break

Exploitation of local resources
12.30 Saskia Roselaar: The role of Italians in local economies of the late Roman Republic
12.50 Sophia Zoumbaki: The exploitation of local resources of Western Greece by Romans and  Italiote  Greeks
13.10 discussion
13.40 end of sessions

Koen Verboven,
Ghent University
Philia - ΦΙΛΙΑ

Belgian Area of Interdisciplinary Exchanges on the Mediterranean Antiquity and its Survival
