2008 Program - Symposium

Friday, May 2

• 9:30 am
• Coffee on Terrace
• 10:00 am
• Welcome by Jan Ziolkowski and Alice-Mary Talbot
• 10:15 am
• Introduction by Cécile Morrisson

Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages

• 10:30 am
• Jean-Michel Carrié (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
• Trade and Markets: Providing links between late Roman and Byzantine economic historiography
• 11:15 am
• Dominique Pieri (Université Paris I)
• Regional and interregional exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Early Byzantine period: the evidence of amphoras
• 12:00 pm
• Discussion

12:30 pm Lunch

The Middle and Late Byzantine period

• 2:00 pm
• Michael McCormick (Harvard University)
• Ships, shipwrecks, trade and markets
• 2:45 pm
• John F. Haldon (Princeton University)
• Commerce and exchange in the 7^th and 8^th centuries: regional trade and the movement of goods
• 3:30 pm
• Discussion and break
• 4:15 pm
• Sauro Gelichi (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice)
• Local exchanges–Mediterranean exchanges. Archaeological evidence on the 8^th–9^th century economy of Northern Italy
• 5:00 pm
• Discussion
• 5:30–7:00 pm
• Cocktail party

Saturday, May 3

The Middle and Late Byzantine Period

• 8:30 am
• Coffee on terrace
• 9:00 am
• Angeliki Laiou (Harvard University/Academy of Athens)
• Regional networks in the Balkans in the Middle and Late Byzantine periods
• 9:45 am
• Johannes Koder (University of Vienna)
• Regional networks in Asia Minor during the Middle Byzantine Period (7^th–11^th centuries)
• 10:30 am
• Discussion and break
• 11:15 am
• Scott Redford (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul/Georgetown University)
• Trade and Economy in Cilicia and the Antioch Region in the 12–13^th Centuries
• 12:00 am
• Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi (Archaeological Institute for Macedonian and Thracian Studies,Thessalonike)
• Production and Trade of Glazed Ceramic Wares in the Byzantine World
• 12:45 pm
• Discussion

1:15 pm Lunch

Markets and the marketplace

• 2:30 pm
• Christopher Lightfoot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ amorium Excavation Projects)
• Business as usual? Archaeological evidence for Byzantine commercial enterprise in Anatolia in the 7^th–11^th centuries
• 3:15 pm
• André Binggeli (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
• Annual fairs and regional trade networks in Syria and Palestine (6^th–11^th centuries)
• 4:00 pm
• Discussion and break
• 4:45 pm
• Alan Walmsley (University of Copenhagen)
• Regional exchange and the role of the shop in Byzantine and early Islamic Syria-Palestine: an archaeological view
• 5:30 pm
• Discussion

7:00 pm Speakers' dinner

Sunday, May 4

Markets and the Marketplace

• 9:00 am
• Coffee on terrace
• 9:30 am
• Cécile Morrisson (Dumbarton Oaks/Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
• Paying and weighing in the marketplace
• 10:15 am
• Brigitte Pitarakis (Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Centre national de la recherche scientifique - Collège de France, Paris)
• Markets and daily exchanges in Byzantium: archaeological and iconographical evidence
• 11:00 am
• Discussion and break Concluding paper
• 11:45 am
• Peter Temin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
• Market and Markets in Byzantium: An economist's point of view