Oude Geschiedenis

Conferences and workshops (co-)organized by Ghent Classical History R.U.

Past conferences and workshops

XIIIth International Workshop of the Network Impact of Empire: The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire

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The social institution of money in the ancient world

Session at the 9th European Social Science and History Conference,
Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 April 2012

Organized by K. Verboven

The corner stone of any monetary system is the self evidence with which the acceptance of money tokens or account transfers is anticipated. ‘Money’ acts a social institution that regulates exchanges between unrelated agents or isolates specific (monetized) exchanges from the generalized package-exchange between social agents connected by diffuse social ties (Ingham 1996 ; 2000). As a social institution money is indissolubly linked to other institutions, both formal (e.g. legal tender laws, counterfeit laws, regulations concerning exchanges, …) and informal (e.g. concerning the contexts in which money may or may not be used, which types are to be preferred, when and why delayed payments are acceptable…). Monetization is a process of institutionalization that deeply affects exchanges between social agents.

In this session we aim to discuss the development and functioning of money as a social institution in the ancient World, how it affected the allocation systems for political, social, economic and symbolic capital and how it was tied in with other institutional arrangements.

For the program and abstracts see the ESSHC website

Structure and scale of Roman urban economies: the case of Pompeii

June 29-30, 2012
Oxford, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

Oxford Roman Economy Project & SDEP

This conference brings together Pompeii specialists and leading economic historians of the Roman world to explore what Pompeii’s unique remains have to offer to the larger debates about structure and scale in the Roman economy. In doing so, the conference will foster debate contributing to both our understanding of Pompeii and that of the Roman economy. Pompeian studies, often too exclusively focused on Pompeii alone, will profit from the context provided by discussing Pompeii in the wider Roman economy debate; economic historians will be provided with a detailed case study of an urban economy on the micro-scale. Such case studies are essential in refining the macro-scale economic models currently dominating the field.

More information: http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/SDEPnews 

Ronde Tafel: Het municipale leven in de Oudheid / Table Ronde: La vie municipale dans l’Antiquité

Zaterdag 11 februari 2012
Brussel, Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis, Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 43
  • Alvarez Melero (ULB)
  • Tom Boiy (KUL)
  • Wim Broekaert (UGent)
  • Marco Cavalieri (UCL)
  • Sabien Colpaert (VUB)
  • David Engels (ULB)
  • Ine Jacobs (KUL) 
In navolging van David Engels (UCL) en Peter Van Nuffelen (UGent) hun uitstekende initiatief, trachten prof. Van Haeperen (UCL) en Lindsey Vandevoorde (UGent), i.s.m. prof. Paul Fontaine (FUSL), de idee van een “ronde tafel van Belgische classics” verder te zetten. De doelstelling is om jaarlijks of tweejaarlijks samen te komen en zodoende op de hoogte te blijven van de stand van het Belgisch onderzoek naar de Klassieke Oudheid gevoerd binnen de verschillende disciplines – geschiedenis, archeologie, filologie, filosofie en kunstgeschiedenis. Om een zekere eenvormigheid van de bijdragen te bekomen, werd door onze voorgangers gekozen voor het thema ‘religieuze concurrentie’. Naast de strikt wetenschappelijke waarde van de diverse bijdragen en daaropvolgende debatten, was ook de informele sfeer van de ontmoeting en discussie van belang. De gelijkaardige samenkomst heeft als thema het ‘municipale leven’ in de meest brede zin van het woord.
Klik hier voor meer informatie en abstracts
Organisatie: Françoise Van Haeperen (UCL) ( Francoise.VanHaeperen@UCLouvain.be) & Lindsey Vandevoorde (UGent) ( Lindsey.Vandevoorde@ugent.be)

Food, Identity and Cross-cultural Exchanges in Classical Antiquity

Ghent, 15-16 Dec., 2011
Co-organized by Ghent and Exeter.

This conference is asserting that one food culture never appears ex nihilo nor independently from foreign culinary cultures and influences. It will investigate the ethnic flavour of ancient food cultures. Is there one very distinct and stereotyped Greek and Roman eating culture or is it a dynamic food culture opened and influenced by foreign cultures?

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