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December 9-10, 2005 |
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La Maison de la Chimie |
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Symposium Organizer |
Dr. Myriam Wissa (The American University of Paris and GRAFMA
Bulletin editor, Centre Camille Jullian – UMR 6573 – CNRS)
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Sponsor |
The Trustee Fund for the Advancement of Scholarship of The
American University of Paris
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Contact |
Perrine Delobelle (pdelobelle@aup.fr)
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Friday 9 December |
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9:30 - 10:30 |
Registration |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Opening Session
Gerardo della Paolera, Professor of Economics
and President of The American University of Paris
Myriam Wissa, Chercheur, Centre Camille Jullian,
CNRS and The American University of Paris
Dominique Charpin, Directeur d’études, École
Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, IVe section -
Section des sciences historiques et philologiques
Pascal Vernus, Directeur d’études, Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, IVe section -
Section des sciences historiques et philologiques
Patrice Pomey, Directeur de recherche, CNRS,
and Directeur du Centre Camille Jullian, CNRS,
Aix-en-Provence
Paul Nicholson, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff
University, Wales |
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11:00 - 11:15 |
Introduction
Oleg Grabar, Professor, Institute for Advanced
Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton,
emeritus Harvard University |
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11:15 - 11:40 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION I |
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Technological Capabilities and
Economic Context in the Eastern
Mediterranean and the Near East from
the IIIrd to the Ist Millennium B.C. |
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Chairs:
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Michael Jursa, University
of Vienna, Austria |
11:40-13:00 |
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Dominique Charpin, École
Pratique des Hautes Études - IVe
section, Section des Sciences
Historiques et Philologiques,
Paris, France |
15:00-16:20 |
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Paul Nicholson, Cardiff
University, Wales – U.K. |
16:45-18:05 |
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11:40 - 12:20 |
Archives et
comptabilité en Mésopotamie au deuxième millénaire av.
J. C.
Dominique Charpin, École Pratique de Hautes
Études - IVe section, Section des Sciences Historiques
et Philologiques, Paris, France
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12:20 - 13:00 |
Innovation
Technologique et Conservatisme supposé : le cheval et
le char dans l’Égypte pharaonique.
Pascal Vernus, École Pratique des Hautes Études
- IVe section, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques,
Paris, France
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13:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch Break |
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15:00 - 15:40 |
Business
Companies in first Millennium B.C. Babylonia:
Accounting Techniques, Economic Strategies, Social
Setting.
Michael Jursa, University of Vienna, Austria
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15:40 - 16:20 |
The Invention
of the Alphabet and Economic Growth in the Levant in
the first Millennium B.C.
Anthony Frendo, University of Malta - Malta
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16:20 - 16:45 |
Coffee Break |
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16:45 - 17:25 |
Socio-Economic
and Iconographic Contexts for Late Bronze Age
Anatolian Military Technology.
Ian Shaw, University of Liverpool, U.K.
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17:25 - 18:05 |
Walking Down
the Street: Ancient Pedestrian Traffic Patterns and
Economic Activities.
Scott Branting, The Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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Saturday 10 December |
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SESSION II |
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Technological Capabilities and
Economic Context in the Mediterranean
in the Classical and Late Antiquity |
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Chairs:
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William Manning, Cardiff
University, Wales, U.K. |
9:15-11:15 |
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Philippe Jockey, Université
de Provence et Centre Camille
Jullian, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence,
France |
11:40-13:00 |
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9:15 - 9:55 |
The Production
and Exchange of Vitreous Materials in Egypt and the
Aegean during the second Millennium B.C.
Paul Nicholson, Cardiff University, Wales, U.K.
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9:55 - 10:35 |
L’influence des
Techniques Navales sur le Contexte Economique de la
Grèce à la fin de l’Epoque Archaïque
Patrice Pomey, Centre Camille Jullian, CNRS,
Aix-en-Provence, France
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10:35 - 11:15 |
Aménagements
Hydrauliques et Gestion de l’Eau en Grèce Ancienne :
un Enjeu de Pouvoir(s)?
Philippe Jockey, Université de Provence et
Centre Camille Jullian, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France
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11:15 - 11:40 |
Coffee Break |
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11:40 - 12:20 |
The
Metallurgical Industries of Roman Britain: the Native
and Roman Contributions.
William Manning, Cardiff University, Wales,
U.K.
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12:20-13:00 |
Embellishing
Rome: Stone Production in Egypt’s Late Antiquity,
Creating Demands, Inter-regional Export and Imperial
Urban Consumption.
Myriam Wissa, Centre Camille Jullian, CNRS,
Aix-en-Provence, France and The American University of
Paris
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13:00 - 14:45 |
Lunch Break |
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SESSION III |
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Early Medieval Islamic Mediterranean:
Economy and Technology |
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Chair:
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Oleg Grabar, Institute for
Advanced Study, School of
Historical Studies, Princeton,
emeritus Harvard University, USA |
14:45-16:05 |
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14:45 - 15:25 |
Reassessing a
'Medieval Green Revolution': Changes in Agricultural
Knowledge and Practice in the Early Islamic World
Lennart Sundelin, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, USA
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15:25 - 16:05 |
A Medieval
Jewish Community: an Analysis of the Technological
Context and the Socio-Economic Life Through S.D.
Goitein’s “Mediterranean Society”.
Mireille Loubet, Centre Paul Albert Février,
CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France
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16:05 - 16:20 |
Coffee Break |
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CLOSING SESSION |
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Early Medieval Islamic Mediterranean:
Economy and Technology |
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16:20 - 17:30 |
Economic
History Reflection
Gerardo della Paolera, Professor of Economics
and President of The American University of Paris
Alan Taylor, University of California at Davis,
J.S. Guggenheim Fellow, Visiting Professor at The
American University of Paris
Final
discussion - Moderators:
Scott Branting
Dominique Charpin
Anthony Frendo
Oleg Grabar
William Manning
Patrice Pomey
Pascal Vernus
Myriam Wissa
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