Info Of Alive Stream: Economies Of The Edge. Frontier Zone Processes At
Regional, Imperial, As Well As Global Scales (300 Bce – 300 Ce) 19Th –
21St September 2019
The conference volition explore economical processes inward frontier zones of ancient empires as well as their wider impact on inter-imperial exchanges inward the Afro-Eurasian World region. It is job of the broader projection of re-thinking “Silk-Road” exchange, which as well as thus far has been looked at to a greater extent than ofttimes than non from the perspective of royal centers as well as in conclusion destinations rather than regions that—for diverse reasons as well as inward dissimilar ways—were involved inward inter-imperial contacts as well as exchange.
Global central inward the ancient footing has been a vibrant plain of report over the by 10 years, leading to dissimilar enquiry directions as well as interests. Many scholars working from dissimilar disciplinary angles need keep brought our attending to the ideological underpinnings of the concept of the Silk Road, or Silk Routes. Others need keep looked at specific aspects of interaction through detail types of evidence—coins, transmitted as well as excavated texts, as well as the archæology of maritime as well as terrestrial networks—in lodge to empathise improve the nature of the connections that stimulated central as well as interaction inward the Afro-Eurasian footing region. This enquiry has brought to the fore the necessity of finding dissimilar as well as new ways of thinking most Afro-Eurasia equally a connected footing region. While questions of production, consumption, as well as distribution rest of import foci of economical history inward the narrower sense, nosotros promise to integrate broader processes into the discussion. The spread of urbanism, for example, has been examined both from economical as well as from political as well as ideological perspectives, simply tin strength out these approaches live on integrated? Similarly, the construction as well as job of physical infrastructure has complex causes, processes as well as consequences. How mightiness this complexity live on incorporated into our agreement of the economy?
The emergence as well as spread of local currencies introduce similar opportunities for scholars combining traditional economical questions of central with questions of political evolution as well as identity formation. In addition, the projection of identifying the emergence as well as spread of market-based, commercial central has historically dominated the report of ancient economical networks. What other institutions facilitated central as well as what forms did these exchange-relationships take? Is the Polanyian tripartite sectionalization of reciprocity, redistribution, as well as marketplace central soundless helpful?
These examples illustrate to a greater extent than or less possibilities for broadening the ambit of economical history to include other realms of human activity, simply nosotros would equally good similar to explore the possibility of incorporating ecological as well as environmental perspectives. How does the interdependence of mount as well as valley ecologies touching on economical processes at dissimilar scales? Can similar interdependencies betwixt maritime, coastal, as well as inland ecologies live on identified? Finally, what types of proxies tin strength out nosotros job equally evidence to report these dissimilar processes? By taking an expansive stance of economical activity, nosotros promise to improve empathise how the evolution of frontier zones allowed for the joint of global-scale networks as well as how those networks, inward turn, impacted the evolution of inter-imperial regions.=
A high grade of multidisciplinary communication is necessary to motion from granular datasets rooted inward specific disciplinary as well as methodological approaches, to enquiry on large-scale processes. The primal challenge, however, remains inward finding appropriate parameters for integrating information from the diverse scales, regions, as well as scholarly approaches outlined above. By bringing together focused instance studies from real dissimilar micro regions, nosotros promise to foster intelligence most how to link this information to broader questions most global central as well as its political as well as social consequences. This conference volition focus on the in conclusion iii centuries BCE as well as the starting fourth dimension iii centuries CE, which nosotros position equally a fourth dimension of heightened empire edifice amongst a marked intensification of inter-imperial exchanges across the Afro-Eurasian region. The geographical focus of the conference is to a greater extent than selective as well as follows the detail areas of attending of the BaSaR enquiry team: Southern Asia as well as the Indian Ocean maritime region, the Central Asian borderlands, the Chinese-steppe region, equally good equally Western Asia from the Black Sea to Arab Republic of Egypt as well as the Red Sea. In addition, to a greater extent than or less contributions volition adopt a distinctly global perspective on the Afro-Eurasian macro-zone.
Thursday, 19th September
Introduction
13:00 – 13:30
Political Power as well as Economies I
Mark Altaweel (University College London)
Revolutionizing a World: From Small U.S. to Universalism inward the Pre-Islamic Near East 13:30 – 14:15
K. Rajan (Pondicherry University)
Emergence of Empires as well as Economies: Experiencing Early Historic South India 14:15 – 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 – 15:45
Political Power as well as Economies II
Maxim Korolkov (Heidelberg University)
The Southern Contact Zone, Empire Building, as well as Economic Change inward the Eastern Zhou, Qin, as well as Han Eras (ca. 500 BCE – 300 CE) 15:45 – 16:30
Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Money inward Liminal Times: Coin Circulation at the End of the Indo-Greek Kingdom 17:15 – 18:00
Friday, 20th September
Nodes: Ports as well as Border Markets I
Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
Network Power? Object Flows as well as Innovation inward Hellenistic Eurasia 9:00 – 9:45
Sören Stark (ISAW, New York University)
Between Desert as well as Oasis: Border Markets as well as their Role inward Economic Networks inward Southwestern Central Asia 9:45 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15
Nodes: Ports as well as Border Markets II
Stefan Hauser (University of Konstanz)
The Arsacid Center of Trade: Charax Spasinou, Capital of Mesene 11:15 – 12:00
Steven E. Sidebotham (University of Delaware) as well as Marianne Bergmann (University of Göttingen)
Sculptural Finds equally a Reflection of the Cosmopolitan Life at Berenike: H5N1 Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 12:00 – 12:45
Lunch break
12:45 – 14:00
Links: People inward Motion I
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
Trading Values: The Southern Sea equally Merchant Space 14:00 – 14:45
Federico de Romanis (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
Translata Pecunia: The Use of Roman Coins on the Other Side of the Indian Ocean 14:45 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15
Links: People inward Motion II
Eivind Heldaas Seland (University of Bergen)
Water, Climate as well as Connectivity inward the Roman-Period Syrian Desert 16:15 – 17:00
Saturday, 21st September
Centers as well as Peripheries
Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)
(Re)placing the ‘Hinterland’:Perspectives on Empire as well as Indian Ocean Trade from the Early Historic Interior Deccan 9:30 – 10:15
Luca M. Olivieri (ISMEO Italian Archaeological Mission inward Packistan)
Double-Crop Pocket Zones as well as Empires: The Case of Swat 10:15 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
Inter-imperial Exchange I
Marek Olbrycht (University of Rzeszów)
The Parthian Empire as well as the Long-Distance Trade inward the Caspian Basin 11:30 – 12:30
Lunch break
12:30 – 14:00
Inter-imperial Exchange II
Joe Cribb (British Museum)
The Sino-Kharoshthi Coinage of Khotan: Cultural as well as Political Links betwixt Gandhara as well as Xinjiang, First to Second Century CE 14:00 – 14:45
Versus the Silk Trade Myth: The Movement of Luxury Goods inward Cathay as well as Chinese Central Asia (Third Century BCE to Third Century CE) 14:45 – 15:30
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