Philia - ΦΙΛΙΑ

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

• Home
• Subscribe
• Post a message
• Universitary institutions in Belgium
• Activities
• PhD Projects
• Contact

We are happy to announce and invite registration for our three day international conference organized by the Roman Society Research Center on : Land and natural resources in the Roman World Brussels, 2011, Thu. 26th – Sat. 28th May (The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium & Free University of Brussels) For details on the program, registration, locations and accommodations see our website: http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/LNR_Colloquium_2011 or contact Paul Erdkamp (perdkamp@vub.ac.be) Speakers include: - Paul Erdkamp: Agriculture and the various paths to economic growth - Annalisa Marzano: The varieties of villa exploitation, from agriculture to aquaculture - Colin Adams, Moving Natural Resources - Jordan Pickett, Construction and the Roman Economy: Five Logistical Case Studies from Roman and Late Antique Cappadocia in Comparison - Ray Laurence, State and Road Building in the Roman Empire - Daniel Hoyer, Diverse crop harvesting and the Maghrebi agrarian economy - Hilali Arbia, Rome et l’agriculture en Afrique. L’aménagement de l’espace et la gestion des ressources naturelles - Julia Hoffmann-Salz, The local economy of Palmyra – Organizing agriculture in an oasis environment - Tony King: Regional factors in production and consumption of animal-derived food in the Roman Empire - Michael McKinnon, Changes in animal husbandry as a consequence of changing social and economic patterns - Kyle Harper, Patterns of Landed Wealth in the Long Term - Elio Lo Cascio, The development of imperial property - Rens Tacoma, Imperial wealth in Roman Egypt. The Julio-Claudian ousiai - Christer Bruun, Ownership and legislation concerning water resources - Adam Rogers, Controlling waterscapes. A study of towns and water in Roman Britain - Toni Naco del Hoyo & Dario Nappo, When the waters recede. Economic recovery and public policies after the AD 365 tsunami and some earlier precedents - Yuri Marano, Management of water resources in Ostrogothic Italy (end of the 5th - first half of the 6th century A.D.) - Shawn Graham, Areas of logging and agent-based models of resource extraction - Isabella Tsigarida, Salz in der Provinz Asia. Eine Untersuchung staatlicher Interessen an der Ressource - Alfred Hirt, The Roman Army, Imperial Quarries and the Emperor - Fernando Lopez Sanchez, The mining, coining and obtaining of gold in the Roman Empire - Saskia Roselaar: The role of Italians in local economies of the late Roman Republic - Sophia Zoumbaki: The exploitation of local resources of Western Greece by Romans and Italiote Greeks