Economies of the Edge
Frontier Zone Processes at Regional, Imperial, and Global Scales (300 BCE – 300 CE)
19th – 21st September 2019
Thursday, 19th September
Introduction
13:00 – 13:30
Political Power and Economies I
13:30 – 15:00
Chair: Eli Weaverdyck
Mark Altaweel (University College London)
Revolutionizing a World: From Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East
K. Rajan (Pondicherry University)
Emergence of Empires and Economies: Experiencing Early Historic South India
Coffee break
15:00 – 15:45
Political Power and Economies II
15:45 – 18:00
Chair: Kathrin Leese-Messing
Maxim Korolkov (Heidelberg University)
The Southern Contact Zone, Empire Building, and Economic Change in the Eastern Zhou, Qin, and Han Eras (ca. 500 BCE – 300 CE)
Anthony Barbieri-Low (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Egyptian and Chinese Client-State Empires in the Levant and Central Asia
Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Money in Liminal Times: Coin Circulation at the End of the Indo-Greek Kingdom
Friday, 20th September
Nodes: Ports and Border Markets I
9:00 – 10:30
Chair: Milinda Hoo
Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
Network Power? Object Flows and Innovation in Hellenistic Eurasia
Sören Stark (ISAW, New York University)
Between Desert and Oasis: Border Markets and their Role in Economic Networks in Southwestern Central Asia
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15
Nodes: Ports and Border Markets II
11:15 – 12:45
Chair: Lara Fabian
Stefan Hauser (University of Konstanz)
The Arsacid Center of Trade: Charax Spasinou, Capital of Mesene
Steven E. Sidebotham (University of Delaware) and Marianne Bergmann (University of Göttingen)
Sculptural Finds as a Reflection of the Cosmopolitan Life at Berenike: A Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt
Lunch break
12:45 – 14:00
Links: People in Motion I
14:00 – 15:30
Chair: Sitta von Reden
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
Trading Values: The Southern Sea as Merchant Space
Federico de Romanis (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
Translata Pecunia: The Use of Roman Coins on the Other Side of the Indian Ocean
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15
Links: People in Motion II
16:15 – 17:00
Chair: Razieh Taasob
Eivind Heldaas Seland (University of Bergen)
Water, Climate and Connectivity in the Roman-Period Syrian Desert
Disciplinary Round Tables
17:00 – 18:00
Saturday, 21st September
Centers and Peripheries
9:30 – 11:00
Chair: Mamta Dwivedi
Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)
(Re)placing the ‘Hinterland’: Perspectives on Empire and Indian Ocean Trade from the Early Historic Interior Deccan
Luca M. Olivieri (ISMEO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan)
Double-Crop Pocket Zones and Empires: The Case of Swat
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
Inter-imperial Exchange I
11:30 – 12:30
Chair: Razieh Taasob
Marek Olbrycht (University of Rzeszów)
The Parthian Empire and the Long-Distance Trade in the Caspian Basin
Lunch break
12:30 – 14:00
Inter-imperial Exchange II
14:00 – 15:30
Chair: Lauren Morris
Joe Cribb (British Museum)
The Sino-Kharoshthi Coinage of Khotan: Cultural and Political Links between Gandhara and Xinjiang, First to Second Century CE
Armin Selbitschka (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)
Versus the Silk Trade Myth: The Movement of Luxury Goods in China and Chinese Central Asia (Third Century BCE to Third Century CE)
Discussion and Volume Planning
15:30 – 16:00