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DAY 1
12:00-12:45 Registration & coffee
12:45-1:00 Welcome & opening remarks
Panel 1. War and the Market
1:00-1:30 Edward Harris (Durham) – ‘War and Commerce in Ancient Greece:
the Impact of Military Operations on Trade’
1:30-2:00 Stephen O’Connor (CSU Fullerton) – ‘Sailors, Soldiers and Market
Exchanges in the Classical Greek World’
2:00-2:30 Coffee
2:30-3:00 Manuela Dal Borgo (UCL) – ‘The Arms Industry: the Evidence for
Shield Manufacturing and Trade in Fifth-Century Greece’
3:00-3:30 Aimee Schofield (Leicester) – ‘Cut-price Catapults’
3:30-4:00 Alan Bowman (Oxford) – ‘The Army and the Frontier Economy: the
Evidence of Vindolanda’
4:00-4:30 Tea
Panel 2. Military Accounting
4:30-5:00 Zosia Archibald (Liverpool) – ‘The Audit of War: Beyond Hellenistic
Armies’
5:00-5:30 Jennifer Hicks (UCL) – ‘The Daily Accountancy and the Seleukid
Army’
5:30-6:00 Christopher Tuplin (Liverpool) – ‘A balance-sheet of Achaemenid
warfare: gathering the evidence’
6:00-8:00 Wine reception
DAY 2
9:30-10:00 Coffee
Panel 3. Labour of War
10:00-10:30 Matthew Trundle (Auckland) – ‘Coined-Money and the
Centralization of Warfare in Classical Greece’
10:30-11:00 Alessandro Brambilla (University of Rome, Tor Vergata) –
‘Financing Elite Troops in Classical Greece: Potential Problems and Possible
Solutions’
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:00 Lizzie Pearson (Manchester) – ‘Administering Military Pay in the
Middle Republic’
12:00-12:30 Jennifer Martinez (Liverpool) – ‘Women attached to Armies in
Classical Greece: Economic Commodities or Burden?’
12:30-1:00 Aideen Carty (Freie Universität Berlin) – ‘Sourcing “Mercenaries”
for Saïte Egypt: A Slave-Trade?’
1:00-2:00 Lunch
Panel 4. War and the State: Monetary and Fiscal Policy
2:00-2:30 Lisa Kallet (Oxford) – ‘The Failure of Tributary Empire in War: the
Athenian Perspective'
2:30-3:00 Annabel Florence (Queensland) – ‘The Corinthian War: Ships, Walls
and Money'
3:00-3:30 Mark Pyzyk (Stanford) – ‘Taxation, War-Making, and Technē: The
Art of the Fourth-Century Tyrant’
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-4:30 Michael Crawford (UCL) – ‘War, Empire and Roman "Provincial"
Coinages’
4:30-5:00 Amelia Dowler (British Museum) – ‘The Impact of War on Bronze
Coin Production in Hellenistic Asia Minor’
5:00-5:30 Hans van Wees (UCL) – ‘Economic Dimensions of the Development
of Greek Warfare’
5:30-6:30 Panel discussion
6:30 Conference dinner (non-speakers will be asked to pay £25 in advance)
DAY 3
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Panel 5. The History of Economics and War
10:30-11:00 Ioannis Perysinakis (Ioannina) – ‘The Function of Wealth in
Aeschylus' Persai and Herodotus' Historiē’
11:00-11:30 Roel Konijnendijk (IHR) – 'The Elephant in the Room: Economics
in Greek Military Historiography'
11:30-12:00 Robin Osborne (Cambridge) - 'War and Wealthy Hellas'
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Panel 6. Economics of Conflict
1:00-1:30 John Davies (Liverpool) – ‘Loser's Indeminification for the Costs of
War - Greek to Roman’
1:30-2:00 Ioanna Koumi (UCL) – ‘War over Theodosia in the Black Sea Region:
Economic Causes and Consequences’
2:00-2:30 Tea
2:30-3:00 Carlos Palacín Copado (Barcelona) – ‘Beyond the Mare Clausum:
Where Army and Commerce Meets? The Red Sea Case’
3:00-3:30 Michael Taylor (UT Austin) – ‘State Finance in Rome and the
Hellenistic Kingdoms: A Comparative Approach’
3:30-4:00 Paul Erdkamp (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) – ‘Beyond the Predatory
State: Concepts of State and the Economy in the Roman World’
4:00-4:30 Closing remarks
4:30 Conference ends