MAY 17 2024

Material Conditions, Chair Greg Woolf

9.30 am – 10.00 am    Yannis Nakas (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University) “For we are in a certain sense amphibious/ ἀμφίβιοι γὰρ τρόπον τινά ἐσμεν.” Ships, Harbours and Networks in the Seas of Greece during the Roman Period

10.00 am – 10.30 am   Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Pennsylvania) Shaping Roman Landscape in Attica 

10.30 am – 11.00 am    Johannes Fouquet (University of Heidelberg) Connecting Bricks. Towards a Study of the Brick Industry in Roman Greece and its Supply Networks

11.00 am – 11.30 am       Coffee Break

                                 Material Culture, Chair Sanja Vucetic

11.30 am – 12.00 pm    Horacio González Cesteros (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Dimitra Voutyrea (ÖAW – Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut Athen,  Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Trade relations between Asia Minor and Athens: Some preliminary thoughts based on the Athenian Agora and Ephesus material.

12.00 am – 12.30 pm   Philip Bes (Independent Scholar) On Zones and Borders. Regional Patterning of African Red Slip Ware and Late Roman C in Central and Southern Greece and the Aegean

12.30 am – 2.00 pm     Lunch Break

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm     Keynote lecture:

Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) Only Connect. Roman Greece in its Afro-Eurasian Context

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm     Closing remarks and discussion